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Gears Of War Actor May Have Teased A New Game Is Coming
25.4.2024
Gears of War has been dormant for a fair while. The last mainline game in Xbox’s much-beloved third-person shooter series was 2019’s Gears 5. Developer The Coalition also put out the strategy game Gears Tactics alongside Splash Damage in 2020, but in terms of a new shooter, things have been quiet...
PUBG Pulls A Fortnite, Revives Original Map For Limited Time
25.4.2024
While Epic Games’ now ubiquitous battle royale shooter Fortnite may dominate the genre, it was PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds that started the trend. Originally released in 2013 as a mod for military shooter Arma 2 and its sequel Arma 3, the full game was released in 2017 mere months before Fortnite...
Devs Explain Why Most Wishlisted Game On Steam Won't Reveal Price Until Launch
25.4.2024
We’re just a few days out from the much-anticipated Early Access launch of the current most Wishlisted game on Steam: Manor Lords. But despite the hype, no one knows how much the medieval city-builder will cost to play. The devs say that’s to prevent misinformation and pre-order scams.Read more
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door's Remake Is Looking Picture Perfect
25.4.2024
Nintendo might be stomping around the internet, crushing all joy in its path, but it still knows how to make a cracking game. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was absolutely one of those, and is looking like it will be all over again in five minutes of new footage from this year’s upcoming...
Nintendo Forcing Garry's Mod To Delete 20 Years' Worth Of Content
24.4.2024
Garry’s Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry’s Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years’ worth of Nintendo-related...
Two Popular Fallout 76 Builds To Stop You From Dying In The Wasteland
24.4.2024
Fallout 76 isn’t like Bethesda’s previous open-world RPGs. While those single-player adventures were somewhat forgiving campaigns that let you build your character however you wanted, the multiplayer spin-off is full of bullet sponge-y enemies that require you to focus on a particular skill set...
Overwatch 2 Players Face Bans For Leaving Games They Never Did
24.4.2024
Overwatch 2 outlined several new rules and penalties it would be implementing in season 10 to help curate a less hostile player environment on April 10. But since the season began last week, players have been reporting bans that would typically be applied to someone leaving a game early being...
The 12 Best Stellar Blade Skills To Unlock First
24.4.2024
Stellar Blade, the new PS5-exclusive character action game, has tons of skills to unlock like its genre siblings Bayonetta and Devil May Cry. Across protagonist Eve’s five skill trees, some abilities increase your damage, stun your enemies, dodge attacks entirely, let you double jump, and more....
How To Make Fallout 76 Stop Running Like Crap On PC
24.4.2024
So, you watched the Fallout TV show on Amazon, got excited about the franchise, maybe saw some folks playing Fallout 76, and decided that you were finally going to install Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic MMO and give it a real shot. But then you tried playing it on PC and discovered that it runs like...
Ahead Of Dawntrail, Final Fantasy XIV Players Are Conflicted About Healers
24.4.2024
Final Fantasy XIV fans are having a debate over what the healer role should look like going forward. The MMO’s next expansion, Dawntrail, releases this summer and will bring with it a myriad of new features and changes to how the game will play. Recently a benchmark for the expansion was released...
Overwatch 2's Mirrorwatch Event Is So Good It Has Me In Mourning
24.4.2024
Overwatch 2 has had a lot of bad news since it launched, such as the gutting of its PvE suite, and now the reported cancellation of its story missions. Every seemingly good thing that’s introduced, like a store to buy rare skins, comes with a caveat, in that case being egregiously expensive....
Sand Land’s Video Game Adaptation Is A Devilishly Good Time
24.4.2024
Sand Land caught my attention as soon as I saw the game’s booth at New York City Comic Con last year, with its enormous recreation of the Royal Army tank. The game’s setting, character designs, and of course the tank, stuck with me, even though I wouldn’t consider myself familiar with much, if...
Fallout 76 Is Getting Something Rare: A Second Chance At A First Impression
24.4.2024
Fallout is bigger than ever right now, thanks in large part to the recent live-action Amazon show. The show’s success has led to millions of players hopping into past Fallout games. And yes, that includes the franchise’s oddball MMO, Fallout 76. Thanks to the show and 76’s inclusion in Game Pass,...
Stellar Blade: The Kotaku Review
24.4.2024
In many ways, Stellar Blade is awesome. The action is awesome, the soundtrack is awesome, the world is awesome. However, when you peel back the curtain just a bit and peer behind all the flash and style, you find that Shift Up’s character action game can also be quite tedious. It’s a game...
Sony Removing Stellar Blade's Unintentional N-Word Reference
24.4.2024
A juxtaposition of environmental elements that, taken together, can be interpreted as an allusion to the n-word will be removed from sci-fi action game Stellear Blade in a day one patch, Sony confirmed today. The company told IGN the offensive reference was “unintentional.”Read more
17 Essential Sand Land Tips To Get You Started
24.4.2024
Sand Land, the video game adaptation of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s one-volume manga of the same name, arrives on April 26, 2024 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows. Read more
League Of Legends Pro Suspended For Humping Teddy Bear On Stream
24.4.2024
League of Legends pro Lu ‘Leyan’ Jue said he was just rocking out with his favorite oversized plushie. But Riot Games felt differently and fined the Invictus Gaming jungler nearly $7,000 and suspended him for two matches over footage of him humping a giant stuffed animal of Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear...
My Dumb Quest To Get A Backpack In Fallout 76 (And How To Avoid It)
23.4.2024
When I started playing Fallout 76 in 2018 there were no backpacks. So I never thought about it. But when I learned from a random comment that backpacks had been added after that point and had been in the game for years, I felt stupid for never crafting one. And then I went to collect the recipe...
Helldivers 2 Players Absolutely Hate Hellmire And For Good Reason
23.4.2024
Helldivers 2 players have strong feelings about the planets they’re fighting to defend in the game’s ongoing galactic war. First there was Malevelon Creek, which became a notorious hotspot for players, after it was dubbed “Robot Vietnam” due to its flame-spewing robots, jungle setting,...
Rise Of The Ronin Hides A Cool Nioh Easter Egg
23.4.2024
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