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Last Lawn Standing
Shape enemy paths with towers and barricades, then fight alongside your defenses as a garden gnome armed with auto-firing weapons and powerful potions. Protect bonus-granting shrines, upgrade without limits, unlock permanent rewards, and survive solo or in 4-player local co-op.
Rapid Miner - Kotaku
Rapid Miner is a desktop idler: a tiny pixel mine floats in the corner of your screen in Pocket Mode, and your typing and clicks keep the miner swinging while you work. Open the full game to explore caves, beat bosses, grow a village and Rebirth.
Project Nebula - Kotaku
Elden Ring Gets Massive Combat Overhaul As It Makes Way For DLC [Update: More Files Found] After patch 1.07, data miners think they know what FromSoftware will do with its DLC: colosseums
Matryoshka - Kotaku
Matryoshka is a spooky spot-the-difference puzzle game that tests eyes and nerves. Cursed entities that devour humans have gotten into the Matryoshka dolls. Inspect them with extreme caution. If you encounter a cursed doll, you must immediately burn and seal it away.Miss a curse, or burn an innocent doll—even once—and… you will find out
Wreck & Profit - Kotaku
Swing a wrecking ball, knock down buildings, and get paid for every brick. Buy machines that do the swinging for you, sell the company, and take on a bigger city. A short incremental game with real physics & some automation with an actual ending.
Fickle Allies - Kotaku
Collect and deposit every crystal to escape in this first-person multiplayer thriller game. Form shifting alliances, steal from rivals, protect your haul, or eliminate threats as you explore a mansion, subway, and abandoned facility where trust never lasts.
Drifters: Blackout Crew
I Definitely Do Not Like March From Fields Of Mistria And Absolutely Will Not Be Marrying Him Under Any Circumstances
Omega Pilot Evolution
Saber CEO Denies Replacing Rideshare Writer With ChatGPT But Says ‘I Would Frankly In Retrospect Have Been Happy To Replace Her With AI’ Things I Said Out Loud, To No One, While Suffering Through FromSoft’s Grueling Dark Souls Predecessor For Kotaku’s Warp Week Pokopia’s New DLC Is Its Most Melancholy Yet New Sci-Fi Thriller From Immortality Studio Originated As An Idea For An FMV Metroid Game
Fleet Conquest - Kotaku
Fleet Conquest is a space-themed strategy game: build your fleet, grow your supply network, and fight back against the enemies of Super Earth who are trying to take over the galaxy! This is a fan-made game based in the universe of Helldivers 2 and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Arrowhead Game Studios AB or Sony Interactive Entertainment. HELLDIVERS is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. All game content and assets are property of their respective owners.
EVE Online's Turnur I Event Could Have Far Reaching Effects On New Eden
In the heart of every star system, there is, unsurprisingly, a star. This is as true in the virtual universe of EVE Online as it is in our own. Most of the time, EVE’s stars are passive background pieces to add life to the universe, and give players exciting backdrops for their space battles. They don’t really serve any purpose in-game, and they are almost completely harmless to player-owned spaceships.
The Most Intimidating MMORPG Is Trying To Feel More Welcoming To Newcomers
Along with new graphical updates, the first few hours of EVE Online have been completely refreshed How do you keep a nearly 20-year-old game fresh and relevant? According to the team behind the colossal, space-based MMO EVE Online, you do it by constantly reinvesting in your infrastructure and by working to keep your new player experience–those early hours that introduce newcomers to the basics of the game’s mechanics and fiction–relevant and engaging.
The Recent EVE Online Riots Where Thousands of Fans Burned Their In-Game Money, Explained
EVE Online’s latest slate of updates, “New Dawn”, promised to bring with it a return to an age of prosperity to the game’s universe. Alongside the first patch of the new quadrant came a Nov. 12th Developer Blog detailing how CCP, the developer behind the game, planned on delivering that new age. However, rather than the rejoicing of the beleaguered community, the initial reaction from players was one of anger and pent-up frustration being unleashed in the form of in-game riots.
EVE Online Players Are In An Uproar Over Money, Ship Shortage
Header ImageGraphic: CCP Games In the early days of June 2011, the playerbase of EVE Online joined together in revolution and war. The enemy was not a diablocial space-tyrant, or an army of NPC spaceships waiting to give battle, but the company that created EVE, CCP Games. A recent expansion, Incarca, had launched with a slew of overpriced microtransactions and other features that generally fell flat in the eyes of players.
