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Elden Ring: The Kotaku Review
24.3.2022
I spend too much time, at least for someone with only 33 years on his odometer, thinking about legacy. I find myself overly concerned with what I’ve accomplished and what I’ll leave behind, especially in comparison to other people—both successful and otherwise. As such, while playing FromSoftware’s...
Elden Ring Invader Stumbles Into Creepy AF Nope-Fest
24.3.2022
Elden Ring can be pretty horrifying. Sometimes it’s the monsters, eldritch horrors with way too many appendages and exposed arteries. Other times it’s the environment, shrouded in misty white fog and just a few obelisk structures as haunting music hums in the background. Such is the case with this...
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Reviews Say D&D Trappings Don’t Change The Borderlands Core
24.3.2022
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands takes Gearbox’s loot shooter series out for a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired spin. Does it work? Critics are split. The consensus appears to be that, for better and for worse, it’s more Borderlands. Shocking, I know! But it sounds like there are also enough new tricks...
You Can Boost Your Elden Ring Runes Without Really Trying
24.3.2022
Have you spent a long time murdering eagles and other assorted avians in Elden Ring, only to walk away with a pouch full of mostly bird feathers—and a flock that’s largely flown away? That’s certainly been my experience trying to get the drops needed to craft Gold Pickled Fowl Foot, the go-to item...
The Future of Mining Finance: Time to Get Creative
23.3.2022
To finance equipment in a down market, firms will have to look beyond stock issuance. They may have to borrow against their machines or mined crypto or put themselves up for sale
6 Games To Check Out If You Like XCOM
23.3.2022
Few tactical shooters stack up to XCOM. The venerable sci-fi series is considered best-in-class for the genre, thanks to a formula calcified in the widely praised XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its equally praised successor, XCOM 2. (The spinoff XCOM: Chimera Squad, released in 2020, is fine.)Read more
Elden Ring Mods Turn The Game Into A Surreal Fever Dream
23.3.2022
Gather ‘round, readers, as I regale you with another tale of the weird shit players are up to in Elden Ring. Don’t worry, this post won’t be about panties, murdering turtle clergy, or rolling death strats (we’ve already done those). This time around, Elden Ring has become an even wackier gameplay...
Elden Ring’s Wildlife Can Go All The Way To Hell
23.3.2022
Elden Ring is massive, filled to the brim with all sorts of murderous creepy crawlies seemingly designed to make your stay in the Lands Between as unsettling as possible. But the enemies that keep giving me the most trouble are also the most banal.Read more
Elden Ring's Horse Can Sometimes Fly (After Falling To Its Death First)
23.3.2022
For every exploit and glitch FromSoftware try and patch out of Elden Ring, you can rest assured that nosy players—especially those with an interest in speedrunning—will discover fresh ones.Read more
Standing Watch
23.3.2022
Vladimir Motsar is an artist at GSC Game World, the Ukrainian studio behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Cossacks series.Read more
New Ghostbusters Game Coming To PC, Consoles
23.3.2022
A new Ghosbusters game has been announced. Called Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, it’s an asynchronous, 4v1 multiplayer shooter where four Ghostbusters can take on one player controlling the ghosts.Read more
Elden Ring Modder Summons Ridiculously Huge Enemies
22.3.2022
Elden Ring’s “spirit ashes” are one of its standout new features, letting you summon ghostly monsters to fight by your side. But now one Elden Ring modder, known as King Bore Haha, has taken the concept to a new extreme.Read more
New Witcher Game Director Promises No Crunch Despite Studio History Of Crunch
22.3.2022
Yesterday CD Projekt Red announced a “new saga in The Witcher franchise.” As part of a new multi-year collaboration with Epic Games focused on open-world design, the game will be made in Unreal Engine 5 rather than the studio’s own REDengine. It won’t be The Witcher 4, but that’s what people...
Witcher Fans Mistake Fanfiction For Clues About Next Game
22.3.2022
It seemed inevitable, but yesterday CD Projekt Red made it official: it’s working on a new open world Witcher game. The company didn’t say anything about what the game would be about, but it did send fans into speculation mode with teaser art showing a medallion covered in snow. Now some of them...
Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Stops Wrecked Cars From Spawning In Front Of You While Speeding
22.3.2022
Cyberpunk 2077’s road to perfection continues apace. Fresh on the heels of a massive update that made the open-world snarkfest feel complete and functional, or closer to it, developer CD Projekt Red is rolling out a smaller patch purporting to fix a litany of minor issues.Read more
Gran Turismo 7 Players Use AFK Exploit To Farm Millions Like Capitalism Intended
22.3.2022
Gran Turismo 7 is an excellent racing sim bogged down by microtransactions. Yet, instead of dialing back on that bit of the game, a recent update sees developer Polyphony Digital make progression even more grindy. Now, some players are turning to a new remote play exploit to farm millions...
Elden Ring Players Are Becoming Rolling Death Traps
22.3.2022
Elden Ring players are pulling off all kinds of bonkers shenanigans, from beating it in under 30 minutes to unlocking cut content through hacks. They’re even destroying bosses with stylish ease, something I wish I were capable of doing. But thanks to fans of FromSoftware’s latest Souls-like,...
George R.R. Martin Completes Another Blog Post About Elden Ring
22.3.2022
Welcome back to what is now becoming a recurring feature here on Kotaku.com, where we report on times that renowned author George R.R. Martin has chosen to write about the video game Elden Ring on his very old, very quaint personal blog.Read more
Elden Ring Players Are Killing The Turtle Pope, Rejecting Their Humanity
21.3.2022
Dogs are good, even if they happen to be shaped like a giant turtle. However, the Lands Between is an unforgiving place where boundaries are pushed, and sacrifices must be made in the pursuit of knowledge for Elden Ring players. Sadly that knowledge came at the heavy price of Miriel, the Pastor...
New Ubisoft Tech Threatens World With Even Bigger Games
21.3.2022
Over the weekend, as part of a preview ahead of this year’s GDC, Ubisoft revealed a new cloud-based technology it’s developing. According to the Assassin’s Creed publisher, this new tech, named Scalar, will allow its teams to create “even bigger worlds” than what’s currently possible.Read more