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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Four Games To Send You To The Stars (And Realms Beyond)
14.6.2024
Here we are again at another weekend. This time, we’re hoping to get a bit of rest from the wonderful mania of covering Summer Game Fest, and all the many showcases and events that happened in between. Read more
Starfield Mod Fixes The Ending To One Of The Game’s Best Quests
14.6.2024
Hey, do you remember that really neat Star Trek-esque quest in Starfield where you had to help some long-lost colonists find a new home, but the game thought killing children was an acceptable outcome, while doing the same to the corporate execs who have power over those children and their...
Oh No, All These Amazing Starfield Mods Might Suck Me Back In
13.6.2024
Following the Xbox Showcase on June 9, 2024, Starfield got a bit bigger. Now, in addition to its 1,000-plus planets, the endless potential of official and community mods are available directly in the game, all via the new Creations suite. Starfield already had mods on PC for sure, but the Creations...
Starfield: 6 Free Mods For A More Immersive Experience
12.6.2024
Following June 9’s Xbox Showcase, Starfield finally got its Creation Kit and Creations suite, allowing PC and Xbox players to download official and community-built mods directly in-game. It’s still early days for sure, but there are already a number of great mods worth your time that you should...
How To Install And Use Starfield’s Official And Fan-Made Mods
12.6.2024
Soon after Xbox’s big (and quite good) showcase on June 9, 2024, Starfield got a nice healthy update that finally delivered on the promise of quick and easy access to mods. While Starfield has had many mods on PC, it hasn’t been the most approachable for folks who aren’t used to installing mods...
Nine Things We Learned From The Big Phil Spencer Xbox Interview
10.6.2024
Xbox just had one of its best showcases in years and hot off the heels of that big event, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer sat down with IGN to chat more about some of the games the company revealed, as well as the current health of Xbox, Game Pass, and the closure of studios like Tango...
Shattered Space Looks Like The Dose Of Personality Starfield Needs
9.6.2024
Today’s Xbox Games Showcase was a nice, healthy dose of what’s on the horizon for Team Green (and maybe a few other platforms?). In the midst of it all Starfield, Bethesda’s enormous space RPG with over 1,000 planets, got a nice trailer for its upcoming expansion, Shattered Space and from the looks...
Micrsoft Confirms Cheaper All-Digital Xbox Series X As It Marches Beyond Physical Games
9.6.2024
The long-rumored all-digital Xbox Series X is real and coming this fall. It will be white, cheaper, and feature a 1TB SSD as Microsoft continues turning the page on physical games. The platform holder also announced updates to the existing consoles with alternate colors and storage sizes. Read more
Starfield’s First Big DLC Looks Weird And Wild
9.6.2024
Starfield, Bethesda’s latest open-world busywork simulator in space, has been out for about nine months. Bethesda has been putting out updates to make the game better, but fans have been waiting for the first big expansion called Shattered Space. Well, they won’t have to wait much longer, as...
Report: Original Halo Is Getting Another Remaster And It Could Come To PS5
6.6.2024
There are big questions ahead of Microsoft’s summer Xbox showcase, including which games might also come to PlayStation 5 now as part of a new multiplatform strategy, and what the Xbox Series X/S and their successors look like without as many exclusives. New reporting at The Verge offers a few more...
100+ Mods Turn Starfield Into The Star Wars Mandalorian Game We'll Never Get
20.5.2024
Star Wars fans have long awaited the arrival of a truly great Mandalorian video game, just to have their hopes repeatedly dashed. First, it was the long-in-development hell (but still not technically canceled) 1313, and most recently it was Respawn’s Mandalorian game, which was canceled only...
Fallout 4 Fans Are Begging Bethesda To Stop Updating The Game
13.5.2024
Last month, Bethesda released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 across all platforms intended to improve the aging RPG. Instead, it broke tons of popular mods and made the game buggier for some players, too. To fix that, Bethesda has released another update. The reaction from fans has mostly been...
Xbox’s Shift To ‘High-Impact’ Games Is Misguided At Best, Reckless At Worst
8.5.2024
Earlier this week, Xbox announced that it would be shuttering several studios it had attained as part of its $7.5 billion purchase of Bethesda, including Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Studios, the last of which is being absorbed into another team. Collectively,...
It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass
7.5.2024
On May 7, Xbox announced that it was closing four studios: Arkane Austin (Redfall), Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush), Alpha Dog Games (Mighty Doom), and support studio Roundhouse Games. The news is yet another example of Xbox—which has spent billions buying up studios—cutting costs, laying people...
Starfield's Tiny Cities, An Escape From Tarkov Debacle And More Of The Week's Gaming News
4.5.2024
This week, we’ve got stories on Square Enix eating significant losses and shifting its strategy, a look back at Dragon’s Dogma 2's wild first month, and more. Click on for a roundup of the week’s biggest stories.Read more
Starfield's New Maps Are Great, But Boy Those Cities Are Tiny
2.5.2024
Starfield, Bethesda’s large open-world space RPG released last year, is set to receive a big new update later this month. One of the big features being added is 3D surface and city maps, something the game has needed since its launch. But these new maps also reveal that Starfield’s biggest cities...
Starfield Is Getting A Dune Buggy, Teases Bethesda
1.5.2024
Good news for Starfieldplayers who have wanted a faster and better way to travel across the game’s hundreds of planets: Bethesda is planning to add a drivable dune buggy to its massive open-world sci-fi RPG. Read more
Fallout Will Never Leave The US And More Tidbits From Todd Howard
1.5.2024
Bethesda Softworks executive producer Todd Howard has been making the rounds conducting interviews since the release of Amazon’s adaptation of Fallout, one of the series he’s helped direct in his time there.Read more
Next Starfield Update Adds Better Maps And 60 FPS Option To Xbox
1.5.2024
Starfield’s next big patch, 1.11.33, is now out for PC players on Steam via the game’s beta branch. This new update, which will go live later for everyone, adds performance options to Xbox, improved maps while walking around planets, new difficulty options, and a huge list of bug fixes.Read more
Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking
25.4.2024
After months of debate about Xbox’s future as some of its big console exclusives jumped ship to PlayStation 5, we have our clearest evidence yet of why Microsoft is experimenting with a new multiplatform approach: fewer and fewer people are buying Xboxes. Read more