Author: Valhalladidde

Image: The Game Awards, Square Enix, Xbox / PlayStation / Kotaku / Peter Dazeley (Getty Images), Screenshot: BioWare / Kotaku, BioWare / Kotaku, GSC Game WorldThis week, perhaps nothing sparked more discussion than the announcement of the 2024 Game Awards nominees. We weighed in ourselves with a breakdown of the seven biggest surprises in what got nominated, and what didnā€™t. Also this week, both Sony and Microsoft announced new forays into game streaming, and we took a look at what these streaming wars could mean for the near future of the industry. Weā€™ve also got impressions of both Dragon Quest…

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Nobody expected a spinoff to 2022ā€™s The Callisto Protocol and so Redacted ā€” a fast-paced, twin-stick shooter roguelike ā€” comes as a pleasant surprise. Set in CPā€™s Black Iron prison on Jupiterā€™s moon, Callisto, you take on the role of a prison guard who is not only in a race to reach the last remaining escape pod but also a fight for survival against inmates who are transforming into weird, mutated monsters known as Biophages. The gameplay loop is almost identical to Hades, and thatā€™s no bad thing. Youā€™ll be gunning, knifing, kicking, sliding, and dashing around, clearing waves of…

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Following the success of Iron Meatā€™s launch back in September, the team at Retroware has been hard at work charting the path forward with planning major content updates to their modern retro gem! With the first major update arriving on Xbox, you can experience a fine platter of new content to sink your teeth into! Mirror, Mirror One of the highly requested new features in the game is Mirror Modeā€“an option that lets you run through every level, but this time to the left! While flipping the x-axis may seem like a trivial update, facing every enemy, every boss, and…

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Nintendo Life: Firstly, congratulations on the release of Stray! The game had a huge first year, gaining the highest user rating on Steam, going viral with cat reaction videos, and picking up several awards. Is this the reception you pictured and how do you feel about it two years on? Swann Martin-Raget, BlueTwelve Studio: Thank you so much! It was an absolutely amazing experience to see such positive feedback from both cats and humans alike, and we are still not over it! Working for so long on the game before its release, it becomes really hard to know if people…

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Let’s be honest hereā€”the fantasy 4X strategy genre is an intimidating one. Not just for that initial learning curve, but for the potentially immense time commitment. You could put hundreds of hours into Total War: Warhammer 3 and still see only a fraction of its campaigns. Songs of Silence from German indie outfit Chimera Entertainment feels custom built for people who want to get a good, concentrated taste of the genre but without losing months of your life, and without demolishing your budget either. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that it looks and sounds lovely.At heart, this is familiar high fantasy…

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First reported by DSOGaming, the Project Mojave Revitalization team is calling it quits after its first (and last) release. PMR was a continuation of the ambitious Project Mojave mod to bring areas from New Vegas into Fallout 4, with the original PM devs themselves having hung up their spurs after an early access release in 2021.Project Mojave is not to be confused with Fallout 4: New Vegas, a project aiming to do a 1:1 remake of the 2010 Obsidian classic in Fallout 4’s shinier, upgraded Creation engine. The idea with Project Mojave was to present New Vegas during the time…

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