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Spider-Man 2 Getting New Game Plus And More By The End Of 2023
19.10.2023
Spider-Man 2 comes out on October 20, but a big post-launch update will follow later in the year. The patch will add a new game plus mode, more accessibility options, and the ability to replay older missions. Read more
The Best Skills And Abilities To Unlock ASAP In Spider-Man 2
19.10.2023
Spider-Man 2 features two superheroes this time around instead of just one, and there’s a ton more stuff to upgrade as a result. Whether you’re primarily playing as Peter Parker or Miles Morales, here are all of the abilities, skills, and suit powers you should focus on powering up first.Read more
Spider-Man 2 Has One Hell Of An Opening
19.10.2023
Spider-Man 2 doesn’t waste any time showing you all of the ways it’s bigger and better than the first two games. The result is one of the best video game openings ever. Read more
Starfield Just Busted The Biggest Myth About Xbox Game Pass
18.10.2023
Bethesda’s newest giant role-playing game Starfield, which hit Xbox’s Game Pass service the day of its release, enjoyed a very loud launch last month. In fact, its developer singled it out as “the biggest Bethesda game launch of all time.” Now new data from consumer analytics company Circana backs...
Spider-Man 2 Fast Travel Is So Quick Players Think It's A Trick
18.10.2023
Spider-Man 2 is full of impressive technical achievements, but the one that’s currently blowing everyone’s minds is just how quick fast travel is. The PlayStation 5 exclusive lets you travel from one end of its sprawling map to the other in just a couple of seconds. It’s so good players thought...
Before Alan Wake 2, Check Out This Creepy Fortnite Recap
17.10.2023
Remedy’s action-horror cult hit Alan Wake was first released back in 2010. Later this month, after 13 years, Alan Wake 2 is finally launching. And to help folks remember what happened in the first game over a decade ago, Remedy and Epic have partnered up to create a short, playable recap inside...
The Best Samurai Game Of 2023 Is On Game Pass
17.10.2023
Xbox Game Pass is closing out October in a big way, adding this year’s impressive Yakuza remake Like A Dragon: Ishin! and other hidden treasures to the subscription service’s library. By the end of October, Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play subscribers will get to play horror game cornerstone Dead...
The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Marvel's Spider-Man 2
16.10.2023
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Matt Mercer Is Vincent Valentine
14.10.2023
Today at New York Comic Con, it was revealed that voice actor Matt Mercer, perhaps best known as the Dungeon Master of popular actual-play webseries Critical Role, will be starring as gunslinger Vincent Valentine in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the second chapter in Square Enix’s ongoing remake...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Fan Theory Hints At A Major Story Change
14.10.2023
As Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s February 29 release date grows ever closer folks are getting antsy about seeing beloved characters like Cait Sith (pronounced “Kate Sihth,” apparently) Vincent Valentine, and Cid party up with Cloud. Although creative director Tetsuya Nomura has already confirmed that...
Sonic Superstars’ Early Reviews Wish It Would Pick Up The Pace
13.10.2023
Sonic Superstars has developer Sega journeying all the way back to the beginning of the Sonic franchise, remembering when it was born in 1991 in the 2D tropics. Like nostalgic platformer Sonic Mania did in 2017, Superstars devoutly walks the same path as Sonic the Hedgehog and its early ‘90s...
Bayonetta Creator 'Over' PlatinumGames, Starts YouTube Channel Instead
12.10.2023
After announcing that he would do so late last month, Bayonetta director Hideki Kamiya left his job as vice president at PlatinumGames on October 12. And the very same day he became free of the studio he’d co-founded, he also hard-launched a new YouTube channel, “Hideki Kamiya Channel.” Its first...
Lords Of The Fallen Sounds Like 2023’s Most Divisive Soulsborne
12.10.2023
Lords of the Fallen sounds like the best and worst parts of the Soulsborne genre all rolled into one. Hexworks’ grim action-RPG arrives in a year full of homages to FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, and so far critical assessments run the gamut from high praise to exhausted disappointment.Read more
Let’s Fix Starfield’s Terrible Temples With Mods
11.10.2023
Early on in Starfield you start becoming a galactic superhero, unlocking stellar abilities like suspending gravity, slowing down time, and peering into the future (though there isn’t one to make Chunks tastier, sadly). Less cool, unfortunately, is that the repetitive process of gathering all your...
Detective Pikachu Returns: The Kotaku Review
10.10.2023
Detective Pikachu Returns, the new Switch adventure from Nintendo, is not great at a lot of things. It’s incredibly simple for an adventure game, only looks about as good as the original 3DS game did seven years ago, and even when it has its own take on things, a lot of its big twists have been...
Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Director Spills On MIA Sheikah Technology
10.10.2023
Hidemaro Fujibayashi, director of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, finally shed some light on what happened to all the Sheikah technology that was practically ubiquitous in Breath of the Wild but strangely absent in its sequel.Read more
RoboCop: Rogue City Demo Big
9.10.2023
As I set out to play the 160 GB demo of RoboCop: Rogue City that I installed last night, Steam informed me that it first needed to add a quick 34 GB patch. At which point I kissed my uncapped internet contract on the lips. Although after playing this enormous demo for a couple of hours, I’m...
Report Claims Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology
9.10.2023
An investigation by German outlet Game Two into what went wrong during the development of Lord of the Rings: Gollum has made claims that the publisher’s apology for the terrible state of the released game was written by AI ChatGPT. The claim appears alongside a laundry list of alleged issues behind...
Cyberpunk 2077 Developers Call Unions 'A Stronger Voice In Times Of Crisis'
9.10.2023
As the international gaming industry faces wave after wave of layoffs, workers at Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher developer, CD Projekt Red, have created a new Poland-wide union aimed at protecting their rights. This arrives in the face of the massive studio announcing it would be firing nine...
Around 100 Devs At Just Cause Studio Are Unionizing
6.10.2023
Around 100 employees at Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios Group are unionizing. This means around a fifth of the 500-person Swedish team is now bargaining with the company’s management for a fair contract.Read more