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Meet The Fans Still Playing The Worst Xbox Exclusive Of The Year
7.7.2023
Earlier this year, Arkane Austin’s Redfall entered the pantheon of terrible game launches. Taking up its place alongside Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, No Man’s Sky, and many more, the long-awaited Xbox exclusive struggled with performance, felt incomplete, and was full of opposing ideas that just...
Gollum Players Fight For Word Records In 2023's Worst Game
6.7.2023
While The Lord of the Rings: Gollum may be one of the worst games of 2023 so far, even bad games can be fun to speedrun. In fact, sometimes the very things that make a game so frustrating for normal players—things like bugs and busted controls—can create exciting opportunities for glitches, level...
Review: 2023’s Worst Game, Gollum, Has Entered The Chat
5.7.2023
After hours of dodging orcs and ducking spiders, I found Shelob’s lair. I’m a slave in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, performing tasks like collecting tags and herding animals for maybe a bite of rotted bread. I was aching to escape. Meeting Shelob seemed like the first real attempt at bargaining...
Every Legend of Zelda Visual Aesthetic, Ranked From Worst To Best
27.6.2023
Every game in The Legend of Zelda series is defined, in part, by its aesthetics, the visual design choices coalescing every element into one cohesive vision. Even during the Hylian hero’s original 8-bit journey, strong art direction transformed simple sprites into sprawling labyrinths, mysterious...
The Hideo Kojima Documentary Is The Worst Kind Of Fan Service
23.6.2023
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds—PlayStation Studios and Kojima Productions’ hour-long documentary on Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima—is too in awe of its subject to see him clearly. Premiered at Tribeca Festival on June 17, the documentary inflates Kojima’s mythology as an untouchable auteur...
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mainline Final Fantasy
22.6.2023
The Final Fantasy series’ charm is that, because every game is so different from the others, they each have their own strengths and faults. Some games excel in aspects others crash and burn trying to emulate, and it makes the series fascinating to compare and contrast. We even tried to rank these...
Every Single-Player Final Fantasy Game, Ranked From Worst To Best
21.6.2023
The Final Fantasy series has become synonymous with experimentation and continual reinvention, with each entry taking you to a new world with new characters, new systems, and new experiences. As such, it’s not uncommon to ask a bunch of fans for their favorite and get as many different answers....
2023’s Most Unusual Shooter Just Got Delayed To The Worst Possible Time
20.6.2023
Immortals of Aveum is a Doom-like shooter where you wield magic spells instead of guns. There’s something about it that feels unmistakably like an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 throwback, but it’s actually a new, big budget indie game from the same EA Originals label that brought us It Takes Two...
Cardano's worst week since May 2021 is over — Will ADA price rebound 40%?
12.6.2023
The price of Cardano lost 30% over the past week as it gets delisted from popular trading platforms such as Robinhood following the U.S. SEC intervention
First Diablo 4 Fan At Hardcore Level 100 Perma-Killed In Worst Way Possible
7.6.2023
Former Dota 2 and StarCraft pro Souaïb ‘cArn’ Hanaf became Diablo IV’s first player to hit level 100 while playing on Hardcore mode (where death is permanent), immortalizing his name within the new hit action-RPG. But his overpowered Barbarian later died in the worst way possible, the grim fantasy...
Renowned Investor Jim Rogers Expects Worst Bear Market in His Lifetime — Says ‘You Should Be Extremely Worried’
4.6.2023
Veteran investor Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire investor George Soros, says he expects the next bear market to be the worst in his lifetime. “You should be extremely worried. If you’re not, you don’t know what’s going on,” he stressed, adding that...
Tears Of The Kingdom Fixes The Worst Part Of Breath Of The Wild: Boss Fights
2.6.2023
When we were putting together a list of the best boss fights in the Legend of Zelda series here at Kotaku, we all had a collective moment of accepting Breath of the Wild, widely regarded as a defining moment in the series’ long history, wouldn’t be represented. The Wii U/Switch game is...
Game Developers Open Up About The ‘Worst’ Games They Worked On
30.5.2023
Last week, Daedalic Entertainment, the developers of the stealth adventure J.R.R. Tolkien video game The Lord of The Rings: Gollum, posted an apology for the game failing to “meet the expectations” of players and devs alike. Although Gollum being one of the worst-rated games of 2023 on Metacritic...
We Rounded Up The Worst Parts Of The Very Best Games
24.5.2023
It echoes around the globe, ringing out from self-help books, elementary school bulletin boards, and proclaimed by Hannah Montana herself: “Nobody’s perfect,” not even your most favorite video games. Read more
Redditors Are Competing To Make The Worst User Experience Possible
20.5.2023
As the recent Reddit commercials have made clear, there’s a community for everything. Nihilist horror, Game of Thrones’ Hodor, avocado food porn (because why not)...you can always find your people. Case in point, there’s a subreddit dedicated to atrocious user interfaces, which is now seeing...
The Seagull, Truly Nature's Worst
17.5.2023
Lucy Mutimer is a 2D artist from Melbourne who has worked on games like Lumi’s Kinder World and MMORPG Tycoon 2.Read more
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Star Wars Movie
5.5.2023
Star Wars is a massive and popular franchise that encompasses hundreds of books, games, and more. But it all started with a few films back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. And today, we are going to dodge the angry nerds and fan theories to look at every Star Wars film released in theaters and list...
Russian Banks Set for Record Profits This Year, Central Bank, Rating Agency Say
3.5.2023
Bank of Russia raised its forecast for the profits of Russian banks in 2023, expecting results that may break the 2021 record. This year’s high numbers are coming after 2022 became the worst annual period in seven years for the sanctioned Russian banking sector in terms of financial outcome. Banks...
Economist Peter Schiff Warns of Stagflation in US Economy — Says ‘It’s Going to Get Worse’
3.5.2023
Economist Peter Schiff has warned that the U.S. economy is facing stagflation and the situation is going to get worse. “Not only is the economy weakening, but inflation is strengthening,” he stressed, emphasizing: “You have the worst of both worlds.” U.S. Economy...
NFT Collection Goblintown Will Prioritize the ‘Worst’ Traders in Second Season Mint
2.5.2023
Big Inc, the sequel to the goblin-themed collection, will be giving a 50% discount to token holders who mint using the memecoin PEPE