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Immersive Sims Are Less Niche Than They Appear With excitement building for Arkane Studios’ upcoming immersive sim Deathloop, I’ve been thinking about the sentiment that immersive sims are a niche “gamer’s game” genre. I’ve seen it echoed a lot over the years: It was mentioned in comments on a Deus Ex article I wrote last year, for example, and even Arkane itself admitted (with a justified degree of pride) that it makes “weird stuff” in a Noclip documentary about the studio. B...

Image: Daryl Mandryk To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. The latest attempt to re-release the beloved PC series No One Lives Forever is dead in the water. The saddest part? It could have been rescued, if not for the apathy of big corporations. For years, it’s been impossible to buy...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is one of the people giving a virtual talk at the Game Developers Conference this week. According to Kotaku, the creator confirmed he wouldn’t make the game today because too many people believe the conspiracy theories that were a vital part of the game’s story. Deus Ex was originally released in 2000 but took place in an alternate 2052 where many of the real world conspiracy theories have come true. The plot included references to vacc...

DLSS Support Is Accelerating After Unreal Engine 4 Integration, Says NVIDIA Mar 17, 2021 10:00 EDT Today, NVIDIA put the spotlight on two specific cases, beginning with the new System Shock demo which sees more than doubled frame rates with DLSS enabled. Matthew Kenneally, Lead Engineer at Night Dive Studios, said: The Unreal Engine 4 plugin makes light work of adding NVIDIA DLSS to your game, in fact we dropped it in over the weekend. Bringing System Shock to a new generation of gamers ha...

Unreal Engine 4 makes it easy to implement DLSS on March 17, 2021, 13:24 21 comments Why it matters: Nvidia has announced that DLSS is now available in two additional games: Crysis Remastered and the System Shock remake demo. Both are beautiful games that should benefit immensely from the upscaling tech, especially Crysis Remastered, which is much like the original in that it is tough on hardware. The first game in the Crysis series debuted in 2007 and was ...

Published 17 Mar, 2021 Nvidia have announced a new free game bundle for their RTX gaming laptops. Its only going to be around for a short period of time, but until April 15th anyone who buys a qualifying RTX laptop from a participating retailer will also bag themselves a free Steam copy of Outriders, People Can Fly and Square Enixs new upcoming third-person looter shooter. Its not just RTX 30 laptops that qualify for the bundle, either, as older RTX 20 series laptops will ...

Nostalgia Is A Trap Filed to:chaos control Image: One Must Fall 2097 To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. There’s a reason our brains always remember the best of our relationships, with family, friends, entertainment mediums or anything. It’s a stabilising mechanism, apparently, st...

BioShock In Space "Would Be Dope," Last Of Us 2s Shannon Woodward Says "I love space in video games. Ill play crap video that are games in space, even if I hate it." March 9, 2021 at 5:51AM PST Shannon Woodward, who starred in The Last of Us: Part II as Dina, has an idea for where the new BioShock game should go: to space. During an appearance on the Good Game Nice Try podcast, Woodward said up front that she is no expert and doesnt have insight on the game itself, but shes a big fan of games i...

BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den Puts You at the Heart of a Thought Experiment BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den . Like its predecessors, the BioShock 2: Minerva’s Den DLC is set in the failed underwater utopia of Rapture. You play as a Big Daddy, one of the hulking protectors for the city’s corpse-harvesting children. The core premise of the story is straightforward: Charles Milton Porter and Reed Wahl were two computer engineering colleagues that built the Thinker, a supercomputer that runs many of...

Last year brought RPG gems like Disco Elysium. Was there an RPG as good released in 2020? Weve updated our list of the best RPGs of all time to reflect the best of the past year - and theres still dozens of older classics, too. As always, weve taken a broad view of the genre rather than splitting hairs over how many upgradeable stats a game must contain before it qualifies. Whether you want Japanese RPGs, party-based dungeon crawlers, turn-based combat or frantic brawling, youll find something ...