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So What The Hell Is Mario Drinking In Mario Kart World?
2.4.2025
On Wednesday, Nintendo held a big Direct dedicated to the upcoming Switch 2. The new console is set to launch on June 5 and will cost $450. And one of the launch games for the console is Mario Kart World, a big, sprawling kart racer that looks like a lot of fun. But uh, what the heck is Mario...
Our Hopes And Predictions For The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct
31.3.2025
We’re less than 48 hours away from the Switch 2 deep-dive everyone’s been waiting months for, and the biggest questions around power, price, release timing, and launch lineup still remain. Will Nintendo play it safe as it seems to have done so far with the new hardware, or has it been patiently...
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 3 Great Games To Say Goodbye To March With
28.3.2025
March is nearly over, and what better way to spend the final days of the month than curled up at home and playing video games? Welcome to Kotaku’s weekend guide, where we give you a few suggestions of cool games you can play right now if you’re avoiding your backlog or just want to add another game...
A Great New City-Builder, A Terrific New Zombie Shooter, And More Of The Week's Recommendations And Opinions
22.3.2025
Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we’re no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games To Transport Us To A Better Place
21.3.2025
Happy Ostara to those who celebrate! For everyone else, happy Spring Equinox! Winter is finally friggin’ over, and while the world might still look a little dark and bleak, thank goodness we’ve now got longer days and warmer temps on the way. Read more
Split Fiction Players Complete Super-Secret Level And Win Awesome Prize
19.3.2025
A super-secret and very hard level hidden in Split Fiction, so difficult that only a few of the game’s devs could overcome it, has been completed by a pair of speedrunners. Their reward? A free trip to Sweden to get a sneak peek at Hazelight’s next game.Read more
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 3 Great Games Keeping Us Grounded
14.3.2025
Next week is a big one. Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches on the heels of new reporting that Ubisoft is looking to spin off the franchise into a standalone company backed by Chinese conglomerate NetEase. The 2025 Game Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco with talks from people behind...
The 17 Best Co-op Games You Can Play Right Now
13.3.2025
Split Fiction, the latest co-op adventure from Hazelight, has just arrived, and it’s another example of how the It Takes Two developer is leading the charge on games that are designed around what’s possible when you have two players working together to accomplish a common goal. With the unique...
Split Fiction Is The Good Time Everyone Needs Right Now
9.3.2025
EA and Hazelight’s latest co-op adventure, Split Fiction, is out now across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. As with previous Hazelight games, like It Takes Two, Split Fiction is a co-op only experience that features a dazzling amount of gameplay mechanics. One moment you’ll be flying dragons and later...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Could Be Amazing, The Switch Launch Was One For The Ages, And More Of The Week's Takes
8.3.2025
This week, we went hands-on with the imminentClair Obscur: Expedition 33 and think it could be a turn-based RPG classic. We also reminisced, eight years after the fact, about what made the launch of the Nintendo Switch so unforgettable, and gushed about why Monster Hunter Wilds’ Rove is easily...
Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 6 Cool Games We're Excited To Get Back To
7.3.2025
March has arrived and it’s full of uncertainty. Will Borderlands 4 suck? Will Grand Theft Auto VI cost $100? What beloved game studios will be closed so massive publishers can get back their swagger? Will tariffs kill physical games or is Trump’s trade war still in early access? The only thing...
Split Fiction Is A Smash Hit By Every Metric And A Lesson to EA And Others
7.3.2025
As I write this sentence, the latest co-op adventure game from Hazelight, Split Fiction, hasn’t even been out for 48 hours. Yet based on player count numbers, Metacritic rankings, reviews, and player ratings, it is already one of EA’s most successful and critically acclaimed games in years....
The Best Games Of 2025 So Far
5.3.2025
It’s only the beginning of March but 2025 already has some bangers worth spotlighting, including real standouts like Split Fiction and Avowed, so we decided to start compiling the best games of the year early and update this list as the days, weeks, and months go by. Here are some of the best games...
Two Point Museum Is Great, The Nemesis System (RIP Monolith) Was Incredible, And More Of The Week's Takes
1.3.2025
This week, we shared our thoughts on Two Point Museum, the latest in developer Two Point’s humorous series of management sims. We also offered up some opinions on what the big takeaways are from this week’s PokémonPresents showcase, and paid homage to the Nemesis system, the patented technology...
Legendary Studio Monolith Shuttered, Assassin's Creed Shadows Leaked, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
1.3.2025
This week, Warner Bros. shuttered Monolith, the legendary studio responsible for games ranging from 2000's The Operative: No One Lives Forever to 2017's Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The closure means that the studio’s promising Wonder Woman game, first revealed in 2021, has been cancelled as well....
Every MCU Movie, Ranked From Worst To Best
24.2.2025
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now 17 years old and boasts a catalog of 35 movies and counting. With Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* wrapping up Phase Five in the ongoing superhero saga before Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives this summer to kick off Phase Six, we thought...
Answering All Your Avowed Questions And More Of The Week's Top Tips
23.2.2025
This week, we’ll kick things off by answering the questions you may have about Obsidian’s new first-person role-playing game Avowed (and if you want more tips to help you get started strong, look no further than this spoiler-free collection of things to know before you start playing). We’ll also...
Elden Ring Nightreign Impressions, Marvel Rivals Layoff Reactions, And More Of The Week's Top Commentary
22.2.2025
We’ve been playing quite a bit of Obsidian’s great new first-person RPGAvowed lately, and we have thoughts about the companions who fight by your side during your journey. Also, we share our impressions on Elden Ring Nightreign after spending time with its recent network test, and look at how...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Good Games We Can't Get Off Our Minds
21.2.2025
Spring is almost here. I can practically feel it quietly blossoming between the 25-degree overnight lows and the desperate last flurry of snowflakes coating my driveway this week. Until then, we’re feasting on 2025's early bounty of games ahead of some heavy hitters that will be rounding out...
Hands-On With Monster Hunter Wilds, What Makes Avowed's Inventory So Great, And More Of The Week's Takes
15.2.2025
This week’s roundup of our hot takes from the past week includes a plea for Nintendo to let us buy older games again on the Switch 2 like we could in the days of the Wii’s Virtual Console instead of just locking all that stuff behind a subscription paywall and letting us pay for the privilege...