Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s first DLC, The Teal Mask, brings a handful of new ‘mons to add to your Pokédex, and one in particular is becoming a fan favorite: Dipplin. The grass/dragon-type Pokémon is based on a candy apple, and is drenched in a warm, red syrup. However, if you catch its shiny form, the…
Source: Kotaku – The Short History Of Shiny Pokémon Getting Shiny Attacks
Lies of P is a tough game. Everything can kill you, from the hardest of bosses to the most predictable of trash mobs, which is to be expected of a Soulslike game. Although there’s no difficulty setting to make the Bloodborne-inspired RPG any easier, there are some tips you can take with you as you skirmish with the…
Source: Kotaku – 8 Lies Of P Tips To Help You Survive This Brutal New Soulslike
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is just about a month away, as the PlayStation 5 sequel is set to launch on October 20. While both the original 2018 game and its 2020 spin-off sequel Miles Morales were also on PlayStation 4, Spider-Man 2 is being made exclusively for the PS5’s beefier tech. As such, developer Insomniac claims…
Source: Kotaku – Spider-Man 2 Will Have Ray Tracing Across All Visual Modes
Oh, hey there. It’s weekend time once more and that means we’re taking a look at what’s been keeping us busy on our gaming machines. It’s been a pretty busy time of year for game releases, so there’s the usual new stuff in the pages ahead but also one stone-cold classic and even one game that’s somehow old and new…
Source: Kotaku – Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Kick Back With
Friends, the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth hype train has left Midgar station and is barreling toward us at a fever pitch in the run-up to the RPG’s PlayStation 5 release date of February 29, 2024. Y’all see that new trailer? If you haven’t, you’ve probably at least heard fans squealing about the first look at Vincent…
Source: Kotaku – The Best Final Fantasy VII Character Is Returning In Rebirth (And It’s Not Vincent)
Fighting game reboot Mortal Kombat 1, which got a paid Early Access release September 14, introduces a completely new, single-player board game mode called Invasion. According to a PlayStation blog explaining the mode, the expansive Invasion mode serves as a kind of pinnacle to the 31-year-old series’ history of…
Source: Kotaku – One Of Mortal Kombat 1’s Stranger New Modes Is Like A Board Game
Nexus Mods, one of the largest online repositories of fan-made video game modifications, recently deleted a Starfield mod that removed the game’s built-in option to choose a pronoun for your created character. As you might expect, this removal angered a very toxic portion of players who yelled at Nexus Mods over its…
Source: Kotaku – Nexus Mods Fine With Bigots Leaving Over Removed Starfield ‘Pronoun’ Mod
Cyberpunk 2077’s lone expansion, Phantom Liberty, is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on September 26, and it brings some new characters to the game’s gritty world. These include Idris Elba’s Solomon Reed, a spy who’s been in Night City for years under direct order from the President. However, he…
Source: Kotaku – This Intense Cyberpunk 2077 Trailer Is Also A Great Phantom Liberty Primer
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s new trailer was undoubtedly the star of the show in Sony’s September 14 PlayStation State of Play presentation. The highly anticipated second installment of the Final Fantasy VII remake looks better than ever and damn, that trailer was packed full of fascinating morsels.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: 14 Awesome Things We Saw In The New Trailer
Revealed during a Nintendo Direct, but in fact happening across all of gaming, the world has learned that the first three Tomb Raider games are returning with shiny new graphics, designed to work on modern consoles. Let me—an old person—gift you—presumably a young person—a piece of insight: You will want to play these…
Source: Kotaku – Hey Young People, The OG Tomb Raider Games Are Getting Remastered
A recently released Steam demo tells me psychological survival horror game Holstin is unmistakably Slavic. I’ve been waiting for this. My Bulgarian mom and her mom, my baba, raised me to be loud and pessimistic, but always protected from true gloom by the laminated Virgin Mary we remorsefully held in our wallets. From…
Source: Kotaku – You Haven’t Seen Anything Like This Horror Game Before
Good news! With the latest Star Wars Jedi: Survivor patch, the game is finally achieving a near-consistent 60fps throughout all its action and exploration, translating to a much smoother experience. However, to achieve this some visual cuts were made, and that has added some quirks that might be distracting for some…
Source: Kotaku – Jedi: Survivor Runs Much Better After Latest Patch, But At A Cost
Square Enix has recently unveiled a lot of new details about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the next chapter in its three-part remake trilogy of the classic 1997 RPG. One key bit of info is that players won’t be able to import their saves from Final Fantasy VII Remake into Rebirth, but there will be a reward for those who…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Won’t Let Players Import Saves From The Last Game
Look, if you ask me, weapon durability is some bullshit. It’s ostensibly meant to encourage experimentation, but its implementation in games like Dead Island 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom does more to create headaches than to inspire some extemporaneous testing of a variety of weapon types,…
Source: Kotaku – That Gothic Pinocchio Soulslike Has A Pretty Neat Weapon Durability Mechanic
The Crew is a weird franchise. The first game was focused on a story involving car gangs and criminals. The second game kept the map from the first—a scaled-down recreation of the United States—but ditched the narrative and focused on exploration and adding more types of vehicles to operate. Now the third game, The…
Source: Kotaku – The Crew Motorfest Is A Wackier, More Frustrating Forza Horizon
I’ve been rewatching Netflix’s smash-hit anime adaptation of Konami’s vampiric video game series, Castlevania, to stave off my anticipation for its upcoming sequel, Castlevania: Nocturne. Unsurprisingly, the show is still a triumph among animated video game adaptations, thanks to its lore-accurate combat, exceptional…
Source: Kotaku – Castlevania’s Emancipation Of Isaac Stole The Entire Show
During Sony’s latest State of Play on Thursday, Square Enix revealed a new gameplay trailer for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the next entry in its FF7 Remake trilogy. The game looks very good and I’m excited to play it. Also announced Thursday: A $350 Collector’s Edition of the game. I’m…less excited about that.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Collector’s Edition Costs An Astounding 0
Today Sony held another State of Play event, showing off upcoming titles for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Today’s event featured expansions for Resident Evil 4 and Tales of Arise, another look at a very funny walking simulator, and one epic, mega huge trailer for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, which will launch on two…
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Saw At PlayStation’s State Of Play Event
Whenever Sony events roll around, there’s always a twinge of anticipation among players that we may see new footage of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix’s sequel to Final Fantasy VII Remake, which itself was the first chapter of its trilogy of games that are not-so-faithfully remaking the 1997 classic. And that’s…
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s New Trailer Gives Us A Peek At Vincent Valentine
