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The Witcher 4 Gives Ciri A New Voice
16.12.2024
Aspiring monster slayer Ciri isn’t just returning for The Witcher 4, she’s the star this time around. But while Geralt of Rivia’s surrogate daughter will step into his shoes to lead her own grizzled adventures, the character won’t sound the same as she did in The Witcher 3. Read more
100+ Hour FFVII: Rebirth Adds A Fast-Forward Option For Cutscenes
16.12.2024
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth is a remake that manages to blow up the middle-act of the original 1997 PlayStation game into a game twice as long. Take your time, see the sites, wrap your head around every little nook and wrinkle of its sprawling world, and you’ll be saving the planet for well over...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Sweet Games We Can’t Wait To Dive Back Into
13.12.2024
Welcome back to Kotaku’s Weekend Guide, the post-Game Awards edition! If you missed out on last night’s pretty-darn-good awards show, we have a wrap- up of everything cool we saw, and a summary of all the awards won. But if you’re also looking for some great game recommendations to fill your...
The Flawed Game Awards Delivered Its Best Show In Years
13.12.2024
The Game Awards creator and host Geoff Keighley has spent his life in the vicinity of the video game industry’s Hollywood-inferiority complex. He’s been attached to weird collisions of gaming culture, pageantry, and celebrity cameos dating back to Cybermania ‘94 where, at 15 years old, he was...
The Witcher 4 Will Bring Geralt Back But His Role Is Still A Mystery
13.12.2024
The Witcher 4's first trailer reveal showed us Ciri will be the open-world RPG’s next main protagonist, but that doesn’t mean her mentor and surrogate father figure, Geralt of Rivia, won’t be joining her on her new adventures in some way. What exact role he’ll play, however, remains a secret.Read...
The Witcher 3's Incredible Card Game Will Now Be Playable In Real Life
6.12.2024
The Witcher 3 had a great open world, amazing quests, and excellent storytelling, but one of my favorite parts about it is still Gwent, the RPG’s in-universe card game. Now, a year after the standalone digital version was shutdown, the awesome mini-game is getting a physical tabletop release. Read...
The Balatro Takeover Has Only Just Begun
27.11.2024
Look to your left. Look to your right. One of those people is about to discover Balatro for the first time. The other has already been secretly playing it every spare moment they get. Read more
The 7 Best Scary RPGs To Play During Halloween
28.10.2024
There are plenty of amazing horror games out there, we even made a whole list about it! However, one genre that you might not immediately think of as a hotbed of good scares is role-playing games. You’d be wrong, though. RPGs of all types have some of the best horror stories in the medium, thanks...
One Of 2024's Best Games Continues Its Crossover Domination With Cyberpunk And Stardew Valley
24.10.2024
Balatro is a very, very good game. We’ve established that a few times here at Kotaku. And now, for all you folks still playing the roguelike poker game, a new update has added some fresh crossover cards featuring characters from Stardew Vally, Cyberpunk 2077, and Slay The Spire. Read more
PlayStation Sale Discounts A Ton Of 2024’s Biggest Games
26.9.2024
It seems PlayStation is holding some huge sale just about every month at this point. We already had one big round of deals a couple of weeks ago and here we are with even more! That’s right, PlayStation’s Big Games Big Deals sale began on September 25 and offers up some incredible deals on some...
CDPR Starting The Witcher 4 Production Any Moment Now
29.8.2024
Yesterday, August 28, saw CD Projekt hold their latest earnings call, which might not sound exciting but has led to a number of updates on the game developer’s upcoming projects. While Cyberpunk Edgerunners’ fans are already happy with the news that the company wants more animation projects like...
Everything Shown At Today’s Joint Nintendo Direct And Indie World Showcase
27.8.2024
Today, August 27, Nintendo treated fans to a double whammy of news during the joint Nintendo Direct and Indie World presentations. If you didn’t catch the showcases live as they happened or you just can’t be bothered to sit through the whole thing yourself, then don’t worry, we’ve got you covered....
The Timesplitters PS2 Trilogy Arrives On PS Plus Next Week
14.8.2024
The complete Timesplitters trilogy on PS2 will soon be available to play on PS4 and PS5 later this month. On top of that awesome news, a solid list of older games like The Witcher 3 and Ride 5 will also be available to PS Plus Extra and Premium members next week. Read more
New Witcher 3 Mod Gives The Game A Full-Fledged Reputation System
19.7.2024
Modders of The Witcher 3 have only had official tools from developer CD Projekt Red for two months, but they’ve already made great use of them. One ambitious modder was able to recreate some of the first game’s map with the new tools only a day after they were released. More recently, a new mod...
This Year's Steam Summer Sale Includes Some Of The Biggest Deals Ever
27.6.2024
Do you smell that? That’s the smell of millions of credit cards around the world melting as gamers empty their bank accounts buying up cheap games during this year’s Steam Summer Sale. And this time around, Valve is offering up some even bigger than usual deals on some great games. Read more
Let’s Skip The Dragon Age: The Veilguard Vs. Baldur’s Gate 3 Comparisons, Yeah?
12.6.2024
In 2023, Larian Studios’ award-winning game Baldur’s Gate 3 filled a void in RPG fans’ hearts. As of last year, BioWare, the developer behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect, hadn’t released an RPG in six years. Larian’s take on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset checked off a lot of boxes for fans...
New Witcher 3 Mod Lets You Revisit The Original Game's World
22.5.2024
On May 21, developer CD Projekt Red released the long-awaited Redkit, an official modding tool for The Witcher 3. The new tool gives the community new freedom to develop massive content for the game. Only a day later, people are already making great use of Redkit, with one modder recreating...
There’s A Reason Why Sex Games Are Everywhere These Days
2.5.2024
Have you noticed that there are a lot more horny games lately? Despite what some people may think, there’s no shortage of sexiness in modern gaming, with salacious titles readily available on Steam and even the Nintendo eShop. And it turns out that there’s an explanation for this, and it’s...
The Witcher Series Is Ending After Fifth Season
18.4.2024
It is official: Netflix’s series based on The Witcher has been renewed for a fifth and final season. The fourth season is currently in production and both seasons will be shot back-to-back. Get ready to bid the Continent farewell, folks.Read more
9 Years After Release, Witcher 3 Fans Are Still Finding Easter Eggs
12.4.2024
There is a lot to do in The Witcher 3, CD Projekt’s Red’s open-world RPG that released in 2015.Many players, including me, spent hundreds of hours with protagonist Geralt exploring every corner of the map, completing every quest, and killing every monster. But it turns out that almost a decade...