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Overwatch 2 Just Teased A Long-Awaited Hero And Fans Are Freaking Out
20.3.2025
Overwatch 2’s next hero is Freja, and the crossbow-wielding damage character is getting an early trial period this weekend. To celebrate, Blizzard released a new animated trailer featuring her doing some sick acrobatic tricks and taking out synthetic omnic goons. That’s all well and good, but what...
The Girls Are Girling In Overwatch 2’s Second K-Pop Crossover
18.3.2025
Overwatch 2 has been swimming in collaboration skins over the past few years, and the crossover the hero shooter did with K-Pop group Le Sserafim remains one of its most popular. It’s so well-liked, in fact, that Blizzard is working with the pop act again for another set of skins for a (mostly)...
How To Change Your Overwatch 2 Username On Battle.net
17.3.2025
There are plenty of reasons why you may want to change your Overwatch 2 gamertag on Battle.net. Maybe you’re starting a stream channel and you want your new user name to match your channel name. Maybe you made it while you were younger and have an embarrassing username taunting you. Or, maybe...
Rejuvenate Your Allies With One Of Marvel Rivals' Best Support Characters: Rocket Raccoon
17.3.2025
Specializing in supporting his team from a distance, Rocket Raccoon is a Strategist with a solid suite of abilities. He can deploy a mobile respawn center for defeated allies, fill the area with healing orbs, boost enemy damage with his ultimate, and even supply infinite ammo for specific...
Marvel Rivals Company Has A Second Hero Shooter Coming Out, Gives Fans Free Stuff After Last-Minute Console Delay
5.3.2025
FragPunk is a first-person hero shooter where you use deckbuilding card mechanics to augment your characters’ strengths and weaknesses. It’s the next free-to-play game from NetEase, which also produced Marvel Rivals, and it’s coming out this week, just not on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S where...
Marvel Rivals Says Popular Third-Party PC Plugin Is 'Cheating Software' And Bans It
21.2.2025
Today, Marvel Rivals launched its big mid-season update, adding two new characters, a fresh map, and some balance tweaks. But the developer behind the online character shooter also warned PC players to stop using a popular piece of software, as it believes it is “cheating.” Read more
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...
PUBG Creator's Next Game Is Very Different But Even More Ambitious
20.2.2025
Nearly a decade ago, Brendan Greene’s obsession with battle royales fundamentally reshaped gaming. Now the designer, best known by his online moniker “PlayerUnknown,” is toiling away on a new set of projects that could change much more than that if they’re successful. PUBG: Battlegrounds redefined...
Marvel Rivals’ Latest Patch Is Coming For Support Players’ Throats
19.2.2025
As promised, Marvel Rivals’ mid-season update is going after the triple-Strategist meta. The latest set of balance changes have plenty of buffs and nerfs for all three of its roles, but the bulk of the support hero changes are dialing back power instead of increasing it. Meanwhile,...
Marvel Rivals Is Finally Making Some Big Balance Changes In Its Mid-Season Patch
18.2.2025
NetEase has been pretty tame with its Marvel Rivals balance updates thus far. It gave troublesome heroes like Hela a slap on the wrist and has released patches entirely dedicated to bug fixes. However, it sounds like the next patch, which will add the Human Torch and the Thing to the roster, will...
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...
Why Some Fans Are Cheering The Return Of Loot Boxes In Overwatch 2
13.2.2025
One of the funny things about being entrenched in a game’s community for years is that you sometimes forget how it might look to someone on the outside. That happened to me this week when Blizzard announced it would be bringing loot boxes back to Overwatch 2 in Season 15 after dropping the mystery...
Overwatch 2 Is Running Out Of Chances, So I’m Glad It’s Finally Taking Some Real Swings
13.2.2025
I never thought I’d become a lapsed Overwatch 2 player, but that’s what I’ve been lately. I barely touched season 14, and that lack of interest was the culmination of years of stagnation and broken promises finally pushing me away. Yeah, Marvel Rivals also showed up and took my time, but even...
Diablo 4 Expansions Won't Be Annual, The Next One Arriving In 2026
13.2.2025
Diablo IV’s first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, arrived a year and change after the game launched. That won’t be the case for its next big content drop, however. Franchise boss Rod Ferguson revealed at DICE Summit 2025 in Las Vegas this week that Diablo IV’s second expansion will be arriving...
Heal Your Marvel Rivals Team With Luna Snow’s Ice Abilities And Upbeat K-Pop
12.2.2025
Each role has a purpose in Marvel Rivals. But many would agree that the Support-based Strategists are the most vital. No team will last long without someone to heal them and grant other buffs. So who to choose? Well, if you want to use one of the best support heroes in the game, you can’t go wrong...
11 Important Changes Coming To Overwatch 2 To Finally Get It Back On Track
12.2.2025
Blizzard is bringing some of the most substantial changes to Overwatch 2 that the game has seen since it launched in 2022. In a 30-minute-long Spotlight presentation, the company revealed several changes and new modes, as well as a new hero coming to the hero shooter in 2025. You can watch the full...
Marvel Rivals May Have Just Set A Record For Responding To Angry Fans As It Abandons Controversial Reset
11.2.2025
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a game developer retreat so quickly after announcing a very unpopular change to its very successful live-service multiplayer game. Last night, NetEase announced Marvel Rivals players would have their competitive rank nerfed mid-season. Barely a few hours later,...
Master The Forces Of Nature With Marvel Rivals' Groot
10.2.2025
Groot is everyone’s favorite living-tree superhero, and is tied with Spider-Man for my daughter’s favorite Marvel character. Given his popularity, and his strengths as a Tank, it’s no surprise that you want to learn how to play this sprouting sentry like the budding hero you are. Let’s break down...
Studio Abandons A Bunch Of Games As It Goes All In On Smite 2
6.2.2025
Smite and Realm Royale developer and publisher HiRez is shifting most of its remaining staff and resources away from some of its current games in order to support 2024's Smite 2. This means the original Smite, Rogue Company, and class-based shooter Paladins will no longer receive large content...
Marvel Rivals’ Latest Patch Shows The Game Is On The Right Track
5.2.2025
Half the appeal of Marvel Rivals is that it’s not a polished, competition-ready esports shooter. NetEase’s Overwatch clone is full of chaotic, unbalanced abilities that lend themselves to experimentation and viral shenanigans. The hero shooter just got its next patch, and it looks like the team...