Mortal Kombat 1 has only been out for a few days. Diablo IV is barely a few months old. And Pikmin 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are Nintendo games, so they rarely go on sale. But right now on QVC—yes, that old shopping network—you can get any of these games for $40 thanks to a deal for new…
Source: Kotaku – QVC Deal Will Let You Buy Mortal Kombat 1, Diablo IV, And Other New Games For
Lies of P frustrates me. The first Soulslike from developers Neowiz Games and Round8 Studio, this gothic action-RPG keeps kicking my ass no matter how many times I level up. It’s aggravating. And yet, I keep pulling myself from the comfort of my Starfield spaceship to descend into the chaos of “Pinocchio Souls” for…
Source: Kotaku – Lies Of P: The Kotaku Review
If you have kids, you know what Bluey is. For everyone else, it’s an Australian cartoon about a nuclear family of talking dogs who live in a giant bungalow and love to play silly games. It’s cute and clever, and several years after becoming a global phenomenon, it’s at long-last getting a video game adaptation.
Source: Kotaku – New Bluey Video Game Could Be The Ultimate Daddy Sim
If last week’s episode of Ahsoka—which featured lengthy, surreal scenes centered on Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano—was showrunner Dave Filoni catering to both Clone Wars and prequel fans, then the newest episode, “Far, Far Away,” is for Rebels loyalists. But not just Rebels loyalists, as Ahsoka episode six feels…
Source: Kotaku – Ahsoka Episode 6 Review: The Threads Of Destiny
Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion is nearly upon us, and developer CD Projekt Red is recommending players start the game over before jumping into it and the 2.0 update that reworks a lot of its systems. But, as many have noted, that is a lot of playtime to add to your schedule, especially if you’ve already…
Source: Kotaku – Yeah, It’s Probably Worth Starting Cyberpunk 2077 Over For The Expansion
Mortal Kombat 1 on the Nintendo Switch isn’t the best version of the game. Players have shared numerous visual bugs, performance problems, long loading times and low res textures in social media posts and forums. And now, some of them are angry that an official launch trailer for the Switch version of MK1 seems to…
Source: Kotaku – Fans Upset After Spotting Steam Pop-Up In Mortal Kombat 1’s Switch Trailer
In some ways it feels like Microsoft has never quite recovered from its disastrous rollout of the Xbox One. A decade later, it has new studios, better consoles, and tons of great games, but the shadow of its big, out-of-touch bet on an all-digital Xbox with an expensive Kinect add-on still lingers. It surfaced again…
Source: Kotaku – All-Digital Xbox Leak Reignites Game Preservation Fears
Next week sees the long-awaited launch of Phantom Liberty, CD Projekt Red’s one and only expansion for the controversial and divisive Cyberpunk 2077. If you’ve got an existing save game, you can jump into the expansion as long as you’ve complete the main game’s Voodoo Boys questline.
Source: Kotaku – Save Cyberpunk’s Phantom Liberty DLC Until After The Main Game
Even as Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion tells a new, mostly standalone story, there are multiple points throughout when V, the protagonist of CD Projekt Red’s long-troubled RPG, reflects on the job that got them into this mess: the heist on Konpeki Plaza. While Cyberpunk 2077 and now Phantom Liberty have…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077 – Phantom Liberty: The Kotaku Review
Good news, everyone: now Fortnite can pay you. After a spat with the FTC wherein Epic Games settled for $245 million dollars, the Federal Trade Commission has launched a webpage for eligible Fortnite players to get some money back.
Source: Kotaku – Fortnite Players Can Now Get A Refund From Historic FTC Settlement
Lies of P, that gothic Bloodborne-esque Soulslike about Pinocchio beating the springs out of demented puppets, is officially out on Windows, PlayStation, and Xbox. Since duo developer Neowiz Games and Round8 Studio’s action-RPG takes a lot of inspiration from FromSoftware games, the going will absolutely get tough…
Source: Kotaku – Lies Of P’s Weapon Customization Sure Is Something Special
Remember when the Xbox Series X and S launched with a Yakuza game, but the PS5 didn’t? That was weird, right? For such a long time the Yakuza franchise had been closely tied to PlayStation. But, at least for a few months, the then-latest game in the series skipped Sony’s next-gen machine for Xbox’s fancy console. Why?…
Source: Kotaku – The Silly Story Behind The Weirdest Xbox Exclusive
Microsoft has announced the next crop of games you can snatch up on Xbox Game Pass for the rest of September and the early parts of October. The offerings are pretty lowkey, but there’s some cool stuff to download right now.
Source: Kotaku – Your September-October Xbox Game Pass Offerings Await
There are a lot of games to play in 2023, so many that right after I beat Sea of Stars, the new indie RPG inspired by genre classics like Chrono Trigger, I immediately turn my attention to Baldur’s Gate 3. The switch reflects a jarring sea change in the design of role-playing games: after downloading the 109 GB file…
Source: Kotaku – In A Year Of Big Games, Sea Of Stars Is Refreshingly Small
A freaky new trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s Zombies gave us our first look at the upcoming game, and it’s as eerie and tense as you would expect from the now legendary first-person shooter mode—except now it has some new (yet familiar) faces in the undead mix. That’s because this version of Zombies…
Source: Kotaku – Modern Warfare III Zombie Trailer Brings New, But Familiar, Faces To Iconic Mode
I didn’t expect cosmic body horror when I booted up The Crew Motorfest, Ubisoft’s new racing video game. Yet, that’s what I find each time I start the game. Every time I play Motorfest, the pulsating blob of humans is there, waiting for me. A horrific entity trapped inside my Xbox, unable to speak and unwilling to…
Source: Kotaku – Behold The Pulsating Human Blob That Awaits You In The Crew Motorfest
Space can be a rough place for soft-bodied adventurers. Ya got limbs to worry about, not to mention afflictions like hypothermia from being out in the cold too much. But Starfield isn’t the best at letting you know how these things work, forcing an adventurer such as yourself to go digging through menus or start…
Source: Kotaku – Starfield: Afflictions And Environmental Damage Explained
Microsoft is currently facing an unprecedented leak of confidential plans and conversations around both the recent past and coming future of Xbox. Sensitive documents meant only for the eyes of the court involved in the Federal Trade Commission’s failed battle to stop Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard…
Source: Kotaku – Who Was Responsible For The Biggest Xbox Leak Ever? Court Blames Microsoft
Transformers actress Megan Fox provided her likeness and her voice for Nitara—a Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance vampiress reintroduced in NetherRealm Studios’ Mortal Kombat 1 reboot released September 19—but fans can’t take it seriously. Though NetherRealm blessed Nitara with incredible combos, none of them are…
Source: Kotaku – Mortal Kombat 1 Fans Can’t Stand Megan Fox’s Nitara Voice Acting
