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Even Konami Agrees With The Criticism About eFootball's Quality
eFootball has been an utter fiasco. The game hasn’t been up to snuff and has let down a lot of fans. I know it, you know it, and well, Konami does, too.
KotakuKotakuMaybe We Don't Need These Expensive Video Game Remakes
As video games get more expensive to make, and publishers grow ever more adverse to taking risks with that expenditure, the last few years have seen a growing trend of old video games being made new once more.
KotakuA Look At A Script For The Cancelled Deus Ex Movie
Did you know it has been_ten years_ since a _Deus Ex_movie was announced? What once seemed a natural step, a big-screen adaptation of a triumphantly resurgent video game franchise, ended up being nothing of the sort as the series floundered through publisher mismanagement and the film itself ended up barely making it…
KotakuRemedy Remaking Max Payne 1 And 2 Inside Control Engine
Film noir sad sack Max Payne is getting his due with a full remake of the first two games, developer Remedy Entertainment announced today. The new compilation will include both Max Payne and _Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max_and be exclusive to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
KotakuFor These Players, It’s All About The Elden Bling
You would think the importance of wearing the best battle-ready equipment you can find for the frenetic combat crucible of a Souls game is obvious. For the most part, it is. Whether running through the gothic world of Bloodborne or the high-fantasy setting of Dark Souls, many players try to ensure that they’re geared…
KotakuLego Star Wars Makes Comboing Younglings A Real Strategy
The Jedi Code says one must not “seek adventure and excitement” and to use the Force for “knowledge and defense, never for attack,” blah blah blah. Someone should’ve told Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga that, because fans have discovered that it lets you get some sick air by comboing Jedi younglings.
KotakuTiny Tina’s Wonderlands Already Has A ‘Best Gun’
You’d think it’d take a while for the community of a game with 87 bazillion guns to determine the best one. But players of the loot-shooter Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands (fact check: out for less than two weeks) have already crowned a reigning champ: a legendary-tiered pistol called Liquid Cooling.
KotakuNintendo Walked Right Into Porn When Promoting Switch Sports
If you’ve been bowling, there’s a good chance you’ve seen those corny 3D animations that unfold whenever you get a strike, spare, split, or miss the pins outright. These 90s relics are having a bit of a horny renaissance right now, thanks to an artist who recently posted a salacious bowling animation that has set the…
KotakuLego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, As Told By Steam Reviews
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is exactly what it says on the tin. The open-world action game is TT Games’ latest entry in the Lego Star Wars series, and it’s pure nostalgia for anyone who grew up watching the Star Wars movies. It’s reviewed very well for being faithful to the movies ahumorous, and our review…
KotakuGameStop Fans Dissect Chairman's Poop Tweet For Meme Stock Clues
GameStop’s most enthusiastic investors don’t believe in the dying retailer. They believe in Ryan Cohen, its tech-savvy chairman and potential savior. If you want proof of the billionaire backer’s cult of personality, look no further than his post yesterday about poop.
KotakuOne Of The Worst People In The World Now Owns Over 96% Of SNK
Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC), a subsidiary of a foundation run by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, now owns 96.18% of Japanese developer SNK following a massive investment.
KotakuThe Best Games Of 2022 (So Far)
It’s no exaggeration to say that, in terms of video games, 2022 is off to a banner start. The first three months of the year have been flush with the sort of marquee releases that tend to clog the holiday season, when year-end shopping sprees and awards shows are on everyone’s minds. It’s not even April and we already…
KotakuSources: New Ghost Recon In Development As Ubisoft Moves On From Breakpoint NFT Controversy
Ghost Recon Breakpointhas officially received its last update, Ubisoft announced yesterday. The news comes just a few months after the publisher’s disastrous experiment with adding NFTs to the game, and, we have learned, as its Paris studio works on the next mainline entry in the Ghost Recon series, according to two…
KotakuLook Out, Horizon Forbidden West Has A Hole In It
Horizon Forbidden West is an absolutely extraordinary game. It’s also enormous and littered with hundreds upon hundreds of little secrets and hidden details. Although one recently discovered by Reddit user squidflowpro is certainly not meant to be there—it’s a cave that lets you jump straight out of the world. We had…
KotakuThe First 17 Minutes Of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
KotakuThe Best Kirby and the Forgotten Land Power-Ups To Reach Maximum Poyo Mode
Having fully shifted into poyo-mode with roughly two-thirds (or three fifths, some sort of fraction. Math is hard) of Kirby and the Forgotten Land finished, I can finally say I’ve nestled myself into a comfortable groove of go-to power load outs. Venturing out into the dystopian world with nothing but my wits and…
KotakuFunimation's YouTube Channel Is Now Crunchyroll Dubs
If you’ve been looking for Funimation’s YouTube channel, you won’t find it. The channel has been rebranded as Crunchyroll Dubs. While the name has changed, what it’s offering, so far, hasn’t. Anime News Network reports that it will still stream trailers, clips, and episodes of English-dubbed anime.
