screenshot: Valve / Kotaku Half-Life: Alyx is great. One of the best virtual reality games I’ve ever played and one of my favorite games of 2020. It’s hard to improve on that. But a new Let’s Play series has found a way to make Valve’s VR hit even better: Add a really weird and annoying ...
image: Humble Bundle Humble Bundle has announced that Mac and Linux versions of games will be included in its Humble Trove Collection. will no longer be available to subscribers starting February. Today subscribers to Humble Bundle’s Humble Choice service receive an email They warn that they would soon lose access to Mac and Linux games ...
Screenshot: Techland Some games like Wortle and other indie titlesS., try to be smaller experiences that you play a few minutes or hours and then go. Dying light 2 is not one of those games. Iinstead of this, The folks behind the game are excitedly advertising that it will take players over 500 hours to ...
Levine looks back to try and see the last game he releasedphoto: Kotaku A Article appears on Bloomberg Today reported that industry veteran Ken Levine’s studio Ghost Story Games is not a happy place. Half of the company founders and many employees have left, and after eight years there is still no trace of game. ...
image: Square Enix / Crystal Dynamics Christmas may be over, but the Epic Games Store hasn’t finished giving away free gifts. His newest free game is indeed three free games all in one. You can go there until January 6th and grab the 2013 one Tomb Raider Reboot, the continuation of 2016 Rise of the ...
Screenshot: Double penalty / igamesnews Psychonauts 2 has a fairly large cast of characters big enough to expect some to be underdeveloped or forgotten. In reality, however, most are memorable and have time to shine, often with fully realized arcs that sometimes blend into other characters’ lives and journeys in comedic or dramatic ways. Better ...
PC, XB1, PS4, Switch One of the slightly more obvious inclusions on the list, but I feel like it’s being overlooked because it assumes it has something to do with it Minecraft. Okay yeah that’s it something to do with it, but only aesthetically. Instead, this is a top-down Diablo-ish brawler and one of the ...
Screenshot: Gog / CD Project / Kotaku For most gamers looking for the best prices on games they missed out on over the year, video game offerings have become a vacation tradition. And Gog.com has a few of them Kotaku‘s favorites from 2021, and past years, on sale until the new year. Gog has over ...
image: Zomboid project I remember playing Zomboid project–a game we covered for the first time 2011– almost a decade ago and really like it. A slow zombie survival simulation that gave players the chance to sneak around a city to stay alive in search of food and supplies while zombies tried to eat your face ...
Screenshot: Magical design studios Between “worldwide exclusive,” that “World premieres“, The celebrity guests, the musical performances, the uh, questionable musical performances, and the handful of actual rewards, last night’s four-hour screening The Game Awards 2021 was a lot. Amid the cacophony, you could easily have missed one of the coolest debuts of the evening: Have ...
