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WrestleQuest Explores RPG Genre Through A Wrestling Lens

When I first played Square Enix’s Live A Live remake, its professional wrestling storyline planted in me a desire for a full-on wrestling role-playing game that exclusively featured wrestlers suplexing each other in the ring. Just one year later and I’ve gotten my wish with WrestleQuest, which fuses the turn-based gameplay of fantasy RPGs with

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Spooky New Alan Wake 2 Trailer Shows Off Live-Action Cinematics

Gif: Remedy Entertainment / Kotaku Mixing video game graphics and live-action cutscenes is something of a Remedy tradition at this point, with the studio having done it in games like Quantum Break and Control in recent years. And Remedy seems to be doing it again with Alan Wake 2, as seen in the latest trailer

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Everything We Saw At Gamescom 2023 Opening Night Live

Gamescom, the massive annual gaming event held in Cologne, Germany, just streamed its glitzy Opening Night Live presentation, giving us a closer look at tons of coming games, many of which are are just around the corner. Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC Probably Won’t Change V’s Fate But if you missed it, no worries: We’re

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Cyberpunk 2077 Shows Off New Perks In Phantom Liberty Trailer

Cyberpunk 2077‘s Phantom Liberty expansion will deliver an entirely new storyline featuring actor Idris Elba when it arrives on September 26. Just as exciting, however, are all the overhauled systems, mechanics, and features of the world arriving alongside it in a free version 2.0 update. CD Projekt Red showed some of them in action in

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The Gathering Clone Has A Fan-Made Digital App

Screenshot: Pixelborn / Kotaku Lorcana, Disney’s trading card game, has transformed from a physical experience to a digital one thanks to a fan-made app out now on PC. The Witcher 3 Meets Tense Roguelike PvE Card-Battling In Rogue Mage Announced in August 2022, Disney’s Lorcana lets you collect various characters from the company’s deep library,

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Geoff Keighley Is Figuring Out The Whole ‘Women’ Thing

Gamescom Opening Night Live has come and gone, and though there were a lot more women on Geoff Keighley’s shiny stage than during Summer Game Fest (which had zero), it certainly didn’t feel all that natural, did it? It felt, instead, that Keighley’s response to criticism about the lack of women at SGF resulted in

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Black Desert Devs’ Next Game Looks Dope, Features Horse Drift

Gif: Pearl Abyss / Kotaku Gamescom’s Opening Night Live kicked off Tuesday, August 22 with a smattering of trailers for Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Black Myth: Wukong, and Little Nightmares 3, among others. Tucked into the presentation was a trailer for Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss’ next game and, y’all, it looks pretty cool. The Yakuza

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Doesn’t Have Figures Of My Hero, So I Made One

I love video game statues and figurines. My desk and shelf at home are cluttered with visions of Kaidan Alenko from Mass Effect and Joel from The Last of Us in miniature. But as a person who loves making custom characters in RPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3, I’m often left wanting something tangible of the

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Modern Warfare III Is Bringing Back Verdansk, Kind Of

Image: Activision We got a lengthy look at a campaign mission from the upcoming Modern Warfare III during Gamescom 2023’s opening night, and once again it appears that Sledgehammer Games, Infinity Ward, and Activision are banking hard on Call of Duty fans’ nostalgia. Long-Lost Halo Demo Comes To Life The mission, called “Operation 627,” sees

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Gamescom Showcase Interrupted By Bill Clinton GTA 6 Guy

Screenshot: The Game Awards / Kotaku Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has once again been accosted by an irreverent, clout-chasing youth, this time at the 2023 Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase. A man rushed the stage to tell the audience that “Bill Clinton wants to play GTA VI.” Keighley’s disappointment was palpable. Grand Theft Auto

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