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I’d already died twice, trying to clear out a small warehouse around 30 minutes into my session with Stalker 2. This time, I’d do it better. Rushing in wasn’t an option. I snuck around the side, waiting until two enemy stalkers turned their back, and then bam! With them dead, a cat and mouse game ensued between myself and their allies. Hurt but victorious, my reward was ammo and supplies, broken guns that weren’t worth...

EA Sports FC 25‘s third title update is now available for those on PS4 and Xbox One, with other platforms set to follow “soon”. What are you getting with it? Well, a lot, including some balacing tweaks and nerfs it’s worth being aware of. This update follows the comparatively brief second title update to the game, and last week’s first live tuning update, which aimed to get rid of “instances of players accelerating unintentionally quickly”,...

Remember that time in the 90s when Michael Jordan retired and then un-retired from ruining the lives of his fellow NBA players’ lives? Well, it seems we’ve just had a sort of video game composer analogue of that, with legendary Final Fantasy songsmith Nobuo Uematsu now having said that he’s not planning on retiring from making game music following his work on Fantasian Neo Dimension. If you’re wondering why he’s had to clarify that, well,...

To me, some of the best quests in The Witcher 3 – or a number of other RPGs for that matter – are the ones that decide to get a weird and embrace being a bizarre interlude in what can otherwise be a tale that takes itself pretty seriously. One of the latest quest mods to arrive for CD Projekt’s masterpiece looks like it’s decided to take that route. We’ve already reported on a couple...

Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku For many, there was a lingering hope that the first major expansion for Starfield, Shattered Space, would rescue the game from the throes of mediocrity. Then, with a focus on House Va’ruun and their home planet of Va’ruun’kai, the story-based DLC launched and immediately plummeted, becoming one of Bethesda’s most poorly reviewed pieces of content to date. Within the span of a week, the expansion sat firmly in the ‘Mostly Negative’...

Across the 1025 Pokémon Game Freak has put out into the world, there are a handful that are cursed with some internet-poisoned nonsense that makes them an instant meme. You can’t have a Lopunny or a Gardevoir in your team without drawing suspicious glances. Don’t ask Vaporeon fans how they’re doing these days. Now, an unlikely addition has joined these infamous ranks: Typhlosion. You know, the fire weasel-ish starter from Pokémon Gold and Silver. What...

Image: Activision / Kotaku The eclectic mix of stuff coming to Xbox Game Pass over the next few weeks includes some Call of Duty games, some nasty zombies, StarCraft, a South Park RPG, and a wonderful indie game about a growing hole. The Best Reveals From The Game Awards 2023 On October 15 ,Xbox announced the second wave of games coming to Game Pass later this October. Sadly, not many spooky horror games are joining...

In retrospect, it is a little weird how that otherwise ridiculously generous multi-hour demo for Metaphor: ReFantazio just kinda decided, “You’ve had enough,” after a random boss in Regalith Grand Cathedral. Over a million people have since told Atlus, “We’ll tell you when we’ve had enough,” and bit the bullet on the full game. That’s excellent news for us JRPG sickos, but that demo might give you delusions that all the bosses are just random...

Screenshot: Bandai Namco Bandai Namco may be the latest big gaming company to face cutbacks. According to a new report by Bloomberg, the Japanese publisher behind the fresh hit Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, which sold 3 million copies in its first day, recently canceled a project it was working on for Nintendo, as well as other internal games, and is now looking to reduce its headcount as a result. The Week In Games: Return To Hyrule...

My patience with Overwatch 2 is wearing thin, and it’s only getting thinner as the hero shooter enters its 13th season today, October 15. The Halloween-centric season is full of recolors of old skins and a lot of the cosmetic favoritism that has plagued the game in the past year. But it also has a new patch, one that reworks the stealthy, hack-based hero Sombra just a year after Blizzard’s dev team last overhauled the...