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Game Pass Gets Pricier, Nintendo Teases A Horror Game, And More News For The Week
13.7.2024
This week saw Game Pass, once touted as the best deal in gaming, get another price increase in a way that’s as messy and confusing as it is disappointing. Also, Nintendo took the uncharacteristic step of teasing what looks like a first-party horror release, another game removed references...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games We're Staying Indoors With
12.7.2024
Well, here we are, crossing over into the middle of June. Sorry, January. Damn it. I meant July. Things with the same starting letter screw me up every time (apologies to every Matt and Mike I’ve met). But hey, maybe old, stubborn, resistant-to-change habits can be convinced to take a hike and...
MaXXXine Review: Mia Goth Scorches In This Uneven Trilogy Finale
12.7.2024
“I will not accept a life that I don’t deserve.”Read more
First Captain America: Brave New World Trailer Teases Red Hulk
12.7.2024
The fourth Captain America movie is the first with Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson, previously the flying Avenger known as Falcon, taking up the shield after Steve Rogers retired in Avengers: Endgame, and after the epic fail of John Walker (yes, Kotaku’s freelance editor) to take up the mantle....
Chicken Soup For The Soul Kills Redbox
11.7.2024
Redbox is not long for this world. The DVD rental service’s parent company—Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment—has shifted its bankruptcy filing from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 and is liquidating its businesses and assets.Read more
Marvel’s New X-Men Comic Plays It Too Safe After One Of The Best Sagas In Its History
11.7.2024
Reboots are par for the course in superhero comics. Every few years a new creative team takes the reins and wants to shake things up in its own way. To do that, the story must first return to the status quo. Such is the case with the latest X-Men comic from writer Jed MacKay. It’s not exactly...
Cynthia Lummis backs Ian Cain over crypto lawyer John Deaton for Senate
8.7.2024
Pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis cited Republican Ian Cain’s understanding of blockchain technology and the digital economy in his campaign to unseat Democrat Elizabeth Warren
Cynthia Lummis backs Ian Cain over crypto lawyer John Deaton for Senate
8.7.2024
Pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis cited Republican Ian Cain’s understanding of blockchain technology and the digital economy in his campaign to unseat Democrat Elizabeth Warren
Resident Evil 9 Quietly Announced, Nintendo Has Plans To Thwart Switch 2 Resellers, And More Of The Week's News
6.7.2024
This week, we’ve got the latest on how Nintendo plans to prevent its Switch successor from falling into reseller hell the way its current console did upon release. Also, a game that was banned for featuring underage nudity made an appearance in a convention sales booth, and we’ve got 16 great...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Great Games We’re Kicking Off July With
5.7.2024
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s right: Video games! Escapism isn’t always...
Report: Market Analyst John Hussman Warns of Major Downside for S&P 500
1.7.2024
John Hussman, a prominent market strategist known for predicting the 2000 and 2008 crashes, warns of a significant downside for the S&P 500. Hussman highlights elevated asset prices and narrow market participation, suggesting a potential decline of 50-70%. Analyst Predicts Major Stock Downturn...
The Acolyte Episode 3 Review: Star Wars Finds Religion In A Whole New Way
1.7.2024
Just because you can grab an audience with a name like Star Wars doesn’t mean you can keep their attention. With its third episode, The Acolyte introduces a theme so big and so important—religion—that if the show doesn’t take it seriously in the coming episodes, it may lose mine.Read more
Toys 'R' Us' New AI-Generated Ad Is Truly Horrible And More Of The Week's Takes
29.6.2024
Toys ‘R’ Us—or, more accurately, the brand’s reanimated corpse—made waves this week with the release of an AI-generated ad that inadvertently reveals so much about this era of widespread “enshittification.” Our piece on that, as well as a lament for the way expiring licenses are killing Forza...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Character Creator Fixes A Big Problem
27.6.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s character creator is the most robust BioWare’s ever put in one of its RPGs. We saw a glimpse of it at Summer Game Fest and can confirm Mass Effect and Dragon Ages of old have nothing on what’s coming. But the options for how you customize your character aren’t nearly...
Nintendo's Huge June Direct And More Of The Week's Big Gaming News
22.6.2024
Nintendo’s big June Direct showcase delivered the biggest headlines of the week, with its reveal of Echoes of Wisdom, a new Zelda game in which you actually play as the titular princess, as well as a new Mario & Luigi RPG and, yes, Metroid Prime 4. Read on for all the reveals from that event...
A Revealing Epic Store Leak, New Star Wars Outlaws Details And More Of The Week's Big Stories
15.6.2024
Summer Game Fest took up a lot of the oxygen in the room last week, and from there, we got new details on Star Wars Outlaws, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and more. But there was no shortage of stories from beyond the showcases and show floor, too. An Epic Games Store leak hinted at some big things...
19 Things We Learned From The Dragon Age: The Veilguard Q&A
14.6.2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s promotional campaign is in full swing after BioWare reintroduced the re-titled RPG at Summer Game Fest earlier this month. While we learned a lot from the gameplay reveal and the behind-closed-doors presentation at the show, BioWare is still drip-feeding information...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Four Games To Send You To The Stars (And Realms Beyond)
14.6.2024
Here we are again at another weekend. This time, we’re hoping to get a bit of rest from the wonderful mania of covering Summer Game Fest, and all the many showcases and events that happened in between. Read more
Generální manažer značky Warcraft opouští studio Blizzard
14.6.2024
John Hight, generální manažer fantasy značky Warcraft, která letos oslaví třicet let od vydání první hry, opouští po dvanácti letech Blizzard
I Am Your Beast Is One Of The Best Shooters You Can Play Right Now
13.6.2024
I have no bullets left in my handgun. I’m low on health. In front of me is an armed soldier ready to shoot my head off. I don’t have more than a second or two before I’m dead. So I chuck my empty pistol at the dude, knocking him down. Meanwhile, I grab his gun and swiftly kill him and two more...