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I Can't Stop Watching Marvel Rivals' Anime-Ass Launch Trailer
2.12.2024
I have had a sudden surge of excitement for Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s swing at a superpowered hero shooter akin to Overwatch. Is it because the game is a few days away from launching on December 6? Could it be because it’s a game my friends and I might actually play together after almost all of them...
A Very Good Star Wars Game You Might Have Missed Is Coming To PC Soon
26.11.2024
Earlier this year, Star Wars: Hunters landed on mobile devices and Switch. The free-to-play third-person hero shooter was a very fun and good game that was trapped on mobile devices. Well, except for Switch, but that port wasn’t great. Now, Hunters is finally making the leap to PC, alongside some...
Get Through Insufferable Family Time This Thanksgiving With These Mobile Games
24.11.2024
If you’ve got a big family but very little to talk to them about, the holidays can see you go from happy to helpless real quick. What are you to do when Thanksgiving dinner is two hours late and you’ve run out of small talk with that one uncle from out of town who may or may not have voted for...
Overwatch 2’s New Tank Hero Looks Like An Absolute Menace
22.11.2024
Overwatch 2’s newest tank hero, Hazard, is officially launching next month when the shooter’s 14th season starts, but you can take him for a spin from now until November 25. Just before the test period began, Blizzard released the first footage of Hazard in action and a breakdown of the Scottish...
Brighter Shores, As Told By Steam Reviews
21.11.2024
There aren’t too many MMORPGs that you can just throw up on a second monitor in the background while you watch Crunchyroll or zone out to your favorite podcast about foreign baking competitions. Most require your input as you quest, grind mobs, and run dungeons with random players you’ll never...
The 'Bloodiest' Episode Of Amazon's Secret Level Is Based On....Pac-Man?
20.11.2024
It’s times like this when I realize nothing from my childhood is sacred, not even Pac-Man’s innocent maze travels. According to an exclusive Entertainment Weekly interview with Tim Miller, creator of the upcoming Amazon animated series Secret Level, his new show will deliver what could be...
A Surprise Mobile Version Of Final Fantasy XIV Raises A Ton Of Questions
20.11.2024
After more than a decade on PC and console, Final Fantasy XIV is coming to smartphones. Square Enix’s hit MMO revealed a mobile version this week that has the potential to bring millions of new players into the rich RPG world of Hydaelyn. It also raises a lot of questions about just how exactly...
Here's Your First Look At Overwatch 2's New Tank Hero, Hazard (And You Can Play Him Soon)
19.11.2024
The impending arrival of Overwatch 2’s next tank hero has been teased through graffiti in the game’s Oasis map since the beginning of its ongoing 13th season. Now, we finally have our first look at Hazard, the 42nd hero in the shooter’s roster, and he’ll be playable briefly this weekend for those...
The Closest Thing We Have To Destiny: Classic Is Now Cheaper Than Ever
15.11.2024
Ten years later, the original Destiny is still around and kicking, and it won’t cost you much to dip your toes back into the old-school Bungie looter shooter. The price for all of Destiny 1's DLC and expansions in one simple package is currently just $20. Read more
Blizzard Working On Open-World Shooter And It Might Be Starcraft-Related
15.11.2024
A new job listing from Blizzard seems to indicate that the studio behind Warcraft and Overwatch might be working on an open-world shooter and based on past reports, it might be a Starcraft FPS led by a veteran Far Cry developer. Read more
Overwatch Classic Has Players Once Again Killing Each Other With A Basketball
14.11.2024
Overwatch 2 is running a limited-time event called Overwatch Classic that reverts the game to its original roster, rulesets, and hero kits. It’s miserable to go back to, especially if you have no nostalgia for Overwatch as it existed in 2016. However, it is bringing back some old meme-y strategies...
These Two Classic Shooters Just Became Completely Free, Forever
14.11.2024
Epic, now primarily known for Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, has given permission for two of the most significant video games ever made, Unreal and Unreal Tournament, to be freely accessed via the Internet Archive. As spotted by RPS, via ResetEra, the OldUnreal group announced the move on their...
Overwatch Players, Y’all Lived Like This In 2016?
13.11.2024
I started playing Overwatch in 2019. By the time I was pushing payloads and getting Play of the Game with a well-placed Tactical Visor, a lot of the old hero kits and team compositions that were infamous when the hero shooter launched in 2016 were more like cautionary tales for relative newbies....
Classic RTS Games Warcraft and Warcraft 2 Fully Remastered And Out Now
13.11.2024
Blizzard has announced that the original Warcraft and Warcraft 2, as well as its expansions, are being remastered and re-released as part of a new Battle Chest. This new package also includes Warcraft 3 Reforged, which has received a new update improving its visuals. And all of this is available...
Blizzard Announces Overwatch Classic As A Limited-Time Event, Brings Back 6v6 And More
11.11.2024
Welp, Blizzard is doing it. They’re releasing an Overwatch Classic that will revert Overwatch 2 to some of the old rulesets, hero kits, and more that have been patched out of the sequel since it launched in 2022. As Overwatch 2 has failed to deliver on Blizzard’s many promises for it since...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Six Games For Election Week Escapism
8.11.2024
What a week, huh? Yeah. Well, here we are, at the end of it, at the very least, and now looking toward the future. So how about some video games to take our minds off things for the weekend? This week we’ve got some fun shooters, some beat ‘em up action, and a digital spin on a classic trading card...
Is Blizzard Teasing An Overwatch ‘Classic’?
8.11.2024
Overwatch 2 has been in such a rough spot as of late that it’s impossible to not be nostalgic for the original game’s heyday. The sequel hasn’t panned out the way Blizzard promised after it reportedly canceled the story campaign that was the whole point of a sequel. So it’s easy to look at all...
Diablo 4: Be At One With Your Violent Nature With These Druid Builds
7.11.2024
Druids were first introduced in Diablo II and they’ve been a dynamic class since then. With nature magic, lycanthropy, and beast companions, Druids have tons of build options to satisfy many playstyles. In this guide, I will show you how to run both a hybrid companion/Storm spell caster build and...
Terrible Borderlands Movie Still Helped Sell More Games
7.11.2024
The Borderlands movie arrived in 2024, after years in development, only to rake in $15 million at the domestic box office. It was an epic flop, only overshadowed later on went Joker: Folie à Deux went “hold my beer” and failed even more spectacularly. At least with Borderlands, there was a video...
Wake Up To Hell: Someone Got Doom Running On Nintendo's Alarm Clock
5.11.2024
Once again, someone has taken a device that was never intended to play Doom and, with some tinkering, gotten it to do exactly that. This time around, someone has got Id Software’s classic and forever popular FPS running on a Nintendo Alarmo, providing us with possibly one of the worst ways to play...