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Here’s The Lowdown On That Kickass, Scott Pilgrim-Esque Skateboarding RPG
1.8.2022
Thirsty Suitors has all the makings of the next big game.Read more
Octopath Traveler: Champions Of The Continent Is Better Than The Nintendo Switch Original
29.7.2022
Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, newly available on mobile, is a worthy sequel to the original 2018 Switch role-playing game. I had expected a watered-down combat system and a menu hell like many other gacha games on mobile devices. Square Enix proved me wrong. Champions retains...
13 Games Making 2022 A JRPG Bonanza
29.7.2022
Valkyrie Profile, Tactics Ogre, and Front Mission are all due out in the months ahead. What year is it again? It’s 2022, and it’s already been glorious for fans of new and classic JRPGs alike. But some of the most exciting stuff is still ahead. Years after the genre was left for dead, it’s never...
The Nier: Automata Secret Door Hunt Is Over, In The Wildest Possible Way
29.7.2022
It all started with a question: “How do you get into the church?” The answer, it turns out, is simple: You don’t—at least not yet. Yes, Nier: Automata’s baffling secret door was all just an intricate mod.Read more
So Far, The Dungeons And Dragons Movie Chooses Marvel Over Everything That Makes D&D Great
29.7.2022
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the new Dungeons & Dragons movie looks a lot like a Marvel film. Though I’d argue it has a much more alluring color palette than your standard, often dry, modern comic book adaptation, the latest trailer for the tabletop-based movie otherwise reveals...
You Gotta Check Out This Stylish, Gender-Swapped Scott Pilgrim-Like RPG
29.7.2022
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Xbox Is Getting 3 Terrific PlayStation Exclusives
28.7.2022
You thought not-E3 was over? Ha! A month after Geoff Keighley summoned the entire gaming industry to Los Angeles for a week of marketing, Annapurna Interactive, a bit late to the party, hosted its annual showcase. Today, over the course of 30 minutes, the indie publisher gave a look at what’s...
Fired Assassin’s Creed Director Surfaces At Pokémon Unite Company As Ubi Devs Renew Calls For Accountability
28.7.2022
It’s been two years since a workplace reckoning over sexual misconduct at Ubisoft led to numerous departures, resigniations, and firings. Now one of the people investigated has resurfaced. Ashraf Ismail, previously creative director on the hit Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, is now working...
The Internet Can't Stop Joking About Nier: Automata's Secret Door
28.7.2022
Well, that was fast. Nier: Automata’s secret door—the very same one that’s fractured the game’s fandom into factions—went from an amusing little secret to a viral meme in three days flat.Read more
Every Mainline Yakuza Game Is Coming To PlayStation Plus
28.7.2022
Sony just announced that Sega’s widely loved Yakuza series of criminal underworld sims will soon debut on its PlayStation Plus subscription service. The entire mainline series is coming, in fact. Read more
Nier: Automata Secret Door Nobody Can Figure Out Keeps Getting Weirder
27.7.2022
Factions. In-fighting. The whispers of a bounty. For the past few days, the Nier: Automata community has been tearing itself apart over a secret chamber no one knows how to enter, which could be anything from a prank to cut content to a well-executed spot of viral marketing. Only one thing...
Live A Live: The Kotaku Review
27.7.2022
Live A Live is a pixel-art role-playing game that’s here for a good time, not a long time, a formula that’s sorely needed in today’s games space where RPGs often demand dozens if not hundreds of hours to see through to the end.Read more
The 10 Best Tabletop Roleplaying Books Of 2022
27.7.2022
We are in a proper golden age of tabletop roleplaying games. Never have there been so many wonderful titles, accessible in both print and digital, playable in-person, or on-screen with a virtual tabletop or just a Zoom chat. Here are the best TTRPG books from the last year of role playing...
Stray's Little Worlds Are The Best Part Of The Game
27.7.2022
Stray has been in the headlines for a lot of very good reasons over the last week, but having just finished the game, the one thing I can’t get out of my head is not the cat, or the robots, or the platforming, but how much I loved each one of its little worlds.Read more
Nier: Automata Players Are Losing It Over A Secret Room, And No One Knows How To Get In
26.7.2022
Nier: Automata players are collectively losing their minds over a room. It’s not just any room: No one, save for seemingly one person, has been able to access it. Even the player who discovered the chamber appears to know how to enter it, which makes the whole thing extra confounding.Read more
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Reviews Praise Everything But The Filler
26.7.2022
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 might not end up being the best Switch game of 2022, but it certainly sounds like one of the longest. With a main story that takes dozens of hours and more thorough playthroughs clocking in at over 150 hours, it sounds every bit the sprawling JRPG fans have come to expect...
Into The Breach’s Massive Free Update Feels Like A Sequel
25.7.2022
Into the Breach received a kaiju-sized free update last week, formally called Into the Breach: Advanced Edition. It essentially added an entire game on top of the existing base game, which was already one of the best tactical RPGs ever. In other words: RIP my social life.Read more
This Tabletop Horror RPG Will Have You Putting Away D&D
13.7.2022
Following 2018’s substantial and mostly excellent revision to the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade, and before the expected release of the upcoming 5th edition of Werewolf: The Apocalypse’s core rulebook, Hunter: The Reckoning gets its turn with a 5th edition book...
If You Have Game Pass, Try This Wholesome Zelda-Like
13.7.2022
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Incredible New Breath Of The Wild Glitch Lets You Supercharge, Remake Weapons
11.7.2022
A sequel might be on the horizon, but there’s still a lot of game left in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Half a decade after its release, players are still finding new ways to crack Nintendo’s open-world RPG wide open. Just this week, glitch hunters have discovered what might be the most...