When you finally get to him, the Performer will speak in wistful poetic prose about his homeland, playing lovely shamisen music in a moonlit courtyard, with a gentle lilt in his voice. And no amount of beautiful shamisen playing or poetic turns of phrase changes the fact that
Peter Quill, AKA: Star-Lord, is a very straight-forward, powerful hero with the ability to keep consistent pressure on the enemy team and flexibility to fit in as both a frontline fighter and a powerful flanker, able to engage against any type of enemy effectively with his
Truly exceptional games don't just appeal to their audience, David Gaider says, they expand it.
Despite having spent 45 hours with the game, I’m still not quite ready to slap “The Kotaku Review” on anything I write about The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy yet. Too Kyo Games’ tactical RPG has 100 endings and I’ve only seen a handful, the game’s “true” route not among
Back in 2010, when Cartoon Network first announced its plan to reboot the beloved 1985 animated TV series Thundercats, the first thought that went through my mind was, “That’s great! Do Blackstar next!” In 2014, when Boat Rocker Media announced its reboot of 1981’s Danger
Cineverse dropped a first trailer today for the American release of Escape From the 21st Century, Yang Li’s frantic time-travel comedy movie about three hapless teenage nerds who mysteriously gain the ability to jump forward into their future adult bodies whenever they sneeze.
Shigeru Miyamoto , Nintendo’s legendary game designer and the creator of Mario, Zelda, and more, is a busy guy these days. He’s helping Nintendo make movies while also being involved in the construction of Mario theme parks at Universal Studios. But really, it seems like
Pitchford shared a recent video from PAX East to explain "the truth" about videogame pricing.
A meteoric rise with, uh, a few bumps along the way.
Pokémon Go players can now evolve Kubfu into Urshifu, but the big fighting bear has two forms: Single Strike and Rapid Strike. Which one should you evolve your Kubfu into? How do you even evolve the Kubfu to begin with? We’re here with the answers. Since the Kubfu can only
What's old is new again.
During the course of developing Mario Kart World, the team making it were confronted with an important, potentially existential question: Does Mario, in fact, eat mushrooms? Meaning, do Super Mushrooms in the Mario universe need to be eaten, or simply touched to imbue Mario
In his seemingly endless quest to not finish The Winds of Winter, Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has a new project on the table: He’s producing a magical-realist reimagining of the story of Hercules, animated by Blue Spirit, the Emmy-winning studio behind the bloody
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt celebrated ten years of monster slaying on May 19, and publisher CD Projekt honored the milestone with an anniversary stream starring Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle, a stunning new trailer, and The Witcher 3 price drops across platforms for those who
The fuse has been lit and the mission has been accepted. That’s right folks, it’s time for a new Mission: Impossible film. Final Reckoning, the latest entry in the popular action franchise, arrives in theaters this week. But if this new film has you all excited about the series
Xbox Game Pass appears to be taking a page from Nintendo Switch Online’s playbook by adding a slew of classic titles to its library. Xbox and Antstream Arcade have joined forces to launch Retro Classics, which gives all Game Pass members access to a 50+ collection of Activision
Refreshing the Pokémon Center to see what new items have been added each day has become something of an obsession for me. The site adds new stock so incredibly frequently as to be constantly astonishing, and today is no different. The latest arrivals on the store are a new
Pokémon Go’s “Might and Mastery” season is finally winding down and with that comes the “Final Strike: Go Battle Week” event running from May 21-27. With this event, you can now evolve your Kubfu into Urshifu, and finish the seasonal “Might and Mastery” Special Research. There
Xbox Game Pass has been killing it this year and May is especially packed. The subscription library is getting a load of cool indies as well as 2024 GOTY contender Metaphor: ReFantazio. That’s on top of all of the heavy hitters that already arrived earlier in the month. There
Surprise! If you are a Game Pass subscriber, you now have access to dozens and dozens of retro video games. And Xbox and Activision plan to add even more classic games in the future. Read more...
That sounds good to me.
