For some players, Baldur’s Gate 3’s combat is a rewarding challenge that requires a lot of planning and preparation. For others, it’s an absolute roadblock that makes it hard to progress in the game. We’ve given some general tips to help you excel in combat, but honestly, Baldur’s Gate 3 has enough options that let…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3: 6 Tips To Avoid Combat If You’re Not Into It
Hogwarts Legacy launched on February 10 of this year and was an instant sales hit—so much so that it’s still the highest-selling game of 2023, even with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in the mix. Though Switch exclusivity is likely part of the reason why Zelda can’t catch up to the controversial Hogwarts…
Source: Kotaku – Hogwarts Legacy 6 Months Later: Is Anyone Still Playing?
Baldur’s Gate 3 is an enormous game, and it’s based on the equally dense tabletop RPG (TTRPG) Dungeons & Dragons. But if you’re looking to optimize or even simplify your experience, there exist a bunch of settings and not-so-obvious gameplay features that can streamline your adventuring and make it more enjoyable.
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3: 17 Features You’ll Definitely Want To Mess With
The biggest Pokémon tournament of the year is going on right now and tons of players are getting disqualified for fielding hacked teams. The first Pokémon World Championship since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s big launch, the stricter checks are apparently catching some pros off guard, and ending their dreams of…
Source: Kotaku – Pokémon Tourney Cracks Down On Hacked Monsters, Disqualifies Tons Of Players
Jeopardy!’s 40th season is scheduled to begin on September 11. And this time around the popular trivia show is inviting past players from previous seasons to play one more time, a rare opportunity that most contestants never dreamed would happen. But to play again these contestants are being asked to cross the picket…
Source: Kotaku – Report: Jeopardy! Players Turn Down Rare Opportunity To Return, With Good Reason
Video game discounts are usually announced with the casualness of a grocery store flier—maybe the developer will post something about it on its news center, or Steam will send you a perfunctory email about getting 20 percent off. Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames vice president Hideki Kamiya might change that boring…
Source: Kotaku – All Game Sales Should Be Announced Like This
To quote Shakespeare, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” If you’re a player character in Baldur’s Gate 3, however, you may have better luck than most mortals, as it’s possible to find yourself with a whole party full of companions willing (and possibly eager) to pursue romance with you. With a number of…
Source: Kotaku – We Have Opinions About Baldur’s Gate 3’s Approach To Romance
Baldur’s Gate 3 is obviously a triumph. It’s an astonishingly ambitious and successful RPG, which brings the long-abandoned series back to its D&D routes, while building on everything developers Larian learned when making the exceptional Divinity: Original Sin games. But if there’s one aspect of the game that is…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3 Puts Luck Ahead Of Fun
On Friday, Deadline broke the news that martial arts legend Bruce Lee will finally get his very own anime series.
Source: Kotaku – Bruce Lee Is Getting An Anime Series
Blizzard added first-person shooter Overwatch 2 to Steam on August 10 alongside its stacked Invasion chapter, and the game is already getting review-bombed to the lowest circles of Hell.
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2 Steam Reviews Are Predictably Brutal, Say Porn Is The Best Part
WipeOut was Sony’s initial first-party exclusive for the original PlayStation when it launched back in 1995. The anti-gravity racing game was phenomenal. Now it’s abandoned. So one dedicated programmer took it upon himself to excavate the game’s leaked source code and make it playable for free in any web browser.
Source: Kotaku – Fan Painstakingly Ports WipeOut, Dares PlayStation To Shut Him Down And Make Its Own Remaster
The team behind the biggest Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 role-playing communities, Cfx.re, is officially becoming part of Rockstar Games. The new partnership comes ahead of the possible launch of GTA VI in 2024, and will lead to an updated policy that officially allows the addition of mods created in…
Source: Kotaku – Popular GTA Role-Play Community Scooped Up By Rockstar Ahead Of GTA 6
No one likes death threats or otherwise intimidating remarks that threaten violence. Such comments are callous, dehumanizing, pointless, unproductive, and do nothing for anyone. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada made that expressly clear, telling folks to not ask him for shit if all they’re going to do is send warning…
Source: Kotaku – Tekken Producer Has Had Enough With The ‘Silly’ Death Threats
The classic id Software shooter Quake II is back and looking better than ever in a new remaster that’s out now on all the major platforms. And for folks playing on Xbox Series X/S and PC, you’ll be able to invite seven of your best friends over to play together on one (hopefully) big screen.
Source: Kotaku – Quake II Remaster Out Now, Supports 8-Player (!) Splitscreen On Xbox/PC
As a seasoned lover and player of many tabletop roleplaying games myself, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a joy to play. In my dozen or so hours thus far, one of my favorite elements of this digital adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons is just how lushfully present and entertaining the game’s narrator is. And recently, the…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3’s Narrator Outtakes Are A Critical Hit
A talented modder has created a keyboard keycap that can play the original ‘90s hit shooter Doom. It even has sound! The new creation is just one more example of how the open-sourced shooter can be played on just about anything with a screen.
Source: Kotaku – 13 Things That You Can Play Doom On (But Probably Shouldn’t)
Baldur’s Gate 3 has been propped up as a big-budget, computerized approximation of a tabletop role-playing game, but that’s not entirely accurate. Sure, as an RPG rooted in Dungeons & Dragons’ Fifth Edition ruleset, complete with dice rolls, big decisions, and enough customization options for your build, appearance,…
Source: Kotaku – Baldur’s Gate 3: The Kotaku Review
Overwatch 2 Season 6, AKA Invasion, is upon us, and with it, the new support hero Illari and a new game mode called Flashpoint. While the aforementioned new arrivals are exciting additions to the team-based hero shooter, any seasoned Overwatch player knows the real question is whether or not its tandem patch update…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s Latest Patch Buffs Tanks, Nerfs Damage Heroes
Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller gave a bold, but accurate, statement during an exclusive press presentation two weeks before the massive Invasion content drop. While introducing the new content, Keller (who also said, somewhat pointedly, that Overwatch 2’s PvE mode was “not dead”) noted that the August 10…
Source: Kotaku – Overwatch 2’s New Content Drop Is Its ‘Broadest’ Ever, Blizz Says
