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12 Things We Lowkey Love About Final Fantasy XVI
13.7.2023
I’ve finished Final Fantasy XVI and am now working on 100 percenting it, including beating the game a second time on the New Game+ “Final Fantasy” mode difficulty. For all the game’s flaws, of which there are plenty, there’s just so much it does that I just can’t get enough of. From the music...
Racist Destiny 2 Player Messes Around, Finds Out With $500K Fine
13.7.2023
A Destiny 2 player who doxxed and harassed a Bungie community manager has been found liable for nearly $500,o00 in damages and fees, in a lovely example of fucking around and finding out. Read more
Our Favorite Cosplay From Dokomi Germany
13.7.2023
We’ve been to Melbourne, we’ve been to London, now our cosplay showcase is off to Germany for coverage of this year’s Dokomi, which went down June 30-July 2 in Dusseldorf.Read more
Neil Druckmann Takes Over Naughty Dog After Co-President Of 25 Years Retires
12.7.2023
Naughty Dog, the developers behind The Last of Us and Uncharted, is about to undergo a pretty big shakeup in leadership. Co-president Evan Wells has announced he’ll be retiring, and co-president and Last of Us director Neil Druckmann will be the sole president of the company moving forward.Read more
2022 Favorite Vampire Survivors Is Almost A New Game After This Upgrade
12.7.2023
Gothic indie darling Vampire Survivors will be—please accept this pun—completely revamped after it receives a round of updates on August 17. That day, the roguelike bullet hell will receive co-op mode and the Steam version will move over to a new engine.Read more
One Of The Most Important Games Ever Gets The Release It Deserves 40 Years Later
12.7.2023
In 1984, a game was released for the Apple II that was totally unlike anything that had come before. Casting you as a martial artist who must infiltrate a warlord’s castle fortress, Karateka had breathtaking animation that was far more lifelike than anything that had preceded it. It also set...
Baldur's Gate 3 Is A Massive RPG And That's A Big Deal Right Now
12.7.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 is less than a month away for PC players now that developer Larian Studios has pushed its release date up a few weeks. On August 3, players will head to the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms (or Faerûn) where they’ll face their imminent demise at the hands of a mind-controlling...
Tears Of The Kingdom: Fans Are Killing Ganon In Embarrassing Ways
12.7.2023
Link’s challenge in Tears of the Kingdom is to take down a grand evil threat to save the world of Hyrule. But while many players choose to take on the game’s final boss, Ganon, with a traditional means of sword fighting, others have taken to finding more clever, rather humiliating forms of foiling...
Tears Of The Kingdom Players Keep Doing Things You Didn't Know Were Possible
12.7.2023
On reflection, it’s bizarre how much Nintendo underplayed Tears of the Kingdom’s fusing abilities. Completely hidden in the earlier trailers, and really only vaguely hinted at before release, this addition of crafting to the Breath of the Wild sequel has been fundamentally game-changing. It’s also...
Over 8,500 People, The Population Of A Small Town, Worked On Diablo IV
12.7.2023
Diablo IV is a big video game jam-packed with hundreds of hours’ worth of gameplay. Making a game this big isn’t easy, and takes a lot of people. In fact, according to the credits, over 8,500 people worked on Blizzard’s massive sequel. Read more
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals: The Kotaku Review
12.7.2023
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals plays something like a thematic flip of its excellent 2016 predecessor. Where the original game followed a teen named Alex and a group of her friends on a coming-of-age adventure that had the group confronting a nebulous future, Lost Signals finds 30-something Riley...
Diablo IV’s OP Druid Build Does 2 Billion Damage
12.7.2023
Diablo IV is a game about keeping evil locked behind the gates of hell and making the numbers go up. Kill enemies, get stronger, kill more enemies, get even stronger. This is the endless cycle at the center of Blizzard’s hit action-RPG, but recently players have managed to take that logic to...
9 Cool Games Coming To Xbox
11.7.2023
We’re in a bit of a lull between big games right now, which makes it the perfect time to focus on some smaller releases that don’t often get much time in the limelight. Microsoft’s summer ID@Xbox livestream just did exactly that, highlighting a bunch of cool indie games coming to Xbox One...
New Overwatch 2 Mode Lets You Drag Your Scrub Friends Into Ranked
11.7.2023
If you’ve ever wanted to play competitive, ranked Overwatch 2 games with your friends but have been foiled its rank restrictions, Blizzard is adding a new mode that will help alleviate some (but not all) of the rules that prohibit that.Read more
Don’t Skip Baldur’s Gate 3’s Opening If You Played Early Access
11.7.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 entered early access almost three years ago, so players have had ample time to take its opening hours for a spin. If you’re one of them, you may have even seen the RPG’s first few acts several times at this point. However, if you’re gearing up to play the full game when it launches...
Final Fantasy Protagonists Ranked From Worst To Best
11.7.2023
With Final Fantasy XVI out, we have a new hero joining the pantheon of series’ protagonists. But where does Clive rank on a list of the best main characters to grace a Final Fantasy game? How does he stack up against classic characters like Cloud and Zidane? Let’s take a trip through Final Fantasy...
Useless Magikarp Is One Of The Most Valuable Pokémon Cards In New TCG Set
11.7.2023
Pokémon TCG is really hotting up with the summer weather, as the Scarlet & Violet era hits its stride. We’re a month into the second set, Paldea Evolved, while hotly anticipating both August’s Obsidian Flames, and September’s Pokémon 151 sets. This makes it a great time to see how Paldea...
Prime Day Sales: Grab Elden Ring, No Man’s Sky, And More For Cheap
11.7.2023
Is that gaming shelf of yours looking a little sparse? Missed out on a few modern classics? Been meaning to pick up a couple of games that grabbed your attention but were perhaps not quite worth full price? This year’s (two-day) Amazon Prime Day sale has some particularly excellent games worth...
The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Exoprimal
10.7.2023
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Pokémon Sleep App Will Include Shiny Hunting
10.7.2023
The upcoming Pokémon Sleep tracker app seems to include “shiny” Pokémon, or Pokémon that appear in atypical color variations. Joe Merrick, webmaster of Poké-compendium Serebii.net, noted shinies’ presence in Sleep on Twitter, along with a warning for players: “I hope you’re all prepared for your...