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PS5's Best New Feature Overshadowed By Scourge Of Unblockable Ads
30.9.2024
Earlier this month, Sony rolled out a new firmware update that, among other things, added a customizable welcome hub to the PlayStation 5 home screen. It’s lowkey one of the best new features the console has gotten in years, but it’s being overshadowed by an equally frustrating change that’s...
30th Anniversary PS5 Pre-Orders Were A Mess, February 2025 Is Too Packed With Big Games, And More Of The Week's Takes
28.9.2024
This week, Sony opened up pre-orders for the items in its 30th Anniversary PlayStation 5 collection, and for many at least, the experience of trying to snag anything was one of confusion and frustration. Also, we’ll tell you about a great arcade platformer called Bzzzt that’s now available...
Sony's Big State Of Play, An Assassin's Creed Shadows Delay, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
28.9.2024
Sony held a State of Play showcase this week that showed off a few new games alongside updates for Astro Bot, Alan Wake 2, and others, with the biggest reveal being our first look at the sequel to Ghost of Tsushima. Meanwhile, Xbox held an event of its own at Tokyo Game Show, images of some of...
Everything You Need To Know About Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom
26.9.2024
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the first game in the long-running Nintendo franchise to properly star the titular character. In this magic-filled romp, you’ll take on the role of Zelda herself, rather than series protagonist Link. And as such, it plays differently too, Zelda able...
The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom: The Kotaku Review
26.9.2024
How do you follow up on some of the most critically acclaimed games of the past decade? Many thought that Nintendo couldn’t surpass the sheer open-world wonder and physics toy-box creativity that made The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild such a revelation. However, Nintendo seemed to do just...
Damn, God Of War Ragnarök’s Opener Still Whips
24.9.2024
I’ve been replaying God of War Ragnarök now that it’s on PC, and despite some clear, widespread technical issues with depreciating framerate, this is still fundamentally the same excellent sequel that launched on PlayStation in 2022. I put a few hours into the game again to test how it ran on...
8 Things To Know Before Playing Sunny Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song
24.9.2024
Enotria: The Last Song is a sunny soulslike that has an unusual sense of joy on the surface—but there’s a lot of dark stuff going on underneath. You can rest assured that your skills will be tested in typical genre fashion, and especially during the game’s opening hours, where things are at their...
Uncovering the Secrets of Seekers of Tokane: A New Web3 JRPG Adventure
22.9.2024
Regina’s Web3 gaming odyssey continues as she moves from Spellborne to Seekers of Tokane. Regina’s Quest for Epic Monster Hunts Continues in Seekers of Tokane Crushing the main quests in Spellborne has only cranked up my hunger for even more epic monster hunts! The adrenaline of taking...
Zelda-Inspired Plucky Squire Shows What Happens When A Game Doesn't Trust Its Players
19.9.2024
I really enjoyed The Plucky Squire, an action-adventure game in the vein of classic Legend of Zelda titles. It’s got not one, but two, whimsical art styles: one reminiscent of children’s picture books, and another in which the hero is presented as a miniature toy that comes to life in a child’s...
It’s Always A Good Time To Return To Return To Monkey Island
19.9.2024
Making a sequel to an amazing game is hard enough, but with each subsequent entry that task gets even harder. So while 1991's point-and-click adventure game Monkey Island 2 is seen as a stunning improvement over its predecessor, the more the series went on, the harder it was to recapture...
God Of War: Ragnarok PC Port Will Stop Atreus Spoiling Every Puzzle
19.9.2024
If you played God of War: Ragnarok on PlayStation, then punctuating your declarations about how bloody marvelous it is, you will almost inevitably have cried, “STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!” For some reason, Ragnarok is absolutely convinced that you’re stuck, all the time, and has its characters...
We Tried To Review Funko Fusion But It Softlocked On Us 21 Times
18.9.2024
After finishing a frustrating boss fight in Funko Fusion against a never-ending stream of baddies in a grocery store, I was finally done with Hot Fuzz’s fourth level. I could move on. A cutscene played but the audio was missing. That happens a lot in this game. And then the final screen appeared...
Bloodborne Remaster Still MIA, But ESRB Leak Confirms Horizon Zero Dawn PS5 Port
18.9.2024
A new rating for a yet-unannounced Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered was spotted on the official Entertainment Software Rating Board website, seemingly confirming the previously rumored remaster. Read more
New GTA Online Update Breaks Steam Deck Support
17.9.2024
Today, Grand Theft Auto Online received an update, with the PC port of the crime sim finally getting anti-cheating software. Yet not everyone is happy, as this update has now made it impossible to play GTA Online on Steam Deck. Read more
Catch Up On The Life Is Strange Series For Cheap Ahead Of The Newest Game
17.9.2024
The Life is Strange series is a pretty odd one. At the time of the first game’s release, I wasn’t really aware that there was much interest in the goings-on of a bunch of teenagers in the Pacific Northwest. Boy, was I wrong, because nowadays Life Is Strange is a core franchise for Square Enix...
A Big Moment In Digimon History Is Coming To Blu-Ray, And It’s Up For Pre-Order
17.9.2024
2000’s Digimon: The Movie is notorious for its complicated development, incredible ska and punk soundtrack, and the decades of memes that it spawned. Looking back at scenes like the giant, yoked-up rabbit Wendigomon dancing to Smash Mouth’s “All Star” is a bizarre, time capsule of a moment in anime...
This Nostalgic Zelda-Like Is A Delightful Love Letter To Gaming
17.9.2024
Do you remember the first game you fell in love with? For me it was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting in front of a small CRT TV set up in the living room watching my brother run through the fields of Hyrule. Before even getting the controller in...
Some Huge PlayStation 5 Games Are On Sale For More Than Half Off
17.9.2024
PlayStation is holding a “Planet of the Discounts” sale over on its digital store with some pretty steep price cuts. The sale takes place over the course of the next week until Wednesday, September 25, and there are some big games to grab for, in some cases, more than half off. The list of games...
10 Sprawling Action Games To Play After Star Wars Outlaws
16.9.2024
I’ve heard Star Wars Outlaws described as the most “okay” game of all time, with nothing overtly exceptional standing out in its 16-hour campaign. I disagree to some extent. Ubisoft may not always strike gold, but they understand how to make an entertaining popcorn game that leaves you wanting...
Enter Your Spoiler Bunker, Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Has Leaked Online
16.9.2024
It’s becoming a pretty set pattern at this point: Nintendo has a first-party big-name Switch title due out in a couple of weeks, then news breaks that copies of the game have already leaked online. It’s happened yet again with September 26's The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom—a ROM of the game...