Nioh is an astonishing game with fast samurai action. Ninja tools, magic spells, and a variety of weapons should have made for fun player versus player battles. Unfortunately, sloppy connections and overpowered builds drag down the experience. A free addition to the game, Nioh’s new PvP mode drops right as a new DLC, Dragon of…
Beeswing is a charismatic game dancing the line between adventure and RPG. Exploring a quiet Scottish village, you help citizens solve their problems in a beautifully handcrafted world. It’s this week’s indie pick. Created by Jack King-Spooner, Beeswing originally released in 2014. With a recent update, you can play the game in your browser. The…
TumbleSeed is a game where you guide your character forward on a seesaw-esque swing on a journey to scale a hazardous mountain. We play the first twenty minutes in this Kotaku Plays. TumbleSeed has two sides. On the one hand, it offers a friendly world of cute monster pals and relaxing music. On the other,…
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a great time. Cruising around tracks and shooting Koopa shells all over the place will never get old. But someone’s enjoying it way more than anyone else: the Inklings from Splatoon. They are precious children and happy to be here. Be nice to them. The Inkling Boy and Inkling Girl…
In their first post gamecommunity update, Playtonic Games has announced some “spit ‘n polish” is coming to Yooka-Laylee. Skippable text and cutscenes will pick up the pace and fixes to the camera should prevent players from watching the colorful animal duo fall to their deaths over and over and over and over…
Everyone makes purchases they regret. You might buy an expensive toy, binge on cartons of ice cream, get a fancy dress, or you might buy too many copies of a Top Gun video game. On March 23rd, games archivist and Video Game History Foundation director Frank Cifaldi noticed an unusual auction on eBay. The listing…
The Battlefield series is renowned for intricate easter eggs. In the latest, a series of clues added in the recent They Shall Not Pass DLC allows players to summon a terrifying giant shark from the depths. Before They Shall Not Pass, the game had alreadyhidden a secret dog taglocated by deciphering encrypted morse code message.…
This week, Fire Emblem Heroes added characters from the popular title Path of Radiance. But an additional banner with top tier characters raise the question: why don’t you slow the hell down? Fire Emblem Heroes is a mobile take on the popular strategy game series. I’m a big fan but it’s not perfect. The most…
For Honor’s second season is on the way, starting with two new heroes arriving on May 23rd. The Centurion is a Knight faction hybrid fighter and the Shinobi is a try-hard ninja that you can rag on instead of my beloved Orochi. Who is still the best.
Little Nightmares is like being up late as a child, stumbling after a bad dream. Shadows hide monsters and nothing is as it should be. It’s quiet and unsettling but also nothing that hasn’t been done before. Little Nightmares is a puzzle platformer that comes out tomorrow for Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. You…
Playeruknown’s Battlegrounds mixes tactics and battle royale bloodshed into a tense experience. We sit down to sneak around, gather an arsenal, and kick everyone’s butt in this Kotaku Plays. This post originally appeared 4/26/17. Holy crap! We did it. Faced with 100 other players armed with shotguns, assault rifles, and frying pans, we somehow persevered…
Conquering a game’s challenges over and over again can make you feel invincible. With a new world record in sight, one Breath of the Wild speedrunner decided to get flashy with the final boss. Too bad Ganon was having none of it. Ikkitrix is the current world record holder for Breath of the Wild’s Any%…
There is nothing but darkness surrounding you. You raise your scanner and paint droplets of iridescent light that cling to the walls, guiding your way towards the surface and, you hope, home. This is Scanner Sombre and it’s this week’s Indie Pick. Scanner Sombre is an exploration game by Introversion Software, the team behind the…
Planescape: Torment is a marvel of a game. One of the best stories in the medium, it packs a ton of emotional punch. Two moments, with smart design at their core, illustrate why it remains great to this day. We break it down in this critical video. SPOILERS AHEAD Transcript: I consider Planescape: Torment to…
Today is the 31st birthday of the Konami Code. The memorable cheat first appeared in 1986’s Gradius and has been a fixture of games ever since. Here are ten great uses of this legendary code Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. It’s ingrained in countless gamers’ minds. The Konami Code has…
The 2000 Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark was full of secrets. There were cheat codes to find, hidden pieces of cheese scattered around levels, and special modes to unlock. One mystery remains, nearly two decades later, with only a few hidden passwords hinting at its existence. Unfortunately, even the game’s developers were not able to…
Robert “shadder2k” Mocanu is one of the best Genji players in professional Overwatch. This weekend, he proved that he was not just a great player but also a pretty nice dude. shadder2k and his cohorts in Team Liquid faced off against EnVyUs on Watchpoint Gibraltar during this weekend’s HND Overwatch Invitational. The most remarkable thing…
Twitch has announced a new Affiliate Program that allows smaller channels to earn revenue. It will launch later this month, granting fans the ability to donate cheers to affiliated channels and drown streamers in ego-inflating internet kudos. Features including channel subscription will be added in time.
It’s safe to say that I wasn’t impressed withGhost Recon Wildlands The game’s first DLC Narco Road tries to take the game down a wackier, more adrenaline filled path. After all, Tom Clancy games are well known for monster trucks. Spending time with Wildlands revealed a solid tactical core underneath the uninspired world design and…
Asura is a hack and slash that puts you in the role of a dangerous demon fighting an evil maharaja. Inspired by Indian myths and full of intense combat, it’s this week’s Indie Pick. I’m a big fan of rougue-lites and classic dungeon crawling. I picked up Brutal last year and still take time for…
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