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You Won’t Have To Buy Cyberpunk 2077’s New Expansion To Play Some Of Its Best Stuff
11.6.2023
Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion is coming on September 26, and it’s bringing a new spy thriller story to Night City. But on top of this, it will bring several of quality-of-life changes, new skill trees, and a few backend mechanical improvements to the mix. However, it sounds like...
Cyberpunk 2077’s Devs Explain The $30 Expansion Price Tag That’s Raising Eyebrows
11.6.2023
Alongside a new trailer at Xbox’s Summer Game Fest showcase, a September 26 release date, and a closer look at Luther actor Idris Elba as Solomon Reed, CD Projekt Red also confirmed Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion will cost $29.99. An inaccurate $35 price leaked ahead of time, however...
Hands-On: Phantom Liberty Is What Cyberpunk 2077 Wished It Could've Been
11.6.2023
After spending an hour in Cyberpunk 2077’s one and only expansion Phantom Liberty, it feels like the spy thriller side story is the actualization of a narrative everyone hasbeen touting in the years since the game’s disastrous launch. Many, including Kotaku’s own Luke Plunkett, have argued that...
The Memecoin Grift and How It Threatens Ethereum Culture
9.6.2023
If Ethereum is to grow it’ll have to mature beyond the antics of those shilling the token-of-the-moment, says Paul Dylan-Ennis
Video Game Conventions Are Still Hotbeds Of Sexualized Abuse
8.6.2023
Just days after the March 2023 Game Developer Conference came to a close, disturbing allegations started making the rounds on social media: The ultra-popular conference for game developers, held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and attended by an estimated 28,000 people, was rife with sordid tales...
Cyberpunk 2077, A Game As Broken As I Was, Helped Me Bid Farewell To Closeted Life
7.6.2023
Cyberpunk 2077 launched as a broken game. But as someone who was going through the early work of gender transition during a world-stopping pandemic at the time, it somehow made sense that the big-budget, mega-popular video game everyone was so hyped about was also falling the fuck apart. Read more
Meet The Psychologist Determined To Prove Video Games Are Good, Actually
2.6.2023
Dr. Rachel Kowert is a busy woman. The video game research psychologist is currently in London, where she’s set to give a talk on the fostering of terrorist cells and extremist beliefs in digital game spaces, a project she’s working on with the Department of Homeland Security (no, she can’t really...
Jedi Survivor Players, You Are An Enormous Disappointment
2.6.2023
As a lot of studios do these days, the team at Respawn have waited a few weeks after the launch of Star Wars: Jedi Survivor then decided to share some statistics on how the players have been playing. And I am shocked.Read more
Final Fantasy XVI Devs Almost Cut Moogles Due To The Game's Mature Tone
1.6.2023
Final Fantasy XVI is out in mere weeks, arriving on PlayStation 5 on June 22. And while the game looks like it’ll be quite a bit of fun to play, questions over the radical shift in tone for the series remain. And in a recent blog, the developers shared some of the thoughts, considerations,...
Pixel Penguins, an NFT Charity Scam, Shows Dangers Of NFT Influencer Culture
1.6.2023
Behind every PFP with thousands of followers on Twitter is a person. And in Web3, it’s not always best to trust one person’s word on whether or not to mint into an NFT collection
Should Mods Be Paid For? Not In Valheim
30.5.2023
Mods have for decades been a way for fans to create content for their favourite games, and for decades have been seen as a community pursuit, something free, something people do for the love of it. Over the last few years, though, that stance has begun to change.Read more
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Now Accidentally Fighting Furries
26.5.2023
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempts a presidential run, he’s still finding time for his ongoing hobby of angering different communities with his legislation and bad views on people and things. Now, it sounds like he’s got a new community to add to that list: furries.Read more
DeSantis and the Growing Culture War Around Bitcoin
25.5.2023
The 13 Best Simpsons: Treehouse Of Horror Segments
24.5.2023
The Simpsons is one of the longest-running TV shows in history, and while the animated FOX series has always tried to shake things up, it does keep one tradition alive: a yearly Halloween episode. But while these tend to be some of the funniest episodes each season, some segments are better than...
Final Fantasy XVI's Developers Had To Watch Game Of Thrones
23.5.2023
Final Fantasy XVI is the next mainline entry in the long-running RPG series and it seems to be going for a radically different tone compared to past entries. We definitely got some Game of Thrones vibes from past trailers. And in retrospect, that’s not surprising, as the developers working on...
Epic Games Store Mega Sale Has Free Games And Big Discounts
22.5.2023
The Epic Games Store Mega Sale is currently going on, offering major deals on a ton of big PC games. Plus some free ones. And an endless supply of 25 percent off coupons on top of existing sales for Cyberpunk 2077, Returnal, and Far Cry 6.Read more
I’m A Certified Star Wars Hater, But Jedi: Survivor Whips
10.5.2023
I don’t like Star Wars. No, I don’t mean in the “it’s just not for me,” way but in the “I actively dislike this highly-influential franchise and think it’s bad, actually” way. I find it philosophically detestable in its rigid view of its world and unwillingness to interrogate the oppressive systems...
Star Wars' Mantis Is Such A Good Ship
9.5.2023
In Respawn’s Jedi series, one of the constants across both games is the Mantis, a starship that’s kinda yours, but also not yours, but you use it enough that it may as well be. And I think, more than the combat or the jumping or the surprisingly Star Warsy tone of the games, it’s my favourite thing...
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s Got Your Back If You Purposefully Break Its Story
8.5.2023
If you attempt to skip past certain story elements in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the latest Force-powered action-adventure from Respawn Entertainment, you’re greeted with a funny little pop-up message warning you that the game may break. That sounds like it could suck, but in actuality, it’s pretty...
8 Surprising Facts About Dead Island 2’s Legendary Gore
8.5.2023
Despite Dead Island 2’s glamorous outer shell—its sparkling, sprawling vision of L.A., filled with scattered cash and ruined mansions—what makes it compelling is making its many zombies literally spill their guts. As you may have once heard, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Read more