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This Diablo IV Druid Build Is Like Playing An Avatar Earthbender
KotakuKotakuGameStop Deal Will Get You One Of The Biggest Games Of the Year Free
GameStop is a broken company that treats its employees like crap, but the meme stock phenonomon’s accruing losses can be your gain. A current “buy one, get two free” deal on used games can save you a lot on some of the biggest hits of 2023 so far including Diablo IV, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and The Legend of Zelda:…
KotakuThis Gothic Shooter’s First Female Boss Is Perfectly Terrifying
Hunt: Showdown is oppressive in that fear is oppressive, turning vines into snakes and wind into spirits. But the game never allows you to catch your breath and realize that the spider sneaking up your leg is only a shadow, and that the sudden darkness that surrounds you isn’t a sign you’re dying, but that the sunset…
KotakuFive Nights At Freddy’s Movie Producer Was ‘Made Fun Of’ For Working On Film
The movie adaptation of horror game franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s is just a few months away from its October 27 debut, and like many video game films, production on it has been in the works since at least 2015. Now, with Jason Blum (The Purge, Split, M3GAN) producing it, it’s finally got a release date, though it…
KotakuCall Of Duty Now Tricks Cheaters With Fake Enemies
Developers Infinity Ward and Raven Software have introduced new anti-cheat tech that’ll troll Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2.0 hackers in a hilarious way: introducing hallucinations that only cheaters can see.
KotakuGet Every Final Fantasy XIV Expansion For Dirt Cheap Right Now
As we near the 10-year anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV’s transformative A Realm Reborn reboot, there’s perhaps never been a better time to hop into the only blockbuster MMORPG to rival World of Warcraft’s popularity and resilience. And it’s never been cheaper to do so thanks to a whopping 50 percent discount on PC…
KotakuMetal Gear Solid Master Collection On PC Won’t Support Mouse And Keyboard
Shortly after the news broke that the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is heading to the Nintendo Switch, we also learned that the collection was coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and even PC. However, the ensemble’s Steam page has gently chilled the excitement: The games will not support mouse and keyboard…
KotakuSuper Mario Odyssey, Not The Mario Movie, Gave Us The Best Princess Peach
Last week as part of the latest Nintendo Direct broadcast, the company behind the Mario games announced that in 2024, Princess Peach will be headlining her own game for the first time in 18 years. No title was announced for the game and few gameplay details can be gleaned from the brief teaser, but I’m already hoping…
KotakuReview: The Makers Of Danganronpa Are Back With Another Mystery Banger
I would rather not liken Master Detective Archives: Rain Code to the games its creative team is best known for, but I can’t help it when Spike Chunsoft and Too Kyo Games’ latest murder mystery sure does invite the comparison. Like Danganronpa before it, Rain Code is a murder mystery from the mind of Kazutaka Kodaka,…
KotakuOur Favorite Cosplay From MCM London Comic Con
The MCM London Comic Con is held twice a year, but for this gallery we’ll be looking at the most recent event, which went down in late May. Held at the ExCeL London convention centre, it drew a ton of cosplayers, and we’ll be featuring some of our favourites in this gallery.
KotakuIt's Important That We All Watch This Trailer For Ghost Bike
This is Ghost Bike, a new game announced earlier today. It’s being developed by Messhof (Nidhogg), and will be published by Annapurna. As the headline says, I think it’s important we all sit down and watch this.
KotakuFortnite's Battle Bus Is Now A Transformer
2023 is continuing to be a weird one as Epic revealed that the bus from its free-to-play battle royale super-hit Fortniteis actually a Transformer.
KotakuA Moody New Blade Runner Game Is On The Way
Dear reader, I hope you’re in the mood to possibly suss out artificial humans from real ones, because there’s a new Blade Runner game on the way from Annapurna Interactive. Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth will be the first game in the series since 1997’s Blade Runner on PC, and it will also be Annapurna Interactive’s…
KotakuKatamari Damacy Creator's New Game Is About A T-Posing Teenager
During Annapurna Interactive Showcase on Thursday, we got a look at Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi’s fun-looking new puzzle game about a child perpetually stuck in a T-pose.
KotakuNew Valve Concept Art Is A Treasure Trove Of Canceled Games
If you want more visuals from gaming’s very own Loch Ness Monster, that of course being the followup to Half-Life 2: Episode Two, I have some good news for you. Following DidYouKnowGaming’s recent video on canceled Valve games, the YouTuber has released a huge collection of high-resolution concept art that was…
KotakuElden Ring's Most-Killed Enemy Shows We're All XP-Grinding Animals
Elden Ring may be a tough open-world RPG that requires precise timing and ongoing dedication, but the enemies don’t scale in difficulty with you. So if your progress ever hits a wall, it’s technically possible to take the easy way out and simply grind your character into having better stats than whatever challenge is…
Kotaku1 Million PlayStation Owners Play Call Of Duty... And Nothing Else
Would you buy an expensive console just for one video game? Probably not. However, according to Sony, about 1 million PlayStation owners only play Call of Duty. That’s it. Nothing else.
