Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
After the crowning achievement that is Alan Wake 2, you’d think developer Remedy Entertainment would take a break. Yet in the subsequent expansions to the 2023 survival horror game, the studio has poked and prodded further at the base game’s thesis, te...
It has been a year since the release of the amazing Alan Wake 2, and the long wait to see the infamous writer back in action has been well worth it, as the game is among the best survival horror games ever released, featuring the same amazing balance between humor and horror that makes Remedy Entertainment the development studio it is, and some truly epic sequences that will continue to resonate in video games history for a long time. For the game's first expansion, Night Springs, the Finnish studio went all in with the humor, taking characters and scenarios from […]
The PS5 Pro is out in just a few weeks promising “enhancements” for over 50 games to start. One of those is The Last Of Us Part I, which was showcased in the initial tech demo for the hardware running more smoothly at higher fidelities than its current...
A new Alan Wake 2 update went live today, introducing new accessibility options, PS5 Pro support, Xbox Series S improvement, and more. The October 22nd update is meant to celebrate the game's first anniversary by introducing new features and improvements even for those who have not purchased the Deluxe Edition, which includes the Lake House expansion, also released today. Among the biggest changes introduced in the update are new accessibility options, which include infinite ammo and batteries, immortality, options to change button holds into taps, and more. The new Alan Wake 2 Anniversary Update also adds, as already mentioned, PS5 […]
Alan Wake 2 will fully utilize the PlayStation 5 Pro hardware to enhance the experience further and finally offer a ray tracing option on console. The game's Quality and Performance modes in the game are both improved on the PS5 Pro, taking full advantage of the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaler to deliver better visuals and performance. Quality mode will offer 30 FPS gameplay with ray tracing and ray-traced reflections (opaque and transparent) with an internal resolution of 2176 x 1224 upscaled to 4K. Performance mode, on the other hand, will sport significantly higher output resolution and more visual detail […]
A new Alan Wake 2 The Lake House DLC expansion trailer was shared online today, providing the first proper look at the second expansion of one of the best survival horror games released in the past few years. The new trailer, shown during today's Xbox Partner Preview showcase, confirms that the tone of the new expansion is more in line with that of the base game, as opposed to that of the light-hearted first expansion, Night Springs. The trailer also confirmed that the expansion will launch, as previously rumored, on October 22nd on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and […]
Remedy fans are eager to learn the release date of the Alan Wake 2 Lake House expansion. Well, according to a fresh 'leak' via EB Games New Zealand (spotted by X user PlotPointsYT), the second DLC for Remedy's game might be released on October 22. The website lists Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition with the following disclaimer: *** Please note due to the global release of Alan Wake 2: Deluxe Edition, the in disc DLC for the Lake House Expansion will not unlock until midnight on 22nd Oct 2024. We already knew Alan Wake 2 Lake House would launch this […]
The expansion Alan Wake 2: The Lake House was unveiled today during the September 2024 State of Play. Fans got a first look at the upcoming expansion in a trailer released by Remedy. Fans already expected this expansion to be released sometime in October, and this was confirmed once again, albeit with no specific date. Furthermore, a more detailed synopsis for fans to dive into. While the trailer didn't expose too many details, it became obvious that the story centered around the Federal Bureau of Control, with the station being set inside the Lake House. Instead of playing as Alan […]
Yesterday, at Summer Game Fest 2024, Remedy's Sam Lake announced that the first Alan Wake 2 DLC, Night Springs, would launch later today. Speaking to GamesIndustry in a new interview, Remedy's Communications Director Thomas Puha has highlighted the great fan response (despite not-so-exciting sales): The response was incredible. Alan Wake 2 was a very hard game to ship. But we always had the plan of once we ship it, there's still things we want to talk about in addition to this expansion, photo mode, and the second expansion that we're working on. We've always taken this very long view at […]
We’ve known since the launch of Alan Wake 2 that Remedy was preparing two pieces of story DLC for the game, but now we’ve finally laid eyes on the first expansion. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs focuses on the in-universe late night TV show Night Springs, essentially the Alan Wake version of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and other similar shows. The first trailer for Alan Wake 2: Night Springs, revealed during the Summer Game Fest kickoff show, leaves no doubt that we’re diving even deeper down the series’ weird multimedia rabbit hole. The DLC will include three “episodes,” each […]
The big Summer Game Fest kickoff show is only a couple days away, and, as you would expect, the teases for what we can expect at the show have begun. It seems like Summer Game Fest will be particularly good for horror fans, as a majority of the things teased for the show thus far have been horror related. First up, Remedy has posted this teaser, which seems to be a reference to the upcoming “Night Springs” story DLC for Alan Wake 2. Dark Triangle Coffee. Just coffee, nothing else. Have a sip at Night Springs' One and Only Coffee […]
We’ve all bought a second or maybe even third copy of a game we really, really love. Longtime Kotaku readers know of my obsession with re-buying Resident Evil 4. But I’m not sure there’s a game I love so much that I would buy thousands of copies of it....
Vampire Survivors draws tons of inspiration from Castlevania, so it is no surprise that the new Ode To Castlevania DLC is fantastic. I’m here to guide you through unlocking each Hero and evolving each weapon, because that’s how you’ll end up accessing ...
