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Xbox's First Showcase Of 2025 Will Have Deep Dives Into Doom: The Dark Ages And More
9.1.2025
Microsoft has a huge lineup of big games for the Xbox Series X/S and PC (as well as PlayStation 5) this year, and it’s getting the ball rolling early with a January showcase to give players a better look at Doom: The Dark Ages and a bunch of other stuff coming out in 2025.Read more
Toughen Up Like A Dragon For This Yakuza-Themed Astro Bot Trophy
9.1.2025
There are a lot of unique, one-off trophies to earn in Astro Bot if you’re trying to unlock the game’s platinum trophy. Some of them are worded in a way that makes you stop and think for a bit, which isn’t the most helpful for us digital completionists. For instance, if you’re stuck on...
Astro Bot: How To Snag The Net Profit Trophy
8.1.2025
Astro Bot is a gorgeous and thrilling platforming adventure for all ages, and most of the experience is fairly easy. However, if you decide to go for its platinum trophy, you’ll need to put in a bit of extra work completing some difficult challenges and performing a handful of optional tasks.Read...
Troubled Transformers Game Finally Canceled Amid Cuts At Studio Behind Gears Tactics
8.1.2025
Transformers: Reactivate was first teased back at The Game Awards 2022, in a short 60-second trailer set to Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Just a little over two years later, developers Splash Damage announced the online multiplayer game based on the hit sci-fi action figures is not wanted...
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...
This Astro Bot Trophy Is A Treat For The Ears
8.1.2025
Astro Bot is a charming and lighthearted platforming romp that is all but certain to keep a smile on your face from beginning to end. And if you love the game as much as many folks do (it did win Game of the Year at the Game Awards last year, after all), you’ll likely have your eye on its platinum...
Monster Hunter Wilds Announces More Free Beta Weekends But They Won't Include Needed Changes
8.1.2025
Capcom just announced another Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test next month, giving players a few more chances to checkout the multiplayer action-RPG for free ahead of its February 28 release date.Read more
PS VR2: Eight Essential Games To Check Out
8.1.2025
Sony’s PlayStation VR2 is an impressive piece of tech, but all signs indicate it hasn’t had a particularly successful launch. Fortunately, thanks to some steep Black Friday sales last year, the VR Headset is enjoying a small second wind of attention. If you’re among the new PlayStation VR2 owners...
How To Unlock The Golden Bot Trophy In Astro Bot
7.1.2025
If you’re working on clearing the entirety of Astro Bot, you’re in for quite a challenge. While most of the game’s levels are fairly breezy, there are no doubt plenty of difficult moments to overcome as you work your way through the charming platformer. There’s also a ton of bots to find...
Our 27 Most Anticipated Games Of 2025
7.1.2025
After a quieter year for bigger releases in 2024 (though there was still plenty of great stuff overall), 2025 has the potential to blow the lid off things with a ton of blockbusters ranging from the unexpectedly delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows to the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI (which could...
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
The Best Video Game Moments Of 2024
6.1.2025
It’s January 2025 and we’re still thinking about all the best games and moments of 2024. We’ve looked back on our favorite games of last year, the characters who stuck with us throughout the last 12 months, and the various highs and lows of the industry. While we’ve celebrated the best games...
13 Years Later, You Can Still Find People Playing Call of Duty On PS Vita
6.1.2025
The one Call of Duty game released on the PlayStation Vita in 2012 apparently still has an active player base in 2025. So if you’ve been desperately wanting to play Nukehouse again, go find your Vita and Black Ops Declassified and hop online. Read more
Amazon Cancels Mighty No. 9 3DS And Vita Pre-Orders 12 Years After They Were Originally Promised
6.1.2025
Mighty No. 9 represented Mega Man artist Keiji Inafune’s ambition to resurrect—with the help of millions in funding from devout fans—a classic series that was languishing at the time under Capcom’s stewardship. The results were frequently delayed and generally quite bad. Promised 3DS...
Smite 2 Crossplay And Cross-Progression, Explained
6.1.2025
The MOBA genre may be a bit niche, but players who play them tend to fall head over heels for certain games, keeping them alive for the long-haul. One of the most beloved and long-running games in the genre has been Smite, which is currently in its 11th year of service, so it only makes sense that...
Pokémon Declares 2025 To Be The 'Year Of Eevee'
6.1.2025
Step aside Luigi, 2025 is now officially the Year of Eevee. That’s the rather bold claim made today on the official Pokémon Center UK website, and likely to come to the U.S. version later today. What does it mean? Well, the TCG is about to launch a new special set of cards called Prismatic...
January's Can't-Miss Game Releases, A Surprise Horror Hit On Steam, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
4.1.2025
This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably slow start to the often-relentless news cycle of video games. But slow news hardly means no news, and we kicked off the new year with a look at the games to keep an eye out for this month. Also, the chief creative...
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...
Don't Sleep On 2024's Most Underrated Tactics RPG
3.1.2025
SteamWorld Heist II snuck out last year in early August and didn’t create as many ripples as some of the other genre spin-offs in its quirky robotic universe. That’s a shame because the bones of this tactical RPG are some of the strongest around, even if the surrounding fluff can get in the...
BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
3.1.2025
In a recent interview with Games Industry.biz, Ken Levine disparaged his most famous and popular game, BioShock, as “a very, very long corridor.” He uses this description pejoratively to distinguish the 2007 first-person mystery game from his current project, science fiction FPS Judas, a game...