KotakuBlizzCon 2023 Livestream Will Be Free, But IRL Tickets Are $300
BlizzCon 2023, a massive celebration of Blizzard games like Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo is back in-person for the first time in four years, and offering two very different paths to enjoy the ceremonies. For the first time ever, you can watch the livestream in its entirety for free, but if you want to go…
KotakuSomeone Killed An Ultra-Powerful Diablo IV Boss In Less Than 15 Seconds
A powerful world boss in Diablo IV has been slain in only a dozen or so seconds. And while that’s impressive enough on its own, it’s even more amazing that it was basically one very powerful Necromancer that wiped out this usually hard-to-kill baddie.
KotakuHere Are The Best 2023 Steam Summer Sale Deals
OK, PC gamers, Steam’s annual Summer Sale is here. The event is active through July 13 at 1 p.m. ET and, as one of Steam’s biggest discount sessions, it covers a ton of best-selling indie and AAA games, like Dead Cells (now $12) and Sekiro’s GOTY edition (now $30).
KotakuHell Yeah, Mortal Kombat 1 Makes It Easy To Do Fatalities
This past weekend I played a beta version of Mortal Kombat 1. I was part of an “online stress test” organized by NetherRealm Studios so the team could prepare the servers ahead of the game’s official launch. To quickly sum things up: So far, so good.
KotakuFree-To-Play Shooter Shuts Down For Good Due To Cheaters
Developer Yager Development has announced that its free-to-play multiplayer shooter The Cycle: Frontier will go offline forever on September 27. The developer gave a few reasons for the shutdown, including an interesting one: Cheaters ruined the experience for everyone involved.
KotakuFinal Fantasy XVI’s Gay Romance Fails To Commit Where It Counts
Back in May, it was announced Final Fantasy XVI would be banned in Saudi Arabia. Officially, it was because developer Square Enix refused to alter scenes in the game for the territory, which led to rumors and speculation that the 16th game in the long-running RPG series would have explicit gay sex scenes, which…
KotakuShooter Dev Threatens To Ban Anyone For Sharing Game Secrets
No one likes a spoiled surprise. But if you’re Battlestate Games, developers of the indie extraction shooter Escape From Tarkov, then you really, really, really don’t like it. Recently, the dev has threatened to ban anyone who datamines or even shares datamined content from the game. The threatens haven’t gone over…
KotakuSilent Hill 2 Remake Dev Says It's Done With Psychological Horror—Good
Polish horror game developer Bloober Team told Engadget it’s leaving the psychological horror subset—a genre that defined all of its biggest titles, like Layers of Fearand the cyberpunk title Observer—far behind. The studio is currently responsible for the (impossible, diehard fans say) task to remake Silent Hill 2…
KotakuAvatar Is Getting A New Action-Adventure Game And It Looks A Bit Mid
On Thursday, fans of the hit Nickelodeon cartoon, Avatar: The Last Airbender received an adrenaline shot in the arm by way of an announcement trailer for a new action-adventure game set in the universe that’s due out later this year. Unfortunately, its gameplay looks a bit bland, and the trailer doesn’t reveal enough…
KotakuPokémon Go Dev Lays Off 230 Employees, Cancels Upcoming Marvel Game
Niantic is shuttering its Los Angeles studio and is moving away from in-house game development. As such, the Pokémon Go studio is laying off 230 employees, shuttering NBA All-World and cancelling its upcoming Marvel: World of Heroes.
KotakuIt’s Sony’s Fault We Have Console Exclusives, Says Microsoft CEO
As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to drag Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard under a microscope, the company’s CEO wants you to know it’s actually Sony’s fault that console exclusives exist.
KotakuHyped RPG Baldur's Gate III Took Six Years To Make Because It's Scary-Big
Baldur’s Gate III director Swen Vincke doesn’t think the sprawling fantasy role-playing game would exist if the team behind it, Larian Studios, had been gobbled up by another game company. “It would have been canned, guaranteed,” he told me during a recent interview. “There’s no way that a big publisher would have…
KotakuBaldur’s Gate 3 Is Coming To PC Early To Avoid Games Like Starfield, Cyberpunk DLC
Larian Studios is shifting its upcoming RPG Baldur’s Gate 3’s release around a bit, and that means good and bad news depending on if you were planning on playing the game on PC or PlayStation 5.