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The 7 Biggest Surprises From The 2024 Game Awards Nominees
18.11.2024
Game Awards host Geoff Keighley revealed the 2024 nominees across dozens of categories on Monday. It included something for everyone, unless you’re a fan of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which is quickly becoming this year’s Starfield. Read more
Play These Games After Metaphor: ReFantazio (And More Of This Week's Tips And Recs)
17.11.2024
From the best decks in Pokémon TCG Pocket to a ludicrously expensive card in the original game—and a bunch of other updates, guides, and recommendations in between—here are the most helpful tips we published this week.Read more
Two Of The Best Shooters Of All Time Are Now Free (And More Of The Week's Top Stories)
16.11.2024
This week saw the classic shootersUnreal and Unreal Tournament, with publisher Epic’s blessing, made permanently free and accessible via the Internet Archive. Meanwhile, Blizzard held a stream celebrating the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, at which it revealed that the first two games in the...
For No Particular Reason, We Suggested You Slay Nazis In Wolfenstein This Week
10.11.2024
Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but a lot happened this past week. Some of it may or may not have been newsworthy. Nevertheless, to get you through, we’ve kept you abreast of all the tips, deals, and reviews your nihilistic heart could desire. This includes articles on the perfectly cathartic...
Here's What We Really Think Of Pokémon TCG Pocket Now That The Honeymoon Phase Is Over
10.11.2024
The new mobile card game Pokémon TCG Pocket has been with us for just over a week, which has given 20 million people time to discover its highs, lows, and utterly bewildering mess of in-game currencies. It’s also, unfortunately, long enough for most people to have left the honeymoon phasein which...
Both Nintendo And Sega Had Oddly Timed Announcements This Week
9.11.2024
Whether you think the art you consume should be a distraction from the real world or a reflection of it is up to you and your capacity for curiosity. While such a divide doesn’t exist for fans of film, music, literature, or television, for some reason, it does for people who enjoy things like...
Wise Words From Dragon Age: The Veilguard And An Unboxed PS5 Pro Got Us Through Election Week
9.11.2024
We won’t belabor the point because if you’re a normal person with normal mutuals, chances are your timeline is already doing that—this week sucked, and so will the next four years.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Six Games For Election Week Escapism
8.11.2024
What a week, huh? Yeah. Well, here we are, at the end of it, at the very least, and now looking toward the future. So how about some video games to take our minds off things for the weekend? This week we’ve got some fun shooters, some beat ‘em up action, and a digital spin on a classic trading card...
How To Start Off Strong In Dragon Age: The Veilguard And More Of The Week's Gaming Tips
3.11.2024
This week, heaps of players are returning to the world of Thedas for the first time in many years thanks to the arrival of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. If you’re among them, be sure to look over our tips for helping you get started on the right foot on this epic adventure. We’ll also help you...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is Divisive, Call Of Duty's Launcher Sucks, And More Of The Week's Top Takes
2.11.2024
This week, nothing in video games resulted in more takes being heated and tweets being fired off than the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the first new entry in BioWare’s series in 10 years. We took a look at the different reactions some critics and players are having to the game. We also...
Xenoblade Chronicles X Is Coming To Switch, The Concord Studio Gets Shut Down, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
2.11.2024
This week, people desperate for Nintendo to finally pull back the curtain on the successor to the Switch instead got an announcement that the acclaimed role-playing gameXenoblade Chronicles X, previously only available on Wii U, will make its way to the handheld hybrid next year. Also, Guy...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We Can't Wait To Spend Time With
1.11.2024
The year is almost over. Today is November 1, and that means we’re only a few short weeks away from the Game of the Year deliberations that will have us at each other’s throats in December. With only a precious few weekends left in the year, it looks like most of us here at Kotaku are trying...
9 Of Our Favorite Halloween Gaming Updates To End Spooky Season
28.10.2024
The era of the Halloween-themed cartoon and sitcom episode has been replaced by the seasonal Halloween gaming event. Whether you like battle royales or car soccer, sci-fi shooting or life sim-ing, there’s plenty of scary game updates to partake in this year. If you’ve already picked up the best...
A Neat Metaphor: ReFantazio MP Recovery Trick, Starting Off Strong In Sonic X Shadow Generations, And More Of The Week's Gaming Tips
27.10.2024
This week’s tips roundup includes a helpful hint for recovering MP in Metaphor: ReFantazio, as well as pointers for tackling Sonic X Shadow Generations. We’ve also got tips of another kind, highlighting some great games to snag on sale this Halloween season. And if you’re wondering just what...
A Compelling Destiny 2 Conspiracy Theory, Black Ops 6's Terrific Zombies Mode, And More Topics We Had Strong Feelings On This Week
26.10.2024
This week saw the arrival of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and with it, the return of a classic Zombies experience. It’s terrific, and took our writer right back to the nights he spent happily playing the mode with friends back in the days of Black Ops 3. Meanwhile, the arrival ofDestiny 2's latest...
Big Games Detail Their PS5 Pro Modes, Space Marine 2 Reverts Controversial Changes, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
26.10.2024
This week, YouTuber Rosanna Pansino found moldy cheese in Lunchlys, the Lunchables competitor that counts MrBeast and Logan Paul among its creators. Also, developer Fntastic, which made waves last year when its game The Day Before, once one of the most wishlisted games on Steam, was released...
Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 5 New Games We Can't Wait To Escape Into
25.10.2024
It’s the final weekend of October as time marches on, and you might be spending your weekend at Halloween parties or mentally preparing for Dragon Age: The Veilguard next week. But if you’re not doing any of the above, you might have an open couple of days to get some game time in. There are some...
Every Halloween Candy, Ranked From Worst To Best
23.10.2024
October is a spooky month. It’s that time of year when everyone starts watching horror movies, playing scary games, decorating their houses with giant skeletons, and listening to “Monster Mash” a few too many times. But on Halloween night, we remember the real reason for the season: Candy. And lots...
I Have A Complicated Relationship With Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
20.10.2024
I’ve been a grumpy old man about all things Dragon Ball for far too long. As your typical non-manga-reading, mainstream-anime-watching child of Toonami, I drew a line in the sand a few episodes into Dragon Ball Super when I first gave it a chance. I wasn’t going to continue watching because...
Asmongold Twitch Ban, Massive Pokémon Leak, And More Of The Week's Biggest News
19.10.2024
Well, kids, it’s been a week. From a popular Twitch streamer getting banned for racist remarks to a huge leak of one of Nintendo’s biggest properties, there’s been a lot going on in the gaming world. We also got a warning from an ex-PlayStation boss about the future of the industry and a short...