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Image: The Game Awards, Square Enix, Xbox / PlayStation / Kotaku / Peter Dazeley (Getty Images), Screenshot: BioWare / Kotaku, BioWare / Kotaku, GSC Game World This week, perhaps nothing sparked more discussion than the announcement of the 2024 Game Awards nominees. We weighed in ourselves with a breakdown of the seven biggest surprises in […]
It’s easy to set unrealistic expectations, especially when it comes to the things you love. When I hear the words ‘Obsidian Entertainment’ and ‘first-person RPG,’ my mind wants to believe that Avowed will be a mash-up of Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, and Baldur’s Gate 3. Let me preface this by saying that no one ever […]
It’s strange to think more than a year has passed since the Baldur’s Gate 3 launch helped tactical RPGs become the hottest genre in town. If you’re still feeling that itch for more, Wartales is a great option. The medieval fantasy game sees you leading a band of mercenaries on adventures across a vast open […]
Videogame concerts have become de rigueur in recent years. We’ve seen the Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure, the FFVII Rebirth Orchestra World Tour, and now Sony is getting in on the action with PlayStation: The Concert. Often held in arena-style venues, these performances are an exercise in self-indulgent commercialism, replete with large projection screens and official […]
Why is it that in a role-playing game where the stakes are usually ‘the end of the world’, the end of the world always has to wait for us to finish our sprawling to-do list first? There’s no way you’ve never encountered this. I came across it most recently in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which, […]
Arkane founder and Dishonored co-creative directorRaphaël Colantonio says the Metacritic scoring ecosystem encourages devs to make “safe, boring games,” while launches like Stalker 2 suffer in overall scoring at launch due to bugs and technical problems. Colantonio calls lower launch scores impacted by bugs “misleading” because these technical issues can be fixed further down the line, […]
Image: Fen Research Ltd / Kotaku There aren’t too many MMORPGs that you can just throw up on a second monitor in the background while you watch Crunchyroll or zone out to your favorite podcast about foreign baking competitions. Most require your input as you quest, grind mobs, and run dungeons with random players you’ll […]
There’s nothing in life I want more than a big Final Fantasy 14 and FF7 crossover. The Square Enix MMO already acts like a theme park for the series, with events bringing over other games like 16, 15, and most recently 11 with the new Dawntrail Alliance Raid – but I want more. Cloud and […]
Fallout 76 is in a fantastic spot these days. It’s tough to define it as the best RPG in the long-running series, between the narrative chops of New Vegas, the vast breadth of Fallout 4, and the mechanical spectacle of the original Interplay games. But put aside the more serious undertones and it might be […]
23rd November Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week we explore a game that’s also a music album, we struggle to be okay with the ultra violence in a supposedly silly zombie splatfest, and […]