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We’re Getting More Hyper Light Drifter, Be Still My Beating Heart
1.4.2022
It’s been nearly nine years since the evocative pixel-art action RPG Hyper Light Drifter first took my breath away in its Kickstarter teaser. Now developer Heart Machine has a successor planned and it’s just around the corner. It’s called Hyper Light Breaker, it will be 3D instead of top-down,...
Loop Hero's Developers Tell Russian Players To Pirate Their Game
30.3.2022
Four Quarters, the developer behind the highly regarded deck-building roguelike Loop Hero, is encouraging players to pirate its game if they can’t find any legal means of purchasing it amid the ongoing sanctions placed on Russia after its military invasion of Ukraine. Read more
A Few Hours In, I Can Tell Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Will Destroy My Free Time
25.3.2022
The best thing I can say about Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is that I regret starting it.Read more
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Reviews Say D&D Trappings Don’t Change The Borderlands Core
24.3.2022
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands takes Gearbox’s loot shooter series out for a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired spin. Does it work? Critics are split. The consensus appears to be that, for better and for worse, it’s more Borderlands. Shocking, I know! But it sounds like there are also enough new tricks...
Asahi Linux je první „jiný“ operační systém, který lze nativně nainstalovat na Macy s čipem Apple M1
23.3.2022
S příchodem prvních zařízení s čipem Apple M1 nastal problém, že na těchto strojích nebylo možné nativně provozovat jiný operační systém než předinstalovaný macOS. Jedinou možností byla virtualizace například přes Parallels. Po měsících vývoje se však objevil první veřejně dostupný operační systém,
Gorgeous Zelda-Like Tunic Is Exactly What I Needed Right Now
17.3.2022
In Tunic you wake up as a fox on a colorful, isometric shore. Walk for a little bit and you’ll find some monsters. Go in a cave and you’ll find a stick with which to fend them off. Venture a bit further and you’ll find a maze of rocks, broken bridges, and other obstacles to navigate in search...
Far: Changing Tides Is Your Next Under-The-Radar Game Pass Gem
16.3.2022
The past two months have been defined by massive, sprawling adventures that sap all of your free time (and part of your soul). As a result, this week, I’ve found myself gravitating toward a tighter, more focused game, Okomotive’s Far: Changing Tides.Read more
The Art Of Total War: Warhammer III
16.3.2022
Total War: Warhammer III had its highs and its lows, but one thing it got right throughout was its visuals, with a vibrant colour palette and imposing unit design truly doing the source material justice. So it’s a pleasure tonight to showcase some of the illustration and character work that went...
Valve Open To Having Game Pass Come To Steam
26.2.2022
Game Pass is currently one of the best deals in gaming. For $15 a month you get access to a rotating list of 100s of games, from small indies like Unpacking to big blockbusters like Halo: Infinite. You can play them on Xbox or PC, or stream them just about anywhere else. Valve CEO Gabe Newell...
The Steam Deck Compatibility Test vs 810 Steam Games
24.2.2022
Valve just released a new feature that lets you sign into Steam and check to see how many of the games in your library will run on the new Steam Deck handheld. I’ve ended up with a lot of games over my time in this job, from all kinds of genres and eras, so figured running the test on them might...
Square Enix Is Impossible To Please
22.2.2022
The Guardians of the Galaxy have a new foe: lofty publisher expectations. The interstellar misfit band’s latest outing, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, underperformed unstated sales targets, according to a recent financial filing from publisher Square Enix.Read more
Linux na počítačích Apple s čipem M1? Český programátor k tomu vyvíjí ovladač
17.2.2022
Asahi Linux je projekt, jak dostat tento operační systém na počítače Apple s ARM čipy Apple Silicon. Český vývojář k tomu píše zvukový ovladač
Crusader Kings III Is Even Better In 2022
17.2.2022
I reviewed Crusader Kings III in August 2020 and was about as glowing as I have ever been about a video game here on Kotaku.com. Yet having previewed it, then played it to death for review, when I was done I put the game down and haven’t been back to it since. Read more
Mods Accused of Bitcoin Mining, Viruses Removed From Steam
15.2.2022
Over the last few days, a series of mods for the PC strategy game Cities: Skylines have been removed from Steam after users began fearing that they contained all kinds of nasty stuff, from keyloggers to viruses to bitcoin mining software.Read more
Total War: Warhammer III: The Kotaku Review
14.2.2022
I remember putting on record back in 2016 how I thought Creative Assembly’s pivot to Warhammer games was a bad idea. How “seeing the series walk away from the real world was a blow”, and that “This isn’t even the good Warhammer. It’s the dorky medieval one”. Read more
Lost Ark Is Now The Third Most Played Game In Steam History
12.2.2022
Lost Ark has become one of the very few games in Steam history to reach over 1 million concurrent players. Not only that, but the Diablo-like MMO has now surpassed DOTA 2 and has become the third most popular and played game in the entire history of Steam. Read more
One Of The Best Games Of 2020 Comes To Switch Today
10.2.2022
There exists within the indie gaming world a vocabulary that few can capture faithfully. It’s that bespoke patois that can be found in A Night In The Woods, in Oxenfree, in A Short Hike. None sounds the same as the other, and yet all have that same cadence, a truthfulness about their dialogue that...
OlliOlli World Is A Very Sick Skateboard Nerd’s Fantasy
9.2.2022
It’s been seven years since OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood, Roll7's 2015 skateboarding platformer. The skateboarding genre has seen some stellar releases in that time, including the highly customizable Session, Skater XL, and the remastered bundle Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2. There’s also last...
Secret Dying Light 2 Blueprint Gives Players A Lethal Finger Gun
8.2.2022
Dying Light 2 is a massive game, with tons of little nooks and crannies in which to find treasure. One such hidey-hole squirrels away a blueprint for the Left Finger of gloVa, a powerful piece of equipment that lets players kill zombies simply by pointing at them.Read more
Minecraft Was Getting Too Easy, So These Players Made Their Own Galactic Challenge
8.2.2022
It’s no secret that Minecraft is a game of infinite possibilities. It is this open-endedness that allowed the game to achieve the ultimate gamer status of being, quite literally, the best-selling video game in history. In Minecraft, your imagination is the only limitation. With this in mind,...