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Assassin's Creed Shadows' Afflictions, Demystified
1.5.2025
How exhausted are you by stagger? It’s unironically the worst status affliction in video gaming history. Thankfully, it’s not much of an issue in Assassin’s Creed Shadows—at least for the player. The action-adventure from Ubisoft does have a similar status effect—Daze—but you’ll most often be...
Welp, GTA 6 Is Definitely Going To Be At Least $80 Now
1.5.2025
Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to launch later this year. Maybe in October? Regardless of when it arrives, it seems very likely now—after Nintendo and Microsoft have both announced $80 games—that the open-world sequel will cost at least $80 as well, if not more.Read more
How To Defeat The Naginata In Assassin’s Creed Shadows
1.5.2025
Naoe and Yasuke’s ongoing journey through the Wide Wide World of Bastards continues with The Naginata, a panicky, flopsweaty stooge who doesn’t even have the honor of fighting an old drunk one-on-one given the opportunity. Read more
Fans React To Xbox Price Hikes And $80 Games
1.5.2025
An Xbox Series X with 2TB of storage now costs more than a PlayStation 5 Pro. The next Call of Duty could be Microsoft’s first $80 game. Microsoft announced major price hikes for the entire Xbox ecosystem on Thursday and fans are in shock. Read more
Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs
1.5.2025
The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff has been laid off, Kotaku as learned. Founded in 2012 under Vox Media, the site quickly established itself as one of the premier outlets for original reviews, reporting, and cultural analysis in the world of gaming.Read...
Stardew Valley Creator Steps Away to Finish Haunted Chocolatier: “I Might Just Disappear”
1.5.2025
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Ubisoft Drops Heavy Hints Of A Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Sequel
1.5.2025
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s developers got done dirty. The side-scrolling Metroidvania entry into the 36-year-old series sold an extraordinary 1.3 million copies, and yet despite this, Eurogamer reported last year that the internal team at Ubisoft Montpellier that had created the game...
Yeah, You Might Just Have To Resort To Save Scumming To Secure This Item In Monster Hunter Wilds
1.5.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds has a habit of keeping things vague when it comes to various mechanics or how items work. Not everything can be as obvious as how to interact with Wounds. No matter if you find it charming or frustrating, you’re bound to be confused here and there. A great example of this...
Microsoft Announces Massive Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games To Cost $80
1.5.2025
Microsoft has announced it will be raising the prices of all Xbox consoles, accessories, and games, and the increases are huge. Console and peripheral prices will go up today, May 1, by an enormous amount, while new first-party game prices will all hit $80 by the holidays.Read more
13 Things We Learned About Borderlands 4 After Today's Big Event
30.4.2025
Today, we learned a lot more about Borderlands 4 during a roughly 20-minute PlayStation State of Play dedicated exclusively to Gearbox and 2K’s upcoming sci-fi looter shooter sequel.Read more
Even Atari Game Cartridges Are Getting More Expensive Because Of Tariffs
30.4.2025
Atari has put out updated versions of multiple classic consoles in recent years, following up its Atari 2600+ replica console from 2023 with the 7800+ in late 2024, all accompanied by honest-to-god physical cartridge releases containing classic Atari games like Berzerk, Space Duel, and Ninja Golf....
Ubisoft Reveals Massive Post-Launch Road Map For Assassin's Creed Shadows
30.4.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft’s latest entry in its long-running historical fiction franchise, is set to receive some big updates over the next few months as explained in a new content roadmap released on April 30. Read more
Prepare For Balatro To Take Over Your Life When It Hits PS Plus In May
30.4.2025
I can already feel how much sleep I’m about to lose when Balatro becomes one of the free monthly games for PlayStation Plus in May. The 2024 GOTY contender and viral high score chase sensation is only a year old and about to win over a whole new group of converts to its Joker-worshipping cult....
EA Abandons One Of The Longest-Running Racing Franchises After 25 Years
30.4.2025
Earlier today racing game developer Codemasters announced that it was no longer developing any future dirt rally racing games, ending a 25-year run that started back in 1998. Read more
Nintendo Quietly Made A Big Change To The Nintendo Switch eShop
30.4.2025
The Nintendo Switch received a major firmware update today that paves the way for its integration with the Switch 2 and institutes a less than stellar new regime of virtual game sharing. But firmware version 20.0.0 also made some other equally notable but less advertised changes, including a major...
Jack Black's Minecraft Chicken Song Just Broke A Billboard Charts Record
30.4.2025
A Minecraft Movie is a box office juggernaut and has convinced loads of kids and teenagers to go out to the movies again (and cause chaos). And a song from the the live-action adaptation of the hit video game has set a new record: it’s the shortest track to ever make it on the Billboard Hot...
Creepy Horror Series Rusty Lake Celebrates Its 10th Birthday With A Surprise New Game And Film
30.4.2025
It all began with Cube Escape back in April 2015. Two mobile games were released simultaneously, Cube Escape: The Lake and Cube Escape: Seasons. Each, at first glance, appeared to be part of the current trend for both digital and real-world escape room games, in which you solved puzzles to...
Evil Dead Disappears From Stores Just Three Years After Release
30.4.2025
Evil Dead: The Game arrived in 2022 to mixed reviews but strong fan support for its asymmetric multiplayer. Now, just three years later, the survival horror game is disappearing from store shelves, presumably because of expiring licenses. Read more
Turn Off Car Damage In Forza Horizon 5 So You Can Race Around Like The Maniac You Are
30.4.2025
Some players adore realism in their racing games, including mechanical and cosmetic damage that forces them to drive perfectly or risk breaking down mid-race. Other folks enjoy a more leisurely racing experience that lets them get away with being a bit more reckless (or a lot more reckless). Read...
Be A Pal And Gift Some Cars To Your Friends In Forza Horizon 5
30.4.2025
They say that giving is better than receiving. I say that depends on what’s being given or received. But it’s definitely great that Forza Horizon 5 gives you the ability to gift cars to your friends or random folks in the game. I mean, surely you’re not planning on driving literally every car...