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Some Great Games Are Dirt-Cheap On PSN, An AC Shadows Streamer's Response To Racists Goes Viral, And More Top Stories
22.3.2025
This week, we take a look at FBC: Firebreak, the new multiplayer shooter and Control spin-off from Alan Wake 2 developer Remedy Entertainment. We also recommend some outstanding games you can grab for dirt cheap right now on PSN, report on how the market for artisanal, hardware-based Nintendo...
Long-Lost Xenosaga Spin-Off Has Been Recovered And Shared Online 21 Years Later
17.3.2025
A Xenosaga spin-off that was surprisingly important to the series’ story but was thought lost to the old Japanese mobile phone network it was released on has been recovered and shared online. The RPG Xenosaga: Pied Piper is once again playable, with a fan translation on the way. Read more
Nintendo’s 30 Best Switch Games, Ranked
10.3.2025
This month marks the eighth anniversary of the Nintendo Switch’s release. With the Switch 2 looming later in 2025, this is likely the last year we’ll see Nintendo develop and publish most of its games on the handheld hybrid that revolutionized how we play console-quality games. Over those eight...
30+ Years Ago, A Weird Teaser Lied About Alien 3 Being Set On Earth
29.1.2025
Earlier this week we got a new teaser for Alien: Earth, an upcoming FX series set in the expansive sci-fi universe. It shows a nasty Xenomorph escaping containment inside a ship crashing into Earth. Scary stuff. But also, this show will (seemingly) deliver on a promise a single Alien 3 teaser made...
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 6 Awesome Games We Can't Wait To Escape Back Into
24.1.2025
Hey you. Yes, you. How’s it going? Feeling okay? Taking care of yourself this week? Need some ideas for what to play? While it’s important not to hide from reality, no matter how harsh or sideways it gets, we also all need a happy place we can go to play, feel inspired, and recharge. Here are some...
Fans Rejoice As New Xenoblade Chronicles X Trailer Shows Off Much Needed UI Glow-Up
9.1.2025
With Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, the last major Wii U exclusive will find a new home on Switch. But it’s not just a spiffy port of a cult classic. A new trailer shows the 2025 version will add new characters to fight with, mechs to pilot, zones to explore, and a much-improved...
Xenoblade Chronicles X Is Coming To Switch, The Concord Studio Gets Shut Down, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
2.11.2024
This week, people desperate for Nintendo to finally pull back the curtain on the successor to the Switch instead got an announcement that the acclaimed role-playing gameXenoblade Chronicles X, previously only available on Wii U, will make its way to the handheld hybrid next year. Also, Guy...
Instead Of The Switch 2, Nintendo's Big October Surprise Is A Xenoblade Chronicles X Port
29.10.2024
Cult-favorite Xenoblade Chronicles X has been trapped on Wii U for nearly a decade. No longer. The open-world sci-fi RPG is getting a Switch port at long last early next year. It could be the final game to make that jump before Nintendo finally reveals the Switch 2. Read more
Pokémon And Mario Kart Fans Fight Nintendo Network Shutdown To Beat 14-Year-Old Halo 2 Record
6.5.2024
In 2010, a group of Halo 2 diehards called “Noble 14” stayed logged into the multiplayer shooter for weeks after Microsoft turned off the online servers for the original Xbox on April 14. The service’s last player was Apache N4SIR who finally got booted just after midnight on May 11. Fourteen years...
FF7 Rebirth Has More In Common With 2022’s Best RPG Than You Think
11.3.2024
Stepping out into the seaside region of Junon at the start of chapter four of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, I can feel the sun beaming down on Cloud and the gang as it was setting along the ocean’s horizon and painting the fields in a soothing orange glow. The craggy cliffs pave routes for my...
8 Games To Play After Final Fantasy XVI
27.7.2023
So you’ve taken the fight all the way to Ultima after liberating Bearers and smashing crystals to shiny smithereens (on your own terms, no less). Now you’re in search of a fitting follow-up experience. But with so many fantasy RPGs out there, it can be tough to know which may make a worthy...
Save A Bunch On Great Switch Games In Nintendo's Latest Summer Sale
15.6.2023
Another season, another Switch sale. In celebration of the summer solstice or just to pad those quarterly earnings, several Switch exclusives and excellent indie games have huge discounts right now. If you need something to play by the pool, like say a 2D side-scrolling arcade-y throwback like...
Damn, There's A Lot Of JRPGs Coming To The Switch
10.2.2023
Nintendo’s 2023 Switch games lineup is looking somewhat light at the moment outside of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. Naturally, one of the ways it’s plugging the holes is an onslaught of new and old JRPGs. Golden Sun is back! So is Baten Kaitos! Nintendo is digging deep...
Twitter Keeps Sharing 'Useless' Video Game Knowledge That's Actually Amazing
24.1.2023
It’s right there in the Bible—ask, and it will be given to you. It’s also right there on gaming Twitter, where the small gaming podcast Super Pod Saga posed an innocent question on January 15 and people showed up to respond in droves: “What is the most useless piece of video game knowledge...
Kotaku's Top 10 Games of 2022
30.12.2022
I was warned of how heated Kotaku’s GOTY arguments traditionally get when I first started here in November, so I was a little nervous when I was put in charge of organizing and tabulating our list of the best games of the year. Read more
Fumiya ‘the Most Famous Japanese in the Philippines’ Becomes PROJECT XENO Ambassador
25.11.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Project Xeno is pleased to announce that Fumiya, a social media creator with over 6 million followers on SNS, has been appointed as the Southeast Asia ambassador for “PROJECT XENO.” Fumiya is a social media creator based in the Philippines, working extensively as...
Project XENO’s Free Raffle Ticket Giveaway for Hikaru Collaboration NFT Sale
10.11.2022
PRESS RELEASE. The authentic strategy blockchain game, PROJECT XENO, will host an NFT sale in collaboration with the most popular YouTuber with over 4.86 million followers (as of October 24), Hikaru, from November 23, 2022 to November 30, 2022. Hikaru Collaboration NFT Sale Website:...
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Is A Genius JRPG Vision That Began 25 Years Ago
13.10.2022
Tetsuya Takahashi has a story to tell.Read more
Xenoblade Chronicles 3's Most Deliciously Cringe Moments
2.9.2022
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s Britishisms Are Corrupting My American Dialect
29.8.2022
After being thoroughly underwhelmed with Digimon Survive’s insufferable dialogue and bland characters, I braved the time-consuming Japanese RPG waters once again by diving headfirst into its release date competitor, Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Although I initially got into the series to ironically...