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Sony Now Giving Away Free Games To Sell PS5s
25.9.2023
Almost three years into their life, the “next-gen” gaming consoles haven’t received any price drops, but that doesn’t mean Sony isn’t doing some great deals to try and get PlayStation 5s out the door in 2023. The latest discount is a free game for anyone who buys a new PS5. Read more
Payday 3’s Busted ‘Always Online’ Launch Is a Mess, CEO Apologizes
22.9.2023
By many accounts, Payday 3 appears to be a disappointing half-step forward for the longrunning co-op bank robbery series. Unlike its predecessor, it also requires players to always be online, a seemingly grave misjudgement given Payday 3’s first-week launch woes. The problems with crashes, slow...
Every Change In Baldur's Gate 3's Third Giant Update
22.9.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 continues to evolve. The hit fantasy RPG received its much-anticipated and sprawling Patch 3 update today, which brings Mac support, a Magic Mirror feature to redesign your player character’s appearance, and an overwhelming number of bug fixes and tweaks. Read more
Mortal Kombat 1: The Kotaku Review
22.9.2023
I’m not a fighting game expert. I can remember a couple of combos and special moves for my favorite characters, but that’s about as far as I get when it comes to games like Tekken, Street Fighter, and Soul Calibur. However, one series, Mortal Kombat, holds my attention more than any other because...
God Help Us, Call Of Duty Is Getting Diablo IV Operators
21.9.2023
The next batch of cross-over operators was just announced for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Warzone, and it includes none other than Diablo IV’s Succubi queen Lilith and fallen archangel Inarius. Plus a bunch of other horror stars like Spawn and Evil Dead’s Ash Williams. No doubt it will...
QVC Deal Will Let You Buy Mortal Kombat 1, Diablo IV, And Other New Games For $40
20.9.2023
Mortal Kombat 1 has only been out for a few days. Diablo IV is barely a few months old. And Pikmin 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are Nintendo games, so they rarely go on sale. But right now on QVC—yes, that old shopping network—you can get any of these games for $40 thanks to...
Fans Upset After Spotting Steam Pop-Up In Mortal Kombat 1's Switch Trailer
20.9.2023
Mortal Kombat 1 on the Nintendo Switch isn’t the best version of the game. Players have shared numerous visual bugs, performance problems, long loading times and low res textures in social media posts and forums. And now, some of them are angry that an official launch trailer for the Switch version...
Modern Warfare III Zombie Trailer Brings New, But Familiar, Faces To Iconic Mode
19.9.2023
A freaky new trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s Zombies gave us our first look at the upcoming game, and it’s as eerie and tense as you would expect from the now legendary first-person shooter mode—except now it has some new (yet familiar) faces in the undead mix. That’s because this...
Behold The Pulsating Human Blob That Awaits You In The Crew Motorfest
19.9.2023
I didn’t expect cosmic body horror when I booted up The Crew Motorfest, Ubisoft’s new racing video game. Yet, that’s what I find each time I start the game. Every time I play Motorfest, the pulsating blob of humans is there, waiting for me. A horrific entity trapped inside my Xbox, unable to speak...
Mortal Kombat 1 Fans Can’t Stand Megan Fox’s Nitara Voice Acting
19.9.2023
Transformers actress Megan Fox provided her likeness and her voice for Nitara—a Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance vampiress reintroduced in NetherRealm Studios’ Mortal Kombat 1 reboot released September 19—but fans can’t take it seriously. Though NetherRealm blessed Nitara with incredible combos, none...
New Mortal Kombat Is A $70 Mess On Switch
18.9.2023
Following a paid “early access” launch, WB and NetherRealm Studios’ newest Mortal Kombat game, confusingly named Mortal Kombat 1, is out now on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch. And it’s that Switch version of the fighting game that is being heavily criticized online by players...
The Week In Games: What’s Coming Out Beyond Mortal Kombat 1
18.9.2023
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Spider-Man 2 Will Have Ray Tracing Across All Visual Modes
15.9.2023
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is just about a month away, as the PlayStation 5 sequel is set to launch on October 20. While both the original 2018 game and its 2020 spin-off sequel Miles Morales were also on PlayStation 4, Spider-Man 2 is being made exclusively for the PS5’s beefier tech. As such...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Kick Back With
15.9.2023
Oh, hey there. It’s weekend time once more and that means we’re taking a look at what’s been keeping us busy on our gaming machines. It’s been a pretty busy time of year for game releases, so there’s the usual new stuff in the pages ahead but also one stone-cold classic and even one game that’s...
One Of Mortal Kombat 1's Stranger New Modes Is Like A Board Game
15.9.2023
Fighting game reboot Mortal Kombat 1, which got a paid Early Access release September 14, introduces a completely new, single-player board game mode called Invasion. According to a PlayStation blog explaining the mode, the expansive Invasion mode serves as a kind of pinnacle to the 31-year-old...
Hey Young People, The OG Tomb Raider Games Are Getting Remastered
15.9.2023
Revealed during a Nintendo Direct, but in fact happening across all of gaming, the world has learned that the first three Tomb Raider games are returning with shiny new graphics, designed to work on modern consoles. Let me—an old person—gift you—presumably a young person—a piece of insight:...
The Crew Motorfest Is A Wackier, More Frustrating Forza Horizon
15.9.2023
The Crew is a weird franchise. The first game was focused on a story involving car gangs and criminals. The second game kept the map from the first—a scaled-down recreation of the United States—but ditched the narrative and focused on exploration and adding more types of vehicles to operate....
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet - The Teal Mask: The Kotaku Review
14.9.2023
I’ve put over 120 hours into last November’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and I think at some point between then and now, I must have mentally suppressed just how poorly these open-world Switch games run. Either that, or their first DLC, The Teal Mask, is somehow worse at holding itself together...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet DLC Fixes Its Terrible Photo Mode's Biggest Flaw
13.9.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s Teal Mask DLC may not fix all the performance issues the games have had since they launched in November 2022, but there is one thing it dramatically overhauls: the game’s godawful photo mode.Read more
Starfield Will Get DLSS Support, An FOV Slider, And More In Future Updates
13.9.2023
Starfield’s first update is here and its... pretty small and not very exciting. However, Bethesda has confirmed that some highly desired features and improvements, including DLSS support, will be added to the RPG via future updates. Read more