KotakuLogan Paul's New Website Will Take Collectibles, Lock Them In A 'Vault' Then Sell Tokens
Internet person Logan Paul, fresh off wearing a $6 million Pokémon card to Wrestlemania—a sentence I am reeling from having had to type—has also this week opened a site called Liquid Marketplace, which claims to be selling stakes in physical collectibles, but in reality sounds like a disaster waiting to happen on…
KotakuThe Best Strategy Games On PC
The PC is home to just about every type of video game under the sun, but few are as quintessentially _PC_as strategy games.
KotakuWill Arnett's Villainous Dragon Lord Is The Best Part Of Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
KotakuHorizon Forbidden West Quietly Adds Feature That Now Feels Essential
It’s a good thing Horizon Forbidden Westhas a bottomless inventory. Developer Guerrilla Games recently sped up looting in its robot-busting adventure through the quiet addition of one simple feature: the option to disable pickup animations.
KotakuNext Tomb Raider Game Will Use Unreal Engine 5
Development on the next Tomb Raider game was announced on today’s “The State of Unreal” livestream. The general manager at Crystal Dynamics, Dallas Dickinson, confirmed that the studio has started developing Lara Croft’s next adventure in Unreal Engine 5.
KotakuElden Ring’s Devs Really Don’t Want You To Miss This Heartbreaking Quest
Unlike other role-playing games, Elden Ring’s lack of a quest log requires players to really pay attention to dialogue and the world around them to follow along with certain NPC storylines. But the beginning of one questline was so well-hidden that FromSoftware took steps to make sure folks would naturally gravitate…
KotakuThe Chrono Cross ‘Remaster’ Is Another Barebones Square Enix Port
It’s 2022 and you can once again play one of the best JRPGs from Square Enix’s golden age on a modern handheld. But even enjoying it as I have been on Switch, it’s hard not to feel like the Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition remaster is another missed opportunity by a publisher intent on doing the bare minimum…
KotakuHalo Infinite Listens To Pros, Nerfs Best Gun
That sound you hear? That low hum, that ceaseless wailing? It’s an elegy of Halo Infinite fans around the world. Developer 343 Industries will soon nerf the best weapon in its multiplayer shooter, fulfilling a longtime request of top-flight players—and thumbing its nose at the desires of the hoi polloi.
KotakuThe Next Generation Of Video Game Graphics Is Looking Pretty Good
We’ve seen an eye-popping gorgeous tech demo for a not-real game that I totally wish was real. We’ve seen Keanu Reeves (‘90s edition) alongside Keanu Reeves (modern-day edition). We’ve seen…a beard. But today, Epic Games presented by far the biggest look into its Unreal 5 3D creation engine, which can render visuals…
KotakuEverybody Say Thank You To Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga For Making FinnPoe Canon
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga did what Disney wouldn’t and finally made the Tumblr-famous FinnPoe ship canon.
KotakuCodes To Unlock Secret Characters And Ships In Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
There are approximately 40,000 playable characters and ships in the new Lego Star Warsgame. (Editor’s note: No, there’s only like 350.) But most of them are locked when you start, and while completing all of the story missions will unlock some of these heroes and villains from a galaxy far far away, you’ll still need…
KotakuHyped PS5 Horror Game No One’s Really Seen Hasn’t Been Canceled, Dev Swears
If you thought that mysterious survival horror game Abandoned by Blue Box Game Studios couldn’t get any more enigmatic, wait until you hear this. The game was thrust back into public consciousness this week, but not because the developer had anything to show off. No, instead, information was quietly removed from the…
KotakuElden Ring Players Are At War With AFK Rune Farmers
Elden Ring has a new rune farming strategy that revolves around hiding in seeminglyunreachable parts of the map until your opponent dies or gets bored and leaves. Now, players who just wanted a good old fashion PVP showdown are finding new ways to fight back. The results are entertaining and brutal, but will they be…