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The Nintendo Switch 2 Is Finally Available On Amazon, But There's A Catch
8.7.2025
A month after launch and over two months after it first became available for preorder, the Nintendo Switch 2 is finally being sold on Amazon in the United States. It appears that Amazon and Nintendo have squashed any reported squabbles, though you can’t quite just go to an Amazon store page...
Naughty Dog Somehow Found Another Way To Get You To Replay The Last Of Us Part II
8.7.2025
There’s a scene near the end of The Last of Us Part II in which Dina, the girlfriend and baby mama of protagonist Ellie, begs her to let her inane revenge quest go. She has a family and a life here on their farm in Jackson, and that is something precious in this post-apocalyptic world....
Next PlayStation State Of Play Coming Soon And Is All About Ghost Of Yotei
8.7.2025
PlayStation’s next big State of Play has been announced, and you won’t have to wait long to watch. The event will go live on July 10 and will be dedicated to Sucker Punch’s upcoming open-world action game Ghost of Yotei. Read more
Romero Games Says It’s Not Dead, But Looking For A New Publisher After Xbox Layoffs
7.7.2025
Romero Games, the studio led by Doom designer John Romero, had been reported as one of the casualties of Xbox’s devastating layoffs last week. This was based on a statement from the studio itself, which announced that the publisher lined up for its next project had pulled funding. However, if...
Jurassic World Rebirth Is Half A Good Movie, And Half A Bad Video Game Quest
7.7.2025
Jurassic World Rebirth, out now in theaters, returns to the tried-and-true formula of the older Jurassic Park movies while almost completely ignoring the events of the last trilogy. Rebirth grabs a group of people and tosses them, some unwillingly, onto a jungle island filled with dangerous...
The Nintendo Switch 2: One Month Later
7.7.2025
It’s been just over a month since the Nintendo Switch 2 launched and ushered in the next generation of Nintendo hardware. Most of us here at Kotaku own the thing and have been playing it over the past four weeks. Now that we’ve had extensive time with the Switch 2, what do we think about it?...
Hey, Don't Forget To Try Out Switch 2's Mouse Mode For Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition
7.7.2025
Mouse mode might not have taken the world over by storm, but it remains one of the exciting features available on the Nintendo Switch 2. It may sound silly or uncomfortable—and it can be for some folks—but it’s also really unique and surprisingly well-implemented. In a first-person game like...
'Stop Killing Games' Comes Roaring Back After YouTube Drama And Now Industry Lobbying Groups Are Pushing Back
7.7.2025
Last year, Ross Scott who runs the Accursed Farms YouTube channel posted a video about Ubisoft taking The Crew offline and not only making it unplayable for everyone who purchased it, but also revoking people’s digital copies. He used it to launch the “Stop Killing Games” initiative which calls...
Fans Think Smash Bros. 64 Is Coming To Switch Online Thanks To Months-Old Blurry Backgrounds
7.7.2025
Almost four years after coming to the service, some of the Nintendo 64's most iconic games are still missing from the Switch Online + Expansion Pack retro library. Now, fans think Super Smash Bros. and more are headed to Switch soon, thanks to some very blurry “teases” in a YouTube video that...
Kotaku’s Biggest Gaming Culture News For The Week July 05, 2025
5.7.2025
From mergers to memes, the landscape of interactive entertainment is always in motion. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.Read more
Resident Evil Requiem Connects To A Lost Classic
4.7.2025
There were two big surprises when Resident Evil Requiem debuted at Summer Games Fest. One was the timing of its appearance, coming roughly 17 minutes after executive producer Jun Takeuchi asked us to wait a little longer. The other was how Requiem draws on a strange, almost-forgotten corner of...
How To Send Nintendo Switch 2 Screenshots To Your Phone
4.7.2025
I’m sure that any time you took an in-game screenshot of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, or any other original Nintendo Switch game, you would immediately want to share it on your favorite social media platforms to show off your latest...
Xbox Execs Reportedly Raved About ‘Blade Runner Meets Destiny 2’ Loot Shooter Before Canceling It
3.7.2025
There was a lot of carnage this week at Xbox after Microsoft laid off over 9000 employees across its many divisions. People lost their jobs and some of Xbox Game Studios’ upcoming projects have been canned. This included high-profile games like the Perfect Dark reboot and Rare’s...
BioWare's Maligned Loot Shooter Anthem Will Go Offline Forever Next Year
3.7.2025
BioWare’s doomed looter shooter may have had some neat aesthetics and was a competent-enough action RPG when it wanted to be, but as we all know well by now, it was a complete disaster for the devs and publisher EA. While a planned reboot of the game was canned and everyone who’s played the game...
Xbox Invites Developers To AI Roundtable The Same Day It Does Mass Layoffs
3.7.2025
Yesterday was awful for people who work at Microsoft and the gaming industry in general. Thousands at the company either saw colleagues laid off or were laid off themselves, while outside observers watched as more game developers and projects were put on the chopping block. Microsoft’s $80 billion...
How To Hide Your Play Activity From Friends And Strangers On Switch 2
3.7.2025
Privacy is a big thing these days, and it’s perfectly reasonable to be choosy with who you share information with online. That includes even simple things like which games you play, which is why you can hide your play activity on Nintendo Switch 2. But whether you hide your play activity or not...
Battlefield 6 Reportedly Has A Massive Budget Of Over $400 Million
3.7.2025
The next Battlefield game, often referred to online as Battlefield 6, looks to be a return to the franchise’s modern warfare roots, and that has many fans, myself included, excited to play it. However, behind the scenes, EA reportedly has wild expectations for the game, which might cost as much...
Massive PS5 Hit Helldivers 2 Is Coming To Xbox This August As Console Exclusivity Wall Comes Down
3.7.2025
Helldivers 2 is breaking its PlayStation 5 console exclusivity and coming to Xbox Series X/S in August. Fans have long called for the hit extraction shooter to be available on every platform, and in a shocking twist the Sony published blockbuster is obliging. It’s another major crack in...
Xbox Boss 'Not Retiring Anytime Soon,' Microsoft Promises
2.7.2025
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has been in charge of Xbox for over a decade and the company says he’s not leaving anytime soon, calling rumors that the longtime exec might be resigning when the next generation of Xbox hardware launches “completely made up.” Read more
A Bunch Of Big PS5 Games Are On Sale Right Now
2.7.2025
A big summer sale is currently happening on the PlayStation Store, with a ton of PS5 games discounted to $25 or less. Read more