Screenshot: Remedy / Smilegate I really, really wanted to like Catalyst, the new campaign developed by Remedy Entertainment and released for free to play shooter CrossfireX earlier this month. Remedy, the developer behind great games like Control other Alan Wakeis one of my favorite out there, and while I wasn’t thrilled about them making a ...
Come on, PS4 Cyberpunk 2077work with me here.image: CD Projekt Red / Sony / Kotaku Cyberpunk 2077‘s next gen version finally launched this week after months of delays. It’s pretty good if you’re on PlayStation 5, particularly because of the haptics, but the re-release also addressed myriad bugs with its massive 50 GB patch. Not ...
image: Retro Studios/Nintendo/Fox/Kotaku love Metroid, but being a longtime fan does weird things to you. Take, for example, the latest kerfuffle over Retro Studios updating its Twitter banner. Where a normal person might see a cool piece of Samus Aran concept art, the ravenous Metroid fan, their hunger unsatiated by Metroid Dreadimagines a portal hiding ...
image: Electronic Arts While the game has its fans (hi!)there’s no escaping the fact that in a wider context Battlefield 2042’s launch has been a disaster for Electronic Arts. Fan reception has been hostile, playercounts have dropped like a stone and the company won’t even disclose how many copies of the game have been sold. ...
Screenshot: Bungie/Kotaku Today, after months of waiting, destiny 2 players were finally treated to Season of the Lost’s big reveal, setting up next week’s massive Witch Queen expansion. At least, that is, the players who could get the new cutscene to work. For everyone else, the only way to partake in the big moment was ...
Screenshot: Activision / Kotaku In a reported meeting between Call of Duty developers and select content creators and influencers, the war zone devs admitted that the free-to-play battle royale was in a bad state, telling those in attendance that they had “fucked up” and that the current state of the popular online shooter was “embarrassing.” ...
Screenshot: 343 Industries If you’ve played a competitive online shooter, it’s happened to you. You shoot an enemy a bunch. You swear you saw your shots connect. But the next minute, it’s you who’s sitting through a respawn timer. To take it from hardcore players, Halo Infinite can seem particularly egregious about such matters of ...
Screenshot: 343 Industries / Kotaku First came the cat ears. Then came the Iron Man armor. But this week, one of Halo Infinite‘s prime cosmetics options is a bit more on the nose: a literal halo. Okay, it’s not literally on the nose. (But surely the Halo nose ring is moments away.) The cosmetic item, ...
image: Bungie destiny 2 is in a weirder spot than usual right now. Anticipation for its upcoming Witch Queen expansion is through the roof, but the game’s current seasonal story hasn’t progressed in months. Nothing highlights the gap between the growing hype and the current snooze better than the game’s latest weekly update. While construction ...
Screenshot: 343 Industries For years, the teabag has been the go-to competitive Halo taunt: you can condense an entire victory speech within a few seconds. You’ve likely experiencedif not doled out, a teabag at some point while playing Halo Infinite. Possibly you’ve even bought the teabag gun charm for some extra burn. But I’ve noticed ...
