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New King Of Fighter Character Looks Like Fighter That Vanished Mysteriously
10.12.2021
SNK revealed a new KOF XV character named Krohnen. Longtime King of
Fighters fans have pointed out that Krohnen doesn’t look new at all. He
looks like a fighter that had vanished mysteriously years ago. Read more
Dune: Spice Wars Is A New Real-Time PC Game
10.12.2021
Dune has a long history of very good strategy games, dating all the way back to 1992 when we got not one but two all-time greats based on the license. It’s been a while between then and now—with a little Dune 2000 in the meantime—but we’re now heading back to Arrakis in Dune: Spice Wars.Read more
Here's The First Trailer For The Upcoming Halo TV Series
10.12.2021
Geoff’s Big Show gave us our first full trailer for the upcoming Halo TV series, streaming on Paramount+. It looks...fine. Its really hard to make Doom Guy armor look good in a real human setting.Read more
Horizon Forbidden West's Dinosaurs Are Suitably Epic In New Footage
10.12.2021
Guerrilla Games showed off more of Horizon Forbidden West—which criminally is not titled Horizon One Dawn or Horizon Zero Dusk—at The Game Awards tonight. Take a look:Read more
How To Quickly Level-Up Halo Infinite’s Battle Pass
9.12.2021
Halo Infinite, out in its entirety this week for Xbox and PC, has officially flooded the tubes. Surely you’ve heard of friends playing it. They may have sung its praises as a top-flight arena shooter, or a return to form for a dormant series. They may have also lambasted its battle pass as...
Halo Infinite's Campaign Opening Is Awful
9.12.2021
For a game sold on its wide open spaces, player freedom, and great big sticky-up hexagons, Halo Infinite’s opening couple of hours couldn’t be much less representative. The approximately 700 miles of the same blue-gray corridors and chambers that gate access to the open-world game, feel as though...
Hilarious Halo Infinite Glitch Turns Warthogs Into Go-Karts
8.12.2021
Despite its trappings as a jingoistic space opera, the Halo franchise often finds itself straddling the line between serious and humorous. The latest example of this phenomenon is a glitch that sees the series’ ubiquitous Warthog jeeps shrunk down to comical proportions during multiplayer...
Halo Infinite Is Harder Than You’d Expect, And That's By Design
8.12.2021
You may want to be a hero, you may even want to be a legend, but know that sometimes it’s totally fine to be normal. Case in point here is Halo Infinite, a first-person shooter out today for Xbox and PC. If you’re just starting out the campaign, be sure to play on Normal—at least at first.Read more
The Game Developers Who Enable Speedrunners To Break Their Games
8.12.2021
It was a few days after Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart had launched on PS5, and Insomniac Games had a problem. Using a glitch known as the swingboost to gain phenomenal amounts of forward momentum, a small group of players had found a method of tearing this carefully-crafted experience apart...
I'm Obsessed With These New Halo Infinite Armor Attachments
8.12.2021
Every Tuesday, the Halo Infinite store refreshes with a new stock of items and armor to help your Spartan stand out in the battlefield. For the most part, it’s the sort of borderline bro-y stuff you’d expect: ammo belts, additional visor colors, decals, what have you. More recently, the game’s been...
Destiny 2 Gets Halo Guns For Bungie's 30th Anniversary
8.12.2021
Worlds sometimes collide in the most expected ways. Destiny, a series of first-person shooters developed by Bungie and first released in 2014, is getting a slew of weapons from Halo, a series of first-person shooters developed by Bungie and first released in 2001.Read more
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Comes With A Free Ticket For The Tom Holland Movie
7.12.2021
The leap from one console generation to the next continues to be a puzzle worthy of Uncharted: not terribly mind-bending, but certainly more complicated than you’d expect. The latest example, in an Escherian twist, is Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves, the forthcoming PlayStation 5 bundle that includes...
Bowser Agrees To Pay Nintendo $10 Million In Hacking Lawsuit
7.12.2021
Gary “GaryOPA” Bowser pleaded guilty to federal piracy charges in October. Now he’s agreed to pay Nintendo a massive $10 million settlement for his reported role in designing and selling devices to circumvent Switch security measures as part of Team Xecuter.Read more
You Can’t Replay Campaign Missions In Halo Infinite
6.12.2021
One of the joys of Halo is its replayability. Ask any devotee and you’ll get some story about endlessly rerunning “The Library” in Halo: Combat Evolved, or replaying Halo 2’s “Delta Halo” to get out of bounds and explore that uncannily Canada-looking mountain range. Sadly, at least at launch,...
Halo Infinite's Crystal-Clear Visual Design Puts Its Murky Competitors To Shame
6.12.2021
I cannot believe I am praising a video game because I can see it, but hear me out. Somewhere along the line, maybe in the last decade and some change, shooters have become a visual mess. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve had to squint hard in games like Battlefield to try and determine if...
Halo Infinite's Ridiculous Physics Are Just Like The Old Games
6.12.2021
You can do a whole lot in Halo Infinite. You can get completely lost in forests on a derelict alien space station. You can mow down hordes of religious aliens with a kit of futuristic weapons and gadgets. You can also, apparently, fly halfway across the map, thanks to a newly discovered exploit...
Halo Infinite: The Kotaku Review
6.12.2021
How do you even consider Halo Infinite in totality? Not just any Halo game but this Halo game—one that was supposed to herald a new generation of Xboxes but was delayed out of the launch window; one that’s had no shortage of public scrutiny over its tumultuous development process; one that’s...
LA Lakers Release Strange Little Halo Bundle
6.12.2021
For one day only this weekend, at one place only, the Los Angeles Lakers and Microsoft were selling a bizarre Halo Infinite bundle that was, this being 2021, snapped up by fans/resellers almost immediately.Read more
Halo Subreddit Temporarily Shutdown Because Angry Gamers Won't Stop Being Toxic Jerks
5.12.2021
Once again, the angry gamers are angry and yelling and being just the worst. This time it’s happening over on Reddit. Specifically, the main Halo subreddit, r/Halo, which has been locked until Monday due to how angry and toxic most of the posts and comments have been recently following Halo...
Halo Infinite's Multiplayer Is About To Get Much Better With New Playlists
3.12.2021
Although Halo players are currently enjoying an early look at Infinite multiplayer ahead of the campaign launch on December 8, one of the biggest complaints from the community concerns the first-person shooter’s lack of playlists. But that should change very soon. Like, “before next year” soon.Read...