CategoriesNews GamingImage: Square Enix / Kotaku The release of a new Final Fantasy is always a massive event. Last year, PS5 owners were treated to the latest mainline entry in the iconic series of role-playing games from Square Enix, Final Fantasy XVI, and now PC players are finally getting in on the action. FF16—and its two […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Sega The new Sonic Lego sets were one of the many announcements made during this year’s Sonic Central stream. Sega showed off a lot in that presentation, so these sets went under the radar compared to things like the DC Comics collaboration and new looks at games like Sonic X Shadow Generations. But did […]
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CategoriesNews GamingTekken development chief Katsuhiro Harada has long dreamed of adding Kentucky Fried Chicken’s founder-turned-mascot Colonel Sanders to the long-running fighting game. But according to Harada, KFC isn’t interested in the crossover. And it seems unlikely that you’ll get a Waffle House stage, either. Please, Game Developers, Stop It With The Killmonger Swoop Already Over the […]
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CategoriesNews GamingHow do you follow up on some of the most critically acclaimed games of the past decade? Many thought that Nintendo couldn’t surpass the sheer open-world wonder and physics toy-box creativity that made The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild such a revelation. However, Nintendo seemed to do just that with Tears of the […]
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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Team Asobi / Sony / Kotaku During today’s State of Play, Sony confirmed that Astro Bot’s previously announced free DLC will be arriving later this fall. The DLC will add new bots, including characters from Helldivers and Stellar Blade, as well as new levels. What’s Coming Out Beyond Pokémon: The Indigo Disk | The […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Neowiz Ever since FromSoftware released the action RPG Demon Souls in 2009, the rest of the video game industry has been (lovingly) copying it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as the saying goes. Amongst a wealth of solid takes on the genre, last year’s dark fantasy title Lies of P stands out […]
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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 GamingScreenshot: Kotaku / Team Asobi / Sony I cried at the end of Astro Bot. I recognize this isn’t indicative of much beyond my sentimentality, but I thought it was a crucial tidbit to underscore something else, something important about PlayStation’s excellent new platformer. It really is, more than anything else, a celebration of the […]
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CategoriesNews GamingImage: Nintendo The weird drip-feed of information about Nintendo’s fall Switch line-up continues with a bunch of new details and combat trailers for Mario & Luigi: Brothership. The latest entry in the long-running RPG-lite adventure series will have the titular plumbers exploring a new set of islands and using powerful new “Brother Attacks” to defeat […]
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CategoriesNews GamingCapcom’s ambition to bring some of its big-hitting AAA games to mobile devices is certainly to be applauded. It’s a bold ambition, to see Resident Evil 7 on a tablet. So it’s a shame the project has been pretty disastrous, the games barely shifting any copies. And Capcom’s reaction? Make it far, far more inconvenient […]
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