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2022 Was the Year Of Elden Ring
26.12.2022
2022 was the year of Elden Ring, of Miyazaki, of Malenia. The highly anticipated FromSoftware title held the industry by its throat for months, dominating the conversation around difficulty, damage scaling, and player builds (including everyone’s favorite nepo baby, Elon Musk). It took over...
Sonic Advance 2 Perfected The Series 20 Years Ago (Maybe Video Games, Too)
26.12.2022
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”Read more
Fans Discover Half-Life 2 Corpse Has Actual Dead Human’s Face
23.12.2022
If you’ve played Half-Life 2 or Source engine mods, you’ve likely seen the in-game model “Corpse01.mdl.” The burnt corpse appears multiple times in Half-Life 2’s sewers and other parts of the game, and modders often used it in fan projects. All is well, yes? Well, it was until recently, when fans...
So, You Wanna Take Down Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Elite Four
23.12.2022
Defeating the Elite Four and the regional champion in battle is a rite of passage in most Pokémon games, and that includes Scarlet and Violet. These are supposed the most-powerful Pokémon trainers in the Paldea region, and overcoming them and their teams is the only way to become the regional...
Square Enix Abandons Its Chocobo Racing Game Just 9 Months After Launch
22.12.2022
A game not included on our list of major 2022 games that died this year was Square Enix’s kart racer, Chocobo GP. There’s a reason for that, as it will remain playable for the foreseeable future. However, as Square Enix announced on December 21, the game is effectively dead now since “no further...
An Open-World Game With BOTW Vibes, Except You're Not Human
21.12.2022
The Gecko Gods is an upcoming exploration and puzzle game by Louis Waloschek (and other collaborators) that puts the player in control of a gecko crawling its way around an open island. The game saw a bit of an uptick in interest yesterday as the developer announced it will come to Switch, and...
Game Ad Using Leaked GTA 6 Footage Gets Purged From Internet By Take-Two
21.12.2022
Goat Simulator 3 developer Coffee Stain North has ended up under the thumb of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two after posting an ad for its open-world havoc simulator that used footage from this year’s Grand Theft Auto VI leak.Read more
Gamers Are Suing To Stop Microsoft From Acquiring Activision
21.12.2022
The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 gives Americans the right to sue companies over anticompetitive behavior, a fact which 10 self-described gamers are using to take Microsoft to court, aiming to halt the company’s acquisition of Activision.Read more
River City Girls 2 Is The Beat ‘Em Up That Dreams Are Made Of
20.12.2022
When the year began, there were only a handful of video games that piqued my interest, and chief among them was the spin-off to the classic beat ‘em up series Kunio-Kun (or River City). River City Girls 2 finally arrived in the U.S. on December 15 after shifting release dates all year, and the game...
Warzone 2.0 Finally Lets Players Purchase Full Loadouts
20.12.2022
Warzone 2.0’s been out for a little while now, but not everyone’s been happy with some of the changes the battle royale received in its latest iteration. When, where, and how you access loadouts saw one such unpopular change. Raven Software, however, has recently announced that Buy Stations will...
Call Of Duty's Year-Defining New Mode Is Everything Shooters Should Aspire To Be
20.12.2022
Racing to the last possible helicopter to flee an increasingly radiated map, my heart is pounding. I know the chopper is going to sit there for nearly two minutes, and here I am running, alone and vulnerable. I sped halfway across the map in a truck to outrun the radiation and must now defend...
Hideo Kojima’s Game Studio Video Looks Like A Hyper-Futuristic Episode Of MTV Cribs
19.12.2022
Today, Japanese video game developer Kojima Productions celebrated its seventh anniversary and gave everyone workspace envy by showing off what its new game studio looks like. And boy howdy, this studio is just as over the top as you’d expect, given that its repertoire includes a video game with...
Last Of Us Showrunner Says Original Game Is ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told In Video Games’
19.12.2022
In a recent interview, The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin said that the original game contained the “greatest story ever told” in the history of video games. Not only is this statement silly, but it also continues this weird pattern of people trying to rewrite history to make Naughty Dog’s...
Marvel Snap Has A Whole Ton Of Plans For 2023
19.12.2022
Marvel Snap may only be two months old, but it has started with a bang. The card-based battler from the mind behind Hearthstone has very quickly become part of the zeitgeist, gathered and enormous army of players, and with it, all the feedback in the universe. In response to all this, developer...
Fortnite Fined $520 Million For Invading Kids’ Privacy And Tricking Players
19.12.2022
Epic Games will pay a whopping $520 million combined settlement after an Federal Trade Commission investigation found it invaded children’s privacy and tricked some players into buying stuff in Fortnite that they didn’t want. The FTC announced on Monday that it’s the largest penalty ever assessed...
Riot Games Trying To Get Out Of Terrible Crypto Sponsorship Deal
19.12.2022
Back in August 2021, Riot Games—the developers of League of Legends—signed a sponsorship deal worth tens of millions of dollars with cryptocurrency exchange FTX. You know, the exchange that is now bankrupt, with its founder arrested and facing serious fraud and money laundering charges.Read more
The Secret To Training Powerful Pokémon In Scarlet And Violet
17.12.2022
For most players, Pokémon games are a pretty straightforward affair of attacking enemies’ weaknesses and scoring that sweet one-shot. But Pokémon can become incredibly overwhelming once you start playing competitively. What’s an IV? What’s an EV, if not the cute brown fox who can evolve into...
New $100 Diablo IV ‘Collector’s Box’ Doesn’t Include Game
16.12.2022
Blizzard is now taking pre-orders on a large, nearly $100 special Diablo IV collector’s box which includes many things. But it doesn’t include the game. And while Blizzard isn’t trying to trick people into accidentally buying this game-free box, it still seems very odd that there’s not even...
Alyssa Mercante’s Top 10 Games Of 2022
16.12.2022
2022 wasn’t just the year that I started here at Kotaku, or the year that I accidentally went viral for daring to ask rich guys to dress nice at awards shows—it was also the year that I forced myself to stretch outside of my comfort zone.Read more
Ubisoft Winter Sale Has Big Savings On Games Like Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope
16.12.2022
‘Tis that time of the year when every store, shop, and retailer begins slashing prices on everything in an effort to make as much money as possible during the holiday season. A magical time, really. And Ubisoft is joining in on the fun with a new, large winter sale, happening now, that sees games...