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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...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Devs Give Sphynx Cat Fur, Immediately Apologize, Shave It Again
3.10.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 kitty His Majesty was born a wrinkled Sphynx, but transformed into a Maine Coon on September 22, when developer Larian issued Patch 3 for the popular RPG. Fans couldn’t stand it, but Larian heard their cries—Hotfix 8, issued October 3, makes His Majesty naked and ugly again, and...
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...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Script Reveals The Worst Things You Could Do To Your Companions
29.9.2023
Using a public copy of the Baldur’s Gate 3 script, one Reddit user discovered the worst decisions you could make when interacting with your companions, whose approval impacts the role-playing game’s story options. From the script, u/sudosussudio picked out 11 decisions that will set you back...
Scalpers Ruin Online Sales Of Pokémon Van Gogh Merch, Too
29.9.2023
I woke up today hoping to buy a cute plush of Pikachu wearing an outfit inspired by world-renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh, but scalpers got to it the second it went up on the Pokémon Center website. I’m frustrated, and that’s the general sentiment a lot of Pokémon fans are feeling right now,...
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...
Sony Deletes Mentions Of Troubled Star Wars: KotOR PS5 Remake, Hides Trailer
29.9.2023
A teaser for a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake coming to PlayStation 5 nearly stole the show at Sony’s September 2021 showcase. But reports surfaced last year that the project was already in trouble. Now Star Wars fans have noticed that Sony recently deleted tweets about the game...
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...
Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach Actor On Playing The Beloved Barbarian
27.9.2023
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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
Every Side-Quest In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet: The Teal Mask
26.9.2023
The first stage of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s two-part expansion, The Hidden Treasure Of Area Zero, has a clearly defined storyline. The Teal Mask features a school trip to the nearby Kitakami, during which you become embroiled in a local legend about legendary Pokémon “the Loyal Three,”...
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
Exclusive Persona 3 Portable Physical Edition Comes With Your Very Own Evoker
25.9.2023
Role-playing game remasters Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden are getting physical releases through distributor Limited Run, with pre-orders for the former beginning September 29, and the latter coming to the digital storefront on October 27. Physical copies for Persona 3 Portable will...