I started playing Overwatch in 2019. By the time I was pushing payloads and getting Play of the Game with a well-placed Tactical Visor, a lot of the old hero kits and team compositions that were infamous when the hero shooter launched in 2016 were more...
After the crowning achievement that is Alan Wake 2, you’d think developer Remedy Entertainment would take a break. Yet in the subsequent expansions to the 2023 survival horror game, the studio has poked and prodded further at the base game’s thesis, te...
It has been a year since the release of the amazing Alan Wake 2, and the long wait to see the infamous writer back in action has been well worth it, as the game is among the best survival horror games ever released, featuring the same amazing balance between humor and horror that makes Remedy Entertainment the development studio it is, and some truly epic sequences that will continue to resonate in video games history for a long time. For the game's first expansion, Night Springs, the Finnish studio went all in with the humor, taking characters and scenarios from […]
The PS5 Pro is out in just a few weeks promising “enhancements” for over 50 games to start. One of those is The Last Of Us Part I, which was showcased in the initial tech demo for the hardware running more smoothly at higher fidelities than its current...
A new Alan Wake 2 update went live today, introducing new accessibility options, PS5 Pro support, Xbox Series S improvement, and more. The October 22nd update is meant to celebrate the game's first anniversary by introducing new features and improvements even for those who have not purchased the Deluxe Edition, which includes the Lake House expansion, also released today. Among the biggest changes introduced in the update are new accessibility options, which include infinite ammo and batteries, immortality, options to change button holds into taps, and more. The new Alan Wake 2 Anniversary Update also adds, as already mentioned, PS5 […]
Alan Wake 2 will fully utilize the PlayStation 5 Pro hardware to enhance the experience further and finally offer a ray tracing option on console. The game's Quality and Performance modes in the game are both improved on the PS5 Pro, taking full advantage of the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaler to deliver better visuals and performance. Quality mode will offer 30 FPS gameplay with ray tracing and ray-traced reflections (opaque and transparent) with an internal resolution of 2176 x 1224 upscaled to 4K. Performance mode, on the other hand, will sport significantly higher output resolution and more visual detail […]
A new Alan Wake 2 The Lake House DLC expansion trailer was shared online today, providing the first proper look at the second expansion of one of the best survival horror games released in the past few years. The new trailer, shown during today's Xbox Partner Preview showcase, confirms that the tone of the new expansion is more in line with that of the base game, as opposed to that of the light-hearted first expansion, Night Springs. The trailer also confirmed that the expansion will launch, as previously rumored, on October 22nd on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and […]
Remedy fans are eager to learn the release date of the Alan Wake 2 Lake House expansion. Well, according to a fresh 'leak' via EB Games New Zealand (spotted by X user PlotPointsYT), the second DLC for Remedy's game might be released on October 22. The website lists Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition with the following disclaimer: *** Please note due to the global release of Alan Wake 2: Deluxe Edition, the in disc DLC for the Lake House Expansion will not unlock until midnight on 22nd Oct 2024. We already knew Alan Wake 2 Lake House would launch this […]
The expansion Alan Wake 2: The Lake House was unveiled today during the September 2024 State of Play. Fans got a first look at the upcoming expansion in a trailer released by Remedy. Fans already expected this expansion to be released sometime in October, and this was confirmed once again, albeit with no specific date. Furthermore, a more detailed synopsis for fans to dive into. While the trailer didn't expose too many details, it became obvious that the story centered around the Federal Bureau of Control, with the station being set inside the Lake House. Instead of playing as Alan […]
Yesterday, at Summer Game Fest 2024, Remedy's Sam Lake announced that the first Alan Wake 2 DLC, Night Springs, would launch later today. Speaking to GamesIndustry in a new interview, Remedy's Communications Director Thomas Puha has highlighted the great fan response (despite not-so-exciting sales): The response was incredible. Alan Wake 2 was a very hard game to ship. But we always had the plan of once we ship it, there's still things we want to talk about in addition to this expansion, photo mode, and the second expansion that we're working on. We've always taken this very long view at […]
We’ve known since the launch of Alan Wake 2 that Remedy was preparing two pieces of story DLC for the game, but now we’ve finally laid eyes on the first expansion. Alan Wake 2: Night Springs focuses on the in-universe late night TV show Night Springs, essentially the Alan Wake version of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and other similar shows. The first trailer for Alan Wake 2: Night Springs, revealed during the Summer Game Fest kickoff show, leaves no doubt that we’re diving even deeper down the series’ weird multimedia rabbit hole. The DLC will include three “episodes,” each […]
The big Summer Game Fest kickoff show is only a couple days away, and, as you would expect, the teases for what we can expect at the show have begun. It seems like Summer Game Fest will be particularly good for horror fans, as a majority of the things teased for the show thus far have been horror related. First up, Remedy has posted this teaser, which seems to be a reference to the upcoming “Night Springs” story DLC for Alan Wake 2. Dark Triangle Coffee. Just coffee, nothing else. Have a sip at Night Springs' One and Only Coffee […]
We’ve all bought a second or maybe even third copy of a game we really, really love. Longtime Kotaku readers know of my obsession with re-buying Resident Evil 4. But I’m not sure there’s a game I love so much that I would buy thousands of copies of it....