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Cowards: Lady Dimitrescu Will Be Shorter In The Resident Evil Village DLC
12.10.2022
Lady Dimitrescu, otherwise known as Tall Vampire Lady or simply Big Lady if you’re experiencing a loss for words, might have to get a more diminutive nickname that doesn’t reference her towering height come the release of Resident Evil Village’s first major DLC because Capcom will be making her...
Vtubers Apologize For Streaming Porn During A Live Splatoon 3 Match
12.10.2022
So, uh, awkward. Apparently, it’s possible to display porn within Splatoon 3 matches. This weekend, a group of vtubers broadcasted porn videos in Splatoon 3 by using the ink projectiles as a video screen. The stream caused “Splatoon AV” (adult video) to trend on Japanese Twitter, and...
This Indie Survival Game Is Essentially Half-Life With Co-Op
11.10.2022
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A Rare Opportunity To See The Huge Money Spent To Keep Game Pass, PS Plus Bursting With Games
11.10.2022
Video games are a nearly $200 billion industry. That’s a lot of money sloshing around an increasingly small group of notoriously secretive companies. Where does it all go? At least some of it is poured back into competing storefronts and subscription services like PlayStation Plus and Game Pass....
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Promotes Game With Millionaires After Excluding Fans With Fewest Means
11.10.2022
Pour one out for your homies because the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reboot—and new accounts for 2019's Modern Warfare—currently requires a registered phone number to Battle.net, publisher Activision announced. This requirement follows a similar move made by publisher sister series Overwatch...
Street Fighter 6 Is A Fighting Game Newcomer’s Dream
11.10.2022
It was short, but Street Fighter 6's closed beta test was sweet. Wrapping up earlier today, the beta gave a solid look into the future of the iconic fighting game franchise. There’s a lot to like, including the depth of the new avatar creator. But the best part, aside from learning character...
NBA 2K23’s In-Game Durags Cost More Than Real Ones, Somehow
11.10.2022
If you’ve played any of the NBA 2K games, chances are you’re no stranger to how the microtransactions serve as swift scuffing on the fresh J’s of your enjoyment of the game. While many wish microtransactions would peace out—much like the Golden State Warriors’ Jordan Poole did after suffering...
It's Nice When A Studio Can Rebrand Into Something Prettier
11.10.2022
From 2011 to 2022, there was a video game developer in Canada known as Square Enix Montreal. A sub-division of a massive international games publisher, they had a logo that looked like a spaceship from an Atari game and a name about as unimaginative as it comes.Read more
Right Now Is A Great Time To Jump Into No Man's Sky
10.10.2022
No Man’s Sky’s latest update, dubbed “Waypoint,” allows you to tweak the game’s difficulty in a wide variety of ways, making the game easier or more challenging in key areas. This has the happy side effect of making the game way more accessible. So, for example, if you loved the idea of traveling...
Street Fighter 6's New Combo-Breaking Move Has Players Howling
10.10.2022
Street Fighter 6's closed beta test has finally wrapped. Now that we’ve had our first taste of the game, folks are sharing their opinions and videos on the various in-game mechanics. While much of Capcom’s upcoming fighter feels like the recent Street Fighter entries, Street Fighter...
The Legend Of Zelda’s Early Box Art Was A Disaster
10.10.2022
The Legend of Zelda isn’t just one of the best games on the original Nintendo Entertainment System, it’s also one of the best looking, complete with a shiny, golden cartridge and a special box that let you glimpse the gleaming treasure within. But an early mock-up for the game’s packaging was much...
Final Fantasy 14 Is Under Attack By Hackers, Square Enix Says
7.10.2022
Hackers never let folks catch a break, and massively multiplayer online role-playing games are always a target for heinous acts of data collecting. The latest victim? Square Enix’s super popular Final Fantasy XIV, which the company announced yesterday is currently experiencing “an attack by a third...
This New Fantasy Action Game's Story Is As Great As Its Gameplay
7.10.2022
In the midst of the fall gaming season, it’s very easy to lose track of games that aren’t the new hotness from big-name studios or that haven’t received enough advertising to catch one’s attention. Despite this reality, one dark action-adventure game managed to not only capture my attention...
Destiny 2’s Most Powerful Exotic Gets Controversial Downgrade
7.10.2022
Destiny 2’s Exotic Trace Rifle Divinity has been the backbone of a lot of players’ arsenals for end game content ever since it was first introduced back in the Shadowkeep expansion in 2019. Yesterday, Bungie finally announced a long-awaited nerf to how powerful it is, and while many are welcoming...
This Bloodborne Enemy Captures Everything That Makes The Game So Terrifying
7.10.2022
Bloodborne has always given me goosebumps. It’s one of those games that, whenever I see its name or hear it in conversation, makes me shudder. Every facet of FromSoftware’s Lovecraftian homage, from the ominous soundtrack to the horrific bosses, sends shivers down my spine. But nothing in the game...
No Man's Sky Is Getting A Major Overhaul As It Launches On Switch
7.10.2022
To say that No Man’s Sky has come a long way since its 2016 launch would be an understatement. But despite all of the welcome expansions to the epic-scale space sim, gameplay elements like survival, crafting, and the interesting choice of inventory layout have remained an obstacle for some players....
Valkyrie Elysium: The Kotaku Review
7.10.2022
Square Enix’s Valkyrie Profile series of RPGs has been dormant for quite a while, with the last full-fledged entry being 2009’s DS game Covenant of the Plume. Now, however, a brand new entry has arrived in Valkyrie Elysium, which brings with it a shift from the franchise’s turn-based combat system...
Ubisoft Chief Creative Officer Departing After Only One Year
6.10.2022
Ubisoft’s chief creative officer, Igor Manceau, will step down next month after only a year in that position at the troubled Assassin’s Creed publisher, the company announced internally on Thursday. According to a message to staff from CEO Yves Guillemot, the move comes as part of a larger change...
Apparently The $70 Skyrim Anniversary Edition On Switch Runs Like Crap
6.10.2022
Another year, another busted version of Skyrim. After being on the market for over a decade, Bethesda’s game that never dies just saw its Anniversary Edition update hit Nintendo Switch. (This edition, which hit other platforms last year, includes a new fishing mini-game along with other exclusive...
You Can Give Your Stinky Pokémon A Bath In Scarlet And Violet
6.10.2022
Sometimes you really don’t need more than a headline. But as we were watching the new 14-minute trailer for Pokémon Scarlet And Violet this morning, among the news of Terastalizing creatures and Far Cry-like base battling, one thing stood out to us above all else: You can give your Pokémon...