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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We Can't Wait To Get Back To
25.7.2025
We’ve hit peak summer and probably the biggest lull in the release calendar we’re going to get until the holiday. That doesn’t mean a lot of great stuff didn’t still come out this week. What it does mean is that we have time to highlight things that might not otherwise have gotten their due. Read...
Credit Card Companies Censoring Adult Content 'Endangers Democracy Itself,' According To Nier: Automata Director
25.7.2025
As a fight with credit card companies over adult games leads to renewed concerns about censorship on Steam and even on indie platforms like itch.io, a recent warning by Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro calling censorship a “security hole that endangers democracy itself” has become relevant...
2025's Worst Game Delays Hitman Crossover As Devs Promise More Updates
25.7.2025
An upcoming crossover mission in MindsEye that was set to bring Agent 47 of the Hitman franchise to the game this summer has been delayed until a “later date” as developer Build A Rocket Boy continues to try and salvage what has become the worst-reviewed game of 2025.Read more
Fallout Director Is Producing A Wolfenstein Series For Amazon
25.7.2025
Nazis, watch out. Wolfenstein is coming to the small screen with some help from the same people (and the same production company) behind Amazon’s hit live-action adaptation of Fallout. Read more
Donkey Kong Bananza's Loading Screen Artwork Is So Damn Good
25.7.2025
Donkey Kong Bananza on Switch 2is a very, very good video game all about smashing stuff up and exploring gorgeous cartoon worlds as Nintendo’s favorite ape. But between all the banana eating, punching, jumping, and singing, there are loading screens featuring some wonderful retro-style artwork that...
Elden Ring Nightreign's Most Requested Feature Is Finally Coming Later This Month
25.7.2025
FromSoftware’s strange but successful multiplayer experiment, Elden Ring Nightreign, is finally getting a duos option nearly two months after launch. The highly requested feature will be added in an update arriving next week. Read more
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Rushes Out Emergency Patch Amid Review-Bombing On Steam
25.7.2025
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is getting slammed on Steam over what many users claim is terrible PC performance for those playing on anything but the most upgraded rigs. A fresh day-two update has now been rushed out to try and solve the worst issues players are experiencing, and even the publisher...
Dying Light: The Beast Slips To September 19, Despite Glowing Previews
25.7.2025
Techland’s Dying Light: The Beast was set to release mid next month, August 11. However, in a press release published today, the developer has announced an eleventh hour delay to the zombie-fighting parkour game, moving the release date to September 19. It is “to allow for extra polishing,”...
Clair Obscur Devs Visit Final Fantasy Offices For An 'Exchange Of Ideas'
24.7.2025
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of the biggest surprise gaming hits of 2025 and a traditional turn-based role-playing game that reminded many fans of the golden-era of PlayStation 1 JRPGs they still pine for. Some have even gone so far as to argue that the next Final Fantasy game should be more...
I Really Hope Battlefield 6 Isn't Flooded With Dumb Crossover Skins
24.7.2025
Earlier today, after months of teases, leaks, and rumors, EA and Battlefield Studios finally unveiled the first official trailer for Battlefield 6. And what we’ve seen so far seems great. I just hope that EA avoids following Call of Duty, Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2, and countless other games that...
If You Don’t Want To Play The Last Of Us, You Can Now Read It Instead
24.7.2025
I don’t have any room to judge all the times Naughty Dog has found some way to repackage The Last of Us and its sequel because I keep buying every new box set the studio releases. However, the newest way the company has found to print money without making a new game isn’t a bad live-action...
AI Weapons Maker Teases $200 Retro Console That Will Play Your Old Copy Of Mario Kart 64
24.7.2025
Anduril Industries cofounder Palmer Luckey has pulled back the curtain ever so slightly on his retro gaming company side project’s next console. We still don’t know what the M64 looks like, or what exactly it’s capable of, but a brief new teaser shows it running Mario Kart 64 on a CRT for...
Battlefield 6's Reveal Trailer Looks A Lot Like Battlefield 3 And That's Fine With Me
24.7.2025
Finally, after what feels like a lot of teasing, talking, and leaking, EA and Battlefield Studios released the first official trailer for Battlefield 6. This new trailer is focused on the upcoming military shooter’s single-player campaign and looks a lot like the grounded action seen in Battlefield...
Five Nights At Freddy's 2 Movie Trailer Takes Us Back To The Original Location
24.7.2025
2023's Five Nights at Freddy’s ended up being a big blockbuster hit for horror makers Blumhouse, so it wasn’t a surprise that the company fast-tracked a sequel. And now we have our first official trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, which features more lore from the original horror games and even...
AI Accusations Plunge Street Fighter 6 Fan Art Contest Into Chaos
24.7.2025
Street Fighter 6 is holding an art competition for fans, with the winners’ work set to be featured in the fighting game itself as New Challenger screens. These are art pieces that show up during online matches when you are challenged by another player, and feature some sick art of their chosen...
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Is The 'Gooner Souls' Of The Summer
24.7.2025
There’s more than a few echoes of Stellar Blade in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, which invests as much into its main character’s wardrobe as the rest of the action-RPG experience. Bai Wuchang is a female pirate who can dodge, parry, and punish all manner of demonic foes from the underworld whether...
The 12 Best Games On The Nintendo Switch 2
24.7.2025
The Switch 2 is in that awkward early phase where most of its best games are old. Nintendo has put out a couple of big exclusives, sure, but by and large, the draw of the system largely lies in the ability to play games on the go that used to demand you be tethered to a TV. So if you’re thinking...
Major Gaming Store Delists All NSFW Games Following Pressure From Anti-Porn Campaigners
24.7.2025
Following on from Steam’s delisting of hundreds of extreme adult games, indie gaming site Itch.io has made the even more extreme move of (in some cases temporarily) removing all NSFW games from its store pages and search results. The action, made in response to pressure group Collective Shout,...
That Cool Survival Game That Mixes Minecraft And Half-Life Is Out Now On Game Pass
23.7.2025
Abiotic Factor, a co-op survival game heavily inspired by the original Half-Life, has been around for over a year now in early access on Steam. But it has now received a massive 1.0 update, left early access, and made its way to consoles, too. And on top of all that, this very good survival game...
Battlefield 6 Leak Claims It Will Launch In October With No Early Access
23.7.2025
A new report claims that Electronic Arts’ upcoming massive military shooter, Battlefield 6, will launch in early October and that it will be available in two versions, but with no early access period for those who pre-order the pricier edition.Read more