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Payday 3 Hands-On: A Real-Life Bank Heist And Better Gunplay
7.9.2023
I walk up the stone steps of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Savings Bank just as the J train loudly scrapes by overhead. I’m here for an “immersive” Payday 3 hands-on experience, which includes a champagne tower that glitters and winks at me as soon as I cross through the double doors, an actor posing...
The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: August 2023 Edition
7.9.2023
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Stardew Valley Fishing Minigame Makes A Surprisingly Good Wordle Clone
30.8.2023
Free, fan-made browser game Pufferdle is an unexpectedly successful cozy mutant. Developer Abdullah Masud made it from sewing together some beloved parts—the fishing minigame from Stardew Valley, and Wordle’s streamlined hangman procedure—and ended up with a pixel fish-guesser many will find...
9 PC Games You Need To Play During Steam’s Latest Strategy Fest Sale
29.8.2023
Steam’s latest sale event is its Strategy Fest which is offering discounts on some of the best strategic PC games around. If you need a meaty campaign full of tactics to devise and menus to tinker with, look no further than these excellent PC games.Read more
Blasphemous 2 Is 2023's Most Sickening Metroidvania, And I Love It
23.8.2023
Blasphemous 2 takes the “2" in its name quite seriously. Everything in this sequel to The Game Kitchen’s 2019 Metroidvania platformer is expanded: the map and world, the equipment and spells, the puzzling and platforming…even the already-excellent boss encounters are bigger and better. Despite...
Blasphemous 2 Is 2023's Most Sickening Metroidvania, And I Love It
23.8.2023
Blasphemous 2 takes the “2" in its name quite seriously. Everything in this sequel to The Game Kitchen’s 2019 Metroidvania platformer is expanded: the map and world, the equipment and spells, the puzzling and platforming…even the already-excellent boss encounters are bigger and better. Despite some...
Lara Croft Is Coming To Call Of Duty
23.8.2023
Today, Call Of Duty ramped up its recent trend of Fortnite-eque pop culture crossovers by announcing that Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft will be coming to the game. She joins the Terminator as one of the few characters to appear in both Epic’s popular battle royale and Activision’s military shooter...
Lara Croft Is Coming To Call Of Duty
23.8.2023
Today, Call Of Duty ramped up its recent trend of Fortnite-eque pop culture crossovers by announcing that Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft will be coming to the game. She joins the Terminator as one of the few characters to appear in both Epic’s popular battle royale and Activision’s military shooter...
Turok 3 and Star Wars: Dark Forces Are Getting Remastered
23.8.2023
If you’re a fan of retro shooters, today is a good day. Nightdive Studios has released two trailers for remasters of 2000’s N64 shooter Turok 3 Shadow of Oblivion and the classic 1995 computer FPS, Star Wars: Dark Forces. Read more
Turok 3 and Star Wars: Dark Forces Are Getting Remastered
23.8.2023
If you’re a fan of retro shooters, today is a good day. Nightdive Studios has released two trailers for remasters of 2000’s N64 shooter Turok 3 Shadow of Oblivion and the classic 1995 computer FPS, Star Wars: Dark Forces. Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Chase Out The Summer Blues
18.8.2023
Once again, another week comes to an end and, for many of us at least, there’s time to get some gaming in. This week we’ve got a game that will maybe make you question your sense of reality (or sanity), another multiplayer title headed for imminent server shutdown, the return of a classic...
Quake II Remaster Out Now, Supports 8-Player (!) Splitscreen On Xbox/PC
10.8.2023
The classic id Software shooter Quake II is back and looking better than ever in a new remaster that’s out now on all the major platforms. And for folks playing on Xbox Series X/S and PC, you’ll be able to invite seven of your best friends over to play together on one (hopefully) big screen. Read...
Baldur's Gate 3's Combat Is Tough, Here Are 12 Tips To Help You Fight
7.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 is dense, but really rewarding once you’ve gotten the hang of all its systems which include tk. For some, the RPG’s combat has been particularly challenging, because it’s so embroiled in the game’s deep systems.Read more
Chaos Erupts As Team Fortress 2 Jacks Player Count Up To 100
27.7.2023
Team Fortress 2 has now been with us for over 15 years, and for some reason, developer Valve just decided to jack the maximum number of players who can join a server at once up to 100. Valve doesn’t actually recommend you play with that many people, and warns that the game doesn’t properly support...
New Last Of Us PC Mod Turns Game Into Intense FPS
20.7.2023
The Last of Us Part 1 is a brutal game that features a lot of murder and gore. But because the game is played from a third-person perspective, there is a bit of distance between players and its intense action. But that distance disappears when the game is modded into an action-packed first-person...
Baldur’s Gate 3: Which Version Of The Colossal RPG Should You Get?
20.7.2023
Like many games these days, the highly anticipated Baldur’s Gate 3 comes in a few different editions at a few different price points. Obviously if you’re a D&D superfan, you might be interested in the most expensive one, but what, exactly, will shelling out that extra cash get you? And what...
Dig It: You Can Still Play Xbox 360 Shadowrun On Xbox Live
17.7.2023
Remember Shadowrun? No, not the tabletop RPG with incomprehensible rules. Nope, not the very good 1993 SNES game either. And no, not Shadowrun Returns. Rather, I’m talking about the oft-ignored, largely forgotten Xbox 360 multiplayer FPS. It wasn’t a very good competitive first-person shooter,...
There's A New Worst Game Of 2023, And It's A Switch Exclusive
14.7.2023
Remember that awful looking The Last of Us clone, The Last Hope, that got released earlier this month? Well, it turns out the game is much worse than the trailer first suggested. Apparently, the whole game is only about 20 minutes long, takes place in one street, and is a broken mess.Read more
Team Fortress 2 Hits New Player Record After Big Update
13.7.2023
Team Fortress 2 got a big content update yesterday, July 12, and it’s got players flocking to the hero shooter in such numbers that a new concurrent player record has just been set for the game, 16 years after it first released.Read more
9 Cool Games Coming To Xbox
11.7.2023
We’re in a bit of a lull between big games right now, which makes it the perfect time to focus on some smaller releases that don’t often get much time in the limelight. Microsoft’s summer ID@Xbox livestream just did exactly that, highlighting a bunch of cool indie games coming to Xbox One...