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Everything We Saw At Today's Big Xbox Showcase
9.6.2024
Today, June 9, 2024, Xbox took to the stage to show off a ton of games over the course of its nearly one-and-half-hour-long event. It was a healthy selection of games that featured a wide variety of genres and the return of a certain chainsaw-gun-wielding, bandana-wearing dude who’s ready to take...
Manufactured Call Of Duty Controversies, New Dragon Age Romance Details, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
8.6.2024
It was eclectic week of gaming news, and we’ve got a diverse sampler platter for you with the week’s biggest stories, or at least, the biggest ones from before Summer Game Fest kicked off on Friday. For more on that, see our roundup of everything shown off at this year’s Keighley-fest, and our look...
Everything We Saw At Summer Game Fest 2024
8.6.2024
Today, we got nearly two hours of new trailers for upcoming games courtesy of Geoff Keighley and his annual Summer Game Fest showcase. It was a lot to sit through, but if you missed out on the live stream or just want a recap of everything shown off today, we’ve got you covered. Read more
10 Hopes And Predictions For Summer Game Fest
4.6.2024
It’s almost time for this year’s not-E3, Summer Game Fest. Geoff Keighley’s annual World Premierathon, and several ostensibly unrelated events orbit it, pile vast mountains of gaming news upon us. For a breakdown of everything going down in the next week, check out this handy dandy guide for when...
A Stunning Zelda Lego Set, A Rocky Return For MultiVersus, And More Of The Week's Top News
1.6.2024
This week, a Sony business briefing gave us a revealing glimpse into the future of the PlayStation brand. Also, the return of WB-themed platform fighter MultiVersus was rockier than many anticipated it would be, No Man’s Sky released an update that leans into loneliness, and Lego revealed...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 7 Games To Take You To Worlds Beyond
31.5.2024
It’s the end of May, and the welcoming of June 2024. Summer is here. Pride month is here. And we’re taking the time this weekend to cram in some more gaming with a few recent titles, a wonderful indie game from a couple of years ago, the return of a GameCube title from 2004, and more. Read more
Dead Video Game Franchises We'd Like To See Return
29.5.2024
Everyone has a sequel they’re waiting for someone to greenlight. Some of our favorite video game franchises exist in a sad state of limbo. It’s only natural that after decades of companies making games and trying to earn the most money from them, that some good titles would fall through the cracks...
Paper Mario Translation Wins, Suicide Squad Costume Fumbles, And More Of The Week's Top News
25.5.2024
You probably haven’t thought about the phrase “Gamer Girl Bath Water” in years, and maybe you were happy about that. If so, I’m sorry, but there’s been a new development, and we’ve got the details. Also, we’ve got some insight into what it’s like to trade in your Pokémon cards at GameStop, and...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Enticing Games That Will Send You On Epic Adventures
24.5.2024
We’ve reached the end of yet another week here on planet Earth, so we’re turning our attention to the games we’re hoping to check out for the first time, or those we want to spend more time with. This weekend we’ve got two perspectives on a certain popular fantasy MMO, and sword-swinging action...
The Last Of Us Season 2 Pics, Fallout Player Nukes Phil Spencer, And More News
19.5.2024
It’s the middle of May 2024 and that means we’re nearly halfway through the year. What has this year been like in video game news? Tons of layoffs (sad), lots of new games (glad), and some weird outliers, as usual. This week, we saw set photos and official shots from The Last of Us season two, dove...
Diablo 4 Is Great Now, Final Fantasy 14 Changes Are Worrying, And More Of This Week's Hot Takes
18.5.2024
Another week, another round of opinions and spicy takes for you to sift through. Rather than making you search the site and find them yourselves, however, we’ve gathered our best opinion pieces of the week right here. From Diablo IV’s loot game change making it a good game again to a wild Tetris...
The Assassin’s Creed Heroes, Ranked From Worst To Best
17.5.2024
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is adding two new heroes to the pantheon of brave and stealthy killers that span the centuries of the series’ historical fiction. One is Naoe, a ninja who will don the hood and hidden blade commonly associated with the titular Assassins of Ubisoft’s open-world action...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Games We're Obsessed With Right Now
17.5.2024
We’re reaching the end of yet another week, and that (hopefully) means we’ve got a solid 48 hours of gaming bliss lined up. Perhaps you too are looking forward to spending some time this weekend gaming, but aren’t sure what to pick. Read more
The Buck Stops With Phil Spencer, 1000xRESIST Is A Must-Play, And More Gaming Opinions For The Week
11.5.2024
People had strong feelings, to put it mildly, after Xbox shuttered Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and other studios, and we share some of our own. Also,PlayStation finally relented on a requirement that PC players maintain a PSN account, but not before colossal fan uproar, and as the dust started...
Xbox Shutters Studios, Switch 2 Specs May Have Leaked, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
11.5.2024
This past week started with a shock, as Microsoft announced it was closing a number of studios including Tango Gameworks, responsible for the very well-liked Hi-Fi Rush, leading many to wonder just what a studio has to achieve in this day and age to be deemed successful enough to exist. Also,...
Kotaku's Weekend Guide: 9 Incredible Games We Can’t Stop Thinking About
10.5.2024
Whether you have a bunch of free time or hardly any at all, whether you’re playing on console or PC, there are plenty of great games to obsess over right now. Our recommendations for what to play this weekend include everything from sci-fi thrillers and loot-driven action-RPGs to esoteric puzzle...
You Have One Week To Buy The Whole Mass Effect Trilogy For Dirt Cheap
6.5.2024
If you never tried out BioWare’s highly influential and still (mostly) incredible science fiction trilogy Mass Effect, there is no better time than the present. The whole package is available on Steam for dirt cheap, so as long as you’ve got a PC that can run the Legendary Edition remasters, it’s...
Stellar Blade's 'Censorship' Circus, Remembering The First Sonic Trailer Five Years Later, And More Of The Week's Gaming Opinions
4.5.2024
This week, debates raged about supposed censorship in Stellar Blade. We also took a look at the upcoming game from the makers of Life Is Strange, remembered how the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, with its, uhh...unsettling take on the character...broke the internet five years ago,...
Starfield's Tiny Cities, An Escape From Tarkov Debacle And More Of The Week's Gaming News
4.5.2024
This week, we’ve got stories on Square Enix eating significant losses and shifting its strategy, a look back at Dragon’s Dogma 2's wild first month, and more. Click on for a roundup of the week’s biggest stories.Read more
Our Favorite Cosplay From WonderCon 2024
3.5.2024
WonderCon 2024, the three-day March convention held in Anaheim, California’s convention center, always has some great cosplay. This year was no exception, with folks bringing the heat with Star Wars looks, X-Men fits, and gigantic power armor that looks ripped from the Fallout TV series. Read more