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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...
The Best Video Game Characters Of 2024
31.12.2024
Every year we play a ton of great games that we celebrate in December, and those games can be great for all sorts of reasons: amazing level design, incredible atmosphere, outstanding combat or exploration, you name it. But more often than not, it’s the heroes and villains of a great game that stick...
Steam's Surprise End-Of-Year Hit Is A Psychological Horror Game About An Anime Girlfriend
30.12.2024
Steam’s latest mini-sensation has arrived and it’s called MiSide. The meta thriller in the vein of Doki Doki Literature Club has already racked up one of the highest ratings on Valve’s storefront just a couple weeks after its completely under-the-radar launch, thanks in part to streams by Mark...
Jason Momoa Confirms His Return To The DCU Will Be In Next Supergirl Film
30.12.2024
Cinematic continuity be damned, Jason Momoa is putting the fish gills down for tattoos and violence. According to reports from Deadline, the man known around the world as Aquaman formally announced his return to the DC universe as invulnerable Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.Read more
Champion Magnus Carlsen Rocked The Chess World By Refusing To Take Off His Jeans
30.12.2024
The chess world is never short on scandals, and the latest one is incredibly on brand. Top-ranked former world champion Magnus Carlsen recently showed up to a tournament in jeans, refused to change, got fined, and then threatened to back out of the event altogether. The International Chess...
A Major Marvel Rivals Bug Has Some Fans Calling The Game ‘Pay To Win’
30.12.2024
The term “pay to win” is typically attributed to competitive games with microtransactions that give players an edge in battle. An example would be an item you can buy that makes your character more powerful than that of someone who didn’t cough up real money. However, some Marvel Rivals fans...
Fans Want Sonic To Be An Absolute Simp In The Fourth Movie
30.12.2024
Each live-action Sonic movie introduces another beloved character from Sega’s speedy platformers to the film universe in a post-credits scene, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is no exception. Though the new addition to Sonic’s growing family of anthropomorphic animals doesn’t have any spoken lines in...
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s Alternate Marvel Timeline Turns Heads In Flashy First Trailer
30.12.2024
Marvel’s latest Disney+ animated series is called Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and it’s another origin story for the webcrawler, but with one brings some hefty changes with it as it explores an alternate history that exchanges Tony Stark’s tutelage for a mentoring Norman Osborne. The first...
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
A Look Back At The Gaming Highs And Lows Of 2024
28.12.2024
We’re in the final days of 2024, a chance to look back and assess the year that was. What were the highs and lows, the disappointments that left us bereft and the surprises that reignited our love for games? And, importantly, how did Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo navigate this awkward period...
Xbox Game Streaming Still Down After 24 Hours, Reminding Us That Your Phone Isn't Actually An Xbox
27.12.2024
On December 26, Microsoft confirmed that its Game Pass cloud streaming platform wasn’t working as expected. Over 24 hours later, many players are still complaining about long waits and disconnects. This outage comes at a time when Microsoft has been pushing a new marketing slogan that claims...
Marvel's What If...? Finally Addresses The Watcher's Mistakes
27.12.2024
There are only two episodes left in Marvel’s animated anthology series What If...?, and one of the multiverse’s most disgruntled employees is finally getting reprimanded by upper management. In the third-to-last episode of the series, Uatu, better known as The Watcher, was visited by three other...
Marvel Rivals: How To Earn Units To Buy New Costumes
27.12.2024
Finding out how to get Units in Marvel Rivals is a surprisingly difficult task. The game doesn’t outright tell you how to earn them anywhere. And, when you do earn them, it’s hard to tell where they’re coming from. However, this galactic currency will be very important in-game.Read more
One Of The Weirdest Movie Moments Of 2024 Happened In A Film Nobody Watched
27.12.2024
A bizarrely quiet and slightly squeaking scream in the middle of Kraven The Hunter is one of the weirdest movie moments I’ve experienced in 2024, and more people need to see it. Read more
All Of Astro Bot's Fun Costumes (And Where To Find Them)
27.12.2024
Astro Bot’s titular character is cute enough on his own, but that didn’t stop Team ASOBI from filling this new adventure with plenty of costumes to unlock. Whether it’s random cute outfits or costumes that let you cosplay as famous PlayStation characters, there are no shortage of fun options...
How To Troubleshoot (And Fix) Pesky PS VR2 Controller Woes
27.12.2024
Has this happened to you? You just opened your new PlayStation VR2 and everything seems fine. The setup goes swimmingly. You’ve got a handle on the controls, and you enter a game of your choice. Except, hold on a second—why don’t some of the buttons on your controller work? Everything worked before...
The Batman 2 Delayed Again, Won't Arrive Until 2027
27.12.2024
After weeks of rumors, Warner Bros. and DC confirmed today that The Batman - Part II has been delayed again. The planned Batman sequel is now set to land in theaters in 2027, five years after the release of the first movie and nearly eight years after Robert Pattinson was cast as the iconic...
9 Differences Between Sonic The Hedgehog 3 And The Game It’s Based On
27.12.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is out in theaters now, and as we’ve long known, the third live-action movie about Sega’s speedy mascot is heavily inspired by Sonic Adventure 2. The 2001 Dreamcast game introduced a new brooding antihero in Shadow the Hedgehog, and expanded the Sonic mythos into some dark...
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...