CategoriesNews GamingImage: Xbox Today, Xbox hosted a partner showcase featuring over a dozen new trailers for a variety of third-party, non-Xbox-published video games. The event was only about 25 minutes long, so we admittedly didn’t expect much from the shorter third-party showcase, but we were pleasantly surprised with some new game reveals and cool-looking trailers. – […]
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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Blizzard / Kotaku It’s time, once again, for The Wanderer to suit up and go dungeon crawling. This time, in the new Vessel of Hatred expansion for Diablo IV, you’re in pursuit of poor, tormented Neyrelle in the Hate-ridden lands of Nahantu. Much as I’d like to tell you that there’s a nice handy […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Atlus Metaphor: ReFantazio is the latest RPG from the minds of the Persona. Like its predecessors, Metaphor is a dense game with lots to do and talk about, from its Archetype class system to Atlus’ maturation as storytellers. There’s even something to be said about how cool it is to skate on your sword. […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sony, BioWare, Xbox, Konami, Square Enix, René Rother / Devolver Digital, Screenshot: Larian Studios / Kotaku, Coal Supper / Kotaku, Sega / Kotaku, Sega / Kotaku It was quite the week in gaming, from impossible-to-secure pre-orders of the newly announced PS5 Pro, to huge sales on major Capcom and Xbox games, to confirmation about […]
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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Sucker Punch Productions / Kotaku, Konami / Kotaku, Sony / Kotaku, Sucker Punch / Sony / Kotaku, Sony / Kotaku, Aspyr / Crystal Dynamics, Image: EA / Fox / Disney / Kotaku, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Nintendo / GameWatch / Nomura Medias / Kotaku Sony held a State of Play showcase this week that showed off […]
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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Julia Minamata / Kotaku It’s 1913 and young Nancy Maple, an amateur geologist, travels from Toronto to the remote Canadian town of Crimson to investigate the discovery of a large diamond. However, things are more perilous than they initially seem, and before long our plucky heroine finds herself investigating an apparent murder instead. Released […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Capcom No, you’re not crazy. Summer is basically over, even if this godforsaken heat is hellbent on lingering for another few weeks. Kids are going back to school, hoodies and jackets are about to come back out, and I’m going to stay my ass indoors and start enjoying horror games and movies while staying […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Capcom “I wanna take you for a riiiide.” As a kid, I grew intimately familiar with the bouncy theme song for Marvel vs. Capcom 2. I’m sure most everyone has a story about this game, and here’s mine: my family could not afford a babysitter, despite the fact that my parents worked from sunrise […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Lucasfilm / Disney, Team17, BioWare, Sony, Square Enix / Yoshitaka Amano, Konami / Kotaku, Screenshot: Konami, Firewalk Studios / Sony / Kotaku, Photo: Wachiwit (Shutterstock) This week, we got a Nintendo Direct that was one part Indie World, one part partner showcase. We’ve got a roundup of every game featured in the 40-minute presentation. […]
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CategoriesNews GamingNintendo UK Play it on: SwitchCurrent goal: Discover the truth about a chilling crime I haven’t played either of the earlier Famicom Detective Club games, but the marketing around Emio — The Smiling Man was enough to seduce me into finally giving the series a shot with this, its first truly new entry in decades. […]
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