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Finally, You Can Play Tetris On The Side Of A 7-Eleven Slurpee Cup!
2.5.2024
You know how you’re always saying, “I wish I could play Tetris on an unwieldy plastic Slurpee cup that doesn’t actually function as a drinking vessel,” and we’re all like, “Shut up, Steve”? Well now you can have the last laugh, because thanks to a team-up between Tetris and 7-Eleven, your dream...
New Fan-Made Set Lets You Play Tetris With Lego Bricks
29.4.2024
We’ve gotten some Lego sets based on video games over the last few years. Stuff like the Atari 2600 set, or all the Super Mario Bros. playsets featuring various characters and obstacles. But none of them are as cool as this fan-made Lego set that turns Tetris into a playable tabletop game.Read more
LittleBigPlanet Server Apocalypse Wipes Hundreds Of Thousands Of PlayStation Players' Creations Without Warning
20.4.2024
Sony has indefinitely decommissioned the PlayStation 4 servers for puzzle platformer LittleBigPlanet 3, the company announced in an update to one of its support pages. The permanent shutdown comes just months after the servers were temporarily taken offline due to ongoing issues. Fans now fear...
Today’s NYT Connections Puzzle Is A Cruel April Fools' Joke
1.4.2024
Just a few months ago, I was incapable of completing the New York Times’ Connections puzzles. Now, I can usually do the daily word-based puzzle without too much of a hassle—which is why today’s version has got me (and others) so irrationally angry. You see, today, April 1, 2024, I opened up the...
7 Must-Play Games To Grab During Steam’s Women’s Day Sale
8.3.2024
It seems like there is always some great sale or bundle on Steam filled with great games. The ubiquitous PC games storefront is best known for its seasonal sales that offer some of the biggest games at huge discounts.Read more
Don’t Miss This Great, Cozy Puzzler On Game Pass
16.2.2024
One of the best things about video games is that they can act as a form of wish fulfillment for the player. Save the world, go to space, or harness the power of dragons. But one of the newest additions to Game Pass offers one of my personal favorite bits of wish fulfillment: having a clean...
Sponge Announces Strategic Transition to SPONGE V2 on Polygon Network After Liquidity Pool Attack
1.2.2024
Thursday, February 1st, 2024 – Meme coin Sponge has announced the discontinuation of Sponge V1 as it accelerates its migration to the SPONGE V2 Polygon version of the digital asset. The pivot to a solid architecture for gaming, which the fast-growing and scalable Polygon network offers, provides...
Epic’s Next Free Game Offers Brightly Colored Puzzling Intrigue
26.1.2024
You know what price is better than “low low low”? It’s “free”! That’s the amount you’ll need to pay for a copy of Doors: Paradox on the Epic Games Store from February 1.Read more
Three Decades Later, Someone Has Finally Beaten Tetris On NES
2.1.2024
Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have reached its various endings, usually by clearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital demolitioner. That’s a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept...
Here Are Your Picks For The Biggest 2023 Game Awards Snubs
17.11.2023
Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards are far from the be-all and end-all of which games are good, creatively bold, and deserving of praise each year, but they’re still fun to get way too serious about. It’s the one day game developers get to dress fancy, go up on stage, and receive our collective thanks...
Microsoft Maia AI chip 'last puzzle piece' for infrastructure systems
16.11.2023
The new Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator is designed for AI tasks and generative AI and was debuted in tandem with its new Azure Cobalt CPU to compute cloud workloads
How Rusty Lake's 'immersive puzzle' worlds sell millions!
1.11.2023
Also: an update on F2P PC games outside of Steam, and lots of news
I Am Embarrassingly Bad At The New York Times’ Connections Puzzle
19.10.2023
As a young girl, I would spend hours sitting around the kitchen table watching my mom and Yia-Yia complete the New York Times crossword puzzle in pen, sipping too-strong coffee while they argued over potential answers and begrudgingly grabbed the Wite-Out to fix a rare mistake. They didn’t let...
Cocoon: The Kotaku Review
28.9.2023
There was a moment near the end of Cocoon when my brain could not keep up with the game. Like being curled up in a wave and then flipped head over heels against the surf, my mind sluggishly tried to work backwards what precisely had just occurred. Where did I just come from? How did I get here?...
Collectible Maker Claims Sony Suddenly Ordered Destruction Of Playstation Merchandise
28.9.2023
A video game-themed collectible storefront claims Sony ordered it to destroy all of its licensed PlayStation-themed merchandise, chief among them being statues based on The Last Of Us Part II, God of War, and Bloodborne.Read more
Binance Warns of Multiple Stablecoin Delistings as Lawyers Puzzle Over EU's MiCA
21.9.2023
The EU’s landmark Markets in Crypto Assets law, MiCA, takes effect next year, but it’s not clear how it will apply to foreign or decentralized issuers
DS Classic Another Code Is Being Remastered For Switch...But How?
14.9.2023
Today’s busy Nintendo Direct included one smaller announcement that took us by surprise: a remastering of niche classic, Another Code: Two Memories. It’s very welcome surprise, but a somewhat confusing one, given that Trace Memory (as it was called in the United States alone) is such a specifically...
Compound & dYdX’s puzzle: How to keep up with VC Spectra’s rise?
16.8.2023
VC Spectra (SPCT) has begun to demonstrate its supremacy over crypto rivals like Compound (COMP) and dYdX (DYDX). Since its presale debut, VC Spectra has dazzled investors with its outstanding returns and unrivaled real-world utility. After raising $2.4 million in a private seed sale, VC Spectra...
Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 6 Cool Games To Check Out
4.8.2023
It feels like this week’s passed quickly…perhaps owing to the wild news? Just for starters, a certain former president got indicted a third time, pop star Lizzo broke a million hearts, and that supposed room-temperature superconductor is still keeping us nerds in suspense.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 8 Wild Games To Play
28.7.2023
The summer heat continuing to beat down on many of us offers ever-increasing reasons to Stay Inside™ and play some video games. As we do every wee, we thought we’d give you some suggestions on games we’ve vibing with that you might enjoy checking out yourself, in case you need an excuse (or three)...