Screenshot: Blizzard/Kotaku It’s time once again for the hiker to suit up and go on a dungeon crawl. This time in the new Vessel of hate Extension for Diablo IVyou are on the hunt for the poor, tormented Neyrelle in the hateful lands of Nahantu. As much as I’d like to tell you that there’s ...
Picture: Asobo Studio / Flying Boar / Kotaku A new month and a new year are upon us, and that means updates to the PlayStation Plus catalog. January 2024 begins with three new games available to download for Premium, Extra and Essential members starting January 2nd, plus some extras if you’re a space ninja. -Claire ...
Picture: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku PokémonPikachu and Friends’ profit margins probably don’t reflect this, but the franchise has had a rough year in 2023. Without a new lead game to dominate the series’ headlines, Pikachu and Friends has instead been surrounded by controversy for the past 12 years Months. Between Pokémon Go It angers ...
True confession: While I admire and enjoy it Undertalethe extremely influential year 2015 Indie RPG Although dealing with conflict peacefully is rewarded, I never really managed to complete the game pacifistically. That’s because I’m getting on my nerves with the bulletproof combat, which requires lightning-fast reflexes and near-perfect memorization in its lengthy and brutal boss ...
The latest in the legendary series of Japanese RPGs, Final Fantasy XVI has a very different tone in both story and combat. And with an extensive story covering complex fictional political storylines, it can all be a little overwhelming. However, the good news is that it is final fantasy XVI comes with a range of ...
Wartales is currently in Early Access on Steam. It is developed by Shiro Games, the French studio behind the Viking RTS Northgard. And it took much my time this month. Blade’s Book Club is the best thing about Marvel’s Midnight Suns Lots going on inside Wartalesmany influences are lumped together and swirling around each other, ...
picture: Stormind games Video game marketing season is an exercise in duality. For each Sony state of affairs or Geoff Keigh3there is a lower key event—a day of developers, say, or a Devolver Digital Showcase. Today’s big one is the one-year-old Guerrilla Collective Livestream. Now in its third year, the Guerrilla Collective has nailed a ...
image: EA / Respawn You probably subscribed to Game Pass for the blockbusters. As far as deals go, it’s pretty good: the price of a brand new AAA game gets you several months’ access to a digital library of hundreds of games, many of which are random youngest make zeitgeist tent poles. But sometimes you ...
image: The Wandering Band When the Nintendo switch launched in 2017, it promised to marry console-quality games with the convenient portability of a handheld device. For the most part that promise has borne out, changing how we play games in ways both big and small. It’s certainly made air travel less tedious. Look, before we ...
