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MultiVersus Director Calls Out Violent Threats Amid Shutdown Backlash And Roster Rumors
3.2.2025
MultiVersus’ final season update isn’t even live yet and conversation around the game has already broken down dramatically. Since the team behind the multiplayer game announced it would shut down just a year after returning, online discourse has turned ugly. “When there are threats to harm it’s...
Overwatch 2 Removes Its Newest Mode From Competitive Play
31.1.2025
Overwatch 2 has what Blizzard calls “groundbreaking changes” on the way next month, but before that, it has a smaller, welcome one in the pipeline. Clash, introduced in season 12, is Overwatch 2’s newest game mode. As director Aaron Keller describes it, the mode was inspired by the original hero...
Smash Bros.-Inspired MultiVersus Is Shutting Down A Second Time
31.1.2025
Warner Bros. is pulling the plug on another failed multiplayer game. Its Smash Bros.-inspired platform fighter MultiVersus will shut down at the end of season 5, just a year after it’s bumpy return from live-service purgatory. The game will still be available to play offline, but there won’t be...
17 Things You Need To Know About Doom's Big Prequel Before It Comes Out
24.1.2025
In just a few months, we’ll all be given the gift of a new Doom game. In May, id Software will launch Doom: The Dark Ages on consoles and PC. Ahead of that release, the studio has revealed a lot about the upcoming prequel via trailers, gameplay clips, and interviews. We’ve dug through the most...
Doom: The Dark Ages Launches In May And Looks Awesome (And Massive)
23.1.2025
As announced during Xbox’s latest Developer Direct, Doom: The Dark Ages, the next main installment in the demon killin’ franchise, is launching on May 15 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC. Read more
Future Sonic Movies Could Leave Human Characters Behind And Fans Are Conflicted
22.1.2025
It’s been five years since the original live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie, and in that time a lot of the sentiment around the series has changed. We’ve gone from being threatened with a horrifying blue gremlin on the big screen to a critically acclaimed adaptation of video game Sonic Adventure...
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Arrives In Spring 2027, Paramount Confirms
21.1.2025
After previous reporting in December confirmed another Sonic sequel was in the works, Paramount has officially announced that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 will arrive in theaters in March 2027. Read more
Ranking Marvel Rivals' Heroes, Spotting Details In The New Mario Kart, And More Notes For The Week
18.1.2025
This week’s catch-all of nifty tips, info, and observations features rankings of two of the three groups of heroes in Marvel Rivals: the support heroes and the damage dealers. So if you’ve got strong feelings about where, say, the Punisher should land in such a tally, you can see for yourself just...
Donkey Kong Looks Old-School In New Mario Kart And Not Everyone's Happy
17.1.2025
Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 yesterday, giving us some bits of information and plenty of new cause for speculation, but the only game we saw was the next Mario Kart. Fans are already calling the kart racer Mario Kart 9 despite us having no official title yet. Though we only saw a...
Let's Remember Some Good Transformers Games
10.1.2025
Remember when Activision was publishing other games besides Call of Duty? Recall how, for a brief period of time, some of those other Activision games included Transformers: War for Cybertron and its sequel, Fall of Cybertron? I do, and it’s shame that in 2025 these cool sci-fi shooters aren’t easy...
2025 Sounds Like The Year Halo Comes To PS5 And Switch 2
10.1.2025
Microsoft has made no secret of wanting to bring more of its Xbox exclusives to other platforms, and it sounds like Halo might finally be making the leap. The platfor- defining franchise will see its Halo: The Master Chief Collection come to PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 in 2025, according to gaming...
A Surprising Piece Of Sonic 3 Merch Is Selling For Hundreds Of Dollars
8.1.2025
When I walked into a Build-a-Bear Workshop last month and they were completely sold out of their Shadow the Hedgehog bears to stuff and dress to your liking, I don’t think I expected it to be a harbinger for a plague of scalpers taking advantage of the Sonic the Hedgehog community. But it turns...
The Sonic Movies Have Now Made Over A Billion Dollars
6.1.2025
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 hit theaters late last month and has already grossed more than $300 million worldwide, pushing the film series based on Sega’s popular video games past the one-billion mark and making it one of Paramount’s biggest ongoing franchises.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games We’re Settling Into 2025 With
3.1.2025
If you’re reading this right now, you did it: you made it through 2024. Time will tell if 2025 ends up being even messier and more chaotic for games and everything surrounding them but in the meantime, a short respite! Here are some great games (and game-spectating experiences with the return...
This Fan-Made Sonic Game Looks Just As Good As The Real Thing, And You Can Play It Right Now
3.1.2025
There are a lot of great fan-made Sonic the Hedgehog games out there. Sega has been notoriously chill with fans of the Blue Blur using its characters in their own projects, and there are even a handful of community-driven remakes of old games that could use a modern touch-up. The one we’re talking...
Free COD: Black Ops 6 Crossover With Squid Game Locks Best Rewards Behind A Paywall
2.1.2025
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is getting a Squid Game event this weekend following the hit Netflix show’s recent return with season two. Unlike previous events, however, this one will lock some of its best rewards behind a paid event pass. Think of it as a battle pass within a battle pass, on top of...
One Of Sonic 3’s Biggest Game References Is Hidden In Plain Sight (And Fans Are Split On It)
2.1.2025
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is heavily based on the events of the 2001 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure 2. The live-action movie doesn’t recreate the platformer’s story beat for beat, but it introduces Sonic’s revenge-driven rival Shadow, explores villain Doctor Robotnik’s family, and the moon gets blown...
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...
Sonic The Hedgehog 3: The Kotaku Review
20.12.2024
With Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the live-action adaptation of Sega’s speedy platformer is entering a new era. With each subsequent movie, the Sonic films have sought to shed the generic “family” movie image for one that was more honest to the anime-inspired twists and turns of the long-running...
Sonic The Hedgehog 3’s Post-Credits Scenes, Explained
20.12.2024
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is out in theaters now, and like the first two films, it has a post-credits stinger that gives us an idea of what’s to come in the next movie, which, it seems, is coming in 2027. However, Sonic 3’s isn’t quite as self-explanatory as those in the first two movies if you’re...