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Hideo Kojima Has An Idea For A 'Forgetting Game' But Everyone Over The Age Of 30 Is Already Living It
14.5.2025
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You dive into a big, modern blockbuster on day-one—maybe it’s an open-world RPG like Assassin’s Creed Shadows or a loot-heavy action-adventure with lots of items and numbers to keep track of like Monster Hunter Wilds—and you’re having a great time, but life gets...
12 Cool Games We Saw At PAX East 2025
14.5.2025
This year’s PAX East felt small. There were a few big names on the show floor, like Bandai Namco which was there showing off Elden Ring: Nightreign and Larian Studios making its annual appearance with a Baldur’s Gate 3 booth, but many of the big industry movers and shakers who’ve appeared at...
Final Fantasy Maker Cancels Kingdom Hearts Spin-Off As It Focuses On 'Quality Over Quantity'
14.5.2025
Square Enix has finally given up on its Pokémon GO-style mobile spin-off of Kingdom Hearts. The Final Fantasy publisher announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, which began development back in 2019, because it didn’t think it could deliver on the live-service...
Hogwarts Legacy, Civilization 7, And More Reveal $10 Switch 2 Upgrade Fees
13.5.2025
“Next-gen” upgrade fees are coming to Switch 2. Ahead of the console’s launch in June, more and more publishers are sharing new details about the Switch 2 versions of games that are already on Switch, and many will require a $10 fee in order to unlock them. But what exactly are you paying for?Read...
Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy Collab Has A Card For Every Cid (With One Exception)
13.5.2025
I don’t go here (Magic: The Gathering, that is), but I’m obsessed with the new MTG and Final Fantasy collaboration. I swore off trading card games when I realized how much money people dump into cracking packs, but I can still appreciate some good Final Fantasy art when I see it. Something I also...
Fallout Season 2 Marches Toward New Vegas As It Teases December Release
13.5.2025
Fans won’t have to wait long to see the Fallout TV show tackle the setting of one of the best RPGs in the series. Amazon announced Fallout season 2 will start airing in December 2025 with a teaser trailer that shows Lucy and Ghoul set out across the Mojave desert to the irradiated ruins of...
Fans Prepare To Mod The Hell Out Of Stellar Blade After PC Release Date Leaks
12.5.2025
Stellar Blade finally has a release date on PC. The very good, vibes-filled action-RPG that began as a PlayStation 5 exclusive will hit Steam in June, according to an apparent early leak of the trailer on YouTube. I can’t wait to see how the modding community reacts. Read more
How To Deal With Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Elusive Petanks And More Of The Week's Top Tips
11.5.2025
This week’s tips hodgepodge will shed some light on Clair Obscur’s elusive Petanks, help you score the best weapons and armor in Monster Hunter Wilds, and highlight some great console commands you should try out in Oblivion Remastered.Read more
Andor's Latest Episodes Are The Best Yet And We Aren't Ready For It To End
9.5.2025
This week brought us three more new episodes of Andor, and one step closer to next week’s series finale. This trio was probably the most impressive and devastating yet, bringing the events on Ghorman to an incendiary head and bringing some character arcs to a sudden and permanent end.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Four Lovely Games We Are Eager To Get Back To
9.5.2025
It’s been a pretty neat week! Maybe even a good one? In 2025? Are we allowed to have those?Read more
One Surprising Switch 2 Launch Game Sold Me On The Mouse Controls
9.5.2025
I finally got to play the Switch 2. It happened as part of a demo here at PAX East, and though my time with the system was brief (and I wasn’t even allowed to look at the console itself as it was hidden beneath a demo station), it did give me a chance to play around with one of the features I...
A Beginner's Guide To Maelle In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
8.5.2025
Usually in an RPG, when you think “absolute assbeating swordwielder” in a video game, you picture the likes of Cecil from Final Fantasy IV, Auron from FFX, or even someone like Hulkenberg from Metaphor ReFantazio. What you’re usually not thinking of is a tiny befreckled orphan girl who wins the...
Clair Obscur Has A Build So Busted You Can Do Over 3 Billion Damage With It, But Not For Long
8.5.2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been hailed as a GOTY-contender and a refreshingly modern take on the beloved turn-based fantasy RPGs of yore. So it’s fitting that players have discovered a strategy so broken it lets a single character do over 2 billion damage, enough to kill the hardest boss...
Ex-BioWare Lead Says The Dragon Age Team Didn't Feel Supported During Veilguard Development
7.5.2025
It’s no secret that the game that would become Dragon Age: The Veilguard had a troubled development. However, every time a new story comes out about how studio in-fighting and corporate favoritism affected the project, it feels like more of a miracle that the fantasy RPG got out the door looking...
Switch 2 Will Get Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth And The Rest Of The Remake Trilogy, Too
7.5.2025
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade was one of the last-gen blockbusters revealed to be getting a Switch 2 port during the recent Nintendo Direct. But that game is already five years old. What about the rest of the trilogy, including last year’s gargantuan RPG adventure Rebirth? It sounds like...
Forget Oblivion Remastered, Play Daggerfall Unity Instead
7.5.2025
With Bethesda’s (sort of) surprise announcement of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered, you might find that there are some out there who’d try to encourage you to play fan-made Morrowind remakes instead. Ignore those people, they’re cowards and fools. You should be playing Daggerfall right...
Everything You Need To Know About The Lunar Remastered Collection
6.5.2025
Fans of old-school role-playing games have been asking for remasters of Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue for ages. And now, with the arrival of the Lunar Remastered Collection, the long and tortuous wait for these beloved games is finally over. This updated collection combines...
Elden Ring Is Getting More DLC Over Three Years Later Thanks To Switch 2
6.5.2025
Elden Ring is getting fresh content in 2025 thanks to the Switch 2. FromSoftware recently revealed that the Tarnished Edition, coming to Nintendo’s new handheld hybrid later this year, will add two new classes to the game, as well as some additional cosmetics for the spirit horse Torrent....
Cheat Your Way To Greatness With The Best Oblivion Remastered Console Commands
5.5.2025
Oblivion Remastered is a fantasy RPG that, on the surface, revolves around exploration and story, of uncovering minute details and lore tidbits in dungeons, all while fighting terrible beasts from other planes of existence. To some, it’s all about the power creep; it’s about becoming stronger, more...
Fallout 1 & 2 Source Code Still Exists, Despite Orders To Destroy It
5.5.2025
The original source code for Interplay’s Fallout and its sequel Fallout 2 was thought lost and destroyed. But it turns out that at least one person defied orders from the studio and saved the source code behind two of the most popular PC RPGs ever made. Read more