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The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Starfield
KotakuKotakuFive Riveting Gaming & Anime YouTubers You Should Check Out
Whenever I’m not sitting in front of my laptop writing or reviewing video games and anime, I’m sitting in front of my laptop watching YouTube video essays. My eye doctor is worried, but we’re not here to talk about how terminally online I am. Instead, I’m gonna put you on five YouTube video essayists you might not…
KotakuThe 9 Least Essential Starfield Mods You Can Install Right Now
As is all-too-often the case, Bethesda releases its games with half-baked UIs, dodgy animations, and painfully slow menus, knowing that its community will clean it all up for them via mods. So as expected, over the weekend all manner of essential mods for Starfield have appeared that will clear up the game’s most…
KotakuStarfield Doesn't Require Fast Travel After All...Sort Of
Pluto isn’t a planet. That really shouldn’t be a controversial statement any more, but it regains new contentiousness with the release of epic space RPG, Starfield. Developer and streamer Alanah Pearce wanted to find out if Bethesda’s epic space RPG really does require fast travel for all interplanetary travel, by…
KotakuBaldur's Gate 3 Companions Were Never Meant To Be So Thirsty
Sorry, it turns out it wasn’t that there was just something irresistible about you. Instead it seems that Baldur’s Gate 3 shipped with a bug that meant all the companions were way hornier than intended.
KotakuImagine A Pokémon Game Based On The Original Art Of Ken Sugimori
Imagine a world in which someone took Ken Sugimori’s original Pokémon art and brought it to life with animation. And then, in this wonderful idyll, someone took inspiration from this fanart, and developed a 3D Pokémon game based on it. And just to be sure, this developer would have already built an engine for creating …
KotakuStarfield Literally Saved A Couple From Death
We all know that playing video games makes you cooler, stronger, and more attractive, but for Reddit user Tidyckilla, it made him and his wife remain far more alive. Staying up late to binge Starfield is the reason credited for how the couple escaped a deadly fire in their apartment.
KotakuBaldur’s Gate 3 Is Still Great On PS5, Just A Little Rougher Around The Edges
Baldur’s Gate 3 is an excellent game. The PC version of Larian Studios’ D&D epic will easily be a frontrunner in game of the year discussions come December, and the PlayStation 5 version is a comparable experience, at least if you don’t have a beefy enough PC to run the game well. That said, it definitely has more…
KotakuMy Pacifist Starfield Run Isn’t Going Great
Physical confrontation, financial responsibility, emotional insecurities–these are things I run away from in life. So why wouldn’t I default to role-playing as the coward that I am in Bethesda’s latest epic, Starfield? Unfortunately, space doesn’t seem all that welcoming to conflict-avoidant people, as Starfield…
Kotaku17 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Playing Starfield
Starfield is finally here and it is big, complex, and often overwhelming. There are tons of menus to navigate, cities to get acquainted with, and skill trees to invest in, not to mention resource mining, base building, and ship customization. Before you get into any of that, however, let’s go over some basic tips and…
KotakuWhat’s Included (And What’s Not) In Cyberpunk 2077’s Free 2.0 Update
Cyberpunk 2077 has certainly had a long, strange journey from being totally busted at launch to reasonably playable today. Debates rage on as to whether it can ever deliver on all the pre-launch hype CD Projekt Red generated, but soon the game will get another chance to impress with the one-two punch of a sweeping…
KotakuStarfield’s Local Planet Map Is Horrible
You’ve probably heard this before, but Starfield, Bethesda’s latest open-world RPG, is very, very big. The new game, out now in “early access” on Xbox and PC, spans multiple solar systems and hundreds of planets. And when exploring that vast digital galaxy, the in-game maps are fine. But once you land on a planet or…
KotakuHelp! I’m Trapped In Starfield’s Menus And Can’t Get Out
In the several hours I’ve played since Starfield’s September 1 Early Access kicked off, I’ve been consistently confused by the menus and user interfaces of Bethesda’s latest RPG. I remain miffed by its starmap, baffled by its inventory, and at a loss when it comes to my ship’s HUD–and don’t even get me started on the…
KotakuStarfield Chat: Our First Few Hours With Bethesda’s Space Epic
Starfield is officially out in Early Access for those who got one of several special editions of Bethesda’s long-awaited sci-fi RPG. Though everyone else will have to wait until September 6, several Kotaku staffers decided to shell out for the Early Access editions and spent the first night of launch zipping around…
Kotaku7 Horny Fantasy Games To Play After Baldur’s Gate 3
Though Baldur’s Gate 3, based on the historically unsexy Dungeons & Dragons franchise, is not a sex game, the tacit understanding among fans and onlookers is that its robust romance options make up some of its best parts. There’s no shame in playing BG3 more for the romance than the mind flayers—though those look like…
KotakuWow, Starfield's Lockpicking Minigame Is Really Fun
For as long as RPGs have had locked doors, video game designers have developed ways to let players unlock these doors without a key. Some of these unlocking minigames are fine, but many are annoying or boring, and some are downright bad. Starfield might be one of my favorite lockpicking minigames ever. Really.
