CategoriesNews GamingBack in 2003, before Halo 2 launched, Bungie showcased a gameplay demo that featured Master Chief on Earth fighting aliens. This level, known online as Earth City, didn’t ship with the retail game in 2004, as it was a highly scripted demo created for E3. But now, 20 years later, you’ll soon be able to […]
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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: 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 GamingImage: Activision Another annual Call of Duty is out in the wild, and fans have quickly found something to complain about in multiplayer: respawn issues. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are running into all sorts of problems, from apparent spawn camping to getting put into matches and immediately killed before they even have […]
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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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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Blizzard It’s the 20th Anniversary of World of Warcraft, and Blizzard’s long-standing fantasy MMORPG is celebrating with, among other things, an extremely luxe mount. Say hello to the Gilded Brutosaur, which will cost you $90. That’s more than Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, or roughly the equivalent of six months of subscription game […]
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CategoriesNews GamingToday’s news that Roblox is adding new child safety measures to the phenomenally popular game platform is certainly good to hear, but the nature of these scant changes reveals just how careless and callous the app has been for so many years, and how it continues to offer almost no protections for children. Why You’ll […]
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CategoriesNews GamingBlack Myth: Wukong may not technically be a soulslike game, but it shares a lot of DNA with the genre. That includes needing various upgrade materials, necessary for keeping your weapons in tip-top shape as you reach increasingly harder baddies. And for six particular sets of armor, the material you’ll need is silk. Silk armor? […]
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CategoriesNews GamingScreenshot: Bethesda When you first think of Prey, it might not immediately strike you as a horror game. That clean, empty space station, the tidy offices and their coffee mugs and whiteboards. But then at a certain point, those exact coffee mugs and whiteboards are suddenly sproinging to life as the twisted Mimics, and you’re […]
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