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12 Extraordinary Games You'll Want On Your Wishlist Straight Away
25.11.2022
It’s Black Friday, the day on which the entirety of planet Earth entirely takes leaves of its senses and spends all its money on stuff it doesn’t need for 5 percent less than it would have cost yesterday. Planet Earth this year has bought itself an entirely new moon, even though the old one’s fine...
10 Incredible Games You Should Be Wishlisting Right This Minute
24.11.2022
As the rest of Team Kotaku are off chasing turkeys through their local Macy’s (I’ve done more research about what a Thanksgiving is this year), once more I have the keys to the site, have locked everyone out, and then immediately lost those keys. While I’m stuck here, I figure I should tell...
Everything Coming To The Witcher 3 In The Free New-Gen Upgrade
23.11.2022
One of the best games of the last decade is about to get even better, and for free to everyone who already owns it. CD Projekt Red finally revealed everything that will be included in The Witcher 3’s new-gen upgrade, and even showed off a bit of it in action with a new trailer. The long wait...
In Defense Of 2007's The Witcher, The Overlooked Game That's Getting Remade For A Reason
23.11.2022
Like many, my first Witcher game was The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015. I sunk countless hours into it as I fell madly in love with the characters, but after I finished it, I knew I had to go back and play the first one. It’s not uncommon for the first Witcher game to be swiftly disregarded when...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Players Are Trying To Get Refunds
23.11.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the new monster-collecting RPGs from Game Freak, have been getting dragged since they launched on November 18 for objectively terrible technical performance that is only outshone by the immense number of glitches. (At least one bug is good: It lets you hunt for shiny...
Ubisoft Back On Steam Just In Time For Assassin’s Creed Valhalla's Final Update
21.11.2022
Ubisoft was one of many publishers in the last few years to ditch Steam for its own storefront or Epic’s launcher. And like so many, including Activision, Ubisoft is now coming back to Steam with the upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on the platform, after 2019 comments from...
This Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Glitch Seems Made For Speedrun Exploitation
21.11.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have a ton of bugs and performance issues that have slowly been revealing themselves in the days since it launched, but not all of them are bad. One newly discovered glitch actually lets players run at double speed if they trick the game into recognizing two controllers...
Heroic Story secures $6 million to build Web3 tabletop RPG world
17.11.2022
The seed round was led by Upfront Ventures with participation from Multicoin Capital and Polygon Technology
Marvel’s Midnight Suns Seems Good Enough To Turn Me, A Hater, Into A Fan
17.11.2022
I tend to land on the Martin Scorsese side of the superhero craze—“The problem is the amusement park films,” he said in 2019—and so I admittedly went into Marvel’s Midnight Suns feeling bratty. The tactical role-playing game, which was delayed twice before finally landing on its current December...
This Killer Narrative Game From Obsidian Is A Must-Play
14.11.2022
Welcome to 16th-century Europe. You are Andreas Maler, an artist living among the people of the fictional town of Tassing, where things are about to change in the wake of a murder. How will they change? That’s what you’ll decide in Pentiment, a narrative adventure game that brings together...
Tactics Ogre: Reborn Is The Best Version Of An All-Time Classic Strategy RPG
11.11.2022
The original Tactics Ogre proved that RPG chess was not only fun, it could also be morally ambiguous, beautifully written, and deeply compelling. Nearly 30 years later, Tactics Ogre: Reborn has managed to safely transport a masterpiece into the modern era while sprucing it up enough so that it’s...
The Year Is Nearly Over, But You Still Have 10 Game Releases To Look Forward To
11.11.2022
I know Elden Ring is out, and God of War Ragnarök is out, and Elon Musk’s dead-on-arrival Twitter shenanigans are making it feel like we’ve lived a couple thousand years. But no, you’re still here in 2022, and we have two more months of it. What could happen in that time? Read more
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Fans Are Obsessed With A Yassified Water Starter Evolution
11.11.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Game Freak’s new monster collecting and battling RPG launching on November 18 for Nintendo Switch, has already started leaking online. I mean, someone has been streaming the entire game, so be careful of spoilers if you care about that sort of thing. But one aspect...
Netflix's Dragon Age Show Taps BioWare's Lore, Which Makes Me Hopeful
10.11.2022
Netflix just released a new trailer for Dragon Age: Absolution, which is a six-episode animated show about a magical heist made in collaboration with BioWare. I criticized the last trailer for being generically bland. The new trailer is a significant improvement over what Netflix had originally...
Video Games, Please Stop Making Me Craft Crap
10.11.2022
If I was playing a video game this year, odds were high that I was also dealing with some sort of crafting system. Sometimes I was fighting off zombies in a large open world. Or killing monsters and bandits in God of War Ragnarök. Or fighting bad guys on the mean streets of Gotham City as Batgirl....
Everything We Saw At Today’s Nintendo World Showcase
9.11.2022
Nintendo wrapped up its Indie World Showcase today, highlighting a ton of upcoming and just-launched games for the Switch. There’s a little bit of everything here, from a cute puzzler with a mischievous cat to a Fox and the Hound-like adventure game. This indie presentation was pretty big, so let’s...
We Need To Start Holding Japanese RPGs To Higher Standards
9.11.2022
I had one hell of a weekend. After I published my piece on Final Fantasy producer Naoki Yoshida’s misguided comments about the next game’s overwhelming whiteness, the fans completely lost their minds. Sure, I saw the usual slurs and petty insults. But those weren’t the comments that stuck to...
Disco Elysium Writer Alleges Fraud While Studio Accuses Him Of Toxic Management
9.11.2022
After being sued by one of its cofounders and accused of fraud, ZA/UM now says the lead writer behind 2019’s hit RPG, Disco Elysium, was fired for professional misconduct, including gender discrimination and verbally abusing co-workers. It’s the latest twist in a messy saga about the indie studio...
Sprigatito's Evolution Leaks, Tearing Fans Apart
8.11.2022
While Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are still a week out from release, it’s currently open season on leaks and spoilers as copies of the game begin to circulate in the wild. But perhaps no leak has yet torn the Pokémon community apart quite like the Sprigatito’s second and third evolutions. Players...
New Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Stops Your Boobs From Popping Out
8.11.2022
Cyberpunk 2077, the dystopian wait-we-can-fix-it RPG from CD Projekt Red, has received yet another patch after the substantial Edgerunners update, itself a rather comprehensive list of bug fixes and new features. The latest batch of fixes fills in the code holes that prevents various missions from...