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Epic Has No Plans To Stop Giving Away Free Games After Giving Away $2,229 Worth In 2024
14.2.2025
Every month you can go on the Epic Games Store and snag a usually pretty decent game for absolutely free. It’s not clear if this largesse is meaningfully moving the needle in the company’s battle to establish itself as a competitor to Steam, but it’s certainly a nice bonus. And after giving away...
How To Unlock The Best Metal Slug Tactics Weapon Mods
14.2.2025
Metal Slug Tactics is all about customization: choosing your characters, picking their loadouts, and then deciding which modifications you want to implement into their weapons. But not all mods are available from the beginning of the game.Read more
Obsidian Has Quietly Become Xbox's Secret Weapon
14.2.2025
In 2022, Obsidian Entertainment was the only first-party Xbox studio to ship a new game, Pentiment. And in 2025, the Microsoft-owned studio has already launched one big RPG, Avowed, and is set to release a second one, The Outer Worlds 2, later in the year. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now:...
Okami 2: 7 Small Details We Now Know About The Mysterious Sequel To A PS2 Cult Classic
14.2.2025
Okami 2 was one of the most surprising game reveals ever, as evidenced by the fact that host Geoff Keighley almost broke into tears when talking about it at The Game Awards 2024. But there’s still a ton we don’t know about the sequel to the beloved PlayStation 2 cult hit, including its official...
GTA Online Could Get Updates After GTA 6 If People Are Still Playing, Suggests Take-Two CEO
14.2.2025
While Grand Theft Auto Online is over a decade old at this point, and many players are likely ready to move on to this year’s Grand Theft Auto 6, Take-Two’s CEO suggests the aging online game might continue to get updates so long as enough people are still playing.Read more
Hyper Light Breaker Reveals Plan To Fix The Game After Early Access Blowback
14.2.2025
After years of hype and multiple delays, Hyper Light Breaker finally arrived in Early Access on Steam last month. At last, players were able to dig into its moody mashup of loot, extraction shooter, and roguelite elements, and what they found wasn’t great. From its grueling boss fights to haphazard...
Elden Ring Nightreign's First Network Test Isn't Going Well At All
14.2.2025
Elden Ring’s online co-op spin-off should be beginning its first big network test today, except it’s all gone rather wrong. Back in January, soon after the announcement of this three-player incarnation of FromSoftware’s adored soulslike, a series of three-hour-long testing blocks were scheduled...
A Black Hole Just Annihilated An Entire Planet In Helldivers 2 On Its Way To Super Earth
13.2.2025
Helldivers 2 is always changing. One day you might wake up to a new DLC adding aliens with mind control powers called the Illuminate. Another you might encounter a big patch that secretly adds shovels. Or you might load up the sci-fi shooter and immediately receive an evacuation order for Angel’s...
I Hope Every RPG Steals Avowed's Brilliant Inventory System
13.2.2025
Obsidian’s latest RPG, Avowed, is out now on Xbox and PC (for those who pre-ordered the expensive fancy version) and it’s a really good game! But one key thing I wanted to highlight is the RPG’s inventory and item management system because it’s really good and I want more games to copy it.Read more
The PS5's Future Is Full Of Sword-Swinging Action Games
13.2.2025
If you watched Sony’s February 12, 2025 State of Play showcase, you might have noticed that there are an awful lot of third-person, melee-based combat games on the horizon for PS5 (as well as Xbox and PC). Some are expected this year, while others are more likely to land in 2026. Read more
How To Unlock Every Metal Slug Tactics Weapon And Loadout
13.2.2025
Metal Slug Tactics is all about creating the perfect run, getting synergy going with all your characters, their weapons, and their modifications. You’ll choose your team at the beginning of every mission, but each character also has four loadouts available to them, so there’s a lot of potential...
15 Things To Know Before You Start Playing Avowed
13.2.2025
Avowed, the newest RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is out now on Xbox and PC, and it’s very good! But before you hop into this next big Game Pass RPG, here are 14 tips and tricks to keep in mind. And don’t worry, there are no spoilers below.Read more
5 Things We Learned From PlayStation's Best Holiday Ever
13.2.2025
2024 was one of the quietest years for first-party PlayStation games since the PS5 launched. Instead of a God of War Ragnarök or Spider-Man 2, there were excellent but smaller releases like Astro Bot and Lego Horizon Adventures alongside the historic failure of Concord. And yet despite no aces...
How To Unlock Every MiSide Ending, And What They All Mean
13.2.2025
There were a few big games that helped round out the end of 2024, but none were quite as surprising as the indie horror title MiSide. The game follows a programmer who gets transported into his latest mobile game obsession and comes face to face with Mita, the character he’s been taking care...
Diablo 4 Expansions Won't Be Annual, The Next One Arriving In 2026
13.2.2025
Diablo IV’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, arrived a year and change after the game launched. That won’t be the case for its next big content drop, however. Franchise boss Rod Ferguson revealed at DICE Summit 2025 in Las Vegas this week that Diablo IV’s second expansion will be arriving...
Avowed: The Kotaku Review
13.2.2025
Avowed features plenty of commentary about empires, religion, colonization, war, progress, and other weighty matters. But what Avowed is really about, when you strip everything else away, is simple: Who are you loyal to? That’s the question at the heart of this new role-playing game. And more than...
Everything We Saw At Today's Big PlayStation State Of Play
13.2.2025
Today, February 12, 2025, Sony held its first State of Play showcase of 2025. There weren’t any massive surprises, but there were a ton of really neat-looking games that just might snag your attention. In particular, there was a good chunk of third-person melee action, typically featuring swords...
Borderlands 4 Finally Gets A Release Date And Its Before GTA 6
12.2.2025
The fall release calendar for 2025 is finally beginning to take shape. Borderlands 4 is the first into the breach with a launch planned for September 23. With Grand Theft Auto 6 also planned for a fall release, the window is rapidly closing for the year’s other major blockbusters to find...
Heal Your Marvel Rivals Team With Luna Snow’s Ice Abilities And Upbeat K-Pop
12.2.2025
Each role has a purpose in Marvel Rivals. But many would agree that the Support-based Strategists are the most vital. No team will last long without someone to heal them and grant other buffs. So who to choose? Well, if you want to use one of the best support heroes in the game, you can’t go wrong...
Studio Behind Beautifully Haunting Sci-Fi Adventure Somerville Gets Second Shot At Independence
12.2.2025
After Playdead released Inside in 2016, co-founder Dino Patti split off from the critically acclaimed indie studio amid a messy business breakup and ultimately went on to create Jumpship, another small studio working on similarly eerie and evocative adventure games. That mission now has a chance...