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9 Rad Indie Games We Can't Wait To See More Of From The Mix Summer Showcase
3.6.2025
The Mix Summer Showcase ran over 90 minutes and offered quick looks at dozens of upcoming games. Formerly known as Guerrilla Collective, the showcase is one of many indie events swirling around the orbit of Summer Game Fest, and unlike many of the bigger games getting shown off in the days ahead...
Outriders Studio Blames Square Enix's 'Lack Of Communication' For New Game Being Put On Ice
2.6.2025
People Can Fly, best known for Bulletstorm and Outriders, has abandoned two of its in-development projects and blames Square Enix for at least one of them falling through. A triple-A blockbuster codenamed Gemini has been “suspended” due to a “lack of communication” from the Final Fantasy...
While Many Elden Ring Nightreign Players Are Getting Utterly Demolished, Some Are Already Pulling Off Incredible Stunts
2.6.2025
Elden Ring Nightreign turns FromSoftware’s best-in-class boss fights into multiplayer affairs, so now your shame and frustration can be shared with others. But while lots of players have been going hours without beating the roguelite RPG’s first major encounter, others are in a race to be...
Kotaku’s Biggest Gaming Culture News For The Week May 31, 2025
31.5.2025
From mergers to memes, the landscape of interactive entertainment is always in motion. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.Read more
Elden Ring Nightreign Is About To Become Easier For Solo Players
30.5.2025
FromSoftware’s next big RPG, Elden Ring Nightreign, is out now on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. But you probably already know that, considering the game reached over 300,000 players on Steam alone. For those of you venturing forth into this new Souls-like RPG alone, I have good news: Things are going...
Get Ready For The Witcher 3 To Feel Like A New Game Again When Mod Support Comes To Consoles Later This Year
30.5.2025
The Witcher 3 turned 10 years old this month, but the seminal fantasy role-playing game keeps finding new ways to reinvent itself. Three years after its “next-gen” upgrade brought the open-world adventure to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, CD Projekt Red revealed that Geralt and Ciri’s...
Elden Ring Nightreign Explodes On Steam But Is Already Getting Cooked In The Reviews: 'Very Bold Of Miyazaki To Think I Have Two Friends To Play With'
30.5.2025
Elden Ring Nightreign had a huge first night on PC. It’s already FromSoftware’s second-biggest launch ever on Steam. But the multiplayer spin-off of the 2022 hit open-world RPG is also already getting hammered by user reviews as fans complain about the lack of onboarding, poor communication tools...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Publisher Says Fans Would Never Guess The Hit RPG's Budget: 'I'm Sure Mirror's Edge And Vanquish Cost More'
29.5.2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the top-rated games of the year and has sold over 3.3 million copies. And it did it all with a very small budget, according to publisher Kelpler Interactive. How small? Portfolio director Matthew Handrahan isn’t saying, but he thinks everyone’s guesses...
Elden Ring Nightreign Gets A Fittingly Opaque Day-One Patch
29.5.2025
Elden Ring Nightreign’s bosses can be a real struggle, even working alongside two other teammates. Solo, however, they’re downright brutal. While the game allows fans to play offline by themselves, it’s an experience best left to only the most hardcore Soulslike sickos. Will FromSoftware address...
This Enormous ARPG Is A Constant Treat Of Progression And Laughs
28.5.2025
Crashlands 2 is one of those completely brilliant games that can entirely consume your spare time for weeks. It’s an open-world craft-heavy RPG in which you charge around an alien planet, beating up the local flora and fauna, in order to gather their parts to build more effective means of beating...
Cyberpunk 2 Moves Into Pre-Production As CD Projekt Red Confirms Almost 100 Developers Are Already Working On It
28.5.2025
We might finally be closer to Cyberpunk 2 coming out than the original game was when it was first announced back in 2012. CD Projekt Red recently confirmed that the sci-fi open-world RPG sequel has moved into pre-production with roughly 100 developers currently devoted to the Polish studio’s second...
Elden Ring Nightreign Is A Bizarre Experiment In Fortnite-ification I Can't Stop Thinking About
28.5.2025
I’m playing with randos. One is a big burly guy dressed in animal skins and crowned with ram antlers. The other is a katana-wielding ninja in sleek black armor. We are frantically racing around, killing and plundering everything we can in a fever dream remix of Limgrave from 2022's megahit Elden...
Rumored Persona 4 Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Voice Actor After He Claims To Have Been Recast
28.5.2025
Persona 4 voice actor Yuri Lowenthal, who has voiced the character of Yosuke in every Persona 4 game and project, announced on social media that he wouldn’t be returning in the upcoming Persona 4 remake, despite asking if he could come back. Funny thing, though: Atlus and Sega haven’t actually...
The Week's Top Tips For Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur, Oblivion Remastered, And More
25.5.2025
Whether you need help locating some of Doom: The Dark Ages, want to make the most of Verso in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, or you’d just like to learn some essential things that Oblivion Remastered doesn’t tell you, read on, we’ve got all this info and more.Read more
Fortnite Criticized For Use Of AI Darth Vader, Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel Will Introduce New City, And More Top Stories
24.5.2025
This week saw Fortnite targeted by SAG-AFTRA for its use of an AI-powered Darth Vader voice that mimics that of the late James Earl Jones. Also, the folks behind Assassin’s Creed Shadows told us why they opted not to let you kill animals in the open-world adventure, fans of Clair Obscur react...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 3 Cool Games We’re Playing After An Impossible Week
23.5.2025
Hope you enjoyed looking at Tom Cruise’s face, or hair even, this week because not only is there a new Mission: Impossible movie out right now, but we decided to dig deep into this franchise recently with our ranking of the films’ most impossible stunts, an overview of every Mission: Impossible...
9 Switch Games You Can Grab For Cheap This Memorial Day
23.5.2025
Memorial Day weekend invites important questions like what to marinate the kebobs in, whether it’s warm enough to put the pool up or not, and which new game you should buy while continuing to ignore your backlog. The Switch eShop currently has a few sales running that are worth a quick peek while...
Some Switch 2 Games Will Support A USB Mouse
23.5.2025
Well, this is neat. Apparently, some Switch 2 games will support you just plugging in a USB mouse and playing that way instead of using a controller or the Joy-Con’s mouse-like features. I’ll be curious to test this out when the console arrives next month. Read more
A Live-Action Elden Ring Movie Is Coming And No One's Quite Sure How To Feel About It
23.5.2025
The video game-to-Hollywood pipeline is prepping for a doozy. A24 announced Elden Ring is the latest hit game slated to get a live-action adaptation, with Ex Machina and Civil War’s Alex Garland signed on to direct. What exactly the result will be is anyone’s guess, and fans aren’t quite sure...
Three Essential Things Oblivion Remastered Doesn’t Tell You
23.5.2025
As you exit the prologue sewers in Oblivion Remastered, you’re greeted by a whole lot of nothing. There are ruins across the water, a small abandoned dock down the hill, and behind you, an entire city. But where do you go, what do you do, and why should you care about delivering a necklace of...