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MindsEye From Ex-GTA Producer Is A Day-One Car Wreck
11.6.2025
MindsEye is the first new game from longtime Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies and his studio Build A Rocket Boy, and it’s not going well. After tons of pre-launch red flags, the techno thriller shooter is now out in the wild and suffering all the day-one woes: bugs, poor optimization on...
Don’t Rely On Ex Pokémon In Pokémon TCG Pocket Anymore
11.6.2025
During the initial months of Pokémon TCG Pocket, ex monsters dominated the competitive landscape. These monsters are (usually) stronger than their non-ex counterparts, and they can come with game-changing abilities that determine how your entire deck plays. In the past, players could create...
Splitgate 2 Boss Says $80 Skin Bundle 'Slipped Through The Cracks'
9.6.2025
1047 studio head Ian Proulx courted controversy at Summer Game Fest last week by taking shots at Call of Duty and wearing a hat with the MAGA-infused slogan “Make FPS Great Again.” But it was his new multiplayer shooter’s eye-popping microtransactions that subsequently turned Splitgate 2 into...
Pokémon Cafes To Serve Incredible-Looking Plate Of Food That Can Mega Evolve Before Your Eyes
2.6.2025
For most of us, the words “Pokémon Cafe” mean that free-to-play video game, Pokémon Cafe Remix. But if you’re lucky enough to live in Osaka or Tokyo, it’s a real-life restaurant, that serves food that looks even more extraordinary than the fantasy concoctions in the game. That picture above? That’s...
Make Your Rifle Your Own With Helldivers 2’s Weapon Customization Suite
28.5.2025
I spent about twenty hours playing Helldivers 2 on launch, and then my wife bought the game; we easily put in another sixty. There was one feature I continuously begged for in the beginning, much to my wife’s annoyance since she couldn’t do anything about it. I wanted weapon customization. Not just...
The Last Of Us Show Made A Major Change From The Game This Week, And Neil Druckmann Explains Why
21.5.2025
The Last of Us season two’s penultimate episode was almost entirely flashbacks of Joel and Ellie’s lives together in Jackson. Some of these were plucked straight from the Last of Us Part II video game, others are brand new for the series. The most important one, however, was Joel and Ellie’s final...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Dev's New PlayStation Studio Looking For Artist With 'Advanced Expertise' In Generative AI
21.5.2025
Dark Outlaw Games is a new PlayStation studio born out of the ashes of Deviation Games and led by developer Jason Blundell, best known for Call of Duty: Black Ops’hit Zombies mode. The team is looking for a concept artist for its first project, but not just any concept artist. A new job listing...
Ubisoft Explains Why You Can't Kill Animals In Assassin's Creed Shadows
19.5.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a very good game that animal lovers can enjoy because there’s no way to harm a single creature in the game (except for people, of course). That’s a first for the franchise and I wanted to learn why Ubisoft went this route for its latest open-world adventure. Read more
GTA 6 Needed More Time To Achieve Vision With 'No Limits' And Probably Won't Be Delayed Again
15.5.2025
One of the biggest questions coming into 2025 was whether Grand Theft Auto 6 would somehow get delayed. Earlier this month, Rockstar Games revealed it would. The head of its parent company now says that delay was necessary to help the studio deliver the game without compromises. Will it get delayed...
13 Things We Noticed In The New GTA VI Trailer And More Of The Week's Top Stories
10.5.2025
After last week’s announcement that GTA VI was being delayed into next year, Rockstar Games surprised us this week with a new trailer for the upcoming crime epic, and we studied it for every cool detail it might offer and every hint it might provide as to what we can expect from the game. Also,...
US VP Vance to speak at Bitcoin conference amid Trump crypto controversies
9.5.2025
US Vice President JD Vance will speak at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, roughly a year after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at the same event.According to a May 9 notice from the event’s organizers, Vance will address conference attendees in person on May 28, making...
US VP Vance to speak at Bitcoin conference amid Trump crypto controversies
9.5.2025
US Vice President JD Vance will speak at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, roughly a year after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at the same event.According to a May 9 notice from the event’s organizers, Vance will address conference attendees in person on May 28, making...
US VP Vance to speak at Bitcoin conference amid Trump crypto controversies
9.5.2025
US Vice President JD Vance will speak at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, roughly a year after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke at the same event.According to a May 9 notice from the event’s organizers, Vance will address conference attendees in person on May 28, making...
The Internet Reacts To GTA 6's Biggest Trailer Yet
6.5.2025
It’s been over 17 months since the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI revealed what Rockstar Games was cooking up for its return to Vice City. Fans were getting desperate for new screenshots to dissect and footage to speculate about. Now they’ve hit pay dirt with a nearly three-minute deep-dive...
Grand Theft Auto 6 Is Delayed To May 2026
2.5.2025
Rockstar has announced that GTA 6, the most anticipated game of 2025, has been delayed until May 2026. In a statement posted to its social media, the company has said the game needs more time to create the game.Read more
Ubisoft Reveals Massive Post-Launch Road Map For Assassin's Creed Shadows
30.4.2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft’s latest entry in its long-running historical fiction franchise, is set to receive some big updates over the next few months as explained in a new content roadmap released on April 30. Read more
Nintendo Ratchets Up Hunt For Mysterious User Behind Massive Pokémon Leak
21.4.2025
All hell broke loose in the Pokémon community last October when leaked internal documents, game builds, and more from developer Game Freak appeared online. Fans got a front row seat to everything from upcoming project codenames to a rapidly meme-ified Typhlosion backstory. It may have been...
Assassin’s Creed Shadows On Steam Deck Surprised Me More Than Getting Stabbed In The Neck
21.4.2025
When I heard Ubisoft claim that Assassin’s Creed Shadows would be Steam Deck verified at launch, I responded by saying “yeah right” with all the sass I could muster. I’ve tested a lot of games on Steam Deck here at Kotaku. I’ve seen games that should be slam dunks on the device fall short, and even...
CoinDesk Weekly Recap: EigenLayer, Kraken, Coinbase, AWS
18.4.2025
Controversies, job cuts, too many lobbyists. A lot happened despite a relatively quiet week on the markets
Bethesda Is Selling 2,000 Pieces Of Elder Scrolls Online's Servers
15.4.2025
Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls Online turned 10 years old...a year ago. But that isn’t stopping the publisher from celebrating the anniversary a year later by letting players buy an actual piece of an ESO server for $110. Read more