Picture: GOG When Good Old Games launched in 2008, DRM was the biggest issue for PC gamers. Digital Rights Management throttled video games, causing official, paid games to perform far worse than pirated versions, and it was a whole horrible mess. Good Old Games was founded at CD Projekt's studios in Poland as a store ...
The Crimson Diamond looks and plays like something from 1988, an adventure game with beautiful, vibrant EGA graphics and a text parser interface. Yes, this means you actually have to type things like “look” and “open door,” a thought that may cause some potential players to roll their eyes, but it’s actually great! The game ...
Screenshot: The Game Awards / Kotaku Eyes was a 2006 Game of the Year winner, but never achieved sales success in line with its critical acclaim. Then it's fitting, if still completely crazy, that there is a sequel Legend of Zelda-inspired adventure game would be announced at this year's Game Awards. A musical medley on ...
We’re approaching the end of the year, a time for big game releases, catching up on older games, and a chance to treat yourself to luxury shopping as the holiday rush approaches. Here’s one of my favorite ways to save on new Nintendo Switch games, a deal so good I’m surprised at how notoriously stingy ...
GIF: Kotaku / Various Publishers In the last 20 yearsA lot has changed in the video game industry. Online multiplayer live service games are becoming more and more popular, 2D platformers have become rarer, console games based on movies aren’t really a thing anymore, and there are a lot more remasters out there. However, not ...
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is one of the most ambitious games Nintendo has ever made, a worthy successor to the base game Breath of the Wild. Both titles are veritable textbooks in modern game design – and like any other textbook, they rarely if ever fall below their full retail price. ...
After the release of there was a slight feeling of disappointment The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. It’s a very good game, of course, but perhaps a few steps away from the greatness we’ve come to expect from the series. Its new, indirect style of play, in which Zelda conjures echoes of objects and ...
Picture: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom finally makes the titular princess the playable star of the show. After a short prologue as Link, players leave the hero of time behind and experience a completely new Zelda adventure. However, a player recently discovered that there is a way to continue playing as Link, ...
Princess Zelda has a huge toolbox The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. With a wand, she can summon perfect copies of anything from a household pot to a living, moving monster to fight for her. These objects, called Echoes, help her navigate the terrain and fight villains. And while it’s not a master sword, ...
How do you follow up on some of the most critically acclaimed games of the last decade? Many thought Nintendo couldn’t top the sheer open-world wonder and creativity of the physics toybox that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – a revelation. However, Nintendo seemed to do just that with Tears of the ...
