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GTA 6 price predictions, Hades 2 impressions, and more hot takes
Picture: Supergiant Games Play Hades in the torments of 2020 was exactly the balm I needed. It was the rare roguelike that worked for me it was the combination of a story that played with a pantheon and mythos that I had loved since childhood, with some of the most exciting combat I had ever ...
Stellar Blade and other game reviews this week
Screenshot: Sony / Shift Up / Kotaku In many ways, Starblade is great. The action is great, the soundtrack is great, the world is great. However, if you pull back the curtain a little and look behind all the glitz and style, you’ll find that Shift Up’s character action gameplay can also be pretty boring. ...
Hades Hotties, Starfield updates and more takes this week
Screenshot: Supergiant Games / Kotaku Hades is known for its thrilling action gameplay, its unrivaled ability to weave narrative into a running-based roguelike, and for Supergiant Games’ creation of the pantheon of Greek gods damn good. The team said that beauty was a virtue in its character design, but the fact that the original game ...
Destiny 2 hype, Dragon’s Dogma 2 hate and other gaming opinions
Picture: Molleindustria The goal of The New York Times Simulator, a new, free game, is simple: keep readers engaged and not turned off. It’s a problem well known to every modern media company. But this new game doesn’t turn you into an old journalist struggling to make a living in today’s fraught media landscape. No, ...
Snow Day and other gaming opinions
Picture: Square Enix I’m filling some gaps in my RPG history. I have played series like Final Fantasy since I was a kid, but there are countless other groundbreaking RPGs that I’ve rarely touched, including this Fantasy role-playing game Mana Series that splintered Final Fantasy Adventure in 1991. The only part of the long-running franchise ...
Akira Toriyama’s death and more of this week’s biggest gaming news
Picture: Sony / Remedy / Shutterstock / Sweet Baby Inc. / Vicky Leta, Epic games, Atlus/SEGA, BioWare / Modiphius Entertainment, Bandai Namco, Focus entertainment, Screenshot: Lucasfilm / Cerveza Cristal / Kotaku, The Pokémon Company / Kotaku, Warner Bros. Pictures, photo: DC Studio (Shutterstock) Spring is just around the corner and the gaming news keeps pouring ...
