New World Aeternum Is A Complete Revamp Of Amazon’s Hit MMORPG
Screenshot: Amazon Games / Kotaku Early on, the game teaches you to hunt wild boars, skin them for their meat, and then craft rations at a campfire. Aside from this segway during the game’s prologue on the beach, it doesn’t…
Baldur’s Gate 3 Publisher Condemns Scalpers As CE Hits $3,000
Scalpers are just capitalism working efficiently. As such, they’re absolute scumbags who ruin fun things, proven yet again with the release of Larian’s physical “Collector’s Edition” of Baldur’s Gate 3. The enormo-box, sold out by official means, is now being…
ReFantazio And More Gaming Takes
Image: Blue Rider Interactive One of the most well-known principles of theatrical storytelling is widely referred to as “Chekhov’s gun.” The principle suggests that if some element is introduced to a story, even in a casual, offhand way, by the…
Five Epic Games We’re Getting Lost In
Play it on: PC, Switch, PlayStation, XboxCurrent goal: Make my stronghold a little nicer If I’m honest, most of my gaming time this weekend will probably go, once again, toward the incredible UFO 50. (I now have my first two…
How To Unlock Each Archetype
Screenshot: Atlus / Kotaku Atlus’ new fantasy social sim RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio is out today, October 11. The game’s turn-based battle system is similar to those in the studio’s past work like Shin Megami Tensei and Persona, but is built…
No, You Shouldn’t Livestream Hurricane Milton For Clout
Hurricane Milton, one of the biggest storms in recorded history, is set to make landfall in Florida on October 9. It will likely cause tens of billions of dollars of damage and could kill or injure many people who are…
Another Previously Current Gen-Only Game Is Getting A PS4 Port
Image: Coffee Stain / Sony / Kotaku The PlayStation 4 and Xbox are nearly 11 years old, but they are still surprisingly popular and used daily by a lot of people. That probably explains why Goat Simulator 3, released back…
Every Star Wars TV Show, From Andor To Mando, Ranked
Maybe my most successful tweet ever was this one, four images from episode five of Andor accompanied by my reaction: “Whoa.” In those images, young Karis Nemik, the most intellectually engaged member of the small band on Aldhani planning a…
Today’s NYT Connections Groups And Answers, Sunday, October 6
Illustration: Kotaku / Vicky Leta Happy Sunday, gang! The weekend’s half-gone (or half-full, depending on how much you’re dreading Monday). We’ve got our Sunday mental workout ready for you, and then you can head off and get your gaming grind…
Get Ready For Diablo 4’s Expansion, Save On Big Games, And More
Image: Square Enix, 505 Games, Capcom, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios / Sega, Blizzard, Sega, Blizzard, Kojima Productions, Screenshot: Capcom It’s the start of a new month, which means there’s a host of hot, new games coming your way. It can…