Riley MacLeod

Underwater survival game Subnautica is coming to Xbox One Game Preview May 17. The in-development game will receive updates as it develops, similar to its Steam Early Access version.

Body Count Be Damned, Hitman‘s Elusive Targets Are Terrific

I can pass for a level-headed assassin in Hitman most of the time, especially with a little practice. But, when the game gave me an “Elusive Target” who I could only pursue once this weekend, my Agent 47 became a murder version of the Keystone Kops. Elusive Targets are a much-awaited feature in the new…

Hitman’s Elusive Targets will be coming “at some point on Friday during European hours,” according to Io’s blog. Once they’re live, players will have 48 hours and no saves to complete these contracts.

The Long Dark Is Boring And That’s Why It’s Great

Since late 2014, the developers of the Canadian wilderness survival game The Long Dark have refined the game’s interface, made its ravenous virtual wildlife smarter and added numerous player challenges. They’re planning to add a story, too, but the best facet of The Long Dark was there from the start: The game is slow. Really…

Watch Us Play The Overwatch Beta

We’re having some fun in the Overwatch beta for Ps4 over on Facebook. Check it out here.

Watch Us Play Push Me Pull You

We played some Push Me Pull You on our Facebook page today. It’s a PS4 game that basically asks what would happen if CatDog joined the high school wrestling team. If you missed the stream, you can catch up on it here.

We Ran The Rooftops In The Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Beta

I played a few hours of the Mirror’s Edge Catalyst closed beta over the weekend, and it was a lot of fun! You can watch me jump around like a parkour ninja— as well as smack into a few walls— in the video above. Catalyst brings some changes to the Mirror’s Edge formula. I enjoyed…

Player-Made Subnautica Base Is Extremely Impressive

Base-building in single-player games can be a lonely job. You deck out a massive palace only to wander its empty halls admiring your own handiwork. Personally I enjoy exploring for materials in crafting games more than building, but Early Access underwater survival game Subnautica might just change my mind. Redditor KrankenwagenKolya recently shared an album…

Hyper Light Drifter: The Kotaku Review

My favorite thing about Hyper Light Drifter is all the new swear words I invented while playing it. To be fair, swearing is one of my favorite things in general. Hyper Light Drifter generated those oaths of fury and joyful frustration that are unique to hard games. It’s an action RPG where enemies move quickly,…

Subnautica Developer Explains Why He Won’t Add Guns To The Game

Underwater survival game Subnautica has a lot of things that can kill you. As has long been a point of contention among players, you can’t do much to kill things back. This weekend, one of the game’s developers revealed the reasoning behind Subnautica’s lack of lethal weapons. Charlie Cleveland, Subnautica’s game director, responded to a…

The Great Wars Of EVE Online

EVE Online is a complicated game full of politics, subterfuge, and grand-scale wars. Factions rise and fall, corporations are overthrown, and you don’t have to play the game to know that a lot of what’s going on in it is really cool. Empires of EVE: A History of the Great Wars of EVE Online by…

According to Twitter, Episode Two of Hitman, Sapienza, will be released April 26. You can see what we thought of Episode One here

Deceptively cheery speedrunning shooter Lovely Planet is coming to PS4 and Wii U April 5th. You can read more about the game on the PlayStation blog

Bunker Punks Is A Cool Steam Early Access Game You Should Try

Bunker Punks is a roguelike first person shooter by Shane Neville’s one-person studio, Ninja Robot Dinosaur. That’s a bunch of cool words all crammed together. Which is appropriate, because Bunker Punks is crammed with a bunch of cool stuff. William Gibson-esque future where you make runs on corporations gone wild? Check. Randomized pixel art levels…

Paws, a standalone story for Shelter 2, has a new release trailer for you to sniffle at. It says “out now,” but Might and Delight’s newest “have feelings at baby animals” sim releases March 24th for PC and Mac.

Cities: Skylines gets terraforming in a new patch, as well as some additional map features. Check out the full patch notes here

Hyper Light Drifter is coming to PC and Mac March 31st. Here’s a new trailer to celebrate, which says the game will be coming to consoles later this year.

IO announced today that they’ve delayed the release of Hitman’s Elusive Targets until April. The unfortunate news is that we’re pushing out the Elusive Targets until closer to the planned release of the next episode, Sapienza in April, but you’ll get two Escalation Contracts coming each week until the release of Sapienza and between these…

Agent 47 Could Learn A Thing Or Two From These Animal Assassins

I’ve been having a blast roleplaying as a slick assassin in the new Hitman. I’m especially looking forward to playing the new Escalations this weekend. But Agent 47’s elegance will never compare to that found in the wild. Subreddit /r/hitmanimals is full of nature’s own assassins putting the best of 47’s moves to shame. These…

First Player To Reach Level Cap In The Division Does It In 130 Hours

After 130 hours, The Division player Chaos 3SK is the first person to reach max level in both the general game and the Dark Zone, Ubisoft announced today. According to Eurogamer, Chaos 3SK has unveiled 99 as the level cap for the Dark Zone’s separate leveling system, which they achieved in addition to the max…