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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We Can't Wait To Spend Time With
1.11.2024
The year is almost over. Today is November 1, and that means we’re only a few short weeks away from the Game of the Year deliberations that will have us at each other’s throats in December. With only a precious few weekends left in the year, it looks like most of us here at Kotaku are trying...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Is Breaking Records For Xbox When It Needs Them Most
31.10.2024
Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is the first entry in the annual blockbuster to be announced and released since Microsoft acquired it along with the rest of Activision Blizzard last October. And, by all accounts, it’s giving Xbox the boost it needed during a rough year. On an earnings call this week...
The All-Digital PS5 Might Be The Least Popular Console Of All
24.10.2024
Gaming seems destined for an all-digital future, but even as players overwhelmingly buy games digitally, they still appear to be opting for consoles with disc drives over ones without them. According to recent data on the current state of the console race, digital-only PlayStation 5s appear to...
Everything Announced At Xbox's Short But Sweet October Showcase
17.10.2024
Today, Xbox hosted a partner showcase featuring over a dozen new trailers for a variety of third-party, non-Xbox-published video games. The event was only about 25 minutes long, so we admittedly didn’t expect much from the shorter third-party showcase, but we were pleasantly surprised with some...
Stalker 2 Devs Haven't Given Up On A 60FPS Mode For The Weaker Xbox
16.10.2024
After numerous delays, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is set to arrive in November on Xbox, Game Pass, and PC. And for all you Xbox Series S owners worried about how the big open-world shooter will play on the less powerful machine, Ukraine-based developers GSC Game World have good news.Read more
More Activision Games, Including Black Ops 6, Are Coming To Xbox Game Pass This Month
15.10.2024
The eclectic mix of stuff coming to Xbox Game Pass over the next few weeks includes some Call of Duty games, some nasty zombies, StarCraft, a South Park RPG, and a wonderful indie game about a growing hole. Read more
Another Previously Current Gen-Only Game Is Getting A PS4 Port
9.10.2024
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox are nearly 11 years old, but they are still surprisingly popular and used daily by a lot of people. That probably explains why Goat Simulator 3, released back in 2022 as a current-gen-only game, is now getting ported to the older consoles later this month. And this isn’t...
Diablo IV's Vessel Of Hatred Expansion Is Locking Some Players Out
8.10.2024
Diablo IV is zero for two when it comes to smooth launches. While the new expansion, Vessel of Hatred, seemed like it had all the kinks ironed out, a last-minute delay upended those plans. Worse, however, is a bizarre licensing bug that’s locking some players out of the new content, including...
Microsoft Promises No games Cancelled Amid 650 More Xbox Jobs Cut
12.9.2024
Microsoft is laying off another 650 employees from its Xbox gaming division, the company announced in an overnight companywide memo. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer stressed that no new games were being cancelled or studio closed as a result of the latest round of cuts. Read more
The PS5 Disc Drive Is Selling Out Online After PS5 Pro Reveal
11.9.2024
Yesterday, Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation 5 Pro after months of rumors and leaks. The souped-up console will cost $700, let you play many games at higher frame rates, and doesn’t come with a disc drive. That last part has seemingly led to a lot of people buying up PS5 disc drives, leading...
Another Game Is Missing Xbox At Launch And Dev Blames Microsoft: 'They Ignore Us'
3.9.2024
Enotria: The Last Song is a new, sun-drenched Soulslike inspired by Italian folklore and it’s out in just a couple weeks. But not on Xbox. While the game will be available for PlayStation 5 and PC players on September 17, the game has been indefinitely delayed on Series X/S over problems with...
Report: PlayStation 5 Pro To Be Announced In A Few Weeks
29.8.2024
As spotted by VGC, a well-renowned and reliable leaker, billbil-kun at Dealabs Magazine, is claiming insider information suggests the PS5 Pro is about to be announced.Read more
Achievement Unlocked! Back to School Gifts For Even Hard-to-Please Gamers
29.8.2024
It’s that time of the year again: out with the barbeque tools and citronella candles, in with the towers of composition notebooks and #2 pencils. That means Game Over for legions of school-age players who’ve been in beast mode for the past two months. Time to pack your bag, set the alarm, shelf...
New Xboxes Are Out In October And Up For Pre-Order As Microsoft Continues Porting Games To PS5
21.8.2024
There are three new Xbox consoles coming out this fall featuring alternate colors and bigger SSDs. Microsoft announced pre-orders are available now with the hardware launching on October 15, just a day after confirming that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, its biggest game of 2024, will also...
Black Myth: Wukong Beats Cyberpunk And Elden Ring To Set New Steam Records Hours After Coming Out
20.8.2024
The first time we saw a trailer of Black Myth: Wukong I joked that it looked great and would probably never actually come out. That was August 20, 2020. Exactly four years later the fantasy action game isn’t just available to play, it’s shattering records on Steam for single-player and online games...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Stupendous Games We Can't Stop Playing
9.8.2024
It’s already the second weekend of August, and no one else has realized that time is actually speeding up. We all put it down to aging, but what if kids are experiencing it faster too? We’d never know. I’m telling you, time is out of control, and the Earth will spin off its axis any day now. So...
Baldur’s Gate 3: One Year Later
2.8.2024
For Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest fans who haven’t stopped talking and thinking about it since it launched, it probably doesn’t feel like Larian Studio’s Dungeons & Dragons RPG was released a year ago. Yet, here we are, a full trip around the sun since the RPG left early access and was finally...
EA College Football Is A Perfect Storm Of Confusion For Xbox Fans
24.7.2024
Last week, EA College Football 25 launched and people went wild, with the game already becoming one of the biggest titles of 2024. But some fans on Xbox, perhaps not as familiar with video games, are frustrated after buying the new college football simulator and discovering that it doesn’t play...
No Man's Sky's Huge Overhaul, The Software Update That Stopped The World, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
20.7.2024
This week saw No Man’s Sky, a game that has repeatedly reinvented itself in the years since its release, get one of its biggest overhauls ever. Not to be outdone, Baldur’s Gate 3 also got a patch that rounds out the game nicely. Also, the FTC responded to Microsoft’s latest Xbox Live price hike...
Grab 10 Games For Just $15 Before The Xbox 360 Store Shuts Down Forever
16.7.2024
Microsoft has issued its final price update for all digital Xbox 360 games before the console’s marketplace goes offline for good on July 29. That means you can get a bunch of good old games for very cheap right now. And as a tribute to its most successful gaming box ever, Microsoft has even...