Last week, my partner beat Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. I haven’t finished Fallen Order yet, so I watched a fair chunk of the sequel from beside him on the couch. But about two-thirds of the way through the campaign, he thrust a PS5 DualSense controller into my hand and urged me to build my own lightsaber.
Source: Kotaku – Building Lightsabers In Jedi: Survivor Is So Wildly Satisfying
There sure is a lot of skydiving in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. But good news: Paragliders, Zonai Wings, and other fascinating Ultrahanded contraptions aren’t your only means of improving Link’s ability to soar through air. Consisting of three pieces of armor, the Glide set improves your skydive…
Source: Kotaku – Tears of the Kingdom’s Glide Set Makes Flying Way Better
Did you know that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the introduction of McDonald’s chicken nuggets to the fast food giant’s menu? And to honor that milestone, McDonald’s has released a new chicken nugget-shaped handheld gaming device that plays Tetris.
Source: Kotaku – This Nugget-Shaped Tetris Handheld From McDonald’s Is Real And Playable
You’re busy, I get it. But if you’ve been too preoccupied to find time to buy the influential action role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas in the 13 years since its release, Epic Games brings good news: you can now download it for free.
Source: Kotaku – Fallout: New Vegas Is Currently Free On PC
There’s a new Lord of the Rings video game out that focuses on Gollum, the corrupted hobbit once known as Sméagol. It isn’t very good, though, rapidly becoming one of the worst-reviewed games to have launched this year—and we’re only halfway through 2023. One particular aspect that’s being singled out for derision is…
Source: Kotaku – Dang, This Rough Lord Of The Rings: Gollum UI Though
Not every game announced at yesterday’s PlayStation Showcase will be available to play only on PlayStation consoles, it turns out. Xbox revealed—only a little smugly—on Twitter after the show that 12 of the games PlayStation publicized will also come to Xbox.
Source: Kotaku – Some Of The PS5’s Biggest Showcase Games Aren’t Actually Exclusives
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is apparently a hot mess. The narrative-driven stealth game set in-between J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit and the War of the Ring trilogy has garnered some of the lowest review scores I’ve ever seen. One website even decided against reviewing it altogether because it was so wonky to play prior…
Source: Kotaku – The Lord Of The Rings Game About Gollum Is Getting Absolutely Roasted
The Master Sword is one of the best weapons in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but even it is susceptible to the game’s gradual weapon degradation.
Source: Kotaku – This Glitch Makes The Master Sword Unbreakable In Tears Of The Kingdom
Online vehicular shooter War Thunder made some changes to the way its economy works recently, and players of the game are so upset that not only have they review-bombed the game to hell and back, but the developers have been forced to take extremely apologetic actions in response.
Source: Kotaku – War Thunder ‘Revises’ Economy, Fans Review-Bomb Game To Hell
Earlier this week Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave wrote a Twitter thread outlining a glaring issue the board game industry has with representation: namely, that there simply aren’t enough games winning awards and getting published that have been designed by women.
Source: Kotaku – Board Game Exec Says Some Wildly Sexist Stuff
On Wednesday evening, as previously reported, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced his presidential campaign alongside Elon Musk via Twitter Spaces. But because Twitter is a giant trainwreck these days—held together with glue and a few overworked employees who haven’t yet been fired —the entire thing was a mess,…
Source: Kotaku – Ron DeSantis Announced He’s Running For President On Twitter And It Was A Disaster
Alan Wake 2, one of the stars of this evening’s PlayStation Showcase, has some very interesting news tucked away in an accompanying FAQ released at the same time as its latest trailer: the game will not be shipping on a disc. At all. It’ll be digital-only.
Source: Kotaku – Alan Wake 2 Won’t Be Releasing On A Disc
In June of last year, Capcom made some people very happy when it announced that its cult classic action-RPG Dragon’s Dogma was getting a sequel. However, we hadn’t seen even a glimpse of the game itself, until now. The first gameplay reveal trailer for Dragon’s Dogma 2 left the Kotaku Slack shooketh as it debuted…
Source: Kotaku – Sequel To Capcom’s Beloved Action-RPG Will Have You Killing Dragons On PS5
A lot of watching presentations like the PlayStation Showcase is just thinking a game might be a sequel to a thing you like, and as a Journey fan, Sword of the Sea had me by the throat for a hot minute during the show.
Source: Kotaku – No, This Isn’t A Journey Sequel, But It Sure Looks Like One
If you’re gay and/or a fan of socially conscious narrative games, you’ve probably at least heard of Night in the Woods. I am both of those things, so I consider the game to be probably one of my all-time favorites. For that reason, the biggest highlight of the PlayStation Showcase today was Revenant Hill from The…
Source: Kotaku – Night In The Woods Devs Are Back With Another Pretty Game About Socialist Cats
Well, it finally happened: Sony’s got a new handheld on the way. It promises all the features of the fancy DualSense PlayStation 5 controller on an 8-inch high-definition screen. The only catch? It’s a Wi-Fi streaming-only device, pulling directly from your PS5. Sorry, Vita fans.
Source: Kotaku – Sony’s New Handheld Lets You Stream PS5 Games On The Go
The Final Shape will be Destiny 2‘s last expansion in its decade-long Light and Darkness story arc, and it’s bringing back a familiar and beloved face (and voice) for the occasion. Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle) will return as Cayde-6, everyone’s favorite Exo Hunter who died one year into Destiny 2.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2: The Final Shape Brings Back Nathan Fillion As Cayde-6
Today, May 24, Sony held its first large-scale PlayStation Showcase since all the way back in September 2021. These events have tended to be bigger than Sony’s smaller-scale State of Play streams and this one was no exception, bringing a load of new trailers and reveals, including our first look at Alan Wake 2…
Source: Kotaku – Everything At Sony’s Big Hour-Long PlayStation Showcase
It echoes around the globe, ringing out from self-help books, elementary school bulletin boards, and proclaimed by Hannah Montana herself: “Nobody’s perfect,” not even your most favorite video games.
Source: Kotaku – We Rounded Up The Worst Parts Of The Very Best Games
Developer Insomniac Games came through the PlayStation Showcase on May 24 with a new trailer for the web-slinging PS5 exclusive, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
Source: Kotaku – Spider-Man 2 PS5 Gameplay Shows Kraven Villain, Symbiote Suit