Screenshot: CIties: Skylines Over the last few days, a series of mods for the PC strategy game Cities: Skylines have been removed from Steam after users began fearing that they contained all kinds of nasty stuff, from keyloggers to viruses to bitcoin mining software. The alarm was sounded by this NME story other subsequent Reddit ...
I remember putting on record back in 2016 how I thought Creative Assembly’s pivot to Warhammer games was a bad idea. How “seeing the series walk away from the real world was a blow”, and that “This isn’t even the good Warhammer. It’s the dorky medieval one”. Time and a succession of good video games ...
Screenshot: Smilegate/Amazon Lost Ark has become one of the very few games on Steam to reach over 1 million concurrent players. Not only that, but the Diablo-like MMO has now surpassed DOTA 2 to become one of the most played games in the entire history of Steam. Originally Lost Ark, a free-to-play ARPGMMO, was released ...
Screenshot: Triple Topping / Kotaku There exists within the indie gaming world a vocabulary that few can capture faithfully. It’s that bespoke patois that can be found in A Night In The Woodsin Oxenfreein A Short Hike. None sounds the same as the other, and yet all have that same cadence, a truthfulness about their ...
gif: Techland / Ashes Wolf / Kotaku Dying Light 2 is a massive games, with tons of little nooks and crannies in which to find treasure. One such hidey-hole squirrels away a blueprint for the Left Finger of gloVa, a powerful piece of equipment that lets players kill zombies simply by pointing at them. As ...
image: OlliOlli World The first two OlliOlli games were great, but developers Roll7 have really outdone themselves with the third entry in the series, OlliOlli World, which is out this week. While the first two games had a crisp, clean art style, the third game has turned into a living cartoon, with gorgeous character design ...
dying light 2, Techland’s latest open-world zombie RPG has been officially released on most major platforms. You’re probably playing it right now. But maybe you’ll get your ass handed out in the early levels like I did when I started the game on normal instead of easy. No problem. There are several ways to gain ...
The dude falling? That’s me. The dude kicking? That’s it Dying Light 2‘s Normal difficulty.image: Techland Video games can be hard at times. They require accuracy, attentiveness, dexterity, and above all, patience. So playing on Normal isn’t always an option, especially if you’re rusty in a particular genre or have a disability that impedes your ...
image: Yacht Club Games / Kotaku Yacht Club Games is working on a new project which, for the first time in the indie studio’s history, has nothing to do with Shovel Knight. It’s called Mina the Hollower, it’s a retro homage to Game Boy classics like Link’s Awakening, and in a weird twist, Yacht Club ...
M’Lordsimage: Crusader Kings III the Crusader Kings series has long supported same-sex relationships in certain forms, but thanks to the way so many games were built around historical ideas of marriage and succession, players had to use mods if they wanted gay characters to be tethered. This was explained by developers Paradox last year after ...
