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Real-Life Black Hole Sounds Like A Mass Effect Reaper
22.8.2022
Today in questions you never knew you wanted the answer to: What’s a black hole sound like? Turns out, the depths of the darkest reaches of oblivion “sound” a whole lot like a video game, according to a NASA data sonification.Read more
The Next Big D&D Experience Looks Like A Video Game, And That's A Problem
22.8.2022
Last week, Wizards of the Coast announced its plans for what the world’s most popular roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, will look like in the next few years. Alongside a refresh of the rules (which Wizards promises will be fully compatible with every fifth edition book that’s been published...
Xbox Adds More Classic Bethesda Bangers To Game Pass
18.8.2022
PC Game Pass users now have access to more classic Bethesda and id Software games, including some old Elder Scrolls spin-offs and old-school shooters, like Wolfenstein 3D. And that’s not all. Bethesda is also offering some older games for free in the Microsoft Store on PC. Read more
Fallout TV Show Set Leaks Look Really Authentic, Actually
18.8.2022
As you may know, Bethesda’s mega-popular RPG series Fallout is headed to a TV series. This is top of mind again because new pictures from the set of the upcoming post-nuclear Amazon adaptation leaked sometime in the past 24 hours. Live-action video game adaptations are getting pretty good these...
Final Fantasy Producer Naoki Yoshida Says The Series Is ‘Struggling’
17.8.2022
Final Fantasy XVI’s producer Naoki Yoshida was very candid about the current state of Final Fantasy. In a recent interview with Inverse, he said that the long-running RPG series was not very adaptable to sea changes in the gaming industry.Read more
How To Calculate A Game's True Value From Its Price And Length
15.8.2022
As we all know, video games are judged on four criteria: The graphics, the gameplay familiarity, the price, and the length. But often times, the “video games media” conflates such objective judgements with corrupting elements of so-called artistic value and cultural impact. With games like...
Genshin Impact’s Sumeru Update Arrives Right As I Hit Live Service Burnout
15.8.2022
Burnout eventually comes for everyone who plays live service games. Still, I didn’t notice that my relationship with Genshin Impact was headed in that direction until I stopped logging in every day. The summer event felt bloated with lackluster puzzles. The lore revelations never reached the epic...
Soccer Story Is A Sports Fantasy RPG That's Coming To Game Pass
12.8.2022
There’s a new RPG coming out this year, and it’s soccer-themed (which rules). Soccer Story is an open world game with turn based combat and real time soccer matches. Best of all, you’ll be able to grab it on the Game Pass once it’s released. Read more
It’s Skyrim, But With Shadow Of Mordor’s Brilliant Nemesis System
9.8.2022
It’s come back with a vengeance. Yes, Shadow of Mordor’s brilliant Nemesis system has languished for half a decade. But one enterprising modder recently resurrected the tech (kinda) by adding it to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda’s decade-old fantasy RPG.Read more
Game Pass Vs. The New PS Plus, The Comparison We Had To Make
6.8.2022
Two months ago, Sony reimagined PS Plus, its longtime membership program for PlayStation owners. Now, it looks a whole lot like Microsoft’s Game Pass: For roughly the same amount of money, both offer access to a Netflix-style games-on-demand library. Obviously, we had to stack the two services...
Digimon Survive Is A Painfully Boring Tactical RPG
5.8.2022
Digimon Survive, the new video game made in celebration of the anime’s 25th anniversary, attempts to juggle being both a visual novel and a tactical role-playing game. The result is a slog of a game that’s 70 percent visual novel, 20 percent tactical role-playing game, and 10 percent horror;...
The Best And Worst Parts About Every Borderlands Game
5.8.2022
We at Kotaku have long been in the habit of ranking all the games worst-to-best in a major series, whether it’s Pokémon or Halo or Assassin’s Creed. At a glance, it’s possible to read those posts as reductive. Most every game has at least one redeeming quality. On the other hand, every “perfect”...
7 Games To Play After Vampire Survivors
5.8.2022
We need to set out our terms. Vampire Survivors is such a recent phenomenon that a genre name for it, and the many games appearing in its wake, has yet to be agreed upon. In fact, a lot of recent clones attempt to dress things up in ambiguous terms to pretend away the comparisons, saying things...
Here Are Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Exclusives (So Far)
4.8.2022
Vulpix or Growlithe? Zangoose or Seviper? Ever since Arceus made the world in its image, Pokémon fans have had to grapple with a huge choice: which version to get. That quandary will remain in place for the latest games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.Read more
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Leaks Tease An Iron Man Crossover
4.8.2022
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla dataminers recently discovered files of an Iron Man skin that shoots a Unibeam from the chest. The skin is currently not available in Ubisoft’s digital store, but fans are hoping that it gets released sometime in the future.Read more
Remake Of Beloved RPG, Tactics Ogre, Botches Sprites And Revamps Progression
4.8.2022
Square Enix just announced details for an upcoming remake of their classic strategic RPG Tactics Ogre. Tactics Ogre: Reborn will feature more detailed art, voice over, and a new leveling system. However, fans are frustrated at the high-definition sprites that they believe worsens the overall look...
The Best Steam Deck Games Of 2022
4.8.2022
The Steam Deck, Valve’s mega-powerful mini-PC, only arrived this year, and while there are many reasons to check out one of the most exciting pieces of gaming hardware available today, the amount of great, hassle-free games available on the device is proof enough of its success.Read more
Pokemon Scarlet, Violet's Legendaries Are Goddamn Motorcycles, Here's The Open World You'll Explore
3.8.2022
Pokémon fans didn’t have to spend long scouring blurry leaked images for details about Pokémon Scarlet and Violet versions. Today, during a Pokémon Presents livestream, Nintendo showed off a ton of footage for November’s Switch-exclusive tent poles.Read more
Fire Emblem Fans Should Give This Steam Hit A Try
2.8.2022
There’s been a raft of intriguing strategy RPGs this year, but one of my favorites so far is Symphony of War. It’s been climbing the charts on Steam in recent months, and for good reason. From a distance it looks like another Fire Emblem knockoff. Up close it’s doing enough interesting things...
The Best Time To Play Nier: Automata Is Right Now
1.8.2022
Nier: Automata spent the last week in the headlines, the result of a secret door that sent the community into a scramble. The mystery itself may have come to a sudden, surprising conclusion, but that doesn’t mean the base game it was part of should drop off your radar. In fact, it’s all the more...