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PSA: Wash Your Jeans Before Playing Nintendo’s Newest Switch 2 Exclusive
11.8.2025
Fans are buzzing about Drag x Drive: 'I bet jeans will become the meta'
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Check Out The Best Cosplay At San Diego Comic-Con 2025
6.8.2025
Our intrepid photographers were at the event, capturing the best outfits on the show floor
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Someone Just Made It Way Easier To Eat Fries While Playing Switch 2
29.7.2025
How much grease and salt can you stand on your video game controllers? Everyone who’s ever played a video game has, at some point, eaten while gaming, and usually it requires you to either put a controller down or hold it in one hand while quickly horking something down between respawns. Well,...
There's Finally A Nintendo Game That Uses The Switch 2's Mouse Controls, And It's 33 Years Old
29.7.2025
During the marketing for the Switch 2, one of the most talked about aspects (perhaps because there was so little else to talk about) was the potential that the new Joy-Con 2s could be used as mice. Post-launch, there’s been almost no reason to bother. It hasn’t featured as a necessary control...
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Looks So Morbidly Positive
28.7.2025
With the fantastic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds back for season three, the potential for the franchise feels so strong. As opposed to back in January when Section 31 came out, and the potential for the franchise felt desperately weak. That’s Star Trek: as good as its last outing. So where will...
Nintendo's Other Switch 2 Exclusive Gets A Limited-Time Demo
16.7.2025
During April’s big Switch 2 Direct, where the console was revealed in all its glory for the very first time, Nintendo showed off an in-house game that supported the new console’s Joy-Con-as-mice feature. Drag x Drive, a wheelchair basketball game, was a complete surprise, and things have been...
Repair Experts Call Switch 2 Pro Controller 'Piss-Poor' In Scathing Review
11.7.2025
“This is a piss-poor excuse for a controller.” That’s how repair-focused YouTube channel iFixit starts its negative review of the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller. The repair and tech experts suggest the pricey controller is a “nightmare” to repair and contains hardware that will likely fail...
The Nintendo Switch 2: One Month Later
7.7.2025
It’s been just over a month since the Nintendo Switch 2 launched and ushered in the next generation of Nintendo hardware. Most of us here at Kotaku own the thing and have been playing it over the past four weeks. Now that we’ve had extensive time with the Switch 2, what do we think about it?...
Hey, Don't Forget To Try Out Switch 2's Mouse Mode For Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition
7.7.2025
Mouse mode might not have taken the world over by storm, but it remains one of the exciting features available on the Nintendo Switch 2. It may sound silly or uncomfortable—and it can be for some folks—but it’s also really unique and surprisingly well-implemented. In a first-person game like...
Our Favorite Cosplay From Dream Con 2025
30.6.2025
Entertainment convention Dream Con was founded by YouTube collective RDCWorld back in 2017. Originally in Waco, Texas, before it outgrew the available venues, the annual event now takes place in Houston, where it “unites enthusiasts globally to celebrate gaming, anime, sports, film, music &...
This Switch 2 Accessory Is Making Fans Drop Their Consoles And The Manufacturer's Response Is Only Making Things Worse
24.6.2025
Dbrand’s Killswitch case for the Switch 2 is lightweight, blends in well with the console, and feels good in your hands. There’s just one problem: it interferes with the Joy-Con magnets and can make the portable hardware easy to drop if you’re not holding on correctly, which, to be quite honest...
Six Things I Wish I Knew Before Setting Up My Switch 2
20.6.2025
You wake up at 1 am to score a pre-order. You put yourself in manageable debt to finance it. You confirm the card on file is valid when it ships. You stay home to make sure UPS doesn’t drop the package down an open manhole instead of your door. You make sure nobody stapled the goddamn receipt...
Here Are Our Favorite Cosplay Fits From Comic Con London 2025
12.6.2025
MCM Comic Con London (its ever-changing name started as the “London Movie, Comic & Media Expo,” before it began shuffling various orders of “MCM,” “Comic Con” and “London”) takes place twice a year in the UK, celebrating all things classed speculative fiction. And as you might expect, that brings...
Switch 2: The Best Controllers For Any Budget
11.6.2025
So, you’ve picked up a Nintendo Switch 2 and are ready to dive into Mario Kart World, but you’re not really feelin’ the Joy-Cons (don’t worry, they’re not my thing either). Yeah, you need a more standard controller, my friend. Fortunately, there are a handful to choose from even this early in...
7 Things We Love And 4 Things We Hate About The Switch 2
6.6.2025
We finally have the Switch 2 in our hands. It’s a chonker! Nintendo’s biggest gaming handheld yet looks familiar on paper, but makes a stronger impression in person. We’re not ready to review the new $450 gaming console just yet. That’ll take a lot more testing and game time to get familiar with...
Nintendo Switch 2: 7 Awesome Accessories To Grab For Your New Console
6.6.2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 offers plenty of functionality right out of the box, especially considering it can be used in both handheld and docked modes without the need for add-ons of any sort to just jump into a game. Read more
How Many Hammer Smashes Does It Take To Break A Switch 2?
5.6.2025
The Switch 2 is more powerful than its predecessor and a lot bigger, but can it take a beating? That’s what one YouTuber tried to find out, wasting absolutely no time before putting a stomach-churning beatdown on Nintendo’s new hardware.Read more
Nintendo Switch 2: Three Great Travel Cases To Consider
5.6.2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 is all about iteration, opting to expand on what helped make the original Switch one of the best-selling consoles of all time. LIke before, the new console lets you switch between handheld and docked mode any time you see fit, giving you plenty of freedom in how you approach...
Fortnite On Switch 2 Is A Massive Improvement
4.6.2025
Epic Games has revealed more about the upcoming Switch 2 port of its popular battle royale game, Fortnite. The new version of Fortnite will support mouse controls, a higher framerate, and more on the new Nintendo hardware. It seems like a significant improvement over the janky version currently...
No Man's Sky Gets A Massive Switch 2 Upgrade And It's All Free
4.6.2025
No Man’s Sky is joining the Switch 2 launch party. The 2016 sci-fi survival sim has spent nearly a decade evolving, and Hello Games announced the live-service game’s latest milestone: a major new update called Beacon and a Switch 2 version that massively improves the game on Nintendo’s platform....