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picture: EA Sports FIFA 23 is currently up for preorder around the world, and is supposed to be a full-price retail release, but in one particular market on one particular store, customers could get one hell of a bargain. Last month, anyone browsing the Epic Games Store in India would have seen that while the … Read more
picture: Bethesda / Kotaku / Fedorovekb (Shutterstock) As you may know, Bethesda’s mega-popular RPG series fallout is headed to a TV series. This is top of mind again because new pictures from the set of the upcoming post-nuclear Amazon adaptation leaked sometime in the past 24 hours. Live-action video game adaptations are getting pretty good … Read more
gif: id Software / Cheello / Kotaku File this one under “mods you probably thought already existed.” With Voxel Doomyou can now play the legendary 1993 first-person shooter doom with all the monsters and items rendered in beautifully chunky, 3D voxels. While smaller-scope voxel mods have existed in the past, this one replaces just about … Read more
picture: Square Enix final fantasy xvi‘s producer Naoki Yoshida was very candid about the current state of final-fantasy. In a recent interview with reversehe said that the long-running RPG series was not very adaptable to sea changes in the gaming industry. “In terms of whether Final Fantasy is successfully adapting to industry trends, I believe … Read more
picture: Meta / Kotaku “Metaverse” is a buzzword that has become quite popular in the last two years. Fortnite is a metaverse. Web3 and blockchain will help power the metaverse. Maybe cows will even be a part of it? However, nobody seems more invested in shaping our collective notion of what the metaverse is than … Read more
picture: rollerdrome One of my favorite Fine Art posts for the year was our showcase for OlliOlli Worldso it’s a huge pleasure that we’re able to be looking at art from Roll7’s latest game (rollerdromewhich is out this week) so soon. We’ve looked at the game a few times on the site already; it’s basically … Read more
picture: paradox Paradox released a piece of Crusader Kings III DLC in March 2021 called northern lords. For over a year it has been available for $7, but that price is about to be jacked up to $13 for…a reason? Dropping a note in the game’s forums, a community ambassador says: As of September 13, … Read more
picture: Google / Kotaku / Zoa.Arts (Shutterstock) Google Stadia hasn’t really been in the mainstream spotlight since its high-profile launch in 2019. And outside of bad news and poor reviews, it mainly disappeared from most gaming sites and YouTube channels. But the players who’ve invested hundreds or even thousands of hours into Google’s video game … Read more
picture: Square Enix There’s a dramatic scene in NieR: Automata in which a desperate, downtrodden android commands his AI companion to cease all logical functions. The AI, sensible thing that it is, warns him that there’s almost no chance this will end well. Our hero knows this, of course; he does it anyway. This leads … Read more
I hate to see you go but I love to watch you walk away.gif: Suggestive Games / Kotaku Hope you got your fill playing the best game of 2020, aka Hadesbecause the next wave of Xbox Game Pass games are upon us and alas, some games are leaving, too. Although this month’s lineup of games … Read more