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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...
Mass Effect Legendary Edition Is Free For Prime Day
11.7.2022
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is free for members of Amazon’s Prime Gaming service this week. It’s one of six games being given out by the e-commerce giant—which has struggled, despite pouring gazillions into various projects, to produce an acclaimed game of its own—for Prime Day, its annual ritual...
Blizzard Boss Defends Diablo Immortal, Feels ‘Really Good’ About Its Launch
8.7.2022
Blizzard’s controversial Diablo Immortal launched to big numbers and high revenue. It also set off an ongoing debate about in-game purchases, digital gambling, free-to-play mobile games, and addiction. The massive publisher has mostly remained silent amid the negative headlines and criticism....
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Remaster Retains Sephiroth’s Intense Hair Care Routine
7.7.2022
We got a bunch of information about Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion today, including the important news that flavor text about Sephiroth’s gratuitously thorough hair care routine will be carried over from the original game.Read more
Witcher Devs Announce New Single-Player Gwent Roguelike, Out Tomorrow
6.7.2022
One of my favorite things to do in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was chasing down card sharks to crush beneath my heel. Gwent, a fantasy card game within the world of The Witcher 3, was so satisfying that I would boot up the action RPG just to play a few rounds of it. I was positively thrilled when...
Why Games Give Some People Motion Sickness And What You Can Do About It
6.7.2022
Around 30 seconds into playing Doom Eternal, I’m feeling dizzy, my eyes are getting heavy, and my stomach is in knots. I can’t savor the sight of any pink guts spilling across my screen or the clamoring heavy metal soundtrack because I already want to puke. But I knew this was coming. I, like many...
Despite Backlash, Diablo Immortal Is Making A Million Dollars A Day
6.7.2022
In its first month of release Blizzard’s controversial new mobile game, Diablo Immortal, has racked up nearly $50 million in reported revenue across 10 million downloads. Even as debates and criticism swirled around the free-to-play RPG, data shows that the game has made at least $1 million a...
Starfield budí pozornost. Co čekat od nejambicióznější sci-fi posledních let
6.7.2022
Starfield je připravovaná sci-fi akční hra na hrdiny. Odehrávat se bude ve 24. století, dvacet let po válce dvou největších frakcí, přičemž hráč se zhostí role vesmírného průzkumníka
Game Pass Is Now Officially A Revolving Door For Big Games
5.7.2022
If you didn’t beat them the first time around (fair, they’re huge), you now have a second chance. Three of the best Yakuza entries are coming back to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service, alongside a handful of more family-friendly games. Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game Pass over the coming...
10 Unknown Indie Games To Wishlist Right Away
4.7.2022
Welcome! It’s that most famous of national holidays, Indie Penance Day! The day on which major gaming websites attempt to make up for their AAA coverage by dedicating space to unknown indies. Any gaming site you see not joining in both hates indie developers, and America. Not us though, so read...
Every Single English-Language SNES Manual Is Now Available Online
4.7.2022
Back in October 2020 I did a feature on a project that was trying to find every Super Nintendo manual in existence, scan them and upload them onto the internet. I’m happy to report that, as of July 2022, the project has now completed a significant—and for many of you reading this it’s...
KOTOR 2 Is Officially Fixed For Real Now, Kinda Sorta
1.7.2022
Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Switch port of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords announced that it’s finally fixed a game-breaking bug that had previously rendered the game impossible to finish. Read more