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A year out from its initial early access launch, I can finally see what Moon Studios wants to make with No Rest for the Wicked. It's big in scope and scale, mashing conventions and mechanics of several genres into one world folded in on itself like its own intricately layered levels. And it invites much comparison: to Dark Souls and Diablo, namely.And also fighting games. Monster Hunter Wilds. Even Animal...
Sony-owned developer Haven Studios had planned to release its live service shooter Fairgames this year, but the departure of its founder, Jade Raymond, and poorly-received external playtests has resulted in a delay to 2025, according to a Bloomberg report.Raymond started Haven in 2021 just two months after leaving Stadia Games, Google's relatively short-lived internal development studio. Its debut game, Fairgames, was announced in 2023. The shooter was pitched as a...
Last year, I had the pleasure of covering the existence of the Warhammer Conference, the world's first academic conference devoted to philosophical, theoretical, and otherwise scholarly appraisal of everything involving Space Marines, Chaos demons, and grim darkness both futuristic and fantastical. Today, I'm pleased to report that the Warhammer Conference is returning this September to Heidelberg, Germany for the second of what we can only hope is a long-lived annual...
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In Doom: The Dark Ages’ chapter 5, “The Holy City of Aratum,” you must find two secret landing spots to land your flying cyber…demon…dragon… thing to complete the chapter’s “Layover” challenge. This challenge aren’t mandatory for you to finish the chapter and progress the story, but it’s always worth checking what they are asking you to do. These are secondary missions that can give you great prizes from gold to...
World of Warcraft's latest patch was riddled with bugs and time-gated content, frustrating players and causing some pundits to pan it as a disaster, with even friendlier streamers noting that the patch process is broken and that Blizzard blew it. (See our full report for the details).I recently interviewed WoW senior game director Ion Hazzikostas, who said that the 11.1.5 launch did not go as planned and that Blizzard needs...
Suddenly it all makes sense: The director of the turn-based RPG with combat that plays like an action game, Clair Obscur, is also a hardcore Devil May Cry player.GamesRadar was snooping through Guillaume Broche's Reddit account—where he once made a post looking for voice actors—and found a YouTube video of him defeating Vergil in Devil May Cry 5 and taking zero damage. "Had another go at Vergil after 6 months,...
I began to suspect things were unstable when the president beat a man to death in the street. Daniel Webster was an odd choice of leader by the American people: his predecessor, Andrew Jackson, did a lot of hate crimes and died early, his popularity hovering somewhere around the level of 'active rebellion'. Yet when it came time for the election, the USA decided it wanted the man who, if...
Shortly after Epic Games dropped Darth Vader, in the form of a holographic conversational AI, into Fortnite, players started figuring out how to get the Sith lord to say the worst things possible. That includes tricking Darth into saying the F-word, “edging and gooning,” and, chillingly, “Skibidi Toilets.” In response, Epic says it pushed out a hotfix for Fortnite “immediately” and said “this shouldn’t happen again.” But now that Epic...
After facing his samurai iteration, you can recruit Darth Vader to your squad in Fornite, though be aware that he’ll now talk to you with an AI-recreated version of James Earl Jones’ iconic voice. The Chapter 6 Star Wars season of Fortnite, called Galactic Battle, is bringing famous characters and seasonal items themed around a galaxy far, far away. But no Star Wars-themed season could ignore the most famous Sith...
This week marked 20 years since the reveal of the Xbox 360, an anniversary noted by Kotaku, and as someone old enough to remember getting hyped for this thing, I had to watch it.The reveal took place in 2005, and is basically a collection of signifiers that we're back in 2005: The video (embedded below) opens with an iPod ad featuring the Gorillaz, and then we get into the real...