KotakuStarfield’s Companions Are A Blessing And A Curse
Starfield is a big-ass video game with a lot of stuff to do and see. We are exploring the far reaches of space, the final frontier, after all. So, naturally, you would maybe want a bestie on your crew as you fly through the cold cosmos looking for loot to pillage and planets to explore. Unfortunately, the companions…
KotakuWhere To Sell All The Stuff You Grabbed In Starfield
Starfield is finally here after years of waiting. (Assuming you spent the extra money to play the game early, that is.) So you excitedly booted it up, started playing, and did what so many people do in Bethesda RPGs: grabbed everything. But now, where do you sell all this shit? The game doesn’t make it obvious, so I’m…
KotakuArcane Season 2 Will Reportedly Release Winter 2024
The second season of Netflix’s popular League of Legends animated series, Arcane, is reportedly expected to release sometime towards the end of next year.
KotakuStarfield's Controversial Missing PC Feature Already Modded Into The Game
Starfield is out on PC as part of its Deluxe Edition September 1 early access perk, and players have confirmed that it doesn’t support Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology for better resolution and performance. Many had suspected as much when Bethesda announced an exclusive partnership with rival chip maker AMD, but…
KotakuStarfield Players Are Already Filling Up Their Ships With Random Junk
I did not expect Starfield to have so many useless items lying about that I could pick up and do absolutely nothing with. A few hours into the sprawling sci-fi blockbuster and my first ship is already full of junk I’m just dumping on the floor, unsure where to place it, and apparently I’m not alone. Starfield players…
KotakuKotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games To Welcome September
It’s a new month, and it’s also officially T-minus five days until that big game everyone’s gonna be playing comes out (see what I did there?). With Bethesda’s latest mega-game looming in the very near future, why not take advantage of this weekend to get some time in with a few other games of note?
KotakuSeptember Is A Stellar Month For Some Video Gaming
Fall days are nearly upon us, and with that a whole calendar month of new game releases to check out. Yes, there’s one particularly large big spacey game that’s likely to be sopping up yours and everyone else’s time, but this month is about so much more than just shooting off to the stars.
KotakuSony’s PS5 Remote Play Gaming Handheld Is Just $200
On August 23, Sony delivered some news that’s sure to get PS Vita fans mildly interested: Sony is back in the handheld game (kind of) via a dedicated remote play streaming device that’ll beam pixels from your PS5 straight to your hands. It’s called the PlayStation Portal remote player and it will cost you $200.
KotakuMiyamoto Was Like ‘That’s Not How Elephants Work’
The next mainline 2D Mario game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, looks fantastic, shaking up the franchise’s formula with new powers, worlds, and enemies. In particular, one new power that turns Mario into an elephant became quite popular online. However, at first Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto, wasn’t a fan of the odd…
KotakuArmored Core VI’s Fastest Money Farm Is A Rookie Pilot Murder Spree
A key aspect of Armored Core VI is earning cash to unlock new guns and mech parts. Once you complete a mission you can replay it as much as you want for extra pay, and players have now found one of the fastest money farms in the entire game: brutally murdering a rookie test pilot in under a minute, dozens of times in…
KotakuBethesda Exec Writes Fake Doctor’s Note To Excuse Starfield Players From Work
Bethesda’s head of publishing Pete Hines posted a boilerplate excuse note on Twitter for any Starfield fan who, ahead of the game’s official release on September 6, is rapidly starting to feel a little bit…feverish.
KotakuFans Think Latest Pokémon Go Artwork Was Made With AI
Pokémon Go publisher Niantic has aroused fans’ suspicions after a promotional image showed some telltale signs of potentially being AI artwork, rather than something made by an actual human artist.
KotakuWarning: Starfield Doesn’t Run Well On Steam Deck
The embargo on Starfield reviews and coverage is up and the internet is flooded with videos and opinions about Bethesda’s newest, soon-to-be-released RPG. And for those of you excited to play Starfield on Valve’s portable Steam Deck, there’s some bad news: It ain’t a great fit for the tiny PC.
KotakuIt Looks Like Starfield Has Major Accessibility Problems
Reviews have started pouring in for Starfield, the highly anticipated and allegedly gargantuan space RPG from Bethesda, which comes out worldwide on September 6. And though the reviews are mostly positive, and reports suggest that this may be the least buggy Bethesda launch yet, one content creator has pointed out a…