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Kotaku Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We Can’t Wait To Dive Into
10.1.2025
We’re two weekends into January. How’s everyone’s 2025 going? Have you kept up with your New Year’s resolutions? I’m ten days without soda, but less than 30 minutes without an existential crisis about the state of the world. So it’s been a “mixed bag,” as they say. But another one of my resolutions...
The PS4 Might Actually Break One Of The PS2's Wildest Records
10.1.2025
Sony’s PlayStation 2 had a long lifecycle. It launched in 2000 and the final game released for it arrived in 2013. But the PlayStation 4 might be on track to beat this impressive record. In fact, it might demolish it. Read more
Here's How You Can Play Elden Ring: Nightreign Before It Comes Out
10.1.2025
Elden Ring: Nightreign still doesn’t have a release date, but its first online playtests do. FromSoftware has revealed times for when players can get their hands on the upcoming multiplayer spin-off, and signups for the free network tests on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are now underway. Read...
Fans Rejoice As New Xenoblade Chronicles X Trailer Shows Off Much Needed UI Glow-Up
9.1.2025
With Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, the last major Wii U exclusive will find a new home on Switch. But it’s not just a spiffy port of a cult classic. A new trailer shows the 2025 version will add new characters to fight with, mechs to pilot, zones to explore, and a much-improved...
Xbox's First Showcase Of 2025 Will Have Deep Dives Into Doom: The Dark Ages And More
9.1.2025
Microsoft has a huge lineup of big games for the Xbox Series X/S and PC (as well as PlayStation 5) this year, and it’s getting the ball rolling early with a January showcase to give players a better look at Doom: The Dark Ages and a bunch of other stuff coming out in 2025.Read more
Monster Hunter Wilds Announces More Free Beta Weekends But They Won't Include Needed Changes
8.1.2025
Capcom just announced another Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test next month, giving players a few more chances to checkout the multiplayer action-RPG for free ahead of its February 28 release date.Read more
Představujeme nejočekávanější RPG hry letošního roku, vybere si každý
8.1.2025
Definice RPG se v posledních letech značně rozvolnila a kromě klasických velkolepých dobrodružství s hlubokým příběhem se pod ni vejdou i akční „soulsovky“ nebo survival hry na přežití. Pojďte se s námi podívat na to nejlepší, co nás letos v tomto žánru čeká
The OG Diablo Is Coming To Game Pass
7.1.2025
Another Activision-owned title arrives on Game Pass soon. This time it’s Blizzard’s classic and iconic Diablo. The action RPG iscoming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC next week alongside a few other games making the leap to the standard tier. Read more
The Best Video Game Moments Of 2024
6.1.2025
It’s January 2025 and we’re still thinking about all the best games and moments of 2024. We’ve looked back on our favorite games of last year, the characters who stuck with us throughout the last 12 months, and the various highs and lows of the industry. While we’ve celebrated the best games...
Amazon Cancels Mighty No. 9 3DS And Vita Pre-Orders 12 Years After They Were Originally Promised
6.1.2025
Mighty No. 9 represented Mega Man artist Keiji Inafune’s ambition to resurrect—with the help of millions in funding from devout fans—a classic series that was languishing at the time under Capcom’s stewardship. The results were frequently delayed and generally quite bad. Promised 3DS...
Stvořil spoustu klasik. Ale téměř žádná nevydělala, přiznal legendární vývojář
6.1.2025
Vývojář Tim Cain je sice podepsaný pod několika hrami, které mají dodnes kultovní status, ovšem snad jen s výjimkou prvního Falloutu a posledních The Outer Worlds žádná z nich pořádně nevydělala. Nářky fanoušků požadujících jejich pokračování jsou tak pro něj poněkud nepochopitelné, jak přiznal...
January's Can't-Miss Game Releases, A Surprise Horror Hit On Steam, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
4.1.2025
This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably slow start to the often-relentless news cycle of video games. But slow news hardly means no news, and we kicked off the new year with a look at the games to keep an eye out for this month. Also, the chief creative...
Don't Sleep On 2024's Most Underrated Tactics RPG
3.1.2025
SteamWorld Heist II snuck out last year in early August and didn’t create as many ripples as some of the other genre spin-offs in its quirky robotic universe. That’s a shame because the bones of this tactical RPG are some of the strongest around, even if the surrounding fluff can get in the...
This New Dungeons & Dragons Pinball Machine Will Send You On An Epic Adventure For Just $7,000
3.1.2025
Stern Pinball is back with another new machine and this time it’s a tribute to Dungeons & Dragons following the tabletop RPG’s 50th anniversary. The table comes with all kinds of whimsical bells and whistles and an all-star voice cast, and it can be yours starting at $7,000. Or you could pay nearly...
BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
3.1.2025
In a recent interview with Games Industry.biz, Ken Levine disparaged his most famous and popular game, BioShock, as “a very, very long corridor.” He uses this description pejoratively to distinguish the 2007 first-person mystery game from his current project, science fiction FPS Judas, a game...
Google Tries To Ban Game That Inspired Balatro Over Nonexistent Gambling Gameplay
2.1.2025
Before Balatrothere was Luck Be a Landlord, a roguelike deckbuilder about manipulating a slot machine to try to pay rent amid an ever spiraling out of control cost-of-living crisis. Despite the gambling aesthetic, there’s no part of the game that actually includes gambling with money, real...
Kotaku’s 15 Most-Read Stories Of 2024
31.12.2024
If you wind up on the wrong side of Reddit or YouTube, you’ll likely come across bold declarations proclaiming “what gamers want.” Nine times out of ten, these takes are given in bad faith, often by people more concerned with imposing what they want than with understanding what the majority...
Every Official 'Kotaku Review' Of 2024
30.12.2024
Writing a review is a tall order. Especially at a place like Kotaku, where we have a whole headline format meant to declare our “definitive” word on a game, movie, or show. It can come off as if we’re putting an authoritative stamp of approval or disapproval on whatever we’re critiquing, which...
The Best Video Game Remakes And Remasters Of 2024
29.12.2024
2024 was a really good year for video games. (But not so good for the people who make them.) And while it featured a ton of new games, both big and small, this was also a year with a lot of remasters and remakes. Read more
The State Of The Nintendo Switch In 2024
27.12.2024
The Switch is running on fumes. It might not be gong out with a whimper, but the needle is past empty. The 2024 release calendar was spotty at best, and even some of the more notable games that did come to the handheld hybrid, of which there were strikingly few, struggled to run on the nearly...