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FromSoft Boss Miyazaki ‘Happy’ That All of Us Love Bloodborne
21.2.2024
Bloodborne sickos, rejoice! While discussing the upcoming Elden Ring expansion, Shadows of the Erdtree, with Eurogamer, FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki spoke about how much the team values the beloved title and outlined what he believes makes a remaster or remake valuable. Despite...
Everything We Know About Elden Ring's Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC
21.2.2024
FromSoftware showed us what’s been cooking in the Elden Ring oven, and the results have undoubtedly made Soulslike fans salivate. (I’m Soulslike fans.) The studio unveiled the first trailer for its hotly anticipated DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, and now that we know it arrives on June 21, it’s a good...
Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC Takes Us To A Shadowland This June
21.2.2024
FromSoftware’s award-winning RPG Elden Ring showed off its upcoming and long-awaited Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC today with a bombastic trailer that gave us an idea of what to expect when it drops later this year. Get ready, Tarnished, because things are going to get wild.Read more
Tekken 8 Fans Are Going All Out With The Character Customizer
26.1.2024
Now that Tekken 8 is out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, players are jumping in to style their mains with the game’s extensive character customizer. With character customizers comes an assortment of shenanigans, and this is no different, as Tekken 8 players are fighting each other with...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Jedi Powers And Flying Fisticuffs
26.1.2024
The first month of 2024 is coming to a close, and we’ve already been enjoying some fine games here at Kotaku. We hope this year has brought you some pleasant gaming experiences as well. Read more
Tekken 8 Fans Desperately Want Final Fantasy 7's Best Girl In The Game
26.1.2024
Tekken 8 is out now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, and judging by the reviews, it rules. I’m stoked to play the game this weekend, particularly to take the French swordsman Victor Chevalier to the training lab. The roster is quite eclectic, with some familiar faces and new blood vying...
Tekken 8 Is Getting Some Seriously High Praise
23.1.2024
Tekken 8 comes out on January 26 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, and reviews are popping up ahead of the game’s release date. It’ll be the eighth mainline entry in Bandai Namco Entertainment’s long-running franchise, and it seems critics are enjoying the game, with Tekken 8 currently...
Tekken 8 Will Fix A Potentially Dangerous Feature After Outcry
18.1.2024
Tekken 8, the next entry in Bandai Namco Entertainment’s long-running fighting game franchise, is set to launch on January 26. While that’s right around the corner, the team is continuing to tweak aspects of the game, including a potentially concerning set of accessibility features that stirred...
Elden Ring Sleuths Think Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC Is Coming Soon
16.1.2024
It’s no secret that fans of FromSoftware are desperate for any news about the developer’s upcoming expansion for 2022’s smash hit, Elden Ring. The team recently made a change to Elden Ring’s backend on Steam, leading folks to believe a Shadow of the Erdtree DLC announcement could be right around...
Everything We Know About Sand Land, Akira Toriyama's New RPG
12.1.2024
An adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s desert-themed, post-war manga, Sand Land arrives as an open-world action RPG on April 25, 2024. If you’re a fan of Toriyama’s other work, such as Dragon Ball, you’ll want to keep an eye on Sand Landas we get closer to the release date. And as it seems to offer...
Elden Ring Gets A New Update But Fans Just Want DLC News
11.1.2024
We still know next to nothing about Elden Ring’s upcoming DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, but that hasn’t stopped folks from clamoring for news about the expansion. Developer FromSoftware released a small update for the critically acclaimed open-world game on January 11, and fans inundated the tweet...
Horror Game Studio Shuts Down Due To Cyberattacks, Poor Sales
3.1.2024
Just two months after the third-person action-horror game Stray Souls came out, developer Jukai Studio abruptly shuttered its doors, citing myriad issues including poor game sales and multiple cyberattacks from an unknown perpetrator.The developer took to X/Twitter on December 22 to announce...
Kotaku Asks: What Hugely Popular Game Just Isn't For You?
3.1.2024
We all have our favorite franchises and one-and-done games, be it classics like Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, Tetris, or more modern series like The Last of Us, Halo, or Uncharted Others we happily play, but they don’t become go-to favorites. And then there are those games that we’re just...
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Trailer Plays All The Greatest Hits
8.12.2023
Fans couldn’t believe it when Bandai Namco teased that a new Budokai Tenkaichi was in the works. We now know it’s called Dragon Ball Sparking Zero and it looks like something players who have been waiting almost two decades can get excited about. Read more
Nintendo's New Super Smash Bros. Ultimate OLED Switch Bundle Is A Great Holiday Deal
6.11.2023
Just in time for Black Friday budgeting, Nintendo announced a Switch bundle launching on November 19 that’ll package the OLED model of the handheld-console hybrid with the crossover fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.Read more
This Rad Fan-Made Bloodborne Racing Game Finally Has A Release Date
1.11.2023
Last year, the creators of Bloodborne PSX, a popular fan-made demake of From Software’s beloved 2015 action role-playing game, Bloodborne (see on Amazon), made headlines announcing their next project: Bloodborne Kart. At the time, developer Lillith Walther told Kotaku that the racing game would...
New Nintendo Rules Cause Massive Smash Bros. Fan Freakout
25.10.2023
Nintendo’s relationship with the grassroots competitive scene around its Super Smash Bros. games has never been great, But today it may have hit an all-time low. Fans of the company’s enormously popular fighting game franchise are collectively freaking out about a new set of tournament guidelines...
Elden Ring Luxury Streetwear Is Here To Save The Maidenless
19.10.2023
FromSoftware’s 2022 action role-playing game Elden Ring is aesthetically decadent, resplendent in its towering, but tumbling castles and suits of elaborate metal armor, leather, and dyed fabric. In its debut collection “The Lands Between,” a collaboration with FromSoftware, luxury brand ARK/8...
Lords Of The Fallen Sounds Like 2023’s Most Divisive Soulsborne
12.10.2023
Lords of the Fallen sounds like the best and worst parts of the Soulsborne genre all rolled into one. Hexworks’ grim action-RPG arrives in a year full of homages to FromSoftware’s Dark Souls, and so far critical assessments run the gamut from high praise to exhausted disappointment.Read more
Armored Core VI’s New Game Plus Mode Is A Must-Play
6.9.2023
It can feel good to put the controller down at the end of Armored Core VI, comforted by the knowledge that you survived its most brutal skill check bosses and learned to configure your complex mech for whatever new hazard Rubicon threw your way. It would be a mistake not to pick it back up again...