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Ex-Dragon Age Devs Sue BioWare Over Denying Full Severance
4.10.2023
BioWare laid off 50 employees at the end of August. Mary Kirby was one of them. A 17-year veteran of the studio beloved for its story-driven RPGs, Kirby has worked on every Dragon Age game, and her contributions have shown up in some of the series’ most memorable characters and questlines....
WWE’s Randy Orton Paid Someone $1,000 To Level Up His Elden Ring Character
4.10.2023
It’s no secret that the crossover between video games and professional wrestling, be it through the hilarious signs fans bring to events or the intricate wardrobes stars wear into the ring, is a strong one. As such, it’s hardly surprising to learn that WWE’s Randy Orton is an avid gamer who plays...
Diablo IV Is Coming To Steam In 2 Weeks
4.10.2023
Today, during Blizzard’s Diablo IV Developer Update livestream, members of the game’s dev team dove right into the myriad changes expected to arrive with the game’s next big update: Season of Blood. But tweaks to loot drops and XP rewards won’t be the only new experience for PC players, as the game...
Starfield, One Month Later
3.10.2023
Once a distant star on the horizon, Starfield arrived on Xbox and PC on September 6, with a five-day early access period for those who shelled out for the deluxe edition. It’s now been in the hands of gamers worldwide for a little over a month, with folks pouring over its vast world and searching...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Hands-On: We’re So Back
3.10.2023
Dragon’s Dogma 2, like its beloved but compromised predecessor, can look like a conventional and unimpressive fantasy action-RPG on the surface. Knights, archers, and mages journey between medieval towns plagued by monsters, completing quests, crafting new gear, and getting stronger....
Players Are Having Trouble Activating The Cyberpunk 2077 Expansion’s Final Mission
29.9.2023
Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty expansion have a problem with wasting your time. CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG has a feature where you have to wait an undetermined amount of time for certain quests to activate, and that persists into Phantom Liberty. Even now, after the epic 2.0 update...
Surprise, Bethesda Just Released A New Elder Scrolls Game
29.9.2023
On September 28, Bethesda shadow-dropped a new spin-off in its popular RPG series, The Elder Scrolls, with absolutely no fanfare. We didn’t even know it was coming, as there was no announcement for Elder Scrolls: Castles, a mobile game where you aren’t playing as one brave adventurer exploring...
Someone Turned Starfield’s Lockpicking Into Its Own Game
28.9.2023
Released earlier this month, Starfield is Bethesda’s long-in-development and much-hyped open-world space RPG. And while the hundreds of planets and spaceship building are cool and all, I particularly enjoy Starfield’s fantastic lockpicking minigame. Apparently I’m not alone, because someone...
Starfield: The Kotaku Review
28.9.2023
As my spaceship emerges from interstellar travel to orbit a once-distant alien world, I know that once I’m down on its surface, it won’t feel like a world at all. Instead, what Starfield will give me is a series of zones, awkwardly stitched together in a way that makes it hard to pretend they make...
Starfield Superspeed Mod Lets You Fly Between Planets In Minutes
27.9.2023
Tired of all those fast-travel menus in Starfield? Good news: If you’re playing on PC, you can grab a mod that’ll dramatically ramp up your ship’s speed in space so that you can actually fly in between nearby planets within a reasonable timespan. Read more
Maker Of Popular Starfield Mod Threatens Those Who Pirate It With Sabotage
27.9.2023
“Starfield Upscaler” is the second-most popular mod for Bethesda’s open-world RPG, but its creator sparked controversy earlier this month because the best version of it was locked behind a $5 Patreon subscription paywall. In a new interview with IGN he defends the practice, and threatens users...
Starfield ‘Nerfed The Hell’ Out Of Environmental Damage During Development
27.9.2023
Exploration is a key part of the Starfield experience, with large planetary spaces through which to wander across the galaxy, but it can be risky. On top of combat and quests, environments feature an assortment of hazards, each of which are capable of afflicting the player with specific conditions....
Horizon Forbidden West Is The Next Big PS5 Exclusive To Get Ported To PC
27.9.2023
Horizon Forbidden West will come to PC in “early 2024,” Dutch port house Nixxes Software confirmed today. The sci-fi action-RPG marks the latest in a steady drumbeat of Sony’s first-party exclusives making the jump from PlayStation 5 to Steam and the Epic Games Store. Read more
How To Unlock Cyberpunk 2077’s New Ending In Phantom Liberty
26.9.2023
Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion has its own self-contained conclusion, but depending on your choices throughout the story, you can unlock an entirely new ending for the base game, too. You just have to make certain choices to get it.Read more
Starfield Gets Another Tiny Update As Players Wait For The Big One
25.9.2023
Bethesda released another tiny update for Starfield on September 25 that addresses a handful of minor bugs and performance issues on PC. The studio promises a much more massive update is still on the way as fans wait for further tweaks and much needed quality of life improvements. Read more
Starfield Player Followed Across The Galaxy By An Entire City
22.9.2023
Although early reviews claimed Starfield was Bethesda Game Studios’ most polished game to date, the open-space RPG still suffers from some of the strange, sometimes amusing, occasionally very helpful sorts of bugs and glitches the studio’s work is often known for. Maybe the most mind-boggling...
Finally, A Method To Steal Starfield NPCs' Clothes
22.9.2023
Though Starfield doesn’t let you directly tear off people’s cool clothes the way other Bethesda role-playing games like Skyrim do, through Manipulation, players on Reddit discovered another, more devious way to look cute.Read more
Every Change In Cyberpunk 2077's Massive 2.0 Update
21.9.2023
Cyberpunk 2077’s big 2.0 update is out today and it fundamentally changes large swaths of the original game. We’ve been playing it a bit as part of our Phantom Liberty coverage and had a broad sense of the changes, but CD Projekt Red has finally released extensive patch notes to tell you every...
Meet The Early Lies Of P Mini-Boss That’s Terrifying Players
21.9.2023
Lies of P, the punishing Soulslike about Pinocchio looking for his dad Geppetto, has plenty of tough enemies waiting to meet you. They’re all terrifying, ranging from a poison-imbued slug beast to a dude who literally thinks he’s God, but there’s one mini-boss who sucks so much I can’t wait to meet...
13 More Things We Just Learned About Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
21.9.2023
A giant batch of new Final Fantasy VII Rebirth interviews and previews just dropped to kickoff Tokyo Game Show 2023 and the sequel is sounding more promising than ever. Here’s everything we’re learning from Square Enix’s latest marketing bonanza around the upcoming timed PlayStation...