CategoriesNews GamingImage: Mossmouth / Kotaku Amid UFO 50’s bounty of games from a fictional developer of the 1980s is Grimstone, a JRPG that’s aesthetically and mechanically akin to games of the era like the original Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest but that also distinguishes itself in some important ways. It eschews the fantasy settings that dominated […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sony, BioWare, Lucasfilm / Amazon / Team17 / Kotaku, Lego / Kotaku, NetEase / Papergames / MachineGames / Kotaku, Sony, Screenshot: BioWare / Kotaku, Microsoft, Warner Bros. Interactive, Koei Tecmo Games / Kotaku This week, holiday sales and giveaways are in full swing, and we’ve got the lowdown on all the games Amazon is […]
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CategoriesNews GamingIf you ask me, 2024 has been a fairly dire year for big, mainstream games. Of course there have been a few gems in that space, but most that I’ve played have felt overly safe, or focused on gameplay ideas that I don’t think are successful. Against this backdrop, however, some “smaller” games have really […]
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CategoriesNews GamingPhoto: @Xavier75 / X, Kevin Winter (Getty Images), Screenshot: FromSoftware, Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox, BioWare / Kotaku, Ubisoft / Kotaku, Image: Digital Foundry / Kotaku, Rockstar Games / Kotaku, Lego / Sony This week Geoff Keighley graced our phones and laptops to reveal which games will compete for honors at this year’s Game Awards. Games like […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Square Enix Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake may have beautiful, updated graphics, but the soul of this adventure is as old-school as ever. As one of the first tasks of your adventure, you’ll need to make your way over to Patty’s Party Planning Place to recruit three companions. Whether you choose to take along […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: MachineGames / Bethesda Hey, everything sucks right now. There’s no getting around it, and we’re going to have to live with the consequences of this shit for the rest of our lives. So, if you’re feeling angry about things, like say, the rise of fascism in America, why not grab the Wolfenstein games and […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sony, Sony / Kotaku, The Pokémon Company / Kotaku, Leikir Studio / Dotemu, Screenshot: BioWare / Kotaku, BioWare / Kotaku, The Pokemon Company / Kotaku We won’t belabor the point because if you’re a normal person with normal mutuals, chances are your timeline is already doing that—this week sucked, and so will the next […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: BioWare It took 10 years to get here, but we finally have Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the fourth entry in BioWare’s beloved (but divisive) fantasy RPG series. The sequel is a direct continuation of 2014’s Inquisition, and it’s made the full shift to action RPG. Your mileage may vary on that, but I loved […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sony, The Pokémon Company, Sony, Ubisoft, Arrowhead Game Studios / Kotaku, Bungie, Screenshot: Dr Disrespect / YouTube / Kotaku, Nintendo, Nintendo / Kotaku, Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (Getty Images) This week, people desperate for Nintendo to finally pull back the curtain on the successor to the Switch instead got an announcement that the acclaimed […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Atlus / Kotaku Like Persona before it, Metaphor: ReFantazio has a major limiting factor to discourage you from exploring too many dungeons in one sitting: MP (mana points). If you’re anything like me, you’ll get annoyed at how few opportunities there are to regain MP, particularly early in the game. MP fuels the most […]
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