At startup, New world broke records and built a massive player base of over a million concurrent players. But like my high school bully, this massive monstrosity of an MMORPG somehow managed to quickly reach its peak and disappear from the face of the earth. Despite the lackluster response after the first month, Amazon Game ...
With series like Mass effect And Dragon AgeBioWare has made a name for itself as the studio where choices matter. These games have allowed players to import their choices from previous games to maintain a consistent state of the world that feels shaped to some degree by their actions. The process by which players do ...
Screenshot: Kotaku / Team Asobi / Sony I cried at the end Astro Bot. I know this doesn’t say much more than my sentimentality, but I thought it would be an important note to highlight something else, something important about PlayStation’s excellent new platformer. It really is Ismore than anything else, a celebration of the ...
Picture: Saber Interactive / Focus Entertainment It took over a decade, but we finally have a Space Marine Consequenceand it’s wonderful. Released this week on Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC, Warhammer 40K: Space Marines 2 is bigger and better than its predecessor. This sci-fi third-person shooter features an action-packed campaign, huge waves of enemy ...
The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 The multiplayer beta weekend is over, but I’m still a little shell-shocked. The sixth installment in the long-running Activision sub-franchise is faster-paced than ever and packed with players who have already perfected the brand new Omnimovement system, meaning every game goes one of two ways: entertaining or frustrating. ...
Admittedly, I am not the fighting game expert on this site or even in my own circle of friends. The key, I think, is all plays more of this genre than I do, although I was a bit of a fighting game fanatic as a kid. This lack of experience didn’t hinder me when it ...
Shattered Spacethe upcoming first major expansion for Starfieldfeels like Bethesda is returning to an old, comfortable armchair. However, a horror armchair with intense combat set in a half-destroyed capital city that has fallen victim to a rift in space and time. But instead of another galaxy-wide series of adventures like in the base game, this ...
Screenshot: Sony / Kotaku Astro’s Playroom has added its third special bot since the countdown to Astro’s return began in his upcoming full-length adventure, aptly titled Astro Bot. This latest bot pays homage to Sony’s long-running racing simulation franchise Big tourism. This new fantasy beat-’em-up is like Dragon’s Crown with druids Pre-order Astro Bot: Best ...
Screenshot: Wadjet Eye Games Play it on: Switch, Windows (Steam Deck: OK)Buy it at: Humble Bundle Current goal: Continue to chase a demon through New York City Like many, I was a point-and-click adventure fan in the late ’80s and ’90s, as Lucasfilm/LucasArts produced a fairly steady stream of masterpieces in the genre. And while ...
Play it on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, Windows (Steam Deck: OK)Buy it at: Amazon | Best buy | Humble BundleCurrent goal: Atmosphere. Wonderful, galactic atmosphere. I play a lot No Man’s Sky since the new update arrived recentlyand it finally stuck with me. While I appreciated the state the game was ...
