HomeCategory Gaming

Screenshot: Capcom / Kotaku Capcom has been knocking it out of the park with its horror remakes in recent years (perhaps with the exception of Resident Evil 3, though I still enjoyed that one immensely). If you look at titles such as Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 2, they clearly know how to modernize famous franchises for today’s audiences, while remaining mainly faithful to the source material. They’re playing on our nostalgia, and everyone...

Diablo IV has eight levels of difficulty, but the highest four are locked when you begin the game. If you are jumping into Diablo because of Vessel Of Hatred, and wondering how you’res supposed to access this higher tier, here is how you unlock Torment difficulty, where the endgame begins. Diablo IV – Bear Bender Build What Is Diablo 4’s Torment Difficulty? Screenshot: Blizzard / Kotaku While every difficulty level below Torment increases the power...

Image: Disney With only two episodes left until the end of the season, Agatha All Along simply refuses to stop throwing twists and reveals at viewers. Episode seven of the Disney+ MCU series is no different, even one-upping the amazing reveals that have come before. The mic drop of Aubrey Plaza’s character’s true identity may be the big attention grabber, but the real draw of the latest episode was Patti LuPone’s powerhouse performance. Agatha All...

Overwatch 2 announced it was considering testing out a return to its original 6v6 format after swapping to its current, controversial 5v5 structure back when the sequel launched in 2022. Now, it sounds like that test is coming up sooner than originally expected, as Blizzard has announced it will bring back the format in the hero shooter’s next season. Overwatch 2’s New Story Missions: Worth The Money? In a new blog on the game’s website,...

Destiny 2 players are convinced the game is secretly ripping them off. While on its face an epic space opera about humanity confronting cosmic evil in a post-apocalyptic future, Bungie’s sci-fi shooter is also a Pokémon-style collectathon where instead of cute magical creatures, players capture rare, ornate, and powerful guns. The game’s latest “weightgate” controversy is a strangely compelling conspiracy theory proposing that certain ideal weapon variants are dropping at much lower rates than junk...

Screenshot: Ubisoft The third big update for Star Wars Outlaws is finally here with promised improvements to stealth, NPC AI, and more. Unfortunately, the patch has also messed up how the game looks on PlayStation 5, with players reporting screen tearing issues that break the immersion of its normally gorgeous-looking open worlds. The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: October 2023 Edition Star Wars Outlaws title update 1.3.0 went live earlier today as promised...

Amazon’s live-action adaptation of Sega’s hit Like a Dragon series has finally landed, and the show is already making waves. Titled Like a Dragon: Yakuza, the gritty crime drama follows the series’ longtime protagonist Kazuma Kiryu across two timelines: one as a teenage orphan in 1995, and the other as a hardened yakuza after ten years in jail in 2005. The adaptation is borrowing quite liberally from the beloved series, remixing numerous elements of the...

Balatro is a very, very good game. We’ve established that a few times here at Kotaku. And now, for all you folks still playing the roguelike poker game, a new update has added some fresh crossover cards featuring characters from Stardew Vally, Cyberpunk 2077, and Slay The Spire. The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: June 2023 Edition In February, Balatro launched on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and Switch (then temporarily unreleased on Switch for...

Screenshot: Bandai Namco / Kotaku The first patch for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is out and it has demolished Yajirobe players even more ruthlessly than that Saibaman wasted Yamcha. There is no coming back from this nerf, bean daddies. But at least the game runs better now due to some menu improvements and other bug fixes, even if a corrupted save issue is still plaguing a small group of players. As previewed last week, the...

Over the last few years, Peely, a disturbing anthropomorphized banana, has become Fortnite’s de facto mascot. We here at Kotaku don’t like that. This creepy bastard keeps coming back, even after death. So we are all happy to learn that Fortnite has finally skinned and flayed Peely. The bastard deserved it. The Week In Games: Co-Op Bug Blasting And More New Releases Since 2019, we’ve made our thoughts about Peely very clear. Here are former...