screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku This month’s serving of PlayStation Plus games is as stuffed as a Thanksgiving turkey. A little seasonal analogy for you, um. Anyhow, it looks like it’s going to be a fantastic month for fans of a variety of popular game series. The new multiplayer maps in the Halo Infinite Winter ...
screenshot: Santa Monica Studios/Sony/Kotaku In most video games, the main character is simply expected to run around breaking pots and rummaging through every locked chest in the never-ending hunt for more loot. This has been a running joke among gamers for as long as I can remember, and most of the time people in-game don’t ...
screenshot: Konami / oct0xor / Kotaku I am obliged to report this Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is over 20 years old. I might not want to think about it, but here we are. The original visual aesthetic has a wonderful PS2 era charm that I think has become quite endearing in its ...
photo: Charlie Triballeau / AFP (Getty Images) Yesterday Hideo Kojima went to his Spotify podcast to talk about the Blue Box Game Studios controversy. He said fans were still pestering him about the unfounded rumors that he was working on a new Silent Hill game and that he had nothing to do with the studio. ...
Male, female and cool hat. All genders are considered. screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku It shouldn’t be a big request from gamers to have more gendered pronoun options in a video game, especially RPGs. A producer at Square Enix feels helping gamers feel welcome by including non-binary pronouns is such a small request that making ...
screenshot: Square Enix / Kotaku Two weeks ago, Square Enix released a new story trailer for its upcoming RPG. Final Fantasy XVI. There’s just one noticeable problem – there doesn’t seem to be a single non-white character in it. So IGN asked producer Naoki Yoshida about whether or not the game would feature black people ...
picture: SegaSoft | my box In the mid-’90s, with the Saturn bombing and the video game landscape changing rapidly, Sega rolled the dice and made some risky bets. One of which was, um, pouring $3 million into the development of an adult-oriented FMV game called Sacred Pools this was so bad that it ended up ...
gif: Horror Cam Committee / Kotaku Sometimes the scariest is not a giant monster or an army of zombies. Instead, it can be something so believable and uncomplicated that it feels like it could happen to you one day. Take, for example, a new trailer for an upcoming bodycam horror game that’s going viral online. ...
Can I uhhhh… get a happy ending?illustration: Square Enix When a game’s online servers are down, players typically don’t get a chance to step out in a confident glow of glory before the final dawn arrives. But then again, most games don’t have the bizarre kidney Creator, Yoko Taro, as its director. The game in ...
screenshot: Sony Santa Monica | The upcoming God of War Ragnarokone of the biggest PlayStation games of the year, isn’t due out until November 9, but over the past 24 hours video and social media sites have been inundated with clips of people playing their way through the entire game. We wrote a similar story ...
