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How Hyperliquid’s insanely lucrative airdrop launch changed the game
8.1.2025
Hyperliquid airdropped 28% of its HYPE token supply to early users. The airdrop is now worth more than $7 billion, making it the most valuable in history
How Hyperliquid’s insanely lucrative airdrop launch changed the game
8.1.2025
Hyperliquid airdropped 28% of its HYPE token supply to early users. The airdrop is now worth more than $7 billion, making it the most valuable in history
How Hyperliquid’s insanely lucrative airdrop launch changed the game
8.1.2025
Hyperliquid airdropped 28% of its HYPE token supply to early users. The airdrop is now worth more than $7 billion, making it the most valuable in history
New Sony Tech Will Put You Inside The World Of The Last Of Us
7.1.2025
Sony has debuted some wild-looking, Star-Trek-holodeck-like technology that, if it works as advertised, will let people step into the world of The Last of Us and get up close and personal with the franchise’s grotesque spore zombies. This new tech will even let you uh...smell them. Read more
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...
New 'Handheld' Gaming PC Is So Big You Could Kill Someone With It
7.1.2025
Computer maker Acer is one of the few PC tech companies that hasn’t released a Steam Deck-like handheld gaming device. That changes later this year when it releases not one but three different portable PC devices, one of which is so big that it almost looks like a joke and really begs the question...
The OG Diablo Is Coming To Game Pass
7.1.2025
Another Activision-owned title arrives on Game Pass soon. This time it’s Blizzard’s classic and iconic Diablo. The action RPG iscoming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC next week alongside a few other games making the leap to the standard tier. Read more
5 Things We Noticed In The Last Of Us’ New Season Two Trailer
7.1.2025
If you missed it last night, Sony and HBO announced that The Last of Us’ second season will premiere on Max in April at CES 2025. The seven-episode season will cover only part of The Last of Us Part II’s story, as HBO plans to split the events of the 2020 sequel across multiple seasons. Based...
PlayStation 5 Is Getting A New Set Of Killer-Looking, All-Black Accessories
7.1.2025
The PlayStation 5 lineup of consoles and accessories continues to expand. Just a couple of months after the 30th Anniversary set was released, Sony has revealed another lineup of color variants, this time in all-black. The new PlayStation Portal looks especially slick. Read more
Call Of Duty Keeps Getting More Expensive To Make Even Though It's Selling Fewer Copies
7.1.2025
Call of Duty is the best-selling game almost every year, but even that might not be enough to keep up with its ever-ballooning blockbuster budgets. New court filings reveal that 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million to make over the life of the game, despite selling 10 million...
HBO's The Last Of Us Season 2 Gets New Trailer And Surprise April Release Date
7.1.2025
HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us returns for season 2 in just a few months. Sony revealed the hit horror game will be back on TV with fresh episodes beginning in April and dropped a new trailer for fans to pore over in the meantime. Read more
New Xbox Controller Is Basically A Fancy PS5 Gamepad
6.1.2025
At CES 2025, accessory and controller maker Hyperkin revealed its upcoming Xbox gamepad that is inspired by Sony’s PS5 DualSense controller. However, this new wired controller is much more than just an Xbox pad designed for folks who prefer the layout and shape of a PlayStation controller. 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...
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...
50 Percent Of PS5 Owners Are Freaks And Actually Shut Their Console Down When They Stop Playing
6.1.2025
I only ever turn my PlayStation 5 off a few times a year, and it’s usually when there’s an unexpected power outage or I accidentally hit the red switch on the power strip it’s plugged into. My PS5 yells at me when I turn it back on and I vow never to do it again. Apparently only about 50 percent...
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...