Wow, Starfield's Lockpicking Minigame Is Really Fun
For as long as RPGs have had locked doors, video game designers have developed ways to let players unlock these doors without a key. Some of these unlocking minigames are fine, but many are annoying or boring, and...
7 Horny Fantasy Games To Play After Baldur’s Gate 3
Image: CD Projekt RedThough Baldur’s Gate 3, based on the historically unsexy Dungeons & Dragons franchise, is not a sex game, the tacit understanding among fans and onlookers is that its robust romance options make up...
Starfield Chat: Our First Few Hours With Bethesda’s Space Epic
Starfield is officially out in Early Access for those who got one of several special editions of Bethesda’s long-awaited sci-fi RPG. Though everyone else will have to wait until September 6, several Kotaku staffers decided to shell out...
Starfield’s Local Planet Map Is Horrible
You’ve probably heard this before, but Starfield, Bethesda’s latest open-world RPG, is very, very big. The new game, out now in “early access” on Xbox and PC, spans multiple solar systems and hundreds of planets. And when exploring...
Help! I’m Trapped In Starfield’s Menus And Can’t Get Out
In the several hours I’ve played since Starfield’s September 1 Early Access kicked off, I’ve been consistently confused by the menus and user interfaces of Bethesda’s latest RPG. I remain miffed by its starmap, baffled by its inventory,...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Still Great On PS5, Just A Little Rougher Around The...
Baldur’s Gate 3 is an excellent game. The PC version of Larian Studios’ D&D epic will easily be a frontrunner in game of the year discussions come December, and the PlayStation 5 version is a comparable experience, at...
What’s Included (And What’s Not) In Cyberpunk 2077’s Free 2.0 Update
Cyberpunk 2077 has certainly had a long, strange journey from being totally busted at launch to reasonably playable today. Debates rage on as to whether it can ever deliver on all the pre-launch hype CD Projekt Red generated,...
17 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Playing Starfield
Starfield is finally here and it is big, complex, and often overwhelming. There are tons of menus to navigate, cities to get acquainted with, and skill trees to invest in, not to mention resource mining, base building, and...
My Pacifist Starfield Run Isn’t Going Great
Physical confrontation, financial responsibility, emotional insecurities–these are things I run away from in life. So why wouldn’t I default to role-playing as the coward that I am in Bethesda’s latest epic, Starfield? Unfortunately, space doesn’t seem all that...
Starfield Players Are Already Filling Up Their Ships With Random Junk
Screenshot: Bethesda / KotakuI did not expect Starfield to have so many useless items lying about that I could pick up and do absolutely nothing with. A few hours into the sprawling sci-fi blockbuster and my...
