picture: XCOM legends The XCOM Games are known for their challenging tactics, squad management, and bullshit shooting percentages, so it’s surprising (or really, not at all surprising) that 2K is releasing a new mobile game that has absolutely none of these traits. XCOM legends, developed by Iridium Starfish, was “soft launched” on Android phones in ...
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deal with a single burning question. Then we ask for your admission. At first there were rumors of a Nintendo Switch Pro being in the announcement of the Switch OLED. Some fans fueled by speculation were disappointed. Enter valve. Valve, manufacturer of ...
picture: Company of Heroes 3 I have strong feelings for the classic real-time strategy game from Relic Society of Heroes. I’ve gone so far as to call it the “perfect RTS”.. So yeah, the news today that a third game is imminent was both a big surprise and a pleasant one. If you’ve never played ...
Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness sure looks like a BioWare game. It’s not because BioWare hasn’t developed BioWare games in centuries. This is indeed being done by a small team, but when it goes into Early Access next month it will appear to be telling real-time battles, a range of companions, and over 300,000 words ...
picture: Double fine In the original Psychonauts, released in 2005, you visit nearly a dozen mental worlds. These are large levels set in the psyche of various characters and enemies. Many of these worlds are creative and fun to explore. But some are terrible. (I’m looking at you meat circus ..) I played through recently ...
Hotline Miami is actually available on the switch. So if you want to play the real game, you’re welcome, but just for today let’s check out this killer recreation of the game by yeddow333 with Nintendo’s new game creation suite, Game Builder Garage. It is very good! It’s instantly recognizable, and although of course compromises ...
picture: Doinksoft / Devolver Digital / Kotaku Devolver Digital returned to E3 2021 with another polarizing look into his bizarre offices. The company has shown itself between the sketches and the oaths Demon thrush, a new Switch game from Gato Roboto Developer Doinksoft. The turn? It is only available as a physical purchase. Yes, you’ve ...
picture: Nvidia DLSS, a technology I don’t want to understand because then it won’t feel like magic anymore, was previously only availabley for people who play windows games. Thanks to some work from Valve and Nvidia, that should change. How The edge report, Nvidia announced last week that it is working with Valve to bring ...
Screenshot: Cinder cone / modern wolf Earlier today, I tweeted explain that for some crazy reason Kotaku left me behind the wheel of their website today and asked my followers to post AAA news to fill in the awkward Monday-holiday-driven silence in the game world. Turns out they don’t know what Triple-A means, but what ...
picture:: Valve It seems like only yesterday when Valve announced a trilogy of expansions for its hugely popular 2004 PC game Half-life 2. But it actually happened that way 15 years since Episode 3 got introduced. And while Valve has since released a new one Half a life Game, it wasn’t what the developer announced ...
