If foam starsSquare Enix splatoon-style party game pitting two teams of four against each other in a giant foam battle announced on the PlayStation game showcase wasn’t sure what to expect. Was that fair? splatoon in PlayStation exclusive form? How was the gameplay? Would it be fun? The stylish cel-shaded skating shooter Rollerdrome seems like ...
quantum fracture, Remedy Entertainment’s ambitious 2016 video game/TV series hybrid, is back on Xbox Game Pass after a brief removal from digital stores due to a licensing issue. That’s good news, especially if you want to see a great performance from Lance Reddick. Oshi No Ko is an early contender for Anime of the Year ...
Picture: Epic Games The International Committee of the Red Cross has partnered with a number of Twitch streamers to encourage gamers not to commit war crimes in popular shooters like call of Duty. The ICRC hopes its Play by the Rules event will enlighten players on the statutes of actual war. The organization even created ...
Picture: Respawn / Kotaku No two battle royale matches are the same. Clever, spontaneous tactics born from the generative clash of different skill levels, map layouts, and random items, weapons, and vehicles can lead to theatrical levels of epic and hilarious—often both at the same time. So it only fits during my cityWeek of Battle ...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds assumed a mod for a zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2) to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action films Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students out to kill each other until only one remains. It’s a ...
Microsoft’s $69 billion deal Buying Activision Blizzard came closer on Friday in big steps. UK regulators issued a preliminary finding that the acquisition would not harm competition, despite previously indicating the Xbox maker would need to spin off the call of Duty shop to have the sale approved. The British competition and market surveillance authority ...
Picture: Capcom Last week, Capcom has released a demo for its upcoming remake the classic third-person horror game from 2005, Resident Evil 4. And while the demo is fairly small, fans have found a hidden weapon and other secrets tucked away in this little teaser of what’s to come later this month. I jumped at ...
Picture: Kojima Productions If you want more: Games about traveling across the United States, stealth action, intense storytelling, real-time item and resource management, daddy sims (no, not like that, my goodness)Notable Differences: A sometimes incomprehensible plot, longer periods of silence and travel, open-world structure, less emphasis on gunplayAvailability: Windows (Steam Deck OK), PS4, PS5 If ...
Picture: HBO/Kotaku It seems I was too quick to judge HBO The last of us. While the first four episodes certainly caught my eye as a well-written and delightfully shot prestige television, I was a little disappointed as the adaptive process of turning the game into a show has so far failed to recreate certain ...
screenshot: cheeky dog If you’ve been wondering why critically acclaimed Sony studio Naughty Dog has been so silent about its current projects lately, the reason seems to be that it’s more focused on maintaining a manageable work-life balance for the wants to focus his employees. Co-President Neil Druckmann interviewed Comicbook.comsaid that announcing games too early ...
