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Deathloop: The Kotaku Review
22.9.2021
Video games are inescapably intertwined with iteration and do-overs. It’s written into the technology that builds them, the development practices that craft them, and often the very rules governing how they work: win-lose, trial and error. Some games have tried to mask this artifice in the service...
Deathloop’s Villain Group Chat Is A Perfect Mess
17.9.2021
Deathloop does a lot of things right. One of those things is chat logs. When you’re not going on a murder spree, you’re reading through the private DMs of those you just killed. Arkane has done a superb job of imbuing its villains with flair and personality from beyond the grave, thanks to one...
Deathloop Players All Agree: The Dedicated Kick Button Rules
16.9.2021
There I was, creeping along a cliff on the outside of a big castle-like structure when I saw a single enemy, completely alone. He was standing on the edge of the cliff with his back to me. This setup ranked high on my “kickable moment meter,” a situation which routinely leads to disappointment....
What Deathloop Does Differently From Dishonored and Prey
16.9.2021
Blackreef is a city built for violence. Every citizen is armed, and every law is overturned. It is a 24 hour party, and sometimes partying involves shooting your friend in the head...I guess. I’ve never been a real party girl.Read more
Deathloop’s Save System Is Pissing Some Players Off
15.9.2021
Kinda feels like déjà vu, doesn’t it? In the spring, Returnal, a PlayStation 5 time loop game about killing your way to salvation, vexed players with its lack of manual saves. This week, Deathloop, a PS5 and PC time loop game about killing your way to salvation, is doing the same.Read more
Deathloop's PS5 Loading Screens Are Making Some Horrible Sounds
15.9.2021
Deathloop is a good video game and it makes my brain go “brrrrrrrrr.” Sadly, it also makes PS5s go “SCREEEEEEEEE,” whenever the game is loading. This is not ideal.Read more
Even Beefy Rigs Aren't Saving Deathloop From PC Issues
14.9.2021
Deathloop is, by all accounts, a damn good game. That said, its reception on Steam is sitting shakily in “Mixed” territory due to the various performance-related issues currently plaguing PC players.Read more
Everyone Who Worked On A Game Should Be In The Credits
14.9.2021
Deathloop is out, and by all accounts it’s pretty good! It’s a shame, then, that it’s also the reason we’re revisiting the topic of “video games people being weirdly shitty about who makes it into the credits and who doesn’t”.Read more
Sony Will Lose Another Big PS5 Exclusive In September 2022
9.7.2021
Deathloop is one of the few, big PlayStation 5 exclusives releasing this year, but it was never going to remain only on Sony’s next-gen console. Now we know exactly when its exclusivity period ends: September 14, 2022. Read more
Everything Sony Showed At The Latest Big PlayStation Event
9.7.2021
Sony aired its latest State of Play today focusing on smaller indie games and once again showing off its timed-PlayStation 5 console exclusive Deathloop. The company promised there wouldn’t be any big news at the event, but even so, it was bit of a snooze-fest.Read more
Deathloop Delayed To September
8.4.2021
Arkane’s Deathloop has been delayed to September 14, the studio announced on Twitter this morning. The game was originally set to release May 21.Read more
The Most Anticipated Games of 2021 That Might Actually Come Out This Year
8.3.2021
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Regulators Approve Microsoft's $7.5 Billion Acquisition Of Bethesda Parent Company Zenimax Media
8.3.2021
Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of Zenimax Media, parent company of Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Doom maker Bethesda, has cleared another set of hurdles, winning approval to proceed from both the European Commission and US Securities and Exchange Commissions.Read more
Sorry PS5, Xbox Series X Has Unexpectedly Become My Preferred Console
2.3.2021
I started this new generation of game consoles with the expectation that I would be playing most games on the PS5, like how I played most stuff on PS4 last gen. But nearly five months later, I’m spending most of my time on the Xbox Series X and now I feel bad, like I’m ignoring my PS5.Read more
Deathloop’s Sultry “Déjà Vu” Will Be My Summer Anthem
26.2.2021
Outside of Square Enix announcing a new story DLC for Final Fantasy VII Remake, yesterday’s PlayStation State of Play event was kinda a dud. But there was a notable exception: Deathloop’s new original song “Déjà Vu.”Read more