For fans of YouTube’s billion-view RackaRacka channel, the emergence of Australian twins Danny and Michael Philippou as filmmakers wasn’t necessarily a surprise — they’d been making videos together since childhood, and their online work earned them millions of followers. Movies
Xbox Game Pass is adding yet another show-stopping role-playing game to its catalog with Metaphor: ReFantazio, arriving on the service on May 29. The game joins heavy hitters Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 alongside charming experiences
The actor also discusses death, horses and how to talk to girls.
If you’re playing a Mage-type class in Oblivion Remastered—who doesn’t want to toss fireballs and smack people with a lightning-infused backhand?—then you’ll need to prioritize improving the Destruction skill. It’s a key skill that turns the average magic-wielding wannabe into
TGP to the max.
It's much prettier than 2013's year of the snake model.
Though whether it gets used for analog gaming keyboards is up to keyboard makers—Cherry says it is aiming at the mass market.
The Last of Us season two’s penultimate episode was almost entirely flashbacks of Joel and Ellie’s lives together in Jackson. Some of these were plucked straight from the Last of Us Part II video game, others are brand new for the series. The most important one, however, was
"AI researchers are still doing AI research in China," say Jensen Huang.
PlayStation Stars was Sony’s bizarre overhaul of its existing loyalty program aimed at rewarding players with not just points they could put toward purchases of digital games but also with collectibles they could display on a virtual shelf. It was a neat idea implemented in the
If you asked any Nintendo fan prior to the reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2, they’d likely tell you that the world would never see a sequel for Mario Kart 8. Why would Nintendo bother? A full decade after its release, the latest entry in the iconic racing franchise kept selling
Happy Cool Sword Day to all who celebrate. What, you forgot? We get it. It’s easy to forget Cool Sword Day, the No. 1 holiday dedicated to cool swords in all walks of media, because it arrives in the lead-up to the “more legitimate” national holiday of Memorial Day. But that
The first game we officially saw running on a Switch 2 was Mario Kart World. The open-world racing game will be launching alongside the new console next month, but that wasn’t always the plan. Mario Kart World was going to be a Switch 1 game, until the devs realized the aging
An endearingly kitchen sink approach to capturing the drift lifestyle, but its fittings need tightening up.
Play like a legend with a headset designed for sound, style and endurance
If it's not your own, give back the bone.
Regardless of how strong the Doom Slayer is in Doom: The Dark Ages, going for the best upgrades in the game is your best strategy. The upgrade system in Doom: The Dark Ages splits between attribute upgrades and equipment upgrades. For the former, you need to acquire Demonic
Satan’s favourite deckbuilder makes another irresistible pitch for our souls.
It is a very big PC case.
Mario Kart World is an open-world racer in which you can literally drive from course to course and nearly everywhere in-between. But the only thing fans wanted to talk about after the Switch 2 exclusive got its first trailer was a cow riding a motorcycle . As it turns out,
Ubisoft appears to be bringing Rayman back in a new AAA experience, based on job listings that call for talent to join the development team. Studio Ubisoft Milan recently posted job listings searching for a 3D gameplay animator and a senior game designer to be “involved in the
You can still control it all through an app, but I like the twist-n-go simplicity.
In Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 movie Kill Bill: Volume 1, vengeful assassin The Bride (Uma Thurman) seeks a sword from the legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō (Sonny Chiba). “I need Japanese steel,” she says. “I have vermin to kill.” Hanzō has sworn off making instruments of death,
When Disney initially invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games, a shape for the partnership seemed easy to trace. Surely, Fortnite would get lux branded skins alongside superhero-themed seasonal events, all tied to the release of major Marvel movies. Perhaps we’d see the digital
The news comes a month after Indiana Jones and the Great Circle also jumped to the rival platform.
The march of “everything is an Xbox” continues as console exclusive Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II becomes the latest first-party Microsoft game to come to PlayStation 5. The visually dazzling fantasy thriller will arrive on Sony’s platform this summer with new features and an
Why, you ask? Allow me to explain.
They're just little guys. They're just little guys with semi-automatic weapons.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is bound for PlayStation 5 this summer, developer Ninja Theory announced Wednesday (the one-year anniversary of the game’s release on Xbox Series X and Windows PC, by the way). The PS5 version will include “new features that will also be coming to Xbox