During Gamescom’s Opening Night Live presentation, Blizzard took to the stage alongside host Geoff Keighley to announce that Diablo IV’s next update, Season of Blood, will start on October 17—just in time for Halloween.
Source: Kotaku – Diablo 4’s Next Season Looks Pretty Gruesome In New Trailer
When I first played Square Enix’s Live A Live remake, its professional wrestling storyline planted in me a desire for a full-on wrestling role-playing game that exclusively featured wrestlers suplexing each other in the ring. Just one year later and I’ve gotten my wish with WrestleQuest, which fuses the turn-based…
Source: Kotaku – WrestleQuest Balances The Raucous World Of Wrestling With Classic RPGs
Mixing video game graphics and live-action cutscenes is something of a Remedy tradition at this point, having done it in games like Quantum Break and Control in recent years. And the studio seems to be doing it again with Alan Wake 2, as seen in the latest trailer for the horror game shown at this year’s Gamescom…
Source: Kotaku – Spooky New Alan Wake 2 Trailer Shows Off Live-Action Cinematics
Gamescom, the annual gaming event held in Cologne, Germany, just lit the stage with Opening Night Live and with it, we got a closer look at some gaming delights just around the corner.
Source: Kotaku – Everything We Saw At Gamescom 2023 Opening Night Live
Cyberpunk 2077‘s Phantom Liberty expansion will deliver an entirely new storyline featuring actor Idris Elba when it arrives on September 26. Just as exciting, however, are all the overhauled systems, mechanics, and features of the world arriving alongside it in a free version 2.0 update. CD Projekt Red showed some of…
Source: Kotaku – Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s New Abilities Look Like Mortal Kombat Fatalities
Lorcana, Disney’s trading card game, has transformed from a physical experience to a digital one thanks to a fan-made app out now on PC.
Source: Kotaku – Disney’s Magic: The Gathering Clone Now Has A Fan-Made Digital App
Gamescom Opening Night Live has come and gone, and though there were a lot more women on Geoff Keighley’s shiny stage than during Summer Game Fest (which had zero), it certainly didn’t feel all that natural, did it? It felt, instead, that Keighley’s response to criticism about the lack of women at SGF resulted in him…
Source: Kotaku – Geoff Keighley Is Still Trying To Figure Out The Whole ‘Women’ Thing
Gamescom’s Opening Night Live kicked off Tuesday, August 22 with a smattering of trailers for Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Black Myth: Wukong, and Little Nightmares 3, among others. Tucked into the presentation was a trailer for Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss’ next game and, y’all, it looks pretty cool.
Source: Kotaku – Black Desert Devs’ Next Game Looks Dope, Features Horse Drift
I love video game statues and figurines. My desk and shelf at home are cluttered with visions of Kaidan Alenko from Mass Effect and Joel from The Last of Us in miniature. But as a person who loves making custom characters in RPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3, I’m often left wanting something tangible of the heroes I made.…
Source: Kotaku – Making Baldur’s Gate 3 Characters In This Figure Creation Tool Is My New Obsession
We got a lengthy look at a campaign mission from the upcoming Modern Warfare III during Gamescom 2023’s opening night, and once again it appears that Sledgehammer Games, Infinity Ward, and Activision are banking hard on Call of Duty fans’ nostalgia.
Source: Kotaku – Modern Warfare III Is Bringing Back Verdansk, Kind Of
Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has once again been accosted by an irreverent, clout-chasing youth, this time at the 2023 Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase. A man rushed the stage to tell the audience that “Bill Clinton wants to play GTA VI.” Keighley’s disappointment was palpable.
Source: Kotaku – Bill Clinton GTA VI Guy Rushes Stage At Gamescom Opening Night
GPU manufacturer Nvidia announced its plans to remaster, with full ray-tracing, Valve’s 2004 first-person shooter Half-Life 2 on August 22. Development will be handled by myriad Half-Life 2 mod teams, including those that made Half-Life 2: VR, united under new studio Orbifold, and it’ll be released for free.
Source: Kotaku – Half-Life 2 Will Soon Have Ray-Tracing
For years now, Destiny 2 has followed a similar pattern: release a big annual expansion followed by four individual seasons with familiar loot grinds and a predictable pace of narrative beats. No longer. After The Final Shape drops in early 2024, Bungie revealed the game will move to a new structure with bigger but…
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Ditching Seasons For ‘Episodes’ Amid Player Burnout
Today we got our first look at The Final Shape, the last expansion in Destiny 2‘s “Light and Darkness” saga that was first set in motion back in 2014. It arrives February 27, 2024, and it’s looking great so far.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2: The Final Shape Takes Players Inside The Traveler For A Fight 10 Years In The Making
I made a big mistake while playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Nearing the end of Act 2, I was faced with a decision—a big decision. Frozen by choice paralysis, I couldn’t pick, didn’t want to pick, and panicked. I did a terrible thing. I Googled it. I’m here today to confess my folly, and share it with you so you might not do…
Source: Kotaku – What Choice Should I Make At The End Of Baldur’s Gate 3’s Second Act?
Reality television show Love is Blind is turning into a mobile game for Netflix’s soon-to-be released Netflix Stories app. The interactive narrative game will debut on September 19, a few days before the show’s fifth season premieres on September 22, an August 22 press release says.
Source: Kotaku – Cursed Netflix Dating Show Getting Cursed Dating Sim
One of my biggest pain points with Baldur’s Gate 3 is its vague journal. In my first playthrough, I spent more time than I’m willing to admit chasing false leads because quest descriptions made it seem like solutions were hidden in the nooks and crannies of places I’d already been, only to find out they were on a…
Source: Kotaku – Getting Through Baldur’s Gate 3’s Shadow-Cursed Land Is Simpler Than It Seems
Pokémon doesn’t exactly shy away from providing dark backstories for its different monsters, and fittingly, that’s especially true of ghost-type Pokémon. But it does feel like Scarlet and Violet are a lot more comfortable than their predecessors were with putting heavier subjects like death at the forefront, rather…
Source: Kotaku – This New Pokémon From Scarlet And Violet’s DLC Has A Messed-Up Backstory
Immortals of Aveum, Ascendant Studios’ first-person shooter rooted in magic—not guns—is not performing all that magically on PC. Its August 22 launch day is preoccupied by stuttering, sometimes, crashing, and making the average PC sweat with the game’s ambitious Unreal Engine 5.1.
Source: Kotaku – Immortals Of Aveum Runs Poorly On Even The Best PC
