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Screenshot: Konami, Roboatino, North Star Video Games, Image: Sony, Motion Twin It’s the first week of October and the chill is setting in, but, don’t worry, our takes are still hot. This week, gathered our favorite games from Tokyo Game Show for you to peruse, suggested some characters that should get added in future Astro Bot DLC, fell in love with Shogun Showdown (after hating it at first), and more. We’ve also got hands-on looks at...

Image: Square Enix, 505 Games, Capcom, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios / Sega, Blizzard, Sega, Blizzard, Kojima Productions, Screenshot: Capcom It’s the start of a new month, which means there’s a host of hot, new games coming your way. It can get overwhelming, scanning through the various game marketplaces to decide what you should spend your hard-earned money on, so we’ve gathered 34 games coming out this month that we’re stoked for. We’ve also spotted some...

Illustration: Kotaku / Vicky Leta Welcome to the weekend, puzzlers! There’s plenty of great stuff to do on this first Saturday of October that doesn’t involve consuming pumpkin spice anything. (Because, really, it’s kind of played out, and it doesn’t taste that good.) You could go see Joker: Folie à Deux, but apparently that’s also kind of played out, and it doesn’t sound that good. Luckily, there are some much better Gotham-set films you can...

Helldivers 2‘s gotten another fresh Major Order, after the forces of Super Earth moved one step close to having a fuctional Democracy space station on their side by gaining hold of Turing. The next job in the mission to get the big thing built? Capturing a planet that’s home to an Automaton mining complex. If you’re out of the loop, the last few orders have been all about taking steps to assemble a new space...

Have you seen those VR experiences pop up all over the place? I have. Until recently, I never stepped into one. Like escape rooms, it seemed to me like a pricey night out – an event that seemed a bit redundant due to the existence of the number of personal VR headsets in the market. But after playing Space Marine VR: Defenders of Avarax, the latest game from VR experience company Zero Latency, I get...

There’s been some breaking news around Ubisoft today. According to a reportfrom Bloomberg, the French video game industry giant is considering leaving the publicily-traded and family owned ways behind, to seek shelter from recent stock lows under Tencent’s umbrella. This should worry those who’ve been paying attention to major gaming news over the past few years. It’s no secret that Ubisoft hasn’t been doing well as of late. The company’s stocks have dropped 54% in...

When Claude Makelele moved from Real Madrid to Chelsea at the height of Galacticos era, Zinedine Zidane famously said: “Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you’re losing the entire engine?” And, despite the exciting addition of PlayStyles in the inaugural EA Sports FC, EA’s flagship football franchise has felt a little like that in recent years; with inconsistent gameplay full of exploitable mechanics that drove both casual and dedicated players...

When I first sat down and really dug into Starfield after it came out last year, I was between jobs. I had two weeks to interact with the thing as much as I wanted to – this game I’d been looking forward to not necessarily because I was that into the premise, but because of how much I’d dug the previous works of its creators, the people who’d put considerable effort into selling us on...

Director Todd Phillips’ 2019 Joker seemingly hit the box office at just the right time, weaving between the late Trump years and the breakout of the global pandemic and cashing in on post-Avengers: Endgame MCU exhaustion. This time around, nothing seems to be going Joker: Folie à Deux’s way. Also, based on early reviews at least, it just sounds like a terrible movie. 6 Things To Know Before Starting Persona 5 Tactica Joaquin Phoenix reprises...

Screenshot: 11 Bit Studios Let’s not even pretend: Frostpunk 2 is an extremely challenging game, one that will test even the most veteran strategy and city-building fans. But if you really consider yourself a masochist, you can always up the challenge by playing the game on ‘Captain’ difficulty—something the studio recommends you do if you’ve finished the game and wholly understand its complex rhythms and mechanics. As its own description says, here there’s no room...