Diablo Play it on: PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox OneCurrent goal: Help Neyrelle I played more Diablo IV than I’d like to admit, but if I’m honest, endgame grinds and the pursuit of endless power don’t interest me as much as narrative pursuits like saving the world from demonic threats or helping a ...
Picture: Blue Rider Interactive One of the most well-known principles of theatrical storytelling is commonly referred to as “Chekhov’s Gun.” The principle suggests that if an element is introduced into a story, even if only casually and in passing, it had better prove significant in the end. Or as it’s often summarized: If a gun ...
Play it on: PC, Switch, PlayStation, XboxCurrent goal: Makes my fortress a little more beautiful If I’m being honest, most of my play time this weekend will probably go towards once again the incredible UFO 50. (I have now my first two cherry carts!) However, it’s probably time to occasionally mention other games here in ...
Screenshot: Mossmouth/Kotaku Play it on: PCCurrent goal: Discover the truth at the heart of the world Over the last few weeks I have been singing praises UFO 50 here on the pages of the Weekend Guide, and indeed it seems likely that this extraordinary collection of games from 1980s developer UFO Soft, which never actually ...
Picture: Sony, BioWare, Xbox, Konami, Square Enix, René Rother / Devolver Digital, Screenshot: Larian Studios/Kotaku, Coal Dinner / Kotaku, Sega/Kotaku, Sega/Kotaku It’s been a pretty exciting week in gaming, from impossible-to-secure pre-orders for the newly announced PS5 Pro to huge sales on major Capcom and Xbox games to confirming which one of yours Dragon Age ...
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 ...
Screenshot: Brynjar Á, Sindri H Gaming tags are used with wild abandon on Steam, to the point that they’re pretty useless. “Point-and-click” has been reduced to any game with a cursor, and “action” seems to mean any game that involves movement. Generally speaking, it’s not meant to draw you to a game, but to warn ...
Screenshot: Julia Minamata / Kotaku The year is 1913 and young Nancy Maple, an amateur geologist, travels from Toronto to the remote Canadian town of Crimson to investigate the discovery of a large diamond. But the situation is more dangerous than it first appears and our brave heroine soon has to investigate a murder. Released ...
