Call of Duty Modern Warfare II is bringing even more PvE content with its Season 1 Reloaded update. Shown off for the first time during tonight’s Game Awards spectacular, we got some quick looks at Modern Warfare II’s first Special Ops Raid, expected on December 14th as a free update to the main MWII game.
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty Gets Its First Raid, Which Makes Sense
Gaming’s biggest night has come and gone, leaving with it a collection of discourse and a pile of new trailers for us to watch and re-watch over the holidays. The Game Awards 2022 continued on with the ceremony’s storied tradition of handing out the occasional award in between “world premiere” trailers, game…
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Saw At The Game Awards 2022
Square Enix premiered a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy XVI, its upcoming PS5-exclusive role-playing game, during Thursday’s Game Awards 2022 livestream. What we saw looked intense, including giant fights between the series’ classic eidolon summons. We also finally got a release date of June 22, 2023. Summer’s…
Source: Kotaku – New Final Fantasy XVI Trailer Reveals Massive Kaiju Summon Fights
This year’s Game Awards brought us gonks a brand new trailer for the upcoming, and only, DLC expected for CD Projekt Red’s adaptation of the classic Cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game. The first trailer for Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion arrived three months ago with a giant dose of mystery and, well,…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077’s First Big DLC Stars Idris Elba
FromSoftware is a development studio famous these days for the Souls games, but there was once a time that it was most famous for Armored Core, a mech combat series that has spanned decades and which is now making a comeback.
Source: Kotaku – Armored Core VI Announced, Which Isn’t A Souls Game
Hollywood was out in full force tonight at Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards, but the show’s most important appearance, as far as some Nintendo fans were concerned, was the first ever proper clip from the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Source: Kotaku – Super Mario Bros. Movie Clip Finally Unleashes Chris Pratt’s Italian Accent
Major DLC was just announced for Horizon Forbidden West at The Game Awards 2022. It’s called Burning Shores and it takes Aloy to Hollywood on April 19, 2023.
Source: Kotaku – Horizon Forbidden West Gets Massive Los Angeles DLC In April
We’ve known that Diablo IV has been coming for three years now, and Blizzard has finally announced a release date for when we can all literally go to hell. Oh, and Halsey was there too. Here’s the cinematic trailer from The Game Awards:
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV Release Date Announced At The Game Awards
The Game Awards are full of commercials. Some are glitzy reveals for exciting games while others are for stuff like Grubhub’s crossover with PUBG where you can order food IRL and then pretend to be the underpaid driver delivering it inside the popular battle royale.
Source: Kotaku – Grubhub Is Ready To Enlist You In Its Underpaid PUBG Army
Taking home the Game Award for best performance for his role as Kratos in God of War Ragnarök, Christopher Judge wowed us with one hell of an outfit and then won us over with a touching thank you speech in which he paid tribute to his family and those who worked on the game.
Source: Kotaku – God of War’s Christopher Judge Stole The Game Awards With Fire Fit, Epic Speech
After teasing it for a few weeks, Hideo Kojima’s next project has been announced tonight, and it’s a bit of a surprise: it’s a direct sequel to Death Stranding.
Source: Kotaku – Death Stranding 2 Stars An Older Sam Bridges And … Octopus Babies?
Respawn Entertainment’s next Star Wars game is almost here. A new trailer showed off Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s upgraded gameplay and finally made the March 17, 2023 release date, previously leaked on Steam, official. Plus Cal has a beard!
Source: Kotaku – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Gameplay Shows Cal Is Back And More Badass Than Ever
Kevin Conroy, whose voice became synonymous with Batman over 30 year’s worth of cartoons, movies and video games, sadly passed away last month at the age of 66. His final performance in the role is still to come, though, as he had already played the Caped Crusader one last time in the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the…
Source: Kotaku – Kevin Conroy’s Last Batman Performance Is For An Upcoming Video Game
The 2022 Game Awards kicked off in a big way. Not with a new blockbuster world premiere or a stunning upset, but with Scarface himself walking out on stage to deliver the award for best video game performance. Al Pacino clearly owed someone a favor, or a lot of money, and we are all the richer for it.
Source: Kotaku – Al Pacino Is Kinda Lost At The Game Awards, And It’s The Best
During tonight’s Game Awards, host Geoff Keighley announced that the popular indie studio Supergiant Games is developing a sequel to its critically acclaimed action rogue-like Hades. Aptly titled Hades 2, the game is currently being developed for an early access release, with news on the game coming in 2023.
Source: Kotaku – Oh Snap, They’re Making A Hades Sequel
You may have already seen, but Street Fighter 6‘s June 2, 2023 release date leaked late in the day on December 8. Apparently, Sony, whether accidentally or intentionally, published the date on the PlayStation Store, alongside three different editions that will be available come launch. Now, during Geoff Keighley’s The…
Source: Kotaku – Street Fighter 6 Drops In June With Cool 2v2 Mode
We’ve had a few Hellboy games over the years, based on both the comics and the films, but none have managed to capture Mike Mignola’s iconic style as perfectly as Hellboy: Web Of Wyrd, announced tonight at the Game Awards.
Source: Kotaku – We’re Getting A New Hellboy Game, Based On The Comics
Vampire Survivors—which was technically released at the very end of 2021—is on a lot of people’s GOTY shortlists, partly because most people only got around to playing it in 2022, but mostly because it’s very good.
Source: Kotaku – Vampire Survivors Gets Surprise Mobile Release
When Riot Games’ two biggest releases, League of Legends and Valorant, hit Game Pass next week, there will be a very strong incentive for folks to be linking their Riot accounts to their Microsoft ones: for subscribers every single LoL champion, and every single Valorant agent, will be unlocked.
Source: Kotaku – League Of Legends, Valorant Unlock All Characters On Game Pass
Elden Ring got a free PvP expansion with update 1.08’s December 7 rollout, which opened up three colosseums in the Lands Between, all ready for your spilled blood. I returned to developer FromSoftware’s open world after a long vacation (I hadn’t touched it since the spring, I needed to experience other games with…
Source: Kotaku – Your Only Rule In Elden Ring’s PvP Colosseums Is To Have Fun