CategoriesNews GamingImage: Double Barrel Games / 6side Studio / Moonsaurus Games / VEA Games / Z. Bill / Kotaku Once upon a time, the United States of America would enjoy a holiday called “Thanksgiving.” However, over time, as culture shifted and the country changed, it eventually evolved into the day of celebration we now all know […]
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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 GamingReuters is reporting that Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa Corporation, the company that owns FromSoftware, Spike Chunsoft and many other Japanese businesses. If successful, it would be a big move for Sony, gaining names as big as Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Danganronpa, and be a strike back against Microsoft’s recent major purchases. […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Lego / Sony Two years after the Lego Tallneck was released, Sony has announced its second Horizon Zero Dawn crossover set with the toy brick company, and just in time for the launch of the abridged, Lego Horizon Adventures adaptation of the open-world RPG. The set is actually affordable, too. The Week In Games: […]
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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 GamingThe reason patent attorneys get paid so much money is that no one in their right mind would ever want to be a patent attorney. Thus, we can all nod and smile as if we understand as Palworld developers Pocketpair releases a statement about precisely which patents Nintendo is claiming the Pokémon-alike game is violating. […]
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CategoriesNews GamingLEGO Horizon Adventures is a kind of loose retelling of Horizon Zero Dawn, the 2017 PS4 open-world RPG, in a colorful, lighthearted LEGO world. It maintains the characters from the main series—Ashly Burch even reprises her role as main character Aloy—but the LEGO spin gives the whole experience a far more casual and family-friend vibe […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sony The Last of Us is prestige survival horror at its most cinematic and playable. Terrible things happen, and not just at the hands of fungus-infested zombies. If you’ve watched the HBO adaptation but never played the game, or played the game but only years ago and not the PlayStation 5 upgrade, it’s worth […]
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CategoriesNews GamingMultiplayer hero shooter Concord is possibly the biggest entertainment failure, ever. Not just in gaming, but all of entertainment, across all of time. A $400 million project that reportedly sold fewer than 25,000 copies, and never saw more than 700 people playing at once on Steam, pulled from sale and deleted from PS5s two weeks […]
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