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Ethan Gach
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Senior reporter at Kotaku. Have a gaming industry tip? You can reach me securely at ethangach@protonmail.com.

I think Nioh is a nice branching alternative on the Souls-like tree. It’s a little more loot-based and replay-heavy while also having combat with a little more of a fighting game feel. I’ll admit a lot of it went over my head, so I wouldn’t be disappointed if Nioh 2 tried to make that system a bit more Read more

Salt & Sanctuary is another one of my favorite Souls-likes. It borrows the basic structure but manages to create a really great metroidvania world with a punk horror movie feel. Read more

The player-base on console is big enough but most of the hardcore audience is on PC. Either way, it’s one of the most interesting fighting game/brawlers I’ve ever played and worth checking out, especially as new stuff keeps getting added. As someone said higher up in the comments, it’s been doing a mini-Rainbow Six Read more

The two most exciting things, Starfield and ESVI, are still years out unfortunately. Read more

Fallout 76 looks like Fallout: Rust which could be cool but is A LOT. Surprisingly, I came away from that much more hyped for Rage 2 and...Elder Scrolls Blades? I think I’m ready to swipe right to slay the dragon and deck out my medieval town with the best cosmetics microtransactions can buy. Read more

And now something more:“the game you keep asking about.” Read more

Todd is now teasing a new original game. The first in 25 years from Bethesda (ouch). We’re in space looking at the surface of a planet. Read more

Blades is out at this fall as a free game on BOTH iPhone and Android, so it’s not exclusive to Apple actually. Read more

The main mode is called “Town,” aka town-building. You can also visit friends towns. They look way better than the dungeons being explored at the start of the trailer. Read more

Both designed and procedurally generated dungeons you can explore as a customized character wielding both melee weapons and spells.

Elder Scrolls Blades on is a “massive RPG” with “console-quality graphics” online on iPhone. Read more

There’s going to be a beta for Fallout 76. Read more

There’s a photomode of some kind for after killing certain large enemies too it seems. Fallout 76 is ready for the memes.

Now more gameplay told through a series of mock-Vault-Tec informational videos. We see groups of four or so players blowing up mutants together. Read more

“It’s the apocalypse, not an amusement park,” Howard says, stressing that you’ll never be instanced with more than a few dozen other players. Read more

He stresses you’ll be able to play the game completely alone, but the other characters in the world will be real people. “I like to think of it as more ‘soft-core’ survival.”
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