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Everything Shown At Xbox’s Big 2022 Press Conference
12.6.2022
E3 might have taken 2022 off, but the show(s) must go on. Today’s big one is the annual Xbox showcase, which shares title billing with the one first-party studio that’s only released games on PS5 since getting acquired by Microsoft for the price of a presidential election.Read more
Starfield Extended Look Shows Off Ship Customization, Space Combat
12.6.2022
Bethesda and Xbox revealed yet another look at the ambitious “Skyrim in space” RPG Starfield during the two companies’ joint presentation today. This time, it was much more than eight seconds, and featured actually gameplay.Read more
Three Legendary Persona Games Are Coming To Xbox And Game Pass
12.6.2022
Three classic Atlus games, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royal, are finally coming to Xbox. The news was announced earlier today during Microsoft’s big Xbox and Bethesda showcase. Read more
New Forza Motorsport, Out Next Spring, Is Somehow Even Prettier Than Forza Horizon
12.6.2022
Today, at Microsoft’s big gaming showcase, the publisher showed off the long-anticipated next entry in its flagship racing series, Forza Motorsport. The new game doesn’t have a sequel number and is out Spring 2023.Read more
Hollow Knight: Silksong Gets New Gameplay, On Game Pass Day One
12.6.2022
Team Cherry made an appearance during today’s Xbox showcase to show off more Hollow Knight: Silksong gameplay and announced that the game will be a day-one addition to Game Pass. Still no release date, though.Read more
Overwatch 2 Reveals New Mad Max Hero, Coming In October
12.6.2022
The sequel to Blizzard’s popular hero shooter, Overwatch 2, is officially launching in early access on consoles and PC with new PvP content on October 4. During today’s Xbox and Bethesda presentation, the studio also announced that the game will feature cross-platform play and progression across...
The Best (And Weirdest) Creations People Have Made Using Saints Row Boss Factory
10.6.2022
Yesterday, as part of Summer Game Fest, Volition released a new free-to-download demo for the upcoming Saints Row reboot out later this year. However, this isn’t a demo of the game’s open-world or its vehicular combat. No, this is just the character creator. But thankfully, it’s a fantastic...
Netflix Reveals First Look At New Castlevania Series Starring Richter Belmont
10.6.2022
We finally got a glimpse of the legendary vampire hunter, Richter Belmont, in the upcoming Castlevania spin-off series, Castlevania: Nocturne during Netflix Geeked Week. Read more
New Dragon Age Anime Suffers From Typical Netflix Blandness
10.6.2022
I started screaming in Kotaku Slack when my fellow weeb (and staff writer) Isaiah linked a screenshot of Dragon Age: Absolution. My favorite western fantasy RPG is getting an anime adaptation? Sign me up. But then I started watching the trailer, and my enthusiasm deflated immediately. Absolution...
You Can Now Demo Resident Evil Village Right In Your Internet Browser
10.6.2022
Capcom released another Resident Evil Village demo earlier this week. It doesn’t include more content than earlier previews, but it does have the distinct advantage of being playable from your internet browser thanks to Immersive Stream for Games, a licensable version of Google’s Stadia tech.Read...
The Last Of Us Fans Debate PS5 Remake’s Graphics
10.6.2022
News of a video game remake is always the bellwether to a hurricane of discourse. Has it really been that long? Does this game really deserve a remake? This week, the eye of the storm is The Last of Us, as fans debate whether or not the visuals in the just-unveiled remake look measurably better...
Dead Island 2 Hopefuls Get Played By Goat Simulator 3 Parody Trailer
10.6.2022
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest ended yesterday with a bit of a plop. There were some interesting announcements, including a June 16 release date for TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, but The Geoffening was mostly overshadowed by the smaller Day of the Devs presentation that immediately followed. Still...
Report: God Of War Ragnarök Planned For November
10.6.2022
This is not a drill, boy: God of War Ragnarök is planned for a November release, Bloomberg reports.Read more
Videogame Atlas Is A Love Letter To Game Levels & Architecture
10.6.2022
I love video games, I love architecture and I love fancy books about both, so the upcoming Videogame Atlas is something I am super interested in checking out when it releases.Read more
Once Again, A Quiet Indie Games Show Upstages A Bombastic ‘AAA’ Event
10.6.2022
Earlier today, Geoff Keighley kicked off this year’s Not-E3 season with Summer Game Fest, a loud, two-hour showcase of all the ways you’ll be able to murder people in video games over the next year or so. It was, to be quite honest, a lot. Thankfully, the folks at Day of the Devs showed...
Bloober Team Reveals Horror Sequel That's Not Silent Hill
9.6.2022
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest has been filled with announcements, from Street Fighter 6 character reveals to a look at The Callisto Protocol’s gameplay. Bloober Team came through with an unveiling of its own, which was a revamp of its cult psychological horror series Layers of Fear,...
Everything Shown At Summer Game Fest’s Big Kickoff Event
9.6.2022
Summer Game Fest. Hot Geoff Summer. The Geoffening. Keigh3. Call it what you will, but despite a notable absence of E3 this year, the de facto high video game marketing season is nonetheless underway. Over the course of a streamed event that ran for two hours but felt like 2o, host Geoff Keighley...
Crafting Survival Game Nightingale Shows Off Portal System At Summer Game Fest
9.6.2022
Nightingale is at Summer Game Fest to ask one question only: “What if you could shoot fairies with a gun?” And I’m here for it. Inflexion Games, the studio led by an ex-BioWare manager, just showed off the portal system for its upcoming survival co-op title.Read more
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge Launches With Playable Casey Jones On June 16
9.6.2022
During today’s Summer Game Fest show, the folks at Tribute Games and Dotemu revealed that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is dropping onto PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on June 16. That’s only a week from now, by the way.Read more
New Street Fighter 6 Trailer Shows Guile Punching Up Ryu
9.6.2022
During Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest livestream, Capcom came through with a new look at some Street Fighter 6 gameplay and a character reveal.Read more