I put off writing this Alan Wake 2 review because I was scared. Scared that I’d look into myself and find I wasn’t up to the task, that I lacked the right words, with nothing to offer but emptiness and failure. It’s not at all uncommon, though, for writers to be wracked with doubt. Many years ago, I saw the novelist…
Source: Kotaku – Alan Wake 2: The Kotaku Review
While the new tank hero Mauga was the headliner of Blizzard’s Overwatch 2 showing at Blizzcon this weekend, the dev team also highlighted two more playable characters coming to the hero shooter next year: a DPS character named Venture and a support hero code named Space Ranger. If you only watched the opening…
Source: Kotaku – Venture Is Overwatch 2’s First Non-Binary Hero
Just in time for Black Friday budgeting, Nintendo announced a Switch bundle launching on November 19 that’ll package the OLED model of the handheld-console hybrid with the crossover fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Source: Kotaku – Nintendo’s New Super Smash Bros. Ultimate OLED Switch Bundle Is A Great Holiday Deal
The PlayStation 5 “slim” arrives this month, and a new teardown video shows what players can expect, from internal differences to the fact that it doesn’t actually look that much smaller overall. It might be Sony’s most subtle but unusual redesign to date.
Source: Kotaku – PS5 ‘Slim’ Teardown Reveals Everything Different About The Slightly Smaller Console
Kazuma Kiryu has been hitting the cigs pretty hard.
Source: Kotaku – Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Kotaku Review
The Call of Duty franchise has continually set sales records and delivered rock-solid multiplayer experiences, almost single handedly carrying the first-person shooter genre into the modern era. It remains a crucial pillar in the gaming industry, so much so that Sony and Microsoft were fighting over it in the lead-up…
Source: Kotaku – The Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Franchise, Explained
At the start of the 1980s, video games were mostly relegated to coin-gobbling arcade machines, but their surging popularity prompted a Time Magazine cover story in January 1982 with a cringeworthy warning: “GRONK! FLASH! ZAP! Video Games are Blitzing the World!”
Source: Kotaku – 38 Years Ago, Nintendo Changed Pop Culture Forever
Good parenting is a lot like being a solid player two. You want to be supportive, curious, and competent. You’re there to have a good time, and understand going with the flow is key to harmony. This can be a challenge with kids and video games when you’re actually, literally, player two, especially if you’re a gamer…
Source: Kotaku – A Parent’s Guide to Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Update 11/03/2023 6:20 p.m. ET: The Verge reports that Xbox chief Phil Spencer has reversed the decision to end free Game Pass Ultimate access for non-Xbox Microsoft employees. In an internal memo, Spencer wrote:
Source: Kotaku – Report: Microsoft Staff Losing Free Xbox Game Pass, Complain To Phil Spencer [Update: He Reversed It]
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, a 2003 PlayStation 2 superhero game that was in development by 5,000 Ft. Studios for the PlayStation 2 before getting canceled, has resurfaced after 20 years with a new playable build.
Source: Kotaku – Canceled PS2 Daredevil Game Now Playable 20 Years Later
At BlizzCon 2023, Blizzard announced it’s preparing to enter what it’s calling World of Warcraft’s “Worldsoul Saga,” a multi-expansion story arc in the MMORPG that it plans to roll out over the course of the next three expansions.
Source: Kotaku – World Of Warcraft’s Next Three Expansions Announced At BlizzCon
The third entry in the Modern Warfare reboot project ships on November 10. A direct sequel to 2022’s Modern Warfare II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s campaign follows Task Force 141 as they attempt to prevent a global catastrophe. Its single-player campaign promises more open, freeform levels than usual, while…
Source: Kotaku – Modern Warfare III’s Campaign Mostly Sucks
Today, during Blizzcon 2023, Blizzard gave us an early look at Diablo IV’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred. The upcoming expansion will feature a new class and will be out next year.
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV’s First Expansion Will Add A New Class In 2024
Blizzard announced three new Overwatch 2 heroes at Blizzcon 2023’s opening ceremony, and while Mauga, the next tank hero, is playable in the game this weekend as part of a test period to everyone, the company also showed off two other heroes planned to launch in 2024.
Source: Kotaku – Blizzard Teases Overwatch 2’s Next Three Heroes And Other 2024 Plans
Role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 lets players summon purple lightning and kiss parasitic Cthulhu emperors, but it won’t let them give out hugs. Fans of the Dungeons & Dragons game routinely lament this small injustice, wishing badly to comfort their favorite party members during the game’s sometimes devastating…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Dataminers Find Evidence Of A Much-Requested Romance Option
Just over a month after Epic Games cut nearly 900 employees, players have come roaring back to Fortnite to play its new nostalgia trip through the battle royale’s original map. Player count trackers like Fortnite.gg estimate the hit free-to-play game peaked at over 5 million concurrent players in the last 24 hours…
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Blows Up Again After Original Map Returns
The anime-inspired action-RPG Genshin Impact will get a pretty substantial update later this month that introduces two new playable characters, an expanded region to explore, and a couple of formidable bosses waiting to beat the brakes off you.
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Know About Genshin Impact’s 4.2 Update
Overwatch 2’s new tank hero will be playable this weekend, at least that’s what a post on the Nintendo eShop says.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Leak Suggests You Can Play New Tank This Weekend
Taimanin RPG Extasy is a turn-based gacha RPG in which players unlock new warriors to fight demons and criminal syndicates in a horny sci-fi future. The game’s been live in Japan for years, but only recently came to the rest of the world, and it’s already facing its first major crisis: an outbreak of “gem debt”…
Source: Kotaku – Sexy Anime RPG Puts Players In ‘Gem Debt’ To Pay Off Dev’s Mistake
