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13 PS5 Games That Are All A Steal At $10 Or Less During Sony's Spring Sale
26.3.2025
Sony is closing March out with its 2025 spring sale across PlayStation 5 and PS4. There are a lot of big games that are a great deal right now, thanks to discounts of up to 90 percent off, including one of my personal favorite games of 2024. Read more
12 Of The Biggest Choices We've Agonized Over In Games
26.3.2025
One of the best things video games can do is let us have ownership over the stories we play through. Crafting meaningful, engaging moments of choice and consequence can be difficult for some developers to navigate, but when a game really makes you stop and consider why you’re doing something beyond...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Reviews Make It Sound Somewhere Between An Open-World Slog And The Witcher 3
3.2.2025
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is out this week, and reviews for the overwhelmingly massive open-world RPG sequel are here and mostly positive–though not all. It sounds like the new medieval sim, similar to its predecessor, won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. Some critics are calling it a Witcher 3-level...
21 Games We’d Love To See On The Nintendo Switch 2
23.1.2025
The original Switch was a trailblazing device that proved you could take console-quality games on the go, but it was demonstrably less powerful than its PlayStation and Xbox competitors. In the years since the Switch was released, that gap has only grown with the release of the PS5 and Xbox Series...
Nintendo Finally Reveals The Switch 2, Elon Musk And Asmongold Clash, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
18.1.2025
The week’s top story is easily the fact that our long wait for a first look at the Switch 2 is finally over. Nintendo finally showed off the device (and what seems to be a new Mario Kart) in a sleek new trailer, and though we’ll seemingly have to wait until early April to get much in the way...
Ex-Witcher Devs Tease New Vampire RPG And It Looks Really Cool
14.1.2025
What if the next Witcher game starred a vampire instead of Geralt? That’s one of the selling points behind The Blood of Dawnwalker, a new RPG from some of the masterminds behind The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. Rebel Wolves, formed in 2022 by a bunch of ex-CD Projekt Red developers, revealed...
Geralt Shreds A Kraken In The Latest Witcher Animated Movie Trailer
14.1.2025
Kraken are referenced in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, but players never actually get to fight one in CD Projekt Red’s 2015 open-world epic. So the animated movie The Witcher: Sirens of The Deep is giving fans the next best thing: a front-row seat to Geralt going Berserk-mode on one of...
PlayStation Has Some Incredible Last-Minute Deals For Catching Up On Your Backlog
3.1.2025
The holidays are over, but discount season will stretch into mid-January 2025 thanks to Sony’s ongoing New Year sale on PlayStation 5 and PS4. There are some really steep discounts on a ton of great games. A perfect time to grab some neat stuff that you’ve been meaning to tick off your backlog.Read...
The Witcher 4 Gives Ciri A New Voice
16.12.2024
Aspiring monster slayer Ciri isn’t just returning for The Witcher 4, she’s the star this time around. But while Geralt of Rivia’s surrogate daughter will step into his shoes to lead her own grizzled adventures, the character won’t sound the same as she did in The Witcher 3. Read more
100+ Hour FFVII: Rebirth Adds A Fast-Forward Option For Cutscenes
16.12.2024
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth is a remake that manages to blow up the middle-act of the original 1997 PlayStation game into a game twice as long. Take your time, see the sites, wrap your head around every little nook and wrinkle of its sprawling world, and you’ll be saving the planet for well over...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Sweet Games We Can’t Wait To Dive Back Into
13.12.2024
Welcome back to Kotaku’s Weekend Guide, the post-Game Awards edition! If you missed out on last night’s pretty-darn-good awards show, we have a wrap- up of everything cool we saw, and a summary of all the awards won. But if you’re also looking for some great game recommendations to fill your...
The Flawed Game Awards Delivered Its Best Show In Years
13.12.2024
The Game Awards creator and host Geoff Keighley has spent his life in the vicinity of the video game industry’s Hollywood-inferiority complex. He’s been attached to weird collisions of gaming culture, pageantry, and celebrity cameos dating back to Cybermania ‘94 where, at 15 years old, he was...
The Witcher 4 Will Bring Geralt Back But His Role Is Still A Mystery
13.12.2024
The Witcher 4's first trailer reveal showed us Ciri will be the open-world RPG’s next main protagonist, but that doesn’t mean her mentor and surrogate father figure, Geralt of Rivia, won’t be joining her on her new adventures in some way. What exact role he’ll play, however, remains a secret.Read...
The Witcher 3's Incredible Card Game Will Now Be Playable In Real Life
6.12.2024
The Witcher 3 had a great open world, amazing quests, and excellent storytelling, but one of my favorite parts about it is still Gwent, the RPG’s in-universe card game. Now, a year after the standalone digital version was shutdown, the awesome mini-game is getting a physical tabletop release. Read...
The Balatro Takeover Has Only Just Begun
27.11.2024
Look to your left. Look to your right. One of those people is about to discover Balatro for the first time. The other has already been secretly playing it every spare moment they get. Read more
The 7 Best Scary RPGs To Play During Halloween
28.10.2024
There are plenty of amazing horror games out there, we even made a whole list about it! However, one genre that you might not immediately think of as a hotbed of good scares is role-playing games. You’d be wrong, though. RPGs of all types have some of the best horror stories in the medium, thanks...
One Of 2024's Best Games Continues Its Crossover Domination With Cyberpunk And Stardew Valley
24.10.2024
Balatro is a very, very good game. We’ve established that a few times here at Kotaku. And now, for all you folks still playing the roguelike poker game, a new update has added some fresh crossover cards featuring characters from Stardew Vally, Cyberpunk 2077, and Slay The Spire. Read more
PlayStation Sale Discounts A Ton Of 2024’s Biggest Games
26.9.2024
It seems PlayStation is holding some huge sale just about every month at this point. We already had one big round of deals a couple of weeks ago and here we are with even more! That’s right, PlayStation’s Big Games Big Deals sale began on September 25 and offers up some incredible deals on some...
CDPR Starting The Witcher 4 Production Any Moment Now
29.8.2024
Yesterday, August 28, saw CD Projekt hold their latest earnings call, which might not sound exciting but has led to a number of updates on the game developer’s upcoming projects. While Cyberpunk Edgerunners’ fans are already happy with the news that the company wants more animation projects like...
Everything Shown At Today’s Joint Nintendo Direct And Indie World Showcase
27.8.2024
Today, August 27, Nintendo treated fans to a double whammy of news during the joint Nintendo Direct and Indie World presentations. If you didn’t catch the showcases live as they happened or you just can’t be bothered to sit through the whole thing yourself, then don’t worry, we’ve got you covered....