EVE Online Facing Second 'Summer of Rage' Fan Outcry
In the early days of June 2011, the playerbase of EVE Online joined together in revolution and war. The enemy was not a diablocial space-tyrant, or an army of NPC spaceships waiting to give battle, but the company that created EVE, CCP Games. A recent expansion, Incarca, had launched with a slew of overpriced microtransactions and other features that generally fell flat in the eyes of players.
New Site Teaches You How To Play EVE Online
EVE Online is a tough game to learnwithout a lot of effort and assistance. The good news is that there’s now an easier path to getting started: the EVE Academy, a new companion website to the 18 year old MMO, was created specifically to show new players the ropes, and potentially teach a few old dogs new tricks as well.
Fan Proves EVE Online Would Make A Great Card Game
EVE Online players make a lot of fan art related to their passion: song parodies, propaganda films, online talk shows. Now, one player is combining their passion for EVE with their passion for another kind of game—collectible card games. Player Beebles has made about 30 cards for a fictional card game based on people and events in EVE Online.The project is just mockups of cards right now.
EVE Online's Latest Front Is A Battle Of The Bands
EVE OnlineGraphic: CCP Games EVE has been torn apart by war between the game’s largest factions for close to nine months. The war is raging on every imaginable front: massive fleets wreaking untold destruction, economic powers exerting their influence over the game’s markets, players vying for karma on the EVE subreddit.
Two Minor Changes Could Mean Big Things For EVE Online
This month has seen a flurry of announcements about EVE Online’s immediate future. Alongside the usual spaceship changes and rebalancing, a brand new, somewhat controversial skill system will be introduced, as well as what sounds like a largely cosmetic change to the game that could have huge implications for players.
Both Sides Claim Victory In Massive EVE Online Battle
‘Bird’s Eye’ view of the M2- battle.Screenshot: Razorien EVE (Other) Ragnarök, the death of the Norse gods, played out in EVE Online in the wee hours of New Year’s eve. Hundreds of the game’s mightiest vessels gathered together in the M2-XFE system, and Titans from the game’s two largest factions spent over 12 hours exchanging fire and unleashing their incredibly devastating doomsday weapon systems.
The Expanse Season 5 Episode 4 Review: Gaugamela
By Michael Ahr | December 23, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Amazon Prime Video This The Expanse review contains spoilers. The Expanse Season 5 Episode 4 Ever since it began, The Expanse has known how to build action, which isn’t remarkable in itself for a sci-fi show. What makes this series different is that with very little exposition, it can create a sense that, as unsettled as things seem now, they’re about to get a lot messier.
Robert Rodriguez on We Can Be Heroes and How Pedro Pascal Reminds Him of Harrison Ford
By Jack Beresford | December 23, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Robert Rodriguez is a man of many hats – in every sense of the word. While he has been known to rock a fedora or two down the years, the idiom is more a reflection of his “one-man film crew” approach to movie-making, with Rodriguez known for not only writing, and directing but also doing everything from editing to operating the camera.
Infinite Frontier and What's Next for the DC Universe
By Jim Dandy | December 22, 2020 | | Comments count:0 DC Comics released a first look at its March comics, the first batch after the end ofthe multiverse-spanning Dark Nights: Death Metal and the pause-everything company wide reset Future State, and from our first glimpse of the solicitations, the big changes coming in Future State look like they might be sticking around.
Best Starter Decks for The Digimon Card Game
Home Culture Best Starter Decks for The Digimon Card Game By Anthony McGlynn | December 22, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Presented by: The end of 2020 marked the English-language release of Digimon Card Game, the new trading card game based on the eponymous digital monsters. Like the previous iterations, and the anime they all draw from, Digimon Card Game is about digivolving your favorite creatures in order to eventually overwhelm your opponent.
His Dark Materials Season 3: What to Expect
Home TV His Dark Materials Season 3: What to Expect By Louisa Mellor | December 22, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: BBC/HBO It’s the news fans have been waiting to hear: the BBC/HBO adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials is confirmed as returning for a third and final season to complete the original trilogy. Filming on a new eight-episode season adapting The Amber Spyglass will begin in 2021.
EVE Online Players Are Calling A Christmas Truce
Image: Used with permission by Razorien/CCP Two of EVE Online’s biggest factions have been engaged in open war for the last six months, fighting for their continued existence on the server. Tensions are high, and players on both sides of the conflict are starting to show signs of wear and tear. What better way to provide those players a small breather than to reenact the 1914 Christmas ceasefire from the first World War?
