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Call Of Duty: WW2 Pulled From Microsoft Store Just Days After Joining Game Pass Because Of Players Getting Hacked
9.7.2025
Call Of Duty: WW2 joined Game Pass on June 30, including for PC subscribers who could now access the game through the Microsoft Store. Days later, that version of the game had to be taken offline amid reports of players getting hacked and trolled with pop up messages on their PC, which seems very...
Stalker 2 Hitting PlayStation, With PS5 Pro Update In The Works And Hopefully Fewer Bugs
9.7.2025
Stalker 2 originally launched last November just in time for long-standing post-apocalyptic survival sickos to feast on its eerie, emergent sandbox, and for most other people to bounce off its buggy gameplay in favor of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle or their massive backlogs. It’s getting...
Last Of Us Online Game Dev Launching New Studio In Japan
8.7.2025
Game director Vinit Agarwal was working on The Last Of Us Online multiplayer before it was canceled in December 2023. He left developer Naughty Dog earlier this year, and on Tuesday 8 July announced on social media that he’s launching a new game studio in Japan. Read more
Naughty Dog Somehow Found Another Way To Get You To Replay The Last Of Us Part II
8.7.2025
There’s a scene near the end of The Last of Us Part II in which Dina, the girlfriend and baby mama of protagonist Ellie, begs her to let her inane revenge quest go. She has a family and a life here on their farm in Jackson, and that is something precious in this post-apocalyptic world....
Kotaku’s Opinions For The Week July 05, 2025
5.7.2025
Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we're no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.Read more
Resident Evil Requiem Connects To A Lost Classic
4.7.2025
There were two big surprises when Resident Evil Requiem debuted at Summer Games Fest. One was the timing of its appearance, coming roughly 17 minutes after executive producer Jun Takeuchi asked us to wait a little longer. The other was how Requiem draws on a strange, almost-forgotten corner of...
Ex-GTA Producer Reportedly Blames MindsEye Flopping On 'Sabtouers' And Promises A Relaunch
3.7.2025
The launch of semi-open-world action game MindsEye has been a bit of a disaster, attracting a low player count and bad reviews as studio Build A Rocket Boy has implemented layoffs while some buyers demand refunds. Now former Grand Theft Auto producer and Build A Rocket Boy CEO Leslie Benzies...
Battlefield 6 Reportedly Has A Massive Budget Of Over $400 Million
3.7.2025
The next Battlefield game, often referred to online as Battlefield 6, looks to be a return to the franchise’s modern warfare roots, and that has many fans, myself included, excited to play it. However, behind the scenes, EA reportedly has wild expectations for the game, which might cost as much...
Original Doom Designer's New FPS Is The Latest Casualty Of The Xbox Cuts
3.7.2025
Back in 2022, John Romero of Doom fame announced he was working on a new first-person shooter IP in Unreal Engine 5 for a “major publisher.” Three years later the studio says it’s canceled and employees claim the latest wave of massive cuts at Xbox are to blame, with one designer calling news, “[a]...
Neil Druckmann Exits The Last Of Us Show
2.7.2025
After two seasons, The Last of Us series director Neil Druckmann is stepping down for his role as a showrunner on the HBO adaptation.Read more
Xbox Reportedly Cancels That Cool-Looking Perfect Dark Reboot
2.7.2025
Xbox’s Perfect Dark reboot, announced back in 2020, has reportedly been canceled as part of the ongoing layoffs at Microsoft. The studio developing the game has reportedly been shut down, too. Read more
Alan Wake Devs Not Giving Up On Troubled Online FPS
1.7.2025
Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Alan Wake and Control, recently launched the company’s first live-service game: FBC: Firebreak. But the game’s first two weeks haven’t been great, with low player counts and balance issues. Remedy is aware and working to not only improve FBC, but also support...
Halo's Future Will Be Revealed...In October, Says Xbox
30.6.2025
Rumors have been swirling for a while now that Xbox’s flagship series, Halo, might be making the leap to PlayStation in the near future. There have also been rumors about a remake of the OG game. Now, Halo Studios, formerly 343 Industries, has stepped forward to explain that it will provide actual...
Overwatch 2’s Newest Addition Can’t Seem To Please Anyone
30.6.2025
Overwatch 2 has been on a hot streak as of late, with excellent additions like the Perks system that lets you upgrade a hero throughout a match, and the Stadium mode that lets you create off-the-wall builds for each hero over the course of a seven-round game. The shooter just entered its 17th...
Buggy Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Remaster Gets Upgrade Discount And Refunds As Fans Trash It
30.6.2025
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Master Crafted Edition was one of the biggest surprises coming out of the Warhammer showcase in May. Following the success of last year’s Space Marine 2, the original Xbox 360-era nostalgia trap shooter would be playable on modern hardware with graphics upscaled...
Stalker 2's Modding Tools Require 700 GB Of Space
25.6.2025
Stalker 2 just received a big new update today that adds a ton of changes to the open-world shooter. But the bigger news, literally, is that developers GSC Game World have released the modding kit for Stalker 2 on PC, and folks, you are going to need to free up a lot of hard drive space....
The Best Game Of All Time Just Turned 25 Years Old
24.6.2025
Yesterday, June 23, marked the 25th anniversary of what can convincingly be described as one of the best games of all time. Deus Ex, created by the distinct Austin branch of John Romero’s controversial studio Ion Storm, was a first-person RPG that would change how an entire generation of players...
It's The Summer Of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 As The 8-Year-Old Shooter Breaks Steam Records And Fans Beg For A Sequel
23.6.2025
Hot off the conclusion of Andor’s incredible Rebel Alliance origin story, fans have been clamoring for a great Star Wars game to play. The most unlikely candidate of all is now filling the void: Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Once a lightning rod for controversy around pay-to-win loot boxes that...
Bungie Indefinitely Delays Marathon To Address Negative Fan Feedback
17.6.2025
Bungie announced that Marathon, the Destiny studio’s next big video game, has been delayed and will no longer be launching in September. The company gave no new release date and promised to add features and make several changes that players requested after Marathon’s alpha test earlier this...
Borderlands 4 Reveals $70 Price Tag, Proving All The Drama Was For Nothing
16.6.2025
After weeks of online discourse, drama, apologies, and bad posts, the price tag for the next major Borderlands game has finally been revealed by publisher 2K Games. Turns out, Borderlands 4 won’t cost $80 after all. Instead, the looter shooter sequel is launching with a $70 label.Read more