Gearbox Software, the studio most well-known for the Borderlands franchise, is reportedly up for sale as parent company Embracer Group considers options to “shore up its finances,” according to a September 11 Reuters report.
Source: Kotaku – Borderlands Dev Gearbox Might Be Getting Sold Off Soon
As an RPG, Starfield is all about statistics and chance. Combat, persuasion, crafting, lock-picking, virtually every activity has some matrix of math behind it. But unlike previous Bethesda games in which you often earned progress in a Skill for simply performing its associated action, Starfield only lets you get…
Source: Kotaku – Starfield: Essential Skills To Snag (And How To Raise Them)
Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 has tough combat and rewarding, deeply tangled plot lines, but I wouldn’t know—I only ever play it when it seems like I might get to kiss someone.
Source: Kotaku – I’m Only Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 For The Romance
Eternights, a hack-and-slash dating sim by Studio Sai, wears its Persona inspirations on its sleeve. When I played the game for the first time earlier this year at Summer Game Fest, I said its action combat felt flimsy and its characters seemed generic, though I was at least interested to see if those aspects would…
Source: Kotaku – This Persona-Inspired Dating Sim’s Ending Is Worth The Bumpy Ride
For a game like Overwatch 2, in which its story has been trickled out over dozens of disparate external media stories rather than in one, cohesive thing—you know, like, a video game campaign?—there are bound to be inconsistencies along the way. But lord, seeing the game’s 38 heroes suddenly get canonical birthdates…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Heroes’ Official Ages Sound Extremely Made Up
Starfield is packed with many sights to see, secrets to uncover, factions to join, junk to pick up, and, most importantly: quests. One of the best side quests discovered thus far involves a ship full of some unlucky people stranded in a planet’s orbit. Fortunately (or unfortunately), you’ve arrived and are ready to…
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Skip Starfield’s Star Trek-Esque Quest
We might never get a second season of Netflix’s Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime, but its creator is keeping us fed with a cool new manga series with a fresh premise.
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Creator’s New Manga Series Has A Wildly Unique Premise
In the months (nay, years) leading up to Starfield’s September 6 release, the hype for the Bethesda RPG grew and grew until it was a heretofore unseen beast, a giant Kaiju of expectation that threatened to take down Sony, upend 2023’s GOTY race, and suck up all of gamers’ precious free time.
Source: Kotaku – Starfield Isn’t The Future Of Video Games, And That’s Okay
Contrary to popular belief, How Do You Live? (aka The Boy and the Heron) will no longer be Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film.
Source: Kotaku – JK: Hayao Miyazaki Isn’t Retiring From Making Ghibli Movies After All
Starfield, Bethesda’s new space RPG, is vast, and I’ve spent plenty of hours just running around its planets and cities exploring. And all this exploring and looting has been a lot of fun! But it would be better yet if I could turn on some tunes while mining space rocks or exploring barren ice planets.
Source: Kotaku – I Wish Starfield Had Fallout-Style Radio Stations
Starfield has a bunch of weapons for you to build out the perfect character to suit your style. Maybe you want to be a gunslinger who focuses on pistols, or a sharpshooter who specializes in snipers. Or maybe, like me, you want to get up close and very personal with a katana. Thankfully, Bethesda’s latest RPG has…
Source: Kotaku – Slicing Up Starfield Enemies With Katanas Is A Blast
Donald Mustard is leaving Epic Games. Mustard was a driving force behind Fortnite’s success and the chief creative officer at Epic Games for the last seven years.
Source: Kotaku – Epic Chief, Fortnite Loremaster Donald Mustard Leaving Company After Seven Years
Coco Gauff, a young tennis star competing in the US Open, joins a long list of prominent athletes who use inspirational anime as a part of their pre and post-game ritual.
Source: Kotaku – US Open Star Coco Gauff Celebrated Reaching Finals By Watching My Hero Academia
Starfield officially released on Xbox Series X/S and PC September 6, introducing players to developer Bethesda’s first new universe in 25 years, and their platforms to really great potato physics. But some PC users have been disappointed—why does the game seem to be struggling on their computers? In an interview with Bloom…
Source: Kotaku – Todd Howard Tells Starfield Players To Upgrade Their PCs
We’re a good week into September, though if you’re based on the east coast of the United States, the temperature sure doesn’t feel like it. No matter: There’s air conditioning and video games to keep us distracted from irrational weather.
Source: Kotaku – Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Rejuvenate The Soul
On September 8, seemingly out of nowhere, Microsoft announced the Mega 3:4 scale Xbox 360 collector set. It will propel you back to the halcyon days of 2007, at least if you’re willing to throwdown $150 for a collectible that doesn’t actually play any games.
Source: Kotaku – Mega Bloks Xbox 360 Collector Set Is A Pricey Nostalgia Trip
Only Up! Is a brutal janky platformer that blew up on Steam earlier this summer after becoming a hit with Twitch viewers. A number of controversies later, its creator has removed the game from Valve’s digital storefront seemingly forever, saying they made a lot of mistakes and need time to heal before making their…
Source: Kotaku – Twitch Sensation Only Up! Removed From Steam So Dev Can Find ‘Peace Of Mind And Healing’
I adored the Baldur’s Gate 3 ending I got. It definitely felt a bit rushed in its efforts to wrap up several plot lines at once, but I was pretty happy with where my character ended up and the direction his relationships went, or were implied to go. However, it was all contingent on me making what is arguably the…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3’s ‘Evil’ Ending Feels Like An Afterthought
Starfield, Bethesda’s newest RPG, is, well…a big game. It’s filled with quests to complete and aliens to shoot. It’s also jam-packed with items to grab, sell, and manipulate. And it’s very easy to pick up too much junk and suddenly find yourself overencumbered, unable to fast-travel or sprint as much as usual. That’s…
Source: Kotaku – How To Avoid Carrying Too Much Crap In Starfield
