World of Warcraft’s next expansion, Battle for Azeroth, will be out on August 14. If you’re interested in WoW but don’t even know where to start, check out our guide for playing the addictive MMORPG in 2018. Read more
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 is coming to consoles via publisher Bandai Namco. You’ll be able to play one of the best role-playing games ever made on PS4 and Xbox One this August. No word on a Switch version, sadly. Read more
Spider-Man will be out September 7, developer Insomniac Games said today. Prepare to swing webs and so on.
Every JRPG fan’s pet peeve is this: You go into a weapon shop and start browsing, only to find a list of names with…
Last week, I tried to get a game running on my computer. Something was weird. I went to Google and found a very…
In February, publisher Square Enix surprised everyone with the release of Chrono Trigger on PC, leading to a…
What happens when you spend a ton of money on your indie game and then nobody buys it? This postmortem of Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is worth reading for its candor. “So far, I have made $0 from the game.” (Note: Kotaku staff writer Gita Jackson wrote for the game.) Read more
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