Screenshot: Nintendo/Kotaku 2023 is almost over, folks. I would say, “We did it,” but who am I kidding? 2024 will begin, and the same crap that made 2023 a non-stop hellscape will continue forever. But there were a lot of cool games in 2023 and every December we get together to talk about our favorites. ...
Pictured: Sam Lake as Sam Lake, the face of Alex Casey, voiced by James McCaffrey (who, like Sam Lake, is also Max Payne, but is not).Screenshot: Remedy Entertainment / Kotaku Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows (Steam Deck YMMV)Current goal: Think about how wonderful James McCaffrey was This has been a sad week ...
photo: Michael Ciaglo/Bloomberg (Getty Images), Sam Lake, JC Olivera (Getty Images), Screenshot: Marvel / Insomniac Games / Kotaku, Fntastic / Kotaku, Picture: Kevin Dietsch/Bethesda/Kotaku (Getty Images), Sleepless Games / Sony, Epic Games / Capcom / Kotaku, Marvel/Disney The year may be coming to an end, but the news just doesn’t stop. This week we’ve got ...
Following the Game Awards, two expansions for fan-favorite games were released this week: God of War Ragnarok And Pokémon Scarlet And Violet. We also took a deep dive into Analogue’s latest and greatest new retro console and gave an overview of the state of the PS5 in its third year. What’s Beyond Pokémon: The Indigo ...
DiabloIV It’s still a few months away, but Blizzard is already stomping down some of the game’s most popular classes ahead of the June 6 release date. The studio has published a new blog on its website reflecting on the game’s recent beta and shared what is basically a full set of patch notes it ...
I usually think “soulslike” is a charged term; The legendary dark and difficult RPG from 2011 from FromSoftware Dark Souls inspired a slew of similarly dark, difficult games, but I don’t think any of these copycats can match the royal original. Except maybe the other games from FromSoftware and souls Sequels.… Continue reading…
Picture: Epic / Square Enix / Boss Key / Kotaku / LadadikArt (Shutterstock) It is almost poetic that in a genre built on many people fighting to stay alive until only a few remain, so many battle royale games have launched, flopped and died in recent years. Not every new battle royale can have the ...
DiabloIVThe open beta of my city Once we had a chance to check out Hell (or at least the Emissaries of Hell you encounter in the early game), we decided to round up some people to discuss what we love, what we’re optimistic about, and what made us a little suspicious during our time at ...
screenshot: Blazing bit games First released in 2021, indie shooter Nightmare Reaper finally left Early Access this year, and that’s when I finally played it. And boy am I glad I stumbled across this under-the-radar FPS! Nightmare Reaperight could look similar to other similar retro-inspired shooters – like the ones mentioned before cult– which have ...
The first thing someone says in Edith Wharton’s 1924 novella “New Year” is “she was bad…always.” Although nothing I do will fascinate me quite like Lizzie Hazeldean, who horrified Wharton’s fictional New York high society with her affair of “running out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel on New Year’s Day with all these women dressed ...
