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 GamingThis week saw the classic shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament, with publisher Epic’s blessing, made permanently free and accessible via the Internet Archive. Meanwhile, Blizzard held a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, at which it revealed that the first two games in the RTS series have been remastered and are now available in a […]
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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 GamingParty Animals is one of the titles that regularly crops up during my friends and I’s game nights. Much like Gang Beasts before it, Party Animals is a floppy, comedic party game where a bunch of animals throw hands on increasingly ludicrous arenas, like a submarine that begins to descend into the ocean, or a […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed Shadows was supposed to be out next month. Ubisoft announced last week that the open-world RPG would be pushed to February 25 thanks to “soft” Star Wars Outlaws sales. The team says it will be using lessons learned to improve the game with those additional months, but what are you supposed […]
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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: Ubisoft / Lucasfilm Some early missions in Star Wars Outlaws require precise and careful sneaking, but the game doesn’t always play along. The issues have been frustrating many players, and Ubisoft knows it, and is planning to fix the problem and make it less “unfair.” Why This Under-the-Radar AAA Title Is More Than Just […]
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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 GamingUbisoft’s big Call of Duty-like FPS, XDefiant, might only have until Season 3 to turn things around, increase its player count, and start making more money or the publisher could end post-launch updates and effectively kill the FPS. This Modern Warfare 3 Gameplay Feature Spices Up A Weak Campaign Developed by Ubisoft San Francisco, XDefiant […]
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