Zack Zwiezen, Author at Kotaku

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Suicide Squad’s First New Playable Character Will Be The Joker

The co-op shooter’s first season starts in March and will be totally free

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 22, 2024

OpinionImpressions

After Playing Palworld For 6 Hours I Still Haven’t Shot A Pokémon With A Gun

Instead, I’ve spent a lot of time crafting wooden tools and running around catching sheep

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 22, 2024

CultureNews

New Deal Offers 8 Great Shooters For Just $10

Doom 64, Quake, Dusk, Amid Evil, and Return To Castle Wolfenstein are just some of your options

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 22, 2024

Tips & Guides

Everything We Know About Xbox’s Big Indiana Jones Game

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is looking like it might be the Indy game we always wanted

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 19, 2024

OpinionCommentary

Hellblade II and Alan Wake 2 Are Signs of A Worrying Trend

Moving forward, there’s no guarantee that the next big console game will get a physical release

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 19, 2024

CultureOdds and Ends

The Best Part Of The Xbox Direct Happened Before It Started

If you watched today's Developer Direct stream, you might have spotted some fun facts

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 18, 2024

CultureNews

Bethesda’s Indiana Jones Is Both First-Person And Third-Person

The first gameplay of MachineGame's long-awaited Indiana Jones And The Great Circle arrived at Xbox's Developer Direct

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 18, 2024

CultureNews

Avowed, Obsidian’s Choice-Driven RPG, Launches This Fall

The RPG pros at Obsidian return to the world of Pillars of Eternity with a new first-person RPG

Zack Zwiezen & Levi Winslow Published January 18, 2024

CultureNews

Hogwarts Legacy Just Broke A 14-Year Games Industry Streak

For the first time since 2008, something other than Call of Duty or a Rockstar game was the best-seller

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 18, 2024

CultureNews

Rock Band Devs Announce No More DLC, Focusing On Fortnite Now

After nearly a decade of supporting Rock Band 4 with new songs, Harmonix is moving on

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2024

CultureNews

Square Enix: Can Y’all Stop Comparing Foamstars and Splatoon?

The Final Fantasy publisher has seen all of your ‘it’s a Splatoon clone’ comments

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2024

CultureNews

That ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Game Really Wants You To Know It’s Not A Scam

PalWorld’s developers say the odd project is just a ‘typical Steam game’ and ‘not a scam.’

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2024

CultureNews

Devs To Toxic Fans: Stop Being Awful, Please

The developers of city builder Cities: Skylines 2 are facing more and more online toxicity and threats

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 17, 2024

CultureNews

Speedrunning Dog Didn’t Set Record At AGDQ 2024, Still Good Boy

Peanut Butter aka PB is probably better at playing Gyromite on NES than you

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 16, 2024

CultureNews

Tomb Raider Remaster Fixes The Worst Thing About The Original Trilogy

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered will play and look like a new game, but you can also choose tank controls and ‘90s textures

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 16, 2024

CultureNews

Console Owners Played More Fortnite Than GTA V And Call Of Duty Combined

New data shows players spent over 1.6 billion hours in Epic’s massively popular battle royale

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 12, 2024

CultureNews

Family Guy Creator Reveals Why Peter Griffin Is Buff In Fortnite

Seth MacFarlane says you can blame budgetary issues for swole Peter

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 12, 2024

CultureNews

Suicide Squad Devs Spent Last Year Ripping Out Hated Gear Scores

Folks didn’t like the idea of having to hunt for slightly better guns in a flashy DC video game

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 12, 2024

CultureNews

PS5 Just Did Something A PlayStation Console Hasn’t Done Since 2004

Meanwhile, the Nintendo Switch continues to dominate Japan and Xbox is… still trying

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 12, 2024

CultureNews

Following Meh Previews, Rocksteady Is Lifting Suicide Squad’s Alpha Test NDA

Many playtesters enjoyed the game and Batman: Arkham ’s devs want them to share that online

By Zack Zwiezen Published January 11, 2024