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Game Pass Junks Its $1 Trial A Week Before Black Ops 6 Is Released
16.10.2024
Microsoft’s determination to destroy the great reputation of Game Pass continues apace, with the news that the corporation has suddenly pulled its years-long offer of a two-week trial subscription for a dollar, just a week before it adds Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 to the subscription.Read more
More Activision Games, Including Black Ops 6, Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass This Month
15.10.2024
The eclectic mix of stuff coming to Xbox Game Pass over the next few weeks includes some Call of Duty games, some nasty zombies, StarCraft, a South Park RPG, and a wonderful indie game about a growing hole. Read more
Payday 3 Developers Believe The Disaster-Ridden Game Can Still Be Saved
14.10.2024
A year ago, Payday 3released to calamity, as the always-online game immediately wasn’t, with outages lasting for over a week. When people finally were able to play it turned out they didn’t like it much, made worse when vital patches kept missing their deadlines, communication fell apart,...
Halo Moves To Unreal, Nintendo Announces...An Alarm Clock, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
12.10.2024
This week, YouTuber and Kick streamer Jack Doherty crashed his $200,000 McLaren sports car while broadcasting, an event which has seen him banned from the latter platform permanently. Also, The Weather Channel used its Unreal-powered storm visualization tool to give viewers a good look at just...
DOOM Eternal Leads A Hell Of A Strong Month Of Free Prime Gaming Titles This Month
10.10.2024
It’s a new month, which means it’s time for another drop of free games via Amazon’s Prime Gaming subscription. In case you don’t know—and who could blame you—being an Amazon Prime subscriber neets you a whole bunch of benefits beyond two-day shipping and Prime TV. For example, you also get benefits...
PlayStation’s Fall Sale Kicks Off With Some Massive Deals On Madden And Other Hits
10.10.2024
Fall savings are officially in full swing, folks. If there’s a game you’ve been looking for, chances are that it’s currently on sale on one of the various console or PC storefronts right now. Such is the case with PlayStation, which just kicked off its massive seasonal sale that features thousands...
Halo's Master Chief Gets An Unreal Makeover In New Tech Showcase
7.10.2024
Unreal Engine is so good at making games look hyper realistic that it’s become a meme for a certain style of uncanny fan video showing everything from The Legend of Zelda to The Simpsons remade with ultra detailed CGI effects. Well, now Halo’s Master Chief is getting that treatment for real,...
The Future Of Halo Is Coming And It Includes Multiple Games
7.10.2024
Ever since mass layoffs at Halo maker 343 Industries, fans have wondered what the future will hold for the famed sci-fi shooter. It turns out Microsoft still has big plans for Master Chief, and they involve multiple upcoming projects as well as the franchise making the jump to Epic Games’ Unreal...
Ubisoft's Call Of Duty-Like FPS Is 'Not Dying' And Is 'Doing Well,' Says Producer
18.9.2024
XDefiant’s executive producer Mark Rubin claims that the free-to-play FPS is “not dying” and, in fact, has Ubisoft’s full support following a previous report that claimed otherwise and suggested the shooter didn’t have long to turn things around. Read more
Destiny’s Loot Is Great Because It Usually Has A Story To Tell
18.9.2024
I really miss Swordbreaker, a shotgun from the first Destiny game that became a staple of my loadout back in the day. Over the three years that I played Destiny, no part of my loadout felt as central to my identity as it did. I changed subclasses depending on the task before me, and I shuffled...
All The News From Today's Big EA Investor Event
18.9.2024
On September 17, EA held its annual Investor Day event. This is where the company shows off the future of what it’s working on, discusses how it plans to expand its franchises, and tries to convince a lot of people with money that they are profitable and worth further investment. Read more
Next Battlefield Returns To Modern Day, Wants To Be Like Battlefield 3
16.9.2024
The next Battlefield promises a return to the Call of Duty competitor’s “core” after 2021's futuristic sequel drove many longtime fans away. The man in charge, longtime Respawn head Vince Zampella, cites Battlefield 3 and 4 as the peak of the series that the currently untitled Battlefield 6 will...
Destiny's Ten-Year Anniversary Event Is Bittersweet
11.9.2024
This week marks the ten-year anniversary of Destiny, a game that accidentally became my whole personality when it launched back in September of 2014. I’ve loved it since the days of its alpha tests and I still love it now, in the form of Destiny 2. Sometimes it’s been hard to love , whether that’s...
How To Beat The Encore: Overture Exotic Quest In Destiny 2
10.9.2024
After farting around in Solstice trying to get some glow in our gear, break time’s over, Guardians. Maya Sundaresh is up to some creepy nonsense with the Vex, which means it’s time to put in that work again. And compared to the cakewalk Arena/Battlegrounds quests of Episode: Echoes, Encore:...
Bungie Outlines 4 Major Changes For The Future Of Destiny 2
9.9.2024
It’s been a confusing and chaotic year for Destiny 2. There have been delays, multiple rounds of cuts at Bungie, and a constantly shifting content roadmap of what we’ll be rolled out when. The Final Shape capped off 10 years of storytelling in a way that dazzled diehard players, but now everyone’s...
Black Ops 6 Is So Fast It's Both Frustrating And Fun
3.9.2024
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta weekend is over, but I’m still a little shell-shocked from it. The sixth installment in the long-running Activision sub-franchise is faster than ever before, and full of players who have already gotten the brand-new omnimovement system down to...
You Can Finish Star Wars Outlaws In 15 Hours, But Here's Why You Shouldn't
30.8.2024
If you’re playing an open-world Ubisoft game, you can rest assured it’s going to take some time to complete. So it’s no surprise that Star Wars Outlaws—the very first open-world Star Wars title (no, MMOs don’t count)—is an extremely long game filled with tons to see and do. That goes doubly...
Star Wars Outlaws: The Kotaku Review
26.8.2024
As a big Star Wars fan and video game lover, I’ve long dreamed of a game just like Star Wars Outlaws: a massive open-world action game set in the Star Wars universe that would let me rub shoulders with Jabba the Hutt while freely exploring every inch of a planet like Tatooine. It’s wild that...
Breaking Down The Borderlands 4 Trailer: 6 Clues Fans Are Talking About
21.8.2024
Gamescom Opening Night Live kicked off with a surprise reveal: Borderlands 4 is real and coming in 2025. It’s been a long wait for the next numbered sequel in the sci-fi looter shooter series, and the teaser confirming the game’s existence didn’t give a clear idea of what to expect from...
Borderlands 4 Finally Gets Official Teaser, Coming 2025
20.8.2024
Borderlands 4 is real and coming sometime in 2025. Gearbox Entertainment made the latest sequel to its hit looter shooter franchise official with a teaser at Gamescom Opening Night Live showing a literal collision of worlds. Read more