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Hands-On: Phantom Liberty Is What Cyberpunk 2077 Wished It Could've Been
11.6.2023
After spending an hour in Cyberpunk 2077’s one and only expansion Phantom Liberty, it feels like the spy thriller side story is the actualization of a narrative everyone hasbeen touting in the years since the game’s disastrous launch. Many, including Kotaku’s own Luke Plunkett, have argued that...
Diablo IV Druids, Do This ASAP To Unlock Some Powerful New Abilities
9.6.2023
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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Out For PS5 In October, Teases Cool New Art
8.6.2023
Sony’s big first-party PlayStation exclusive for 2023 finally has a release date. Insomnaic Games announced Spider-Man 2 will arrive on October 20, and revealed some new art and clues about Venom’s origin in the video game’s timeline, which will differ from what we know from the comics.Read more
Your First Look At Henry Cavill's Last Season As Netflix's Witcher
8.6.2023
Fans got their first sneak peek of season three of Netflix’s The Witcher during the Summer Game Fest livestream. The latest chapter in the streaming adaptation of the fantasy books turned hit open-world role-playing game is shaping up to be a wild, messy ride.Read more
Star Wars Revealing More Jedi Survived Doesn't Mean Order 66 Failed
7.6.2023
Today, a new piece of information about a character in the upcoming Star Wars show Ahsoka went viral and promptly set off an online debate about Jedi surviving the infamous Order 66 aka Jedi Purge. Once again, people seemed upset to learn that another space monk—like Jedi: Survivor’s Cal—survived...
Spider-Verse Fans Have Compelling Evidence That Gwen Is Trans
6.6.2023
Just in time for Pride, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse moviegoers think the summer box-office phenomenon offers some pretty compelling evidence that one of its heroes, Gwen Stacy, is trans.Read more
Overwatch 2 Is Gently Reverting One Of Its Biggest Changes
6.6.2023
When Overwatch 2 pivoted from the series’ 6v6 format in favor of a faster, single-tank 5v5 one, it also shifted away from a popular gameplay tactic: Crowd control, or abilities that can stop or slow an opponent in their tracks with a stun or freeze effect. Now, it sounds like Blizzard is feeling...
Jedi Survivor Players, You Are An Enormous Disappointment
2.6.2023
As a lot of studios do these days, the team at Respawn have waited a few weeks after the launch of Star Wars: Jedi Survivor then decided to share some statistics on how the players have been playing. And I am shocked.Read more
Final Fantasy XVI Devs Almost Cut Moogles Due To The Game's Mature Tone
1.6.2023
Final Fantasy XVI is out in mere weeks, arriving on PlayStation 5 on June 22. And while the game looks like it’ll be quite a bit of fun to play, questions over the radical shift in tone for the series remain. And in a recent blog, the developers shared some of the thoughts, considerations,...
Overwatch Forums Get Heated Over Baptiste's Bisexuality
1.6.2023
The official Overwatch 2 forums have been abuzz ever since Blizzard confirmed that there are more queer characters in its hero roster than we were previously aware. While some posts are from folks suspiciously eyeing the welcome confirmation that Pharah is in fact a rocket-powered lesbian as if...
Overwatch 2’s Pride Event Shows Blizzard's Trying To Do Better By Its Queer Community
30.5.2023
It feels like Overwatch 2 is gayer than it’s ever been. First Lifeweaver was revealed as the series’ first pansexual hero, then dialogue seemed to hint that Baptiste was also queer. Now, a Pride event has confirmed that Baptiste is indeed, queer, and veteran hero Pharah is also a member of...
Tears Of The Kingdom: Players Are Finding Amazing Ways To Cheese Bosses
30.5.2023
Tears of the Kingdom is clearly proving it should’ve been named The Legend of Zelda: Betcha Didn’t Know You Could Do This. It seems every day there’s some unique way to traverse the big open world, solve cryptic puzzles, and more. Now, players have found unique ways to completely shut down...
Lord Of The Rings CCG Will Include Diversity And Originality
29.5.2023
Next month sees the release of Magic: The Gathering’s Universes Beyond expansion for Lord of the Rings. The Tales of Middle-Earth card game will, say creators Wizards of the Coast, introduce a diversity to the endlessly reworked franchise that hasn’t been seen before.Read more
Warhammer Gaming Show Features EIGHT Warhammer Games
26.5.2023
Two years ago I wrote a dumb post listing just how many Warhammer games had been released in the past few years. That post is now massively out of date, because there are so many Warhammer games coming in 2023-24 that Games Workshop was able to host their own damn show about it.Read more
Building Lightsabers In Jedi: Survivor Is So Wildly Satisfying
25.5.2023
Last week, my partner beat Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. I haven’t finished Fallen Order yet, so I watched a fair chunk of the sequel from beside him on the couch. But about two-thirds of the way through the campaign, he thrust a PS5 DualSense controller into my hand and urged me to build my...
Tears of the Kingdom’s Korok Mask Will Help You Find Its 1,000 Hidden Seeds
24.5.2023
Gathering Korok Seeds is one of the most time-consuming tasks in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Between finding Koroks hiding in every nook and cranny of Hyrule to reuniting lost ones with their friends via elaborate Ultrahand constructions, Link’s got his work cut out for him gathering...
Tears Of The Kingdom’s Horses Are Invaluable, Here's How To Tame Them
24.5.2023
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom carries the time-honored Zelda tradition of giving Link a horse to ride on, but like Breath of the Wild, you don’t get gifted these majestic steeds to carry your ass across the map, you have to befriend them. And by befriend, I mean you have to sneak onto...
Fortnite Gets Spider-Man’s Miles Morales Ahead Of Spider-Verse Movie
23.5.2023
Fortnite has added multiple Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse items to its shop, as well as themed quests and extras as part of an update released on May 23. Though the battle royale game has collaborated with superheroes plenty of times before (Fortnite update Twitter account FortniteBR notes...
Final Fantasy XVI's Developers Had To Watch Game Of Thrones
23.5.2023
Final Fantasy XVI is the next mainline entry in the long-running RPG series and it seems to be going for a radically different tone compared to past entries. We definitely got some Game of Thrones vibes from past trailers. And in retrospect, that’s not surprising, as the developers working on...
Our Favorite Cosplay From C2E2 2023
22.5.2023
The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, better known as C2E2, was held a few weeks back and brought in nearly 100,000 attendees over its three days.Read more