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It's Like Left 4 Dead, But With Better AI --- And More Style, Too
10.6.2021
The Anacrusis was revealed today during Summer Game Fest 2021’s E3 2021 kickoff stream. Stray Bombay, the developer behind the co-op shooter, is an indie studio created by former Valve writer Chet Falizek.Read more
Everything We Saw At The Summer Game Fest Kickoff
10.6.2021
E3 2021 started today with Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest kickoff. In true Geoff fashion, it was deceptively stuffed with news and announcements, musical performances, and—finally—some actual Elden Ring. Here’s everything we saw.Read more
Borderlands Spin-Off Wonderlands Stars Tiny Tina
10.6.2021
Gearbox officially unveiled a new Borderlands game during Summer Game Fest’s Kickoff Live! event today. It’s not a sequel, nor a prequel, nor a cutesy phrase that honestly just means “prequel.” It’s a proper spin-off called Tiny Tina’s: Wonderlands, starring Tiny Tina. It’s out early 2022. Specific...
PSA: Control Is Free On The Epic Store
10.6.2021
Control is the latest free game on the Epic Games Store. You can grab it for no charge from now until June 17.Read more
Battlefield 2042 Is Not Commentary On Climate Refugees Says Dev, Internet Disagrees
10.6.2021
Just as the world keeps turning—at least, until the climate apocalypse claims us all—so too has the latest big video game announcement brought a new developer attempt at denying that their game might say something.Read more
Call Of Duty's Most Hated Zombies Map Should Make A Comeback
9.6.2021
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’s TranZit was an infamously unpopular Zombies experience when it launched in 2012. But hear me out: now might be the best time to reintroduce the map.Read more
PUBG’s Cheating ‘Terminator’ Bots Have Been Neutralized
9.6.2021
The latest update to battle royale juggernaut PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is focused almost entirely on reining in the game’s bots, which for the past two weeks have been waging a brutal war on human players.Read more
Battlefield 2042 Reveal Nods At Fan's Famous Mid-Flight Bazooka Kill
9.6.2021
It’s official: the next Battlefield game will be Battlefield 2042. Battlefield 2042 is set in the near future on an Earth ravaged by ecological disaster, with the United States and Russia fighting over the planet’s rapidly diminishing resources via mercenaries. Today’s trailer teased some of...
Battlefield 2042 Won't Have A Campaign
9.6.2021
When Battlefield 2042, the next entry in DICE’s long-running series of first-person shooters, releases this October, it will launch as a multiplayer-only game. Sorry, fans of those War Stories. No campaign this time around.Read more
Next Battlefield Game Is Battlefield 2042
9.6.2021
The rumors were true. The next Battlefield game, Battlefield 2042, is set in the future, EA announced during a digital showcase today that started after a “countdown to a countdown.” A gameplay reveal is scheduled for June 13.Read more
Days Gone Mod Makes Zombie Hordes Ludicrously Large
7.6.2021
It was only a matter of time until Days Gone’s newfound PC audience began to tear out its insides and refashion them into something gnarlier, and now that day has arrived. A new mod ups freaker (aka zombie) horde sizes to the point where they basically blot out your whole screen.Read more
Lawsuit Claims Capcom Stole Pictures For Resident Evil And Devil May Cry
6.6.2021
A designer is suing Capcom over improper use of licensed material, Polygon reports. According to a lawsuit filed Friday, Capcom used unlicensed photographs as art assets in Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry, and other games.Read more
Here's GoldenEye 007 Remade From The Ground Up In Far Cry 5
5.6.2021
If it walks like a GoldenEye, talks like a GoldenEye, and quacks like a GoldenEye, it’s a GoldenEye, right? Well, not always. It could also be a Far Cry. Case in point: This recreation of GoldenEye 007 in Far Cry 5's level editor.Read more
Knockout City Doesn’t Show Your Overall Stats, Which Is A Bummer
5.6.2021
Last week, Kotaku’s Zack Zweizen and I teamed up for a few rounds of Knockout City. I played fairly well. Zack, on the other hand, crushed it, even ending one match with a jaw-dropping positive-15 KD. Sadly, save for the screenshots we both snapped in shock after the fact, there’s no way...
Counter-Terrorists Win: Valve Just Nuked Most Of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s F2P Features
4.6.2021
Since 2018, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players could enjoy the entire game, more or less, without paying a cent. That’s now come to an end as Valve just announced the end of many CS:GO free-to-play (F2P) features in a blog post on the official CS:GO website.Read more
Resident Evil Village vs Resident Evil 4: The Best Merchant
3.6.2021
In one corner, a large, helpful man who sells weapons and cooks meals. In the other corner, a mysterious figure who has a lot of good things on sale today, stranger. He also might be infected? It’s time to figure out who’s better: The Duke from Resident Evil Village or The Merchant from RE4. Read...
Earth Defense Force: World Brothers Is EDF Meets Lego, And Mostly Works
3.6.2021
Released last week with little fanfare, World Brothers is a spin-off of the big-shooting Earth Defense Force series in which players collect cute voxel-built warriors based on cultures from around the world. Only a few of these blocky caricatures are horrible.Read more
It's 10 Years Since You First Didn't Plan To Buy A Wii U
2.6.2021
Cast your minds back, nostalgia fans, to those halcyon early summer days of June 2011. It was E3, back when people met together in buildings and when people still cared about E3, that Nintendo revealed the follow-up to their astonishingly popular Wii console. Yes, as Reggie Fils-Aimé took...
Crysis Remastered Trilogy Out This Fall
1.6.2021
Another week, another development in the Department of Remakes, Remasters, and Rereleases. Crysis is the latest trilogy to get a new paint job. It’s out this fall, developer Crytek announced today, with the specific release date up in the air.Read more
Oh, Goody, E3 Will Have An Awards Show
1.6.2021
Following a weeklong flurry of digital events, and a four-day spree of press conferences, E3 2021 will culminate in an awards ceremony, the Entertainment Software Association announced today. Yay…Read more