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Overwatch 2’s Avatar: The Last Airbender Collaboration Finally Gives An Underserved Hero A Skin
12.12.2024
After a brief tease at the end of its most recent trailer, Overwatch 2 has finally revealed the specifics of its Avatar: The Last Airbender collaboration. The event includes six skins for different heroes based on characters from the beloved animated series, but most importantly, it gives one hero...
Every Team-Up Attack In Marvel Rivals, Explained
11.12.2024
It certainly feels appropriate that a cooperative game based on superheroes and villains would let them work together to take out the opposition. Marvel Rivals takes that to heart with its Team-Ups mechanic, which allows certain character combinations to unlock stat boosts or even special...
Marvel Rivals: The Kotaku Review
10.12.2024
Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s shameless Overwatch-like featuring the heroes and villains that have captivated comic book readers and moviegoers for decades, is already at a crossroads. It’s less than a week old, but it’s clear even now that the decisions NetEase makes in the coming months will determine...
Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 4 Awesome Games To Get Cozy With
6.12.2024
Folks, it’s December. That means that unless you live in a part of the world where the weather is nice all the time (or you’re in, like, Australia), you’re likely doing your best to keep the frigid temperatures at bay. And hey, if you’re looking at a weekend of being stuck indoors, I can think...
11 Things To Know Before Starting Marvel Rivals
6.12.2024
Marvel Rivals is out now and free to play on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The hero shooter pretty shamelessly draws inspiration from Overwatch. As a result, NetEase’s swing at the genre feels like putting on a familiar glove to long-time players of Blizzard’s game. However, there are...
Overwatch 2 Teases Avatar: The Last Airbender Crossover
5.12.2024
We are hours away from the launch of one of Overwatch 2’s most promising competitors in Marvel Rivals. It makes sense, then, that Blizzard would choose this time to drop a new trailer for its hero shooter’s upcoming 14th season, presumably in an attempt to stop some of the bleed. The trailer...
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...
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We Can’t Wait To Dive Into
22.11.2024
Full transparency, readers, I’m not thinking much about video games this weekend. It is a weekend for movies and music. It’s Wicked weekend and, on top of that, Kendrick Lamar just dropped a whole album. But if, for some reason, you’re looking for something to do other than watch Ariana Grande...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
9 Of Our Favorite Halloween Gaming Updates To End Spooky Season
28.10.2024
The era of the Halloween-themed cartoon and sitcom episode has been replaced by the seasonal Halloween gaming event. Whether you like battle royales or car soccer, sci-fi shooting or life sim-ing, there’s plenty of scary game updates to partake in this year. If you’ve already picked up the best...
Overwatch 2 Is Bringing Back 6v6 Sooner Than Expected
24.10.2024
Overwatch 2 announced it was considering testing out a return to its original 6v6 format after swapping to its current, controversial 5v5 structure back when the sequel launched in 2022. Now, it sounds like that test is coming up sooner than originally expected, as Blizzard has announced it will...
The Best Weapons In Helldivers 2, The Must-Play Demos At Steam Next Fest, And More Tips For The Week
19.10.2024
Steam Next Fest is happening now, which means there are more demos for upcoming games available this weekend than you can possibly hope to play. We’re here to help, with recommendations for which demos you should absolutely give a shot before the festival ends. We’ve also got pointers on the best...
2K Reveals Colorful Hero Extraction Shooter That Already Feels Dated
17.10.2024
Today, 2K games and 31st Union finally revealed Project Ethos, the studio’s first game since it formed in 2019. And uh, it looks...well...have you ever played Overwatch? Or Fortnite? Then a lot of this will look familiar. Read more