I love Dead Cells. The side-scrolling combat and platforming are tight, the art is impeccable, and its progression system and unlock curve are among the best I’ve ever seen. It feels like a near-perfectly designed game. In the three years since its rel…
Halo Infinite’s Crystal-Clear Visual Design Puts Its Murky Competitors To Shame
I cannot believe I am praising a video game because I can see it, but hear me out. Somewhere along the line, maybe in the last decade and some change, shooters have become a visual mess. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve had to squint hard in games…
Call Of Duty: Warzone Devs Stage Walkout Over Layoffs
Quality assurance testers and other developers at Raven Software, the Activision studio in charge of the extremely lucrative free-to-play battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone, are walking out on the job today to protest surprise layoffs that were foiste…
Halo Infinite: The Kotaku Review
How do you even consider Halo Infinite in totality? Not just any Halo game but this Halo game—one that was supposed to herald a new generation of Xboxes but was delayed out of the launch window; one that’s had no shortage of public scrutiny over its tu…
The Week In Games: Master Chief Simulator 2021
After a long wait, a year-long delay, betas, and plenty of previews and trailers too, it’s finally time for Halo Infinite. The next installment in the franchise drops this week across Xbox and PC. Read more…
After Long Server Queues, Square Enix Will Give Final Fantasy XIV Players Free Game Time
Popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV launched its latest expansion on Friday. Since then, folks have struggled to play due to a huge influx of players, frequent disconnects, and long server queues. To compensate players for all this, Square Enix and FFXIV’…
The Rock Turns Fortnite’s Island Upside-Down In ‘The End’
After months of speculation and a sly Instagram tease, Dwayne Johnson is revealed as the voice of The Foundation in the dramatic conclusion to Fortnite chapter two. Watch The Rock turn the entire island upside-down, literally. Read more…
Final Fantasy XIV Has More Than Doubled Its Active Playerbase On Steam Since June
Final Fantasy XIV might be nearly a decade old (or over a decade old if you count the original version released in 2010) but the MMORPG is more popular than ever. After the early access release of its latest and highly anticipated expansion, Endwalker,…
Call of Duty QA Testers Face Layoffs After Reportedly Being Promised Raises By Activision
Today, contract testers at the Call of Duty studio Raven Software were told that the studio would face layoffs on January 28th of next year, a Call of Duty community manager said on Twitter. A source familiar with the goings-on at the company confirmed…
25 Years Later, Quake Gets A Horde Mode
Back in August, Bethesda released a remastered Quake across basically every modern gaming platform, including Switch. Now, a few months later, this version of the game just received its second large update, adding a new co-op horde mode, additional map…