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Princess Peach: Showtime Reveals Ninja Peach And Pastel Pink Joy-Cons
23.1.2024
This March we receive the triumphant return of the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Her Majesty Princess Peach. Princess Peach: Showtime, the resilient monarch’s first headline game since 2005’s Super Princess Peach, is a stage-based action-adventure, as shown in new footage released by Nintendo...
Monster Hunter Rise Broke On Steam Deck After Capcom Added DRM
22.1.2024
Monster Hunter Rise, the sixth mainline entry in Capcom’s creature-slaying action RPG, is now broken on Steam Deck. It seems that, right after the company replaced its old digital rights management (DRM) software with a new one, the game just wouldn’t boot up anymore. That sucks, but Capcom...
Unpacking The ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Game Palworld And Its Controversies
22.1.2024
It has been a whirlwind of a weekend for Palworld, the Ark-like survival game colloquially called “Pokémon With Guns.” Pocketpair’s latest has already sold over five million copies since launching in Early Access on January 19, and shot to the top of Steam and Twitch charts over the weekend....
New Ad Turns Umbrella Academy Actor Into Persona Character For Some Reason
22.1.2024
Sega revealed a new live-action commercial for Persona 3 Reload today, and I’m trying to pin down why it’s breaking my brain. I think I’m coming to the conclusion that there isn’t just one thing about it. There are so many bad things about it that it just feels like a fever dream. Can anyone who’s...
After Playing Palworld For 6 Hours I Still Haven't Shot A Pokémon With A Gun
22.1.2024
Over the weekend, I downloaded Palworld on my PC. I was excited. After all the weird trailers and screenshots showing Pokémon-like creatures using assault rifles or being shot with handguns, I was ready to earn official Xbox achievements as I killed Pokémon facsimiles using modern guns. It...
Palworld Devs Aren’t Worried About A Nintendo Lawsuit
22.1.2024
We’re about done with the first month of the year, and 2024’s biggest game is already here in the form of Palworld. The colloquially named “Pokémon with guns” open-world survival crafting title is dominating both Steam and Twitch in spite of the controversy it’s courted, particularly around...
Eight Years Later, Final Fantasy's Best Ending Still Hits Hard
22.1.2024
Brotherhood is a theme so overt in Final Fantasy XV that it’s the title of the game’s five-episode prequel anime. An outlier in a series that usually leverages expansive and diverse casts, FF15 instead focuses entirely on a road trip with four lads. Tehy spend most of their time cruising around...
FF7 Rebirth, TLOU 2, And More Of The Week's Essential Game Tips
20.1.2024
Practice your headshots. The Last of Us Part II is back, and this time it’s remastered. The spiffed-up version dropping on January 19 also includes a wholly new gameplay mode called No Return, if you’re looking to wile away the hours in Naughty Dog’s combat sandbox. And if you’re as excited about...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Escape The Cold
19.1.2024
This past week, January has been happy to give those of us who live in cold-weather-prone areas a reason to look forward to spring. One look at how things are outside and I am ready to make plans to move to warmer climates (despite being from the east coast, I can’t tolerate anything under...
Everything We Know About Square Enix's Visions Of Mana
19.1.2024
It’s been 15 years since the last mainline entry in Square Enix’s Mana series, and the wait for another one is coming to an end. The publisher revealed during December 2023's The Game Awards that Visions of Mana, the upcoming action RPG in the long-running franchise, is set to launch later this...
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s New Game Plus Seemingly Locked Behind $15 Paywall
19.1.2024
Locking key game features behind paywalls feels very 2024. This is the move Sega appears to be taking with Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. PC Gamer has spotted that the game’s New Game Plus mode is listed as limited to premium versions of the game, which cost at least $15 more than the Digital...
Pokémon With Guns Game So Popular The Servers Can’t Handle It
19.1.2024
Palworld, or the game more colloquially known as “Pokémon With Guns” is out today, January 19, and it’s quickly found a rather large audience interested in gunning down cute creatures. While Pocketpair’s monster-taming survival game is also available freely to Game Pass subscribers, a lot of people...
Everything You Need To Know About Final Fantasy VII, Before Rebirth
19.1.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is out on February 29, 2024. But if you haven’t played 2020’s Remake, or any of the other games in the FF7 universe (known officially as the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII), you might be wondering where to start, what order you should play the games in, and whether...
Square Enix Wants To Make Fewer Games
18.1.2024
During an investor call in November 2023—made public this week and spotted by My Nintendo News—Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu acknowledged the company’s failure to market much of its recent catalog, and raised intentions to “slim down” the publisher’s lineup. As in, publish fewer games.Read more
The Week In Games: Pokémon With Guns And More New Releases
18.1.2024
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Tekken 8 Will Fix A Potentially Dangerous Feature After Outcry
18.1.2024
Tekken 8, the next entry in Bandai Namco Entertainment’s long-running fighting game franchise, is set to launch on January 26. While that’s right around the corner, the team is continuing to tweak aspects of the game, including a potentially concerning set of accessibility features that stirred...
Everything We Know About Vanillaware’s Epic RPG Unicorn Overlord
18.1.2024
When Japanese developers Vanillaware announce they’re releasing a new game, you sit up and take notice. The team, started in 2002 by Capcom and Atlus vet George Kamitani, most recently brought us 2020’s adored 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, and soon returns with Unicorn Overlord, due out March 2024....
Square Enix: Can Y’all Stop Comparing Foamstars and Splatoon?
17.1.2024
Foamstars is the upcoming competitive online shooter from Square Enix that a lot of people and publications (Kotaku included) have referred to as a Splatoon clone or Splatoon-like. Apparently, Square Enix is bored of all of us comparing its foam-shooter with Nintendo’s popular ink-shooter.Read more
That 'Pokémon With Guns' Game Really Wants You To Know It's Not A Scam
17.1.2024
The developers behind PalWorld—which folks online often refer to as “Pokémon with guns”—understand that people might be suspicious of this unorthodox survival game, so they’ve tried to assure folks it’s not a “scam” on Steam.Read more
Cloud’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Actor Says Shippers Are Too Damn Horny
17.1.2024
Cody Christian, the voice of Cloud Strife in the Final Fantasy VII Remake, has some bold (but reasonable) feelings on how shippers direct conversations in fandom toward romantic interpretations. Anyone who is even tangentially aware of Final Fantasy VII knows that there’s a decades-long shipping...