Claire Jackson

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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We're Escaping Into After A Crappy Week

1 week 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.
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games We’re Psyched To Jump Back Into

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

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows (Steam Deck N/A)Current goal: Actually master dodge and parryI find something new to like about Clair Obscur every time I fire it up. I’m also not alone in finding this French-made turn-based RPG alluring. Kotaku’s very own Kenneth Shepard has given the game some well-deserved praise this week, and I’m hearing people spontaneously talking about it and having friends ask me about it with increasing frequency, so it seems to be catching on.
41 Stunning Screenshots From The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered

3 weeks ago | kotaku.com | Claire Jackson

Though we’ve known it’s coming for a few days now, today Bethesda showed off its fancy new remaster of 2006's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and it looks spectacular. It’s also out, like, right-friggin-now! If you want to check out the whole reveal, you can do so here. But if you just want to peruse some lovely screenshots we nabbed during the reveal, read on.
41 Stunning Screenshots From The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Claire Jackson

2 hours agoThe rumors and the Steam listings were real: Oblivion is back. On Tuesday, Bethesda formally announced a remaster of the 2006 open-world RPG — developed by Dark Souls: Remastered studio Virtuos — and then promptly released it. The precursor to Skyrim is available right now on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, …
Marathon Sounds Like A Way More Approachable Take On A Brutal Genre

1 month ago | kotaku.com | Claire Jackson

As someone who has tried to convince friends to join me in extraction shooters, only to see too many folks fall away after their first or second loss, I’m all too familiar with how off-putting the genre can be. Death can come fast in this kind of game, and since you lose all the stuff you’re carrying if you can’t make it out alive, loss feels particularly demoralizing.
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Welcome In April

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

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows PCs (Steam Deck YMMV)Current goal: Learn new (to me) maps and improve my aimIt’s been a while since I’ve played Siege. This pseudo-hero shooter was once a nightly game for me, taking up far too much of my free time without shouldering me with any guilt for the hours spent because it was so often a wonderfully engaging, unpredictable, tactical showdown of aiming and wits.
My Excitement For The Switch 2 Is Dying By A Thousand Cuts

1 month ago | kotaku.com | Claire Jackson

Let me get this out of the way first: I’m not a Nintendo girlie. A couple of decades ago, my parents gave me a choice between N64 or PlayStation for my birthday, and I chose the team with the badass bandicoot and didn’t regret it. It wouldn’t be until 2019 that I’d pick up a Switch and still, it wasn’t until the summer of last year, 2024, that I’d put serious miles on it.
My Excitement For The Switch 2 Is Dying By A Thousand Cuts

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Claire Jackson

13 hours agoI’m not sure I’ve seen worse trailers than the spots that have aired for A Minecraft Movie, the live-action hybrid of the famed video game starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa. Now, reviews are in for what looked like a likely disaster of a movie and they are…honestly, better than expected. No, the …
Everything We Saw At Today's Big Switch 2 Reveal

1 month ago | kotaku.com | Claire Jackson

Today was the day Nintendo finally shared with us a much-needed deep dive on the highly anticipated successor to its wildly successful hybrid console, the Switch. The Switch 2 was proudly shown off by the company during a Direct and at long last we got a look at some upcoming games, what makes this machine unique from its predecessor, and just what the heck that C button is all about. If you’re looking to catch up quick on everything announced during today’s Switch 2 Direct, this is the place.
Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater Remake Will Fix One Of The Most Annoying Features Of The Original

1 month ago | kotaku.com | Claire Jackson

I’m just gonna level with ya’ll, I didn’t think much of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in 2004. But a new look at an improved gameplay feature in the upcoming remake, Metal Gear Solid Delta, might just be enough to convert this jaded fan who’s convinced the series peaked at Sons of Liberty. In a 12-second clip, Naked Snake can be seen swapping his camo from a foresty look to something more suitable for an urban environment in record time.