picture: dwarven fortress dwarven fortress is a game that has been around for the past two decades was both misunderstood and perhaps over-understood, a seemingly impenetrable exercise in crafting, survival, and terrifying graphics. And next month, a very different one dwarven fortress will be available on Steam. Because this is a chance to get a ...
picture: Square Enix Embracer Group hits both gamers and their developers with a double whammy today by announcing that they will be shutting down Onoma. Corresponding Bloomberg, staff at the recently rebranded Onoma studio were briefed on the closure during a meeting on Tuesday. About 200 employees are reported to be affected by the closure. ...
Travel the world while delivering packages… while traveling the world.picture: Kojima Productions / Kotaku The Director’s Cut of Hideo Kojima’s Weird 2019 Walkathon death stranding came to PC earlier this year. If you like this game and haven’t tried the advanced version yet, I highly recommend it. It’s by far the best version with an ...
picture: dwarven fortress dwarven fortress, A game that has been around forever and always will be, has never been the most inviting experience for the average, inquisitive gamer. Something the developers have finally decided to work on for the upcoming Steam release of the game. Write on the game’s store pageCo-creator Zach Adams says: Dwarf ...
screenshot: F2House When I was playing a dreamer‘s demo in June, I thought, this could be something special. It appeared to be a game about a failing game developer, presented using a combination of point-and-click and programming puzzles, but in an accessible way. And that’s it! Hooray! In fact, it’s far more beautiful, compelling, and ...
screenshot: Bethesda/Kotaku The way people judge their video games is varied, and few agree on solid rules for what really adds value to playtime. But one of the most controversial is certainly the length of a game. And now, “how long to beat” is a metric Microsoft just added to its PC version of the ...
Block building RPG Dragon Quest Builders 2 is “amazing,” wrote Jason Schreier a 2019 my box post. It has a somewhat ridiculous conceit – tragically its story description on Steam states: “Determined to eradicate all creators, the evil children of Hargon have outlawed the building, cooking and creation of all things.” So it’s fortunate that ...
The “BreenGrub”picture: David McGreavy / Valve / Kotaku Avid Valve fan and collector David McGreavy just shared a vast trove of unseen concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode Three and other unreleased Valve projects as part of its efforts to preserve this history for the future. Over a decade ago, Valve began releasing smaller episodic ...
picture: rollerdrom One of my favourites art Contributions of the Year was our showcase for OlliOlli worldso it’s with great pleasure that we can look at the art from Roll7’s latest game (rollerdromcoming out this week) so soon. We’ve checked out the game a few times on the site; It’s basically a deathmatch shooter that ...
