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My Dumb Quest To Get A Backpack In Fallout 76 (And How To Avoid It)
23.4.2024
When I started playing Fallout 76 in 2018 there were no backpacks. So I never thought about it. But when I learned from a random comment that backpacks had been added after that point and had been in the game for years, I felt stupid for never crafting one. And then I went to collect the recipe...
Helldivers 2 Players Absolutely Hate Hellmire And For Good Reason
23.4.2024
Helldivers 2 players have strong feelings about the planets they’re fighting to defend in the game’s ongoing galactic war. First there was Malevelon Creek, which became a notorious hotspot for players, after it was dubbed “Robot Vietnam” due to its flame-spewing robots, jungle setting,...
Rise Of The Ronin Hides A Cool Nioh Easter Egg
23.4.2024
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Fans Divided After Learning Metaphor: ReFantazio Won’t Have Romance
23.4.2024
Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming RPG from developer Atlus’ Persona team, will bring in a lot of elements from its predecessor when it launches in October. This includes turn-based combat, social elements called “Bonds,” and a time management mechanic as you live out individual days. But one thing...
10 Games From The Palestinian Relief Bundle To Play First
23.4.2024
The latest bundle on indie game storefront itch.io, known for donating some of its proceeds to a good cause, is the Palestinian Relief Bundle. With Palestinians suffering unspeakable loss, along with starvation, a massive shortage of healthcare resources, and other humanitarian issues, the bundle...
Fortnite Festival's New Season Makes The Game Even More Like Rock Band
23.4.2024
On April 23, Fortnite Festival Season 3 launched, adding new music, skins, features, and tweaks to the popular rhythm game mode that lives inside Epic’s popular online battle royale. The big news is that players can now use plastic guitars while playing Fortnite Festival, making the mode just a...
11 Things We Learned From The Metaphor: Refantazio Showcase
23.4.2024
Metaphor: Refantazio is the next game from the Persona leads at Atlus, and while it has some similarities to the franchise (it’s a turn-based, social sim-driven RPG), it’s adapting a lot of those concepts into a medieval fantasy setting rather than a modern-day high school. On April 22, Atlus held...
I Played Fallout 76 All Weekend And Kind Of Loved It
23.4.2024
I finally caved. After years of being petitioned by my friends and spurred on by the new TV show, I spent this past weekend largely playing Fallout 76, Bethesda’s survival MMO based on the open-world RPGs. When it first launched in 2018, Fallout 76 couldn’t have had more working against it....
How To Get The Most Out Of Final Fantasy XIV In One Month
23.4.2024
Final Fantasy XIV is a gargantuan experience, and that’s saying something for the series’ standard. The MMORPG is soon to welcome its latest expansion, Dawntrail, on June 28 for those who pre-ordered it. If you’re starting to get FOMO and you want to discover what all the fuss is about, there’s...
This Horror Dating Sim Sets A Hot New Standard
23.4.2024
When Sucker for Love: First Date was released in 2022, its blend of cosmic horror vibes with dating sim mechanics made it a cult hit. But it’s essentially one big joke about how funny it would be to make Cthulu into a busty babe that you could kiss as long as you did progressively more horrific...
GTA V Trevor Actor Says He Shot Scenes For DLC Before It Was Scrapped
23.4.2024
We previously learned that Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar’s neverending success story that has outsold entire franchises on its own, once had several pieces of single-player DLC in the works. According to previous reports, the studio scrapped planned story mode add-ons in favor of focusing on...
Team Fortress 2 Patch Fixes Bug That Had Game Thinking Players Were Gordon Freeman
23.4.2024
Team Fortress 2 is 17 years old, and one day we are all going to die. The in-built cruelty of entropy ensures our universe is finite, and all things must eventually fade into heat-death. Staving off a small element of this inevitability was Valve’s online shooter getting a big patch last week...
Tomb Raider 3 Update Secretly Nukes Lara Croft Pinups
22.4.2024
Well, this is weird. Pinups of Lara Croft appear to have gone missing in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered following a patch earlier this month to fix a bunch of bugs. Whether intentional or not, some fans are now calling it out as heavy-handed censorship of retro classics.Read more
Fortnite's Battle Royale Mode Was Designed During An Uber Ride
22.4.2024
Fortnite’s battle royale mode is so huge and popular in 2024 that most people forget the game actually launched without it. And Fortnite’s former boss, Donald Mustard, revealed in a recent interview that the popular mode was basically designed in the back of a car on the way to a meeting. Read more
Final Fantasy XVI’s Expansions Offer Windows Into What Could’ve Been
22.4.2024
Spoilers for Final Fantasy XVI and its expansions follow.Read more
Eiyuden Chronicle Is A Rough But Beautiful Love Letter To Suikoden
22.4.2024
The late Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama got the crew back together for one last job in 2020: a crowdfunding campaign for a spiritual successor to the beloved Japanese RPG series raised $4.5 million, the third most of any gaming Kickstarter ever. Four years later, the team at Rabbit and Bear...
Tales of Kenzera: Zau: The Kotaku Review
22.4.2024
“In loving memory of those who touched our lives. This game is a tribute to their enduring spirit,” reads the opening screen of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, the new Metroidvania from EA Originals and Surgent Studios. My lip trembles. “Don’t start crying, you’ve barely started,” I chastise myself.Read more
Fortnite’s Next Big Musical Guest Is Billie Eilish
22.4.2024
Between in-game concerts, skins based on pop stars, and the addition of a rhythm game, Fortnite has been courting musicians and music lovers for years. I have to give props to Epic for specifically adding updates that spotlight pop queens like Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga, which has extended to full...
New Retro Shooter Mashes Duke Nukem And Half-Life Together
22.4.2024
Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison, along with her robotic arm and famous three-barrel revolver, is back in Phantom Fury, a new FPS boomer shooter adventure set after the events of 2021’s Ion Fury and its expansion.Read more
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Comes To EA Play Ahead Of Expected Subscription Hike
22.4.2024
EA has been on a tear of releasing high-quality single-player titles the last few years, and perhaps no series has fared better than Respawn Entertainment’s third-person action-adventure Star Wars Jedi games. Starring Cameron Monaghan (Shameless) as a young Jedi survivor of Order 66, the series...