If you thought 33 Immortals looked like Hades, just wait until you play it. The top-down cooperative action roguelike from developer Thunder Lotus has a lot of similarities to the award-winning game from Supergiant, from its gameplay to its concept, but there’s one key difference: 33 players will enter the fray…
Source: Kotaku – 33 Immortals Is Like 33-Player Hades, Which, Woah
If you missed the Xbox and Bethesda showcase at Summer Game Fest, you missed some cool games and a whole lot of Starfield at the end. It was the most we’ve seen of Bethesda’s upcoming sci-fi RPG, and even as a person who doesn’t usually love the studio’s games, it looks pretty rad. I love me some space shit and living…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Calls Starfield ‘One Of The Most Important RPGs Ever Made’ And It’s Not Even Out
Sonic Superstars feels like what the Sonic series has been working toward for years but hasn’t quite had the courage to do until now. The series has been leaning hard into nostalgia surrounding its speedy, 2D platforming roots with games like Sonic Mania reimagining old levels and Sonic Origins repackaging them for a…
Source: Kotaku – 30 Minutes With The New Sonic 2D Game: Modernizing Everything Good And Bad From The Classics
Cyberpunk 2077’s one and only expansion, Phantom Liberty, is coming out on September 26. If you’ve already beaten the original game, or have replayed it after some of the course correcting patches, you’re probably set, but if you’re still killing time in Night City and have yet to actually see the credits, you might…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Tell You What Quests To Play Before The Big Phantom Liberty Expansion
Star Wars Outlaws revealed gameplay at Ubisoft Forward on June 12, and it also unsheathed an important fact about society: people want to fuck robots. Fucking robots does not, of course, have any evolutionary or social benefit—and then there’s the question of logistics—but enthusiastic Star Wars fans are putting all…
Source: Kotaku – The Open-World Star Wars Game Looks Cool, But This Droid Is Hotter, Fans Say
Despite canning a PvE mode, Overwatch 2 is still going ahead with some story-based missions, and after showing them off earlier this week we now have some details on how they’re going to work and, more importantly I guess, how much they’re going to cost.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Story Missions Cost
Earlier today BioWare announced a new piece of merch for Mass Effect fans: a statue of Commander Shepard from the opening of Mass Effect 2, where if you need reminding they are found dead and floating in space. The statue was accompanied by a slightly odd press release, and the combination of the two has led to a lot…
Source: Kotaku – BioWare Pulls Mass Effect Statue After Everyone WTFs
Following Starfield’s big showing over the weekend at Microsoft’s Not-E3 presentation, some more practical details about the game are coming to light. Among them are the game’s specs on PC, and while we don’t normally post that sort of stuff here, one key requirement makes these pretty damn notable.
Source: Kotaku – Starfield’s PC Specs Announced: You Will Need An SSD
In what is fast becoming a tradition, Capcom’s very cool-looking sci-fi game Pragmata has used a big stage to release a trailer that not only shows the game off, but also apologises for a delay in its release.
Source: Kotaku – Capcom’s Big Sci-Fi Game Has Been Delayed Into Oblivion
Today, June 12, Capcom took to the digital stage as part of Geoff Keighley’s big, not-E3 Summer Game Fest 2023 extravaganza. Capcom has been on a bit of a hot streak lately, with hits like the Resident Evil 4 remake, Street Fighter 6, and Monster Hunter Rise. So today was an opportunity for Capcom to either keep the…
Source: Kotaku – Everything At Capcom’s Summer Showcase
Microsoft’s attempted $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been in a kind of limbo due to scrutiny from various regulatory bodies here in the U.S. and in the UK, and today the tech company faces one more hurdle. The Federal Trade Commission has filed a request for both a restraining order and an…
Source: Kotaku – FTC Tries Blocking Microsoft, Activision’s B Deal, Claiming It’s Being Rushed
Just weeks after its first gameplay reveal during the recent PlayStation Showcase, Capcom showed more of its eagerly anticipated action-RPG sequel Dragon’s Dogma II in today’s Summer Game Fest Capcom Showcase stream, with director Hideaki Itsuno showing up to share new details.
Source: Kotaku – Dragon’s Dogma II Director Promises More Of What Fans Love
Pokémon Go has been under a lot of scrutiny from the rural community since it launched back in 2016, but things have been especially tense lately. Since developer Niantic rebalanced Remote Raid Passes, a feature that lets you engage with specific mechanics of the AR game without having to be in close proximity to…
Source: Kotaku – Pokemon Go’s Routes Attempt To Fix A Contentious Issue, But Is It Enough?
On June 11, during Xbox’s big not-E3 showcase, we got our first real look at Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s big open-world Star Wars game that’s being developed by Massive, the same folks behind the popular Tom Clancy’s The Division games.
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Outlaws: All The Details We Spotted In Ubisoft’s Ambitious Open-World Game
The already gigantic Starfield will stretch even larger after it launches, developer Bethesda told IGN before the Starfield Direct showcase on June 11. The Fallout creator is planning a story expansion, called Shattered Space, and “a lot of [other] add-on content,” development chief Todd Howard said.
Source: Kotaku – Bethesda’s Space RPG Starfield Already Has An Expansion And DLC Planned
While Assassin’s Creed Mirage is set to be a smaller, more focused return to form for the long-running stab-everything franchise, that doesn’t mean the rest of the series is doing the same. And today’s Ubisoft Forward event showed off a bit of what the series has in store for mobile and VR platforms.
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Forget About These Two Other Assassin’s Creed Games We Just Saw
Months after a long-in-coming face reveal that finally showed his mug to the rest of the world, big-name Minecraft YouTuber Clayton “Dream” Huff has put the mask back on following a seemingly never-ending pile-on of folks making disparaging remarks about his appearance.
Source: Kotaku – Popular Minecraft YouTuber Dream Will Cover Face In Videos After Bullying
So you’ve just been appointed the very top job of the gaming company you worshiped as a kid. What do you do? Gush? Gloat? Not Takashi Kiryu, the new CEO of Japanese game publisher Square Enix, who took the moment as a chance to—with immaculate politeness—call out the teachers who condemned him for spending too much of…
Source: Kotaku – Square Enix CEO Calls Out Teachers Who Said He Played Too Many Final Fantasy Games As A Kid
Today, June 12, Ubisoft became the latest big game publisher to hop on stage and announce new games as part of Geoff Keighley’s big, not-E3 Summer Game Fest 2023 extravaganza. In the last year or so, Ubisoft has struggled to consistently release games and has continued to delay and push back big titles, like Skull…
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft’s Summer Showcase: All The Games And Reveals
Star Wars Outlaws’ gameplay looks stunning in the new trailer publisher Ubisoft revealed at its Forward showcase event on June 12. A cinematic trailer introduced the open-world game during the Xbox Showcase on June 11, letting players establish a sense of what dusty orange, galactic drama to expect, but the gameplay…
Source: Kotaku – What You’ll Actually Do In Ubisoft’s Impressive Open-World Star Wars