Last week, a good chunk of the digital world shut down and stopped working due to an update that caused Microsoft’s Windows operating system to crash and display a blue screen on millions of devices.....
I’m fairly late to the Like a Dragon party. To date, the only games I’ve played are Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth, Gaiden, and the spinoff, Judgment. They’re all great games and I’ve enjoyed....
On July 23, in response to the ongoing backlash against a Black lead character in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows, developer Ubisoft released a lengthy statement. The responses on X (formerly Tw...
In 2007, console gaming got its first day-and-date digital release. The sci-fi war shooter Warhawk for the PlayStation 3 was sold as a Blu-ray disc in stores but was also available to buy digitally on...
At its most basic, The First Descendant is a game about grinding out unlocks. You unlock better weapons, more powerful modules, unique playstyles in the form of Descendants, and countless upon countle...
How much chaos can one box cause? When that box is added to a decades-old Counter-Strike map with no warning, it turns out quite a lot of chaos. The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: June 2023.....
Even with its gorgeous modern graphics and intricate puzzles, 2024’s Riven impressed me most with its sounds. The remake of the 1997 sequel to the seminal puzzle game Myst is a masterclass in how crea...
If you thought unlocking Bunny in The First Descendant was too easy, wait until you see the unlock requirements for Enzo. He’s a powerful Descendant, with a big ole’ weapon to sling at enemies, but th...
Today, the Lego Group and Epic Games announced new Lego sets based on the popular free-to-play shooter Fortnite. Three of these sets are cool and fun. One of these sets is a horrific nightmare that mi...
Final Fantasy XIV might be a multiplayer game, but not all of us are social butterflies. I mean, sure, it’s one thing to see other players questing in the open world, but do you have to talk with them...
God, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is so frustrating. I’m this close to absolutely adoring this assortment of timed challenges from NES games. In many ways, it feels like it’s designed pre...
Even a short flight from the UK to Spain generates 0.5 metric tons CO2 equivalent. You can offset that from as little as €22.50 / £19.50. ...
Since the announcement of Ubisoft’s next Assassin’s Creed game, Shadows, it has been at the center of a culture war. Most of the conversation has been carried out in intensely bad faith, focusing on t...
Helldivers 2 has changed a lot over the past five months, but that change has been largely incremental, taking place across a number of smaller, steadily released updates. It seemed like every other w...
Forget Brat summer, it’s time for “Bee My Honey” summer. The pop song that serves as the background music to one of Final Fantasy 14’s new raids is an undeniable ear worm that I, and many other player...
If you want to take down everything that stands in your way in soulslike Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, you’ll need to gather everything in the game that can upgrade your skill tree in combat. Choosing...
The second trailer for Joker 2 is here and more twisted than a six-pack of hard iced tea. It pulls back the curtain a bit more on how the canonical love story/abusive relationship between Joaquin Phoe...
If you’re a subscriber to Amazon Prime and watch its streamer offshoot Prime Video, you’ll know what an absolutely ghastly nightmare it can be to use. Shows and movies that you can watch for “free” as...
Former President Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance is out campaigning to show he’s not a boring weirdo with zero charisma. It’s not going well. Kotaku’s Hopes For Spyro The Dragon’s (Reported) Com....
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn may not sport as many weapons as other, more traditional soulslikes, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a variety of options to choose from when deciding how to build your...
In the first five minutes of the new cyberpunk noir game Nobody Wants to Die, the main character runs through a list of genre tropes in record time. He pounds down a bottle of pills, takes a swig of a...
I love strategy games, but getting into a new one is always an uphill struggle for me. There’s a ton of new information to take in, new systems to familiarize myself with, and all of the odd quirks an...