HomeCategory Gaming

Helldivers 2’s next big update is buffing the gun that’s designed to be “like a sniper rifle on crack” so you can blast larger enemies to bits

Helldivers 2‘s upcoming patch will be bringing with it some pretty beefy buffs to the RS-422 railgun, with Arrowhead having slid the weapon’s damage numbers upwards in its efforts to deliver the kind of fun that the game’s community has been asking for. The studio is offering little snippets of the notes for Patch 01.001.007 at the moment, building on what it shared in last week’s blog post and building up to the update dropping...

Marvel still hasn’t really shown much of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but hopefully the reveal of a prequel comic will tide you over

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is still yet to get its first trailer, but Marvel has announced a prequel comic to coincide with the animated series. Despite the fact that Marvel’s animated take on everyone’s favourite web-slinger, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, is due out in about two months, we haven’t seen all that much of it. Even still, an upcoming prequel comic run has been revealed that essentially serves as an origin story for...

Be careful of spoilers, Zelda fans, Echoes of Wisdom appears to have leaked online

Those of you hoping to go into The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom might want to be careful, as the ROM appears to have been leaked. It seems like you just can’t spend any amount of time on the internet without being wary of spoilers these days, and as leak culture just continues to dominate, it’s getting harder and harder to avoid them. Now, it seems like the ROM for Nintendo’s next...

The Watch Dogs movie has wrapped up filming more than 10 years after it was first announced, which I’m assuming means it’s a guaranteed best picture winner

It turns out the Watch Dogs movie is in production, and in fact has already wrapped on filming. Much like the Minecraft movie and the Borderlands movie, the Watch Dogs movie has been in the works for about a decade now, though unlike the Minecraft movie which finally received a trailer last week, and the Borderlands movie which was released last week (and was so abysmal that it got a digital release only...

Noche UFC Deserved Our Reservation, Now It Deserves Our Praise

Something strange happened during the lead-up to Noche UFC, the promotion’s second annual celebration of Mexican Independence Day. For the first time since becoming interested in MMA during the McGregor era and falling in love with the sport during the pandemic, I skipped all of my UFC fight week traditions. I hadn’t tuned in to a single episode of Embedded, nor did I watch the press conference on Thursday or the ceremonial weigh-ins on Friday....

Blizzard is working with, uh, Blizzard to celebrate World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary with some Overwatch 2 skins

Blizzard is celebrating World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary this year, and to do so it’s… collaborating with itself by putting some WoW skins in Overwatch 2. Collabs are all the rage these days for live-service games, but it can be a bit funny when a developer does it with itself – which is exactly what Blizzard has done with its latest one. This coming November is the 20th anniversary of World of Warcraft (I’m...

Mobile classic Flappy Bird comes back, immediately ruined by fact it is seemingly just a vehicle for blockchain nonsense with the original creator not involved

The classic mobile game Flappy Bird was announced to be making a return this week, except it’s not quite the comeback you think it is. I’m not going to ask you if you remember Flappy Bird, because of course you do, everyone does. It was a very OK mobile game that went viral about a decade ago in a way mobile games just can’t really do anymore, that eventually led to its creator...

Getting wound up by badly behaving Deadlock players? Good news, Valve has added in some features to help stop annoying players getting away with anything they want

Deadlock is still early in development, so some players have been able to play however they like without any kind of punishment – but the newest update should stop that. Valve is working on a brand new shooter, one of the hero variety, if you hadn’t heard, but it being still in the testing phase means that Deadlock doesn’t quite have all the kinks worked out yet. However, when it comes to things like players...

Astro Bot Is More Crucial Sony News Than Concord Or The PS5 Pro

Screenshot: Kotaku / Team Asobi / Sony I cried at the end of Astro Bot. I recognize this isn’t indicative of much beyond my sentimentality, but I thought it was a crucial tidbit to underscore something else, something important about PlayStation’s excellent new platformer. It really is, more than anything else, a celebration of the consoles and games that shaped me, and likely many of you, too. It is so completely possessed with joy and...

The PS5 Pro And Its $700 Price Tag Has Our Staff Divided

Image: PlayStation To be able to afford something means more than just having the money that it costs. It also means having the requisite desire and perceived need to convince yourself its cost is commensurate with its value. When I say I can’t afford to take a $40 Uber home from the office but then spend $60 on Uber Eats when I get home, what I’m saying is I find being cooked for to be...