illustration:: Supergiant Games Annual reviewAnnual reviewWe look back at the ups, downs, surprises and special features in and around video games this year. 2020 was tough. There were nights when we wondered where and how this year would end. Just when things looked like they couldn’t get any worse, they kept doing it. Getting through ...
Screenshot:: Konami / Kotaku The last generationThe last generationA look back at 2013-2020, the age of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The PS4 had some great horror games. The best had a way of subconsciously sneaking into my mind, dwell until a vulnerable moment, and strike terror when I least expected it. It’s interesting that ...
Screenshot:: Nintendo If all of the video game characters ever created came together in one big rumble, then who would be ahead? Kratos who defeated the gods of Olympus? What about asura fighting a deity the size of a planet? What about the ancients who wore Majora’s mask and wreaked so much havoc that it ...
Call Zack for the P.Hotoshop skills.photo:: Naughty dog / igamesnews On a trip to a state park, I’m pretty sure my partner, my dog, and I stumbled into a video game. My personal isekai. Last Over the weekend, my partner Travis and I took my dog with us and traveled three hours south to the ...
Screenshot:: Supergiant Games / Kotaku Annual reviewAnnual reviewWe look back at the ups, downs, surprises and special features in and around video games this year. The past year has been an endless, pitch-black night with a single burning, incandescent star: video games. Can you imagine what 2020 would have been like without video games? I ...
picture:: Naughty dog / igamesnews In games as in life, slipping and sliding on surfaces of ice while torrents of snow turn your eyelashes into crystalline daggers can be frustrating to say the least. Yet ice and snow values in video games are a time-honored affair. As a result of this week of Kotaku‘s Split ...
Screenshot:: CD Projekt Red / Kotaku Two weeks after the troubled start of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red faces a class action lawsuit. However, the submission is not made for players who may feel burned during an upfront cycle that hid the status of the game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Rather, it is ...
photo:: Christian Petersen / Kotaku (Getty Images) Annual reviewAnnual reviewWe look back at the ups, downs, surprises and special features in and around video games this year. God this year sucked. Video games should be a relief, and in many ways they were. But in other ways, they were just as messy, unhappy, and broken ...
Look, it’s been a tough couple of weeks. Let’s all think about how silly V looks when jumping in third person.Screenshot:: CD Projekt Red / Kotaku It’s not a secret Cyberpunk 2077 is plagued by a number of technical issues, particularly on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Today CD Projekt Red released another hotfix ...
picture:: Kayin Has a group of fans remastered I wanna be the oneThis improves the notoriously difficult platformer’s performance for those who are still ready to submit to his devious tricks. “This is a largely faithful remaster of the original I wanna be the oneWe’re trying to reconcile the spirit of the original game with ...
