photo: Valve / Kotaku / Roman Samborskyi (Shutterstock) A Steam user had a question on Christmas Eve: How do you earn just a measly little Steam point? They were at 68,999 points and wanted to get to 69,000 because that’s a nice number and so on. However, due to the way Steam Points are earned, ...
Screenshot: Nintendo/Kotaku 2023 is almost over, folks. I would say, “We did it,” but who am I kidding? 2024 will begin, and the same crap that made 2023 a non-stop hellscape will continue forever. But there were a lot of cool games in 2023 and every December we get together to talk about our favorites. ...
Screenshot: Nintendo/Kotaku 2023 is almost over, folks. I would say, “We did it,” but who am I kidding? 2024 will begin, and the same crap that made 2023 a non-stop hellscape will continue forever. But there were a lot of cool games in 2023 and every December we get together to talk about our favorites. ...
Pictured: Sam Lake as Sam Lake, the face of Alex Casey, voiced by James McCaffrey (who, like Sam Lake, is also Max Payne, but is not).Screenshot: Remedy Entertainment / Kotaku Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows (Steam Deck YMMV)Current goal: Think about how wonderful James McCaffrey was This has been a sad week ...
Screenshot: Larian Studios / Kotaku Damn what a year 2023 was, right? When I started writing about video games in 2013, I was hopeful. Play The last of us had completely changed my career path and I wanted to believe that the rest of the world valued games as much as I did. I wanted ...
Blizzard opened in 2023 Overwatchis the world for collaboration with third parties. The first was a set of skins and other cosmetics Based on the anime/manga One punch manwhich of course turned OverwatchDoomfist, his own “One-Punch Man,” becomes the titular hero with a new skin. The cape is luxurious, but he’s not the only hero ...
Picture: Kotaku / Sweet Anita / Anna Stills (Shutterstock) Instead of finding new ways to elevate voices who are not white and/or already wealthy, the internet has continued to find ways to make women in 2023 feel unwelcome in digital spaces. Popular in January Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing accidentally revealed it that he watched ...
You’ve heard it time and time again – 2023 was a huge year for game releases, making the battle for Game of the Year (GOTY) fierce and difficult on websites and at awards shows around the world. Baldur’s Gate 3 Won at this year’s Game Awards, other publications also took the crown Tears of the ...
Even though the Game Awards officially mark the end of video game news for 2023, we still have stories to tell GTA 6 Controversies until the inglorious end of E3. Here’s your cheat sheet to the biggest gaming stories of the week. What’s Beyond Pokémon: The Indigo Disk | The week of games The developer ...
