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RoboCop: Rogue City: The Kotaku Review
8.11.2023
For years and years, video games—especially shooters—have gotten faster and faster. RoboCop: Rogue City, out now on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, bucks this trend and puts you in the clunky, lumbering metal boots of RoboCop himself. But the real surprise isn’t how much fun it is to be a slow-walking...
New Mass Effect Teasers Finally Confirm What We’ve All Been Guessing
7.11.2023
The next Mass Effect game has been shrouded in mystery since its 2020 Game Awards reveal. November 7 is N7 Day, when BioWare and fans celebrate the science-fiction RPG series. But this year’s a little different. The studio gave us a couple teasers for the next game, at the same time as laid-off...
Laid-Off Dragon Age Testers Will Picket BioWare
6.11.2023
Former quality assurance testers who worked on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf are preparing to picket outside Bioware’s Edmonton offices after being laid off earlier this year. Electronic Arts tried to block the protest but the developers prevailed in a ruling by the Alberta Labour Relations Board...
A Year Ago, Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Ending Proved The Series Potential
6.11.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are all about finding freedom in their open world. This is as true mechanically as it is thematically, as the pair of Switch RPGs let you freely explore the Paldea region in search of your own “treasure.” They posit that the Pokémon world is full of possibilities and that...
Modern Warfare III and Starfield Highlight An Obnoxious Trend
6.11.2023
Every week I play a very specific game. No, it’s not Halo (though I do occasionally play that), but the game where I desperately try to manage the storage space on my PC because of video games. Oh and if I go to my PS5, trying to curate a decent list of installed games also runs into problems. Same...
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Kotaku Review
6.11.2023
Kazuma Kiryu has been hitting the cigs pretty hard.Read more
Diablo IV's First Expansion Will Add A New Class In 2024
3.11.2023
Today, during Blizzcon 2023, Blizzard gave us an early look at Diablo IV’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. The upcoming expansion will feature a new class and will be out next year. Read more
Blizzard Teases Overwatch 2’s Next Three Heroes And Other 2024 Plans
3.11.2023
Blizzard announced three new Overwatch 2 heroes at Blizzcon 2023’s opening ceremony, and while Mauga, the next tank hero, is playable in the game this weekend as part of a test period to everyone, the company also showed off two other heroes planned to launch in 2024.Read more
Everything We Know About Genshin Impact's 4.2 Update
3.11.2023
The anime-inspired action-RPG Genshin Impact will get a pretty substantial update later this month that introduces two new playable characters, an expanded region to explore, and a couple of formidable bosses waiting to beat the brakes off you.Read more
Sexy Anime RPG Puts Players In ‘Gem Debt’ To Pay Off Dev’s Mistake
3.11.2023
Taimanin RPG Extasy is a turn-based gacha RPG in which players unlock new warriors to fight demons and criminal syndicates in a horny sci-fi future. The game’s been live in Japan for years, but only recently came to the rest of the world, and it’s already facing its first major crisis: an outbreak...
Baldur’s Gate 3, Three Months Later
3.11.2023
It doesn’t feel like it’s been three months since Larian Studios freed Baldur’s Gate 3 from its Early Access shackles and unleashed its huge Dungeons & Dragons epic on the world. In that time, it’s quickly become the highest-reviewed game on Metacritic this year, making it a likely shoo-in for Game...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games To Welcome In November
3.11.2023
Oh my god, it’s November. Don’t ask me how or why. I don’t make the rules and I have no answers. What I do have, however, is a solid list of game recs for your weekend.Read more
Super Mario RPG Preview Roundup: Faithful And Fresh
3.11.2023
Super Mario RPG, the remake of Square Enix’s 1996 2D pixel art classic, will be out on Nintendo Switch on November 17. The charming-looking turn-based game sees Mario and Peach join forces with the dastardly Bowser to stop a mechanical creature named Smithy from destroying the Mushroom Kingdom....
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Latest Big Patch Brings Over 1,000 More Tweaks And Fixes
2.11.2023
Larian has dropped another colossal patch for its hugely successful Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Baldur’s Gate 3, and it brings over 1000 individual fixes and tweaks to the game just as we head into its three-month anniversary.Read more
Kníratý instalatér to umí v Super Mario RPG rozbalit i pěkně na tahy
2.11.2023
Super Mario RPG je remake hry z roku 1996, která tehdy vyšla na konzoli SNES. Verze na Switch nepřichází jen s kompletně novou grafikou, ale i dodatečnými animacemi, volitelným easy módem a řadou malých drobností, díky nimž je hra přívětivější. My už se do barevného světa plně ponořili a můžeme...
Now Is The Time For Universal Video Game Accessibility Guidelines
2.11.2023
As Kotaku’s resident Soulsbud, I was stoked to check out the action-Soulslike RPG Lords of the Fallen when it debuted back in mid-October, so I booted it up and immediately navigated to the settings menu. This is always my first stop when starting any game, to ensure I can actually play the thing....
I Use My Xbox Series S For Shooters And My PS5 For Everything Else
1.11.2023
On the frontline of the console wars, it’s difficult to find perspective. Whether you’ve already chosen a side and are deep in the trenches, or you’re just trying to figure out if an Xbox Series X (see on Amazon) or PS5 (see on Amazon) makes a better Christmas gift this year, you’d be hard pressed...
Star Ocean 2 Gets The Definitive Remake Every Classic PS1 RPG Deserves
1.11.2023
We’ve seen Square Enix port a lot of beloved RPGs from the original PlayStation to modern platforms in recent years. Some have been fine. A few have been disappointing. None of them seemed quite worthy of the source material they were working with…until Star Ocean The Second Story R. The Final...
Persona 5 Tactica Has Me Questioning If I Want More Phantom Thieves Games
1.11.2023
About five hours into Persona 5 Tactica, the tactical RPG spin-off of the Phantom Thieves’ supernatural adventures through corrupted Tokyo, I find myself thinking about Persona 5 Royal more than what’s going on in this group’s latest adventure. This is less a condemnation of Tactica than it is...
November’s Game Releases Should Thrill RPG, Call Of Duty Fans
1.11.2023
There are only two months left in what is quite likely one of the most epic years in gaming. We’ve already had some incredible games this year, and hopefully there are still a few more to come. Read more