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Sonic‘s Latest Outing Is A Grim Fall Guys Knock-Off With $60 Skins
5.11.2025
Sonic Rumble is a bad game made worse with gross monetization
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The Entire Yakuza Franchise Is On Sale On Steam Right Now
16.10.2025
From recent games including Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii to older titles like Yakuza 0, it's all part of the sales event
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Costco Seems To No Longer Be Selling Xbox Games Or Consoles
23.9.2025
Plus: A Sonic song is still in legal limbo, a new Palworld game is coming, and we get a small update on Stardew Valley 1.7
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New Official Sonic Racing Crossworlds Ad Goes After Mario Kart World Like It’s The 1990s
16.9.2025
Plus: Xenoblade gets mentioned in an unexpected place, Palworldwill leave early access next year, more games come to Game Pass, and MindsEye's lead actor talks about the flop
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Sega Throws Shade At Mario Kart While Showing Off Sonic Racing: Crossworlds
6.6.2025
At today’s Summer Game Fest showcase, Sega showed off Sonic Racing: Crossworlds. The kart racer is a big ol’ crossover event between the blue blur and other Sega characters. After previous leaks claimed Minecraft and Spongebob characters would join the racer’s roster, Sega revealed that several...
Bethesda Devs Win First-Ever Union Contact At A Major Gaming Company In The Country After Threatening Strike
30.5.2025
ZeniMax Workers United just became the first game developer union in the country to win a contract at a major publisher. The group of over 300 quality assurance testers across franchises like Fallout and Doom secured an agreement with Microsoft that includes wage increases, salary minimums,...
Original Space Marine Getting 4K Remaster, But Will Skip PS5
22.5.2025
Sega and Games Workshop announced that the original Space Marine game, first released on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC over a decade ago, is getting a fancy remaster with improved visuals and controls. And you won’t have to wait long as it launches on June 10 on Xbox Series X/S, and PC. You might notice...
Former Xbox Exec Says Microsoft Would Stop Making Hardware If It Could
7.3.2025
The Xbox that fans have known for decades is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation as Microsoft sets it sights on a multiplatform approach to gaming and its console sales continue to decline year after year. Veteran gaming executive Peter Moore, an Xbox VP in the early aughts...
Sonic 4 Already In Development And Is Set To Arrive In 2027
19.12.2024
A new report claims that Paramount has greenlit a sequel to the still-not-released Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 is already in development and the plan is for it to hit theaters in 2027. Read more
The Musician Behind Some Of Sonic's Most Iconic Music Is Suing Sega
18.12.2024
We’re about one day away from the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and we know that the third movie in the live-action film franchise will include the iconic song “Live & Learn” from Sonic Adventure 2. While Sonic fans will likely feel real nostalgic upon hearing the song in the film, the artist...
11 Great Games To Grab From PlayStation's 30th Anniversary Sale
2.12.2024
Sony’s big Black Friday sale has rolled into its PlayStation 30th anniversary sale without missing a beat. There are lots more games that are heavily discounted on PSN right now, from blockbuster PS5 exclusives to some equally amazing but lesser-known games that might not be on your radar. Read more
Yakuza Creator Suggests There Might Be Too Many Games To Keep Making Them So Big
11.11.2024
There’s hardly enough time to play the biggest video game releases of the year, let alone keep up with everything else coming out each month. Every massive open-world RPG or live-service grind means dozens of other games go un-played. The creator of Like A Dragon series, previously called Yakuza...
Sega Delisting Over 60 Classic Games Next Month
7.11.2024
Sega is delisting over 60 games across console and PC digital storefronts next month. The company reassured players that those who already owned the retro games will still be able to download and play them after they’ve been delisted, but that doesn’t make the sudden removal of so many classic...
12,000 Fake Nintendo And Sega Consoles To Be Destroyed In Major Retro Gaming Bust
16.9.2024
An alleged vintage gaming trafficking ring was recently busted up in Italy. Authorities say 12,000 counterfeit copies of the Atari, SNES, and Sega Genesis, collectively housing millions of pirated games, have been seized and will be destroyed. Now, 12,000 fewer people will be subjected to running...
Someone Added VP Nom And Dreamcast Fan Tim Walz To Crazy Taxi
13.9.2024
Minnesota governor and Democratic VP nom Tim Walz apparently loved his Sega Dreamcast back in the day. And reportedly he played Crazy Taxi. So of course someone out there decided to mod Walz into Crazy Taxi. Read more
Celebrate 25 Years Of The Sega Dreamcast With This Great Merch Collection
9.9.2024
Believe it or not, the Sega Dreamcast turns 25 years old today. When I think back on my formative years playing games, and more importantly Tim Walz’s youth, it’s the first console that comes to mind. I’m positive that if I were to go looking through one of my closets right now, I’d be unable...
Daytona USA Arcade Cabinet Was Hiding $400,000 And A Gun
30.7.2024
Daytona USA was a hit ‘90s arcade racing game by Sega that helped millions of kids pretend they were bad-ass NASCAR drivers, and sported a famous theme song that certain Kotaku editors still get stuck in their heads to this day. This week, it was discovered that one of the old cabinets was hiding...
Mario & Sonic Are Dead (The Olympic Games Series, We Mean)
30.7.2024
According to a developer who worked on every game in the Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games franchise, the reason there’s no appearance for the joint Nintendo and Sega venture during the 2024 Paris Olympics is because, well, the whole series is dead and gone. A rumor backed up by Eurogamer...
Sega Sues Online Troll Who Harassed Its Staff, And Wins
17.7.2024
There’s a hell of a lot of harassment going on in gaming. If there’s one thing Kotaku would like to see, it would be big-name publishers speaking up about it, and taking a stand against it, instead of capitulating to it or tacitly endorsing it through silence. Meanwhile, there’s Sega’s approach...
Sega Explains What Its New Crazy Taxi Game Is And It Sounds Ridiculous
1.7.2024
At last year’s Game Awards, Sega pulled a crazy move and announced not one, but half a dozen revivals of beloved series that have been dormant for a long time. Chief among them was a new Crazy Taxi game, and we’ve finally gotten the first details about it, namely that it’ll be a large scale...