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Stardew Valley And Two Other Great Games Will Be Free On PlayStation Plus Next Week
27.8.2025
Psychonauts 2 will also be free for PS Plus subscribers starting on September 2
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Our Thoughts On Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Marathon Alpha, The Hundred Line, And More Of The Week's Top Takes
26.4.2025
This week we spent some time with the Marathon alpha and tell you what we loved and hated about Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter. We also found ourselves seduced by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, smitten with the new time-travel-themed point-and-click adventure Old Skies, and impressed with...
Psychonauts Is 20 Years Old, So Let's Remember An All-Time Classic
21.4.2025
One of the stranger moments of my career was reviewing a game, giving it a four-page review and a well-deserved score of 89 percent in the then-massively-selling UK PC Gamer magazine, and then the game not coming out for another eight months. That was just one example of the nightmares...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 7 Stellar Games We Can’t Wait To Jump Back Into
2.8.2024
Welcome to the first weekend of August! The weather is still hot in various parts of the world (like, way more so than it’s been lately), so what a wonderful time to stay the hell in doors, in front of an air conditioner, with some video games. Read more
Alan Wake 2 Won't Be Releasing On A Disc
25.5.2023
Alan Wake 2, one of the stars of this evening’s PlayStation Showcase, has some very interesting news tucked away in an accompanying FAQ released at the same time as its latest trailer: the game will not be shipping on a disc. At all. It’ll be digital-only.Read more
12 Recent Games To Play When You Want A Great Story Or Characters
30.12.2021
Games rooted in abstract systems or that see you controlling vast armies of faceless soldiers can be great, but sometimes you want something that feels a little more intimate and human. Something where the characters are so lively, playing the game almost feels like hanging out with friends,...
Zack Zwiezen's Top 10 Games Of 2021
26.12.2021
Well, 2021 was a wild, awful mess of a year. I don’t need to recap what made 2021 so bad because, if you are reading this, you already know. We all live on Earth (I assume) so no point going over it all. Just, yeah, what a shitty year, huh?Read more
Gog Sale Includes Some Of The Top Games Of 2021
24.12.2021
Video game deals have become a holiday tradition for most gamers looking to get the best prices on games they missed out on over the year. And Gog.com has some of Kotaku’s favorites from 2021, and years past, on sale through the new year.Read more
The Top Ranked Steam Games of 2021, According To Users
14.12.2021
Forget awards shows and press accolades. The top games of the year are really determined by player behavior. And if you want to see what people are playing, and loving, there are few places better than Steam, which was apparently dominated this year by a mix of games you’ve definitely heard...
Game Pass Ruled 2021, Giving Us A Glimpse Of An Xbox-Less Future
13.12.2021
Xbox’s 20th birthday was all about killing the Xbox.Read more
Psychonauts 2 Hides An Mpreg Secret By The Creator of Adventure Time
8.9.2021
Letting Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward near your project is always going to be a risk. For Double Fine and the recently released Psychonauts 2, that collaboration appears to have resulted in a crudely animated Easter egg in which, well, central character Raz is pregnant.Read more
How Psychonauts 2 Approaches Trauma, Therapy And Empathy
25.8.2021
Psychonauts 2, the long-awaited sequel to Psychonauts, is a bright, frothy, wholesome game about deep, dark, unspeakable things. Trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, loneliness… beneath the squeaky-clean formica and bakelite of Psychonauts HQ lies a world humming with energy, and a story laced with...
Psychonauts 2: The Kotaku Review
23.8.2021
People are complicated. Nobody is simply selfish or sad. No one is born bad or heroic. We are a collection of memories and experiences, some good and some…not so good. These messes of thoughts and emotions can be hard to handle sometimes, but they’re also what makes us unique. It’s what makes...
Psychonauts 2 Hands-On: It's More Psychonauts, And That's Fine By Me
19.7.2021
Psychonauts 2 is a game that, for a long time, felt like it was never going to happen. But then in December 2015, Double Fine ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to create the sequel. Now, almost six years later, the game is nearly here—and I’ve played a few early levels ahead of its August...
Microsoft Calls For An End To 'Git Gud'
12.7.2021
Before the weekend, Microsoft’s Xbox Twitter account sent a surprisingly important tweet: “Beating the game on the lowest difficulty is still beating the game.” This was then followed up by Double Fine who added that completing Psychonauts 2 with the “invincibility toggle on” still counts...
All The Mental Worlds In Psychonauts, Ranked
27.6.2021
In the original Psychonauts, released back in 2005, you visit nearly a dozen mental worlds. These are large levels set within the psyches of various characters and enemies. A lot of these worlds are creative and a blast to explore. But some are terrible. (Looking at you Meat Circus..) Read more
Summer Game Fest: How To Watch E3 2021's Kickoff
10.6.2021
E3 begins today with ubiquitous video games cheerleader Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest Kickoff event. Here’s when and where to watch.Read more
Here's Everything Coming To And Leaving Game Pass Soon
3.5.2021
Members of Xbox Game Pass will soon lose the ability to play Remedy’s beloved Alan Wake at no extra cost. On the other hand, the gnarliest extreme snow sports game since SSX Tricky will become available in a matter of days. Fair trade, if you ask me. Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game Pass...