Bridgerton Review: Netflix Series Redefines Period Romance on TV
Home TV Bridgerton Review: Netflix Series Redefines Period Romance on TV By Amanda-Rae Prescott | December 22, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Netflix This Bridgerton review is spoiler-free. With concise storytelling, character development, and big-budget Hollywood aesthetics, Netflix’s latest original television series, Bridgerton, represents the best of British period drama.
Soul Review: Pixar is Bringing You Some Christmas Magic
Home Movies Soul Review: Pixar is Bringing You Some Christmas Magic By David Crow | December 22, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Disney / Pixar It takes nearly 12 minutes before Disney and Pixar show their title cards in Soul. By then, we’ve met a guy named Joe, basked in his dream to be a professional jazz pianist, and watched him fall down a manhole that’s led him to the other side.
The Beatles: Peter Jackson's Get Back is a More Harmonious Take on Let it Be
Home Culture The Beatles: Peter Jackson’s Get Back is a More Harmonious Take on Let it Be By Tony Sokol | December 21, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: The Beatles During their time together, and the years apart, The Beatles consistently wrapped up their holiday sessions with gifts for avid and casual listeners alike. The band even worked out timing with the Rolling Stones’ releases so they didn’t step on each others’ shoes.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ending Explained
Home Movies Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Ending Explained By Tony Sokol | December 21, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Netflix This Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom analysis contains spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom tells the story of a group of 1920s musicians, composites of session players at the time, waiting for “the Mother of the Blues” to bring her big voice to the big room at Hot Rhythm Recordings.
Cyberpunk 2077 Review
By Bernard Boo | December 21, 2020 | | Comments count:0 A preface: Cyberpunk 2077 has had one hell of a rocky release, and it’s almost impossible to play the game while also ignoring the controversy surrounding its disastrous console launch, among other points of contention. That being said, in my time with the game—which I reviewed on PC—I remained focused on assessing the game that was in front of me, period.
Shameless Season 11 Episode 3 Review: Frances Francis Franny Frank
By Daniel Kurland | December 20, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Showtime This Shameless review contains spoilers. Shameless Season 11 Episode 3 “Gender’s a social construct.” Shameless is a series that’s always been very interested in how its Chicago neighborhood influences its characters. Coming as a remake from a UK series, Shameless’snew environment becomes one of its most important changes.
Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 3 Review: The Door of Hope
By Daniel Kurland | December 20, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Funimation This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers. Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 3 “Just keep moving…” Attack on Titan’snew season has played with perspective in a surprising and satisfying way that’s kept the audience in the dark. A lot of this new season has focused on Falco Grice as he perseveres through Warrior Training and how he might be a Marleyan counterpart to Eren.
His Dark Materials Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Æsahættr
By Louisa Mellor | December 20, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: BBC/HBO This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers and references to the plot of The Subtle Knife. Did you stay until the end? All the way to the end, after the production names and notices about the support of the Welsh government and tax credits from the Hawaii Film Office? Then you saw him – a hint as to where this fantastic (in all senses of the word) tale is heading.
His Dark Materials Season 2 Ending: What Does the Post-Credits Scene Mean?
Home TV His Dark Materials Season 2 Ending: What Does the Post-Credits Scene Mean? By Louisa Mellor | December 20, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: BBC/HBO Warning: contains spoilers for His Dark Materials season two and The Amber Spyglass That’s the lid closed on season two. Like Lyra, His Dark Materials is all packed away for the time being. The episode’s closing scene showed our hero kidnapped and drugged and stashed in a steamer trunk by her mother, who was promising to take her somewhere safe.
Ma Rainey's Life and Reign as the Mother of the Blues
By Tony Sokol | December 19, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom stars Viola Davis as one of the most influential blues singers of all time. The real Ma Rainey was the first stage entertainer to bridge the gap between the white and the Black performance circuits. “If you don’t like my ocean, don’t fish in my sea,” Rainey warned in her 1927 song, “Don’t Fish in My Sea,” but the crowds couldn’t stay away.
Star Wars: Did Kylo Ren Kill Grogu After The Mandalorian?
By Megan Crouse | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Lucasfilm This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. I know. No one really wants to consider the edgiest villain in the galaxy touching a hair on Grogu’s head with malice. But The Mandalorian takes place at a time when the events of the Sequel Trilogy are already being seeded. All this, the lawless Outer Rim and the ineffective New Republic police, will be swallowed up by the First Order eventually.
Are Cyberpunk 2077's Bugs Hiding Its Bigger Problems?
