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Kotaku’s Biggest Gaming Culture News For The Week May 31, 2025
31.5.2025
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
Switch 2 Startup And Menu Settings Appear Online As Early Player Shows Off Console In 'Code Red' Leak For Nintendo
28.5.2025
The Switch 2 is just days away from its official June 5 launch, but already footage is beginning to spread online of people already going hands-on with Nintendo’s next console. One fan based in Russia recently uploaded a nearly 10-minute video that includes the Switch 2's startup sequence and...
Oblivion Remake Screens Leak, Nintendo Shows Off Mario Kart World, And More Top Stories
19.4.2025
This week, Nintendo held a Direct dedicated to Mario Kart World and while it was only 15 minutes long, it gave us a better idea of what to expect from the game’s open-world exploration and its competitive offerings, while also showing off some new playable characters and some of the stylish outfits...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Reveals Space-Time Smackdown Set Release Date And Shows Off New Cards
23.1.2025
Pokémon TCG Pocket is closing out January with a bang. The hit mobile game is getting a much-needed content refresh later this month in the form of a new set called Space-Time Smackdown. Two separate booster packs will feature Dialga and Palkia on their covers, the legendaries from Pokémon Diamond...
Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning
17.1.2025
Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.
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Fans Rejoice As New Xenoblade Chronicles X Trailer Shows Off Much Needed UI Glow-Up
9.1.2025
With Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, the last major Wii U exclusive will find a new home on Switch. But it’s not just a spiffy port of a cult classic. A new trailer shows the 2025 version will add new characters to fight with, mechs to pilot, zones to explore, and a much-improved...
Meta shows off Web3-to-reality bridge with ‘Hyperscape’ metaverse demo
3.10.2024
The tech is still experimental, but its implications could change how users view reality
Death Stranding 2 Shows Off Wild Photo Shoot Mode And Teases Release Date
30.9.2024
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is still on its way to the PlayStation 5 and at Tokyo Game Show 2024 over the weekend, director Hideo Kojima teased more gameplay, new features, and an in-game performance by Japanese singer Daichi Miura and a group of Death Stranding 2's unnerving Dollmen. Read more
Zuckerberg shows off new ‘Orion’ smart glasses at Meta Connect
26.9.2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased its “most advanced” smart glasses, a new AR headset and its AI model voiced by Judy Dench
Mickey 17 Trailer Shows Off Bong Joon-Ho's Sci-Fi Dark Comedy About Killing Robert Pattinson Over And Over Again
18.9.2024
The first trailer for Mickey 17 is here and it looks incredible. The next movie from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, it’s a sci-fi clone-killing conceit in space that will make The Batman star Robert Pattinson the butt of the violent joke when it hits theaters January 31, 2025.Read more
Harry Potter Quidditch Game Finally Shows Off Some Actual Gameplay
29.7.2024
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is only a couple months away, and before today we didn’t have a good idea what it really looked like to play. Now, a new trailer teases the fantasy sports game in action, along with famous characters and a character creator that doesn’t seem saddled with franchise...
Hong Kong shows off crypto, Web3 prowess in Toronto
25.6.2024
Canadian crypto and Web3 startups could benefit from “lower taxes” and regulations that cater to “pre-commercial specialist technology companies,” said a Toronto ETO official
Arcane Season 2 Teaser Shows Off Caitlyn And Vi’s New Looks
7.6.2024
It’s been almost three years since Arcane, the Netflix animated series inspired by Riot Games’ global hit MOBA League of Legends, was released, and fans are dying for more. Thankfully, the long-awaited second season is finally within sight, with a November release window. And we’ve had a fresh...
Time to buy Bitcoin? Recent downturn shows off advanced Octoblock features
25.4.2024
The recent Bitcoin price drop has prompted astute investors to consider entering the market while simultaneously displaying the potential of Octoblock’s advanced features. Bitcoin price The Bitcoin price plunged below $60,000 on April 17, reaching levels last seen in February. This decline...
Exclusive Halo Clip Shows Off Iconic EVA Armor, Covenant Ship
6.3.2024
Halo’s second season set up the famed Fall of Reach and delivered, but the action isn’t stopping there. As the show keeps trucking—and trying to remind folks turned off by the first season that it’s still got the juice—we’ve got an exclusive clip debut of an action sequence from the upcoming sixth...
Silent Hill 2 Remake's New Trailer Shows Off A Lot Of Combat
31.1.2024
Silent Hill 2, a remake of Konami’s legendary 2001 survival horror game currentlyin the works at Layers of Fear developer Bloober, got a new trailer during the January 31 Sony State of Play. Read more
New Obsidian RPG Avowed Shows Off Slick Movement, Reveals First Companions
23.1.2024
More details about Obsidian’s next first-person RPG, Avowed, have been revealed. A recent episode of the so-called Official Xbox Podcast (it’s…not a podcast) has a bunch more footage from the game than we saw during Microsoft’s January Developer Direct, along with a good deal more information about...
Matthew McConaughey Shows Off New Time-Bending Sci-Fi Game Exodus
8.12.2023
Today, at The Game Awards Exodus was officially announced via a new trailer and an on-stage appearance by actor Matthew McConaughey who stars in the game.Read more
Spooky New Alan Wake 2 Trailer Shows Off Live-Action Cinematics
22.8.2023
Mixing video game graphics and live-action cutscenes is something of a Remedy tradition at this point, with the studio having done it in games like Quantum Break and Control in recent years. And Remedy seems to be doing it again with Alan Wake 2, as seen in the latest trailer for the horror game...
Spooky New Alan Wake 2 Trailer Shows Off Live-Action Cinematics
22.8.2023
Mixing video game graphics and live-action cutscenes is something of a Remedy tradition at this point, with the studio having done it in games like Quantum Break and Control in recent years. And Remedy seems to be doing it again with Alan Wake 2, as seen in the latest trailer for the horror game...