Kenneth Shepard

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?

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Kenneth Shepard

The years between the collapse of the market for Atari video games in the early 1980s and the arrival of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986 were long and harrowing for me, as a child whose earliest memories saw me developing a love for video games only for them to largely evaporate from the marketplace, their future uncertain. When they returned, it wasn’t with all the hype and fanfare we associate with console launches today.

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Kenneth Shepard

Marvel has had some big wins and painful losses in the video game space over the past few years. Marvel Rivals took the hero shooter community by storm, and Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is primed to be a fighting game powerhouse. On the other hand, Cliffhanger Games was shuttered while working on a Black Panther game we never even got to see in motion, and let’s not forget the tragedy of errors that was 2020’s Marvel’s Avengers.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Kenneth Shepard

2 hours ago'Thunderbolts*' Finally Gets a Digital Streaming Release DateOne of the best-reviewed MCU films of all time is headed home. Thunderbolts* (aka The New Avengers) failed to impress at the box office, but it was …NowChris Evans Recalls Savage Comment Dakota Johnson Made About His FaceThe 'Materialists' actor couldn't help but bring up his co-star's brutal comment.

1 week ago | kotaku.com | Kenneth Shepard

Remember how, when Palworld was blowing up, fans were excited that a Pokémon competitor might force The Pokémon Company to get its act together and stop releasing busted games like Scarlet and Violet? Whether that pans out remains to be seen, but given that Digimon, arguably the most notable competition Pokémon had in the 90s and early 2000s, has been quietly running circles around Pikachu and friends on the video game side for years, I’m not holding my breath.