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Why I Make Myself In Every Video Game Character Creator
19.4.2024
On the day I started here at Kotaku back in 2022, the very first post I wrote had an image of a character who looked like me right at the top. It was my custom V from Cyberpunk 2077, and he’s appeared more than a few times on this site as I’ve covered the game and its Phantom Liberty expansion....
Deus Ex Director Says Future Of Immersive Sims Is Multiplayer
17.4.2024
Immersive sims are traditionally thought of as single-player titles. They can be really dense and systems-heavy games in which having even one player introduces an incredible number of variables, as that one player uses the freedom they’re afforded to tackle situations in any number of ways....
9 Years After Release, Witcher 3 Fans Are Still Finding Easter Eggs
12.4.2024
There is a lot to do in The Witcher 3, CD Projekt’s Red’s open-world RPG that released in 2015.Many players, including me, spent hundreds of hours with protagonist Geralt exploring every corner of the map, completing every quest, and killing every monster. But it turns out that almost a decade...
Is This Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Detail An Oversight Or Incredible Foreshadowing?
2.4.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is the second game in the trilogy of games reimagining the landmark 1997 RPG, and it spends a lot of its runtime setting up plotlines it will presumably wrap up in the third entry. Some of these are worldbuilding details, such as establishing the nation of Wutai as a major...
This Year’s Best Video Game April Fools’ Jokes
1.4.2024
April Fools’ Day 2024 is upon us. Fans and brands use the annual holiday for goofs and giggles and to share the shitposts they’ve been cooking up all year. Though the shitposts sometimes just kinda end up being shit, some of them are genuinely good jokes. This year, we decided to round up some...
You Can Play Cyberpunk 2077 For Free This Weekend
29.3.2024
Cyberpunk 2077 has undergone a pretty significant transformation since its dumpster fire launch in 2020. CD Projekt Red’s city-sprawling RPG got a next-gen update, a 2.0 patch that fundamentally alters how you build a character and fight through the streets of Night City, and to top it all off,...
More Than 400 People Now Working On The Witcher 4, CDPR Confirms
29.3.2024
Production on the upcoming RPG The Witcher 4 has picked up significantly since we last heard about it. CD Projekt Red confirmed as part of its earnings report that the the team behind the game, codenamed Polaris, has grown to 403 staffers, or about two-thirds of the studio. It’s now the single...
CDPR Says Cyberpunk 2077 Has Made $750 Million So Far
28.3.2024
The redemption tour that Cyberpunk 2077 has been on since it was fixed up into a playable state has turned in some huge sales numbers. Developer CD Projekt Red recently revealed that the once-maligned-but-now-refined sci-fi first-person shooter has raked in over $750 million since the game’s...
The Best Loveless Choices In FF7 Rebirth
20.3.2024
Since the original Final Fantasy VII, released 27 years ago (...), the fictional play Loveless has been a part of the background lore of FF7’s universe. It played a role in the spin-off prequel Crisis Core and its in full focus during FF7 Rebirth’s play sequence at the Gold Saucer in Chapter...
New AI Demo Shows Why Games Writing Should Be Left To People
18.3.2024
NVIDIA and Convai have released a trailer for their AI demo, Project Neural Nexus, and it predictably looks and sounds like shit.Read more
This Fantastic Sci-Fi Game Is Free On PC Right Now
14.3.2024
The Epic Games Store offers free games every week, with some freebies being better than others. For example, one of January’s free games was developer Eidos-Montréal’s excellent action-adventure game Guardians of the Galaxy, while February saw a couple of Fallout games go up for $0. Right now,...
Hilarious FF7 Mod Transforms Aerith, Tifa, And Yuffie Into Muscle Mommies
13.3.2024
Like taking a pair of trousers to the tailor, a good mod can breathe new life into a game, altering the way it looks or plays to exciting—or hilarious—results. Final Fantasy 7 Remake has a few solid mods already, like one that turns pretty boy Cloud Strife into a sexy boy, and another that...
Summer Game Fest Returns This June With In-Person Showcase
13.3.2024
We already knew Summer Game Fest, Geoff Keighley’s answer to E3, would come back for 2024, and now we have a date. The annual cavalcade of trailers, demos, and reveals will kick off with a live showcase in Los Angeles on June 7.Read more
We Need To Talk About Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s Ending
6.3.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is out now, and we here at Kotaku have been chewing on its ending for a bit. Now that folks have had time to play the game and sort out their feelings on it, we wanted to take some time to chat about the finale’s merits, issues, and how it left us feeling after spending...
Loveless Embodies One Of FF7 Rebirth’s Biggest Flaws
5.3.2024
In extending one 40-hour RPG into three separate, equally long, titles Square Enix has found a lot of ways to build out the world of Final Fantasy VII. Rebirth, the second entry in the trilogy, takes it a step further than in its predecessor by packing the now-sprawling world full of activities....
FF7 Rebirth: Where To Find All Seventh Infantry Members
4.3.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix’s latest entry in the ongoing FF7 remake project, contains recreations of several classic moments from the original, such as the parade honoring President Rufus Shinra’s newly acquired title. During this sequence, you’ll be asked to round up a few stray...
Does Aerith Die In Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Explained
29.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is out today. If you’re a big fan, you’re probably already playing it and aren’t looking at this article. If you’re a casual fan or onlooker who is mainly just interested in how it handles certain events of the original game, you’re probably wondering what happens...
Remastering One Of The Best Star Wars Games Ever Made Wasn't Easy
28.2.2024
First released back in 1995, Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter that plays similarly to Doom, but included new (for the era) features—like rooms on top of rooms, looking up and down, and jumping—elevating it beyond a simple clone. It also had an original Star Wars story and introduced...
PSA: Be Careful Skipping Cutscenes In FF7 Rebirth’s Flashback Chapter
28.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, part two of the ambitious project to remake 1997’s Final Fantasy VII, arrives tomorrow, February 29. Fans eager to play this new entry have likely spent some time in the game’s demo, which launched on February 6. Should you play the demo, you’ll get the chance to skip...
PSA: A Final Fantasy VII Spin-Off You Didn't Play Matters In Rebirth
28.2.2024
Final Fantasy VII and its various spin-offs and extended media have gotten difficult to keep track of over the years. These days, each numbered Final Fantasy seems like an extended universe in its own right. Final Fantasy XV got a whole movie and anime mini-series before it was even out, both...