By Matthew Byrd | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: CD Projekt Red Even with all the Cyberpunk 2077 post-release blowback (which includes reactions to the game’s bugs, the title’s nearly unplayable PS4 and Xbox One versions, and Sony’s decision to delist the game from the PlayStation Store), my mind keeps wandering to this 2019 interview with lead Cyberpunk 2077 quest designer, Pawel Sasko.
The Mandalorian: Bib Fortuna's Return and Death Explained
By John Saavedra | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Lucasfilm This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. Well, that was a very short-lived cameo, wasn’t it? In a surprise post-credits scene, Jabba the Hutt’s former majordomo Bib Fortuna returns to Star Wars live-action just long enough to get blasted off his dead boss’ throne.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8 Easter Eggs Explained
By Megan Crouse | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Lucasfilm This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. In “The Rescue,” one major cameo takes The Mandalorian season 2 finale home. Din and his friends have discovered where Moff Gideon has taken Grogu, and it doesn’t take them long to launch an attack on his flagship. Once there, the finale delivers on all the blasting, darksaber fights, and surprise cameos you could want, playing coy only with Grogu himself.
Does Cyberpunk 2077's PlayStation Store Removal Make it The Worst Launch Ever?
By Matthew Byrd | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: CD Projekt Red Late last night, Sony revealed via the PlayStation website that they have decided to honor refund requests for those who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 via the PlayStation Store.
Why Flesh and Blood Is A Must-Play Trading Card Game
Home Culture Why Flesh and Blood Is A Must-Play Trading Card Game By Anthony McGlynn | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Presented by: Despite the name, Flesh and Blood is a relatively simple TCG that won’t leave you covered in cuts and bruises—not literally, anyway.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 10 Easter Eggs & References
By Ryan Britt | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 10. With only three episodes to go in Season 3, Star Trek: Discovery delivered an episode that is moving the series forward, but also, changing Georgoiu’s role at the same time.
Taskmaster Series 11 and Champion of Champions Line-Up Confirmed
By Louisa Mellor | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Avalon 10 short weeks ago, none of us had seen Richard Herring feed half a watermelon to a slathering Daisy May Cooper, and frankly, we were the worse off for it.
Why The Book of Boba Fett Could Be The Mandalorian Season 3
Home TV Why The Book of Boba Fett Could Be The Mandalorian Season 3 By John Saavedra | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Lucasfilm This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Mandalorian season 2 closed in exciting fashion with “The Rescue,” an episode that brings Mando and all of his friends face to face with the formidable Imperial forces of Moff Gideon.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8 Review - The Rescue
Home TV Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8 Review – The Rescue By Megan Crouse | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Lucasfilm This Star Wars: The Mandalorian review contains spoilers. The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8 The core of The Mandalorian has always been the connection between Din Djarin and Grogu.
Greenland: Why Gerard Butler's Disaster Movie Matters Now
Home Movies Greenland: Why Gerard Butler’s Disaster Movie Matters Now By Don Kaye | December 18, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: STX Films Once slated to arrive in theaters long before COVID-19 crash-landed in 2020 and upended the entire world, Greenland stars Gerard Butler as John Garrity, an Atlanta-based structural engineer who struggles to save his family as a planet-killing comet speeds toward Earth.
How the Cyberpunk 2077 Soundtrack Found Its Dystopian Sound in a Soviet-Era Synthesizer
By Bernard Boo | December 17, 2020 | | Comments count:0 CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the the biggest video game release of 2020, transporting players to a gritty sci-fi world full of bio-augmented criminals and lowlives. True to its name, the game explores some pretty deep concepts about cyberspace and what life might be like in a futuristic transhuman society where technological advancements have turned us less human and more machine.
The Stand: Whoopi Goldberg Reveals the Secret to Mother Abigail's Longevity (It's God Dust)
By Alec Bojalad | December 17, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: CBS All Access This article contains spoilers for The Stand episode 1 and some aspects of the book. Though Stephen King may be best known as a prolific creator of bullies, creeps, and monsters (sometimes all in one person), one of his finest characters is firmly on the side of the angels. “Mother” Abigail Freemantle is a key figure in King’s 1978 classic The Stand (and in its 1990 unabridged version as well).
Giveaway: Win the Godfather III 30th Anniversary Edition on Blu-Ray!
By Brian Berman | December 17, 2020 | | Comments count:0 Photo: Paramount Pictures We’re going to make you an offer you can’t refuse. The Godfather III is getting a restoration for the ages, just in time for its 30th anniversary—and it’s now available on Blu-ray! This new edition has been completely remastered for higher-definition audio and visual quality. But that’s not all.
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