Claire Jackson

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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 3 Delightful Games We’re Swinging Into Summer With

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach |Claire Jackson |Kenneth Shepard

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows PCs (Steam Deck: “Playable”)Current goal: Actually finish it (probably!)I know. You’re all like, “What do you mean you didn’t finish this game after writing about it for three weeks in a row in the Weekend Guide?”Look, I have a busy, complicated life. Also, this game is enormous and, really, am I just gonna walk up to the final boss without being level 99 for every character with as many Pictos and Luminas as I can stock them with?
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Awesome Games We’re Jumping Back Into

2 weeks ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach |John Walker |Claire Jackson |Kenneth Shepard

Play it on: Switch 2Current goal: Finish it for the first time everAs I recently lamented, I have never seen the end of one of my favorite video games, Metroid Prime. I couldn’t beat Meta Ridley. I tried as many times as my patience allowed in 2002, and then just gave up. I’ve been cross about it ever since.
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Awesome Games We’re Jumping Back Into

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Claire Jackson |Ethan Gach |John Walker |Kenneth Shepard

1 day agoAn engineer's experiment yielded a surprising result for OpenAI's popular chatbot. OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major AI chatbot competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an …
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We’re Kicking Off The Summer With

2 weeks ago | kotaku.com | Zack Zwiezen |Ethan Gach |Carolyn Petit |Claire Jackson

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows PCs (Steam Deck “Verified”)Current goal: Find good aloe vera spots for harvestingLast week, I talked about building a new, non-violent Oblivion character to try my best to buck the game’s boring desire to have me just run out to the forests of Cyrodiil to kill things. I didn’t really expect this to work, and I surely didn’t expect it to work on the hardest difficulty of the game. I still expected to have some fun, even if it wasn’t fully realized.
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We’re Kicking Off The Summer With

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Claire Jackson |Ethan Gach |Carolyn Petit |Zack Zwiezen

19 Years Later, 'Casino Royale' Actor Returns to James Bond Role. But Not The Way You ThinkLe Chiffre is back. The very first villain that James Bond ever fought was the unscrupulous gambler known as Le Chiffre. And, although that first Bond …
Everything We Saw At 2025's Summer Game Fest

3 weeks ago | kotaku.com | Claire Jackson

You should know the deal by now: In our post-E3 world, we turn our attention to Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest. This year’s show didn’t have as many explosive new announcements, but it did manage to save one of the most exciting ones for last. Before that though, there were a ton of games. Let’s get to them!
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Great Games We’re Saying Goodbye To May With

4 weeks ago | kotaku.com | Zack Zwiezen |Ethan Gach |Carolyn Petit |Claire Jackson

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows PCs (Steam Deck: “Verified”) and soon, Switch 2Current goal: See if Night City can seduce meGenerally, here in the Weekend Guide, we write about games we already know that we like, that we’re looking forward to spending more time with, and that we can enthusiastically recommend. But this weekend, what I’ll be doing is enthusiastically revisiting, with fresh eyes, a game I didn’t care for much the first time I finished it: Cyberpunk 2077.
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 3 Cool Games We’re Playing After An Impossible Week

1 month ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach |Carolyn Petit |Claire Jackson

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, Windows PCs (Steam Deck: “Playable”)Current goal: Vibe out in the dystopiaWhether I’m dragging out the ending of Clair Obscur or frequently hopping into sessions of Doom: The Dark Ages, most of the games I’ve been playing lately depend on my direct, undiverted attention to dodge and parry. I love that challenge, but I could use a break.
4 Cool Games We’re Vibing With

1 month ago | kotaku.com | Ethan Gach |Carolyn Petit |Claire Jackson |Kenneth Shepard

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows PCs (Steam Deck: YMMV)Current goal: Finish the storyI like trash. Am I saying the new Doom game is trash? No. It’s fun! But I don’t think anyone’s fooling themselves into thinking it’s fine art, is what I’m getting at.
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We're Escaping Into After A Crappy Week

1 month ago | kotaku.com | Zack Zwiezen |Ethan Gach |John Walker |Claire Jackson

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows PCs (Steam Deck YMMV)Current goal: Actually progress the storySo here’s how most of my evenings went this week: I played a bunch of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Guess what my weekend evenings will consist of? Well, hopefully they’ll be a bit different since I have ambitions to actually move the story along. These past few days, I’ve just been grinding on the hardest difficulty for hours.