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Witcher Devs Announce New Single-Player Gwent Roguelike, Out Tomorrow
6.7.2022
One of my favorite things to do in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was chasing down card sharks to crush beneath my heel. Gwent, a fantasy card game within the world of The Witcher 3, was so satisfying that I would boot up the action RPG just to play a few rounds of it. I was positively thrilled when...
Splatoon 3 Special Edition Switch Looks Gorgeously Subtle
6.7.2022
It’s not a Switch Pro but it’ll do. Just in time for the ink shooter’s September launch, Nintendo is releasing a Splatoon 3-themed Switch OLED on August 26. It’ll go for $360, and if you haven’t already upgraded to the newer model, now might be the time, at least if you can manage to get your hands...
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle Is Free On Switch Right Now
6.7.2022
As its sequel looms, the crossover tactics hit Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is currently free on Nintendo Switch. It’s available to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers through July 12, Nintendo announced this week.Read more
She-Hulk's Arrival In Marvel's Avengers Leaked In Awkward Xbox Livestream Moment
6.7.2022
Marvel’s Avengers rarely seems to catch a break. Its latest snafu unfolded live on the official Xbox Twitch channel when a streamer accidentally let slip that She-Hulk will be added to the superhero loot game in the future. “I don’t know if I can say this,” said actor TechniqTV after spilling...
God Of War Ragnarök Release Date Finally Confirmed
6.7.2022
The long-awaited release date for God Of War Ragnarök has finally been confirmed by Sony. The next dadsim from Santa Monica Studio will be released on November 9 this year.Read more
Despite Backlash, Diablo Immortal Is Making A Million Dollars A Day
6.7.2022
In its first month of release Blizzard’s controversial new mobile game, Diablo Immortal, has racked up nearly $50 million in reported revenue across 10 million downloads. Even as debates and criticism swirled around the free-to-play RPG, data shows that the game has made at least $1 million a...
Ubisoft Is Axing 15 More Games’ Multiplayer This Fall
5.7.2022
Ubisoft recently announced that it would be ending support for the multiplayer aspect of several of its older titles, including Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and Far Cry 3. The publisher stated the move will help it focus its resources on more recent games. As of the time of publication, 15 games...
Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV Remasters Shelved After GTA Trilogy Debacle
5.7.2022
Following recent rumors, Kotaku can confirm via its sources that Rockstar Games is currently focused on developing Grand Theft Auto 6, and has shelved all remakes following the poor reception of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. Read more
Lollipop Chainsaw Is Revving Up For A Remake In 2023
5.7.2022
Hold onto your butts, because a remake of Suda51’s 2012 cult classic hack-and-slash zombie game, Lollipop Chainsaw, has been announced. Read more
Game Pass Is Now Officially A Revolving Door For Big Games
5.7.2022
If you didn’t beat them the first time around (fair, they’re huge), you now have a second chance. Three of the best Yakuza entries are coming back to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service, alongside a handful of more family-friendly games. Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game Pass over the coming...
A Game So Good It Could Have Been Hexen III
4.7.2022
In the mood for a retro-style FPS, I dug around the new releases on Steam, and poked at a few, not really clicking. Until, that is, I found Hands Of Necromancy, and then played it all weekend. This is a Hexen-like FPS, with enormous, sprawling maps, a whole bunch of weapons, an array of enemy...
Watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' Opening Titles
4.7.2022
Rather than following the more traditional release schedule of repeatedly delaying the Cyberpunk anime for months at a time, until finally releasing it long before they’ve finished coloring it in, Netflix has instead opted to have Cyberpunk: Edgerunners come out on time. And to celebrate this...
10 Unknown Indie Games To Wishlist Right Away
4.7.2022
Welcome! It’s that most famous of national holidays, Indie Penance Day! The day on which major gaming websites attempt to make up for their AAA coverage by dedicating space to unknown indies. Any gaming site you see not joining in both hates indie developers, and America. Not us though, so read...
Every Single English-Language SNES Manual Is Now Available Online
4.7.2022
Back in October 2020 I did a feature on a project that was trying to find every Super Nintendo manual in existence, scan them and upload them onto the internet. I’m happy to report that, as of July 2022, the project has now completed a significant—and for many of you reading this it’s...
Summer Games Done Quick Raises Over $3 Million For Charity
4.7.2022
Summer Games Done Quick, a charity speedrun marathon that was back with an in-person event for the first time in a few years, was held between June 26-July 3 in Bloomington, Minnesota. And at the end of the week, once all the runs were done, the event had raised an enormous $3 million...
KOTOR 2 Is Officially Fixed For Real Now, Kinda Sorta
1.7.2022
Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Switch port of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords announced that it’s finally fixed a game-breaking bug that had previously rendered the game impossible to finish. Read more
Bethesda Keeps Hiring The Fans Creating Fallout: London
1.7.2022
Fallout: London looks great! It honestly could pass as a real, official expansion if you showed it to someone who had no idea it was a fan-created mod. And apparently the company behind Fallout, Bethesda, agrees that London looks marvelous because it keeps hiring up the ambitious mod’s...
Netflix’s New Heavy Metal Fantasy Anime Is Unapologetically Horny And That's OK
1.7.2022
When I first watched Netflix’s new anime Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, I expected a melodramatic anime series along the lines of Record of Lodoss War. What I got was an unapologetically horny show about a wizard and his ever-growing harem of big-haired anime waifus. I loved every second...
Let’s Remember How Amazing 2002 Was For Video Games
1.7.2022
When people talk about the “best” year in gaming, they typically trot out the usual suspects: 2007 (Assassin’s Creed! Mass Effect! Halo 3!), 2013 (The Last of Us! GTA V!), 2017 (Horizon Zero Dawn! That other open-world game!). Allow us to posit that one of the best years in gaming happened exactly...
PlayStation Studio Refreshingly Honest About What It Isn't Working On
1.7.2022
Video game companies are notoriously cagey about sharing their plans. In a market saturated with sequels and spin-offs, developers nevertheless treat every new project with extreme secrecy. They’ll rarely even be up-front about what they aren’t working on, but today the PlayStation studio behind...