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I wasn’t sure what to expect from Carbonflesh. Members of its creative team were involved in several of my favorite point-and-click games, including Primordia and The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, both of which offer a depth of literacy and creativity that seeps out of every pore, with their puzzle elements soon giving way to impossibly vast worlds packed […]
UnderRail, an isometric post-apocalyptic adventure is getting a sequel in the form of UnderRail 2: Infusion. Developer Stygian Software has shown off 20+ minutes of alpha footage, including a newer fast-paced combat system and it’s giving us serious Fallout vibes. What do you do when the Earth becomes a ruin? You head underground, like some […]
Ghostrunner 2 proves that parkour is the future and, thanks to the Epic Games Store’s daily giveaway, you can get this mind-blowing cyberpunk FPS absolutely free. You’ll have to be fast, though, it’ll be gone in less than 24 hours! Think you’ve got what it takes to cut it as cyber-ninja? Ghostrunner 2 is your […]
Image: Marvel Games / Kotaku, The Pokémon Company / Kotaku, Grinding Gear Games, Epic Games, Screenshot: Bethesda / Kotaku, CD Projekt RED / Kotaku, Xbox / Bethesda, LocalThunk / Kotaku, MachineGames, CD Projekt Red / Kotaku This week, players everywhere dove into the epic adventure that is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It’s a […]
Microsoft’s Ignite event has just brought us an exciting bit of news in the VR gaming world, which is that the company plans to fully bring Windows to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S mixed reality headsets. The Quest 3 has become a dominant stalwart in the mixed reality space already, as combining both […]
I’m as excited for Civilization 7 as everyone else, but I can’t help but wonder what it could be if it stepped outside the comfortable familiarity of real-world history. In Zephon, the planet as we knew it is all but dead, blasted into a nightmarish wasteland by an alien apocalypse. Rather than exploring with an […]
Some of my favorite games deny me the thing I think I want most. Elden Ring refuses to provide manageable save files (and I paid for it). Balatro withholds the final math on each hand played (and its developer suggests avoiding calculators). And the modern X-COM games force me to realize just how much a 98 percent chance […]