Tanya DePass, Hasan Piker, Amira “Xmiramira” Virgil and Danielle “EbonixSims” Udogaranyaphoto:: Elizabeth Sampat, Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images), Virgil (Johnson), You mix Annual reviewAnnual reviewWe look back at the ups, downs, surprises and special features in and around video games this year. How many year-end articles will remind you – not that you need to be ...
Screenshot:: Ubisoft / Kotaku Kotaku game day bookKotaku game day bookThe latest thoughts from a Kotaku employee about a game we play. Every time my Viking hero Eivor dies Assassin’s Creed ValhallaShe returns to life drunk. This is a well-known bug that the developers seem to have been preparing for patches, but when I tried ...
Screenshot:: Ubisoft / Kotaku Kotaku game day bookKotaku game day bookThe latest thoughts from a Kotaku employee about a game we play. Every time my Viking hero Eivor dies Assassin’s Creed ValhallaShe returns to life drunk. This is a well-known bug that the developers seem to have been preparing for patches, but when I tried ...
picture:: Square enix A group of Japanese speed runners have found that this is the key to faster times in the all-time RPG classic Dragon Quest III is to literally control the temperature of your Famicom systems with hotplates and ice packs. Dragon Quest IIIis, like many role-playing games, long. Playing through the game regularly ...
Screenshot:: Capcom / Kotaku Annual reviewAnnual reviewWe look back at the ups, downs, surprises and special features in and around video games this year. I can’t believe the year is almost over. 2020 felt endless. Between work, taking care of my child, releasing a new book, various writing assignments, and everything that life did to ...
Screenshot:: PlatinumGames I asked this question last year and when I look back on the list of games I wanted to finish, I’m actually surprised I got some of them. That includes Deadly premonition, Radiant Historia, Pikmin 3, connection between worlds, trace memory, and No more heroes. The connection between them all is that they ...
Screenshot:: Naughty dog I go for a walk with my child almost every day. She is little more than two. There is a strange serenity in the isolation of entire city blocks when so few people are around. In the first few months of the pandemic, we felt like we were walking through an abandoned ...
Screenshot:: Access to games I crashed eight times during my playthrough Deadly premonition on the switch, often at critical moments. In a long loading screen game, this seemed like an unforgivable sin. “So good it’s bad,” tested my patience, even if I knew I would get around to it Deadly premonition was a flawed cult ...
illustration:: Konami in the Time HollowTime travel is a painful, tangled, and sloppy mess that makes history worse with each intervention. A spiritual sequel to another game I liked to name Shadow of memories It actually took me a while to track down this obscure visual novel from Nintendo DS, published by Konami in 2008. ...
Screenshot:: Konami Hello Kotaku! The last time I was weekend editor for Kotaku was in February and honestly, it seems like a lifetime ago. So much has happened since then that even when I look back at my old articles, I feel like I am looking at a time capsule from a different age. As ...
