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The Future Of Gaming Console Exclusives Is More In Doubt Than Ever
28.7.2025
The start of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S generation felt like a surprisingly old-school return to the console war rhetoric of yesteryear. Fans compared the numbers of teraflops, and both console makers shelled out hundreds of millions to lock down exclusive games for their new devices....
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...
The Biggest PlayStation Game Of 2025 Is A Four-Year-Old Former Xbox Exclusive
23.7.2025
Microsoft’s push to separate the concept of Xbox games from the Xbox console itself has always felt a little...annoying? The corporation’s “This is an Xbox” campaign has been more confusing than anything else. However, the really significant aspect of this detaching of the games from the machines...
Xbox Failed At The Most Important Part: Games
7.7.2025
“Xbox launching without exclusives is so crazy, it just might work,” read one headline from November 2020. It did not. While the PlayStation 5 rang in the holiday that year with Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Demon’s Souls remake, the Xbox Series X/S was huddled up alongside next-gen upgrades...
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
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...
Xbox Reportedly Cancels That Cool-Looking Perfect Dark Reboot
2.7.2025
Xbox’s Perfect Dark reboot, announced back in 2020, has reportedly been canceled as part of the ongoing layoffs at Microsoft. The studio developing the game has reportedly been shut down, too. Read more
Microsoft Kills Sea Of Thieves Studio's Long-Troubled Action-Adventure Everwild
2.7.2025
Rather than doing the humane and dignified thing of telling thousands of people all at once whether or not they’re going to have a job tomorrow, Xbox is laying off over 9,100 employees today in waves. Xbox CEO Phil Spencer told workers in an email message (thanks, IGN) that this is to “position...
Games We'd Love To See On Switch 2, What Makes Rematch So Fantastic, And More Of The Week's Takes
28.6.2025
This week we championedRematch, the great new soccer game from Sifu maker Sloclap. We also shared 25 games we’d love to see make their way to the Switch 2, and celebrated the incredibly influential Deus Ex on the 25th anniversary of its release.Read more
New Xbox 360 Update Adds More Ads 20 Years After Launch
25.6.2025
Today, some folks turned on their Xbox 360s to discover Microsoft has updated the aging device. The new update fixes an annoying issue bugging players for a bit now, but it also slaps two big ads on the home screen for Xbox’s newest consoles.Read more
Report: Xbox Bracing For Another Mass Layoff
24.6.2025
Microsoft’s gaming business is seemingly in for another round of mass layoffs. The fresh cuts would be coming just as Xbox seems to be in full retreat from its long-standing console hardware business as it invests more in Windows gaming and bringing first-party exclusives to PlayStation 5. Read more
Microsoft Teases Multiple Gaming Devices And Next-Gen Xbox As It Doubles Down On Windows
17.6.2025
What is an Xbox? The answer to that has never been more confusing, but a new promo video from Microsoft teasing the future of its next-gen gaming hardware lineup gives an important clue: Windows. The company said it wants the OS to be the number one platform for gaming as it doubles down on a...
Xbox Continues Quietly Abandoning Physical Games
13.6.2025
While Microsoft is publishing more games than ever before, fewer and fewer of them are getting physical editions on its home turf. Microsoft-owned Oblivion’sThe Outer Worlds 2 will get a standard disc option on PlayStation 5 but only a code in a box for Xbox Series X owners. It’s the latest example...
Gears Of War Multiplayer Is Back On The Menu This Weekend, But It'll Cost You
12.6.2025
Get ready to be mercilessly chainsawed in half by randos rolling around the map like bowling balls, ‘cause the Gears of War: Reloaded multiplayer beta is this happening this weekend and next. It’ll be a nice dose of 2006 nostalgia hitting right in the middle of the summer showcase hangover,...
Summer Game Fest Shows That The PS4 Ain't Dead Yet
9.6.2025
The PlayStation 4 was released nearly 13 years ago. In the world of video games, it is a dinosaur. And yet, in 2025, during Summer Game Fest’s many shows and directs, new PS4 games were being announced alongside PS5 and Switch 2 games. Turns out this old machine still has some life left in...
Will Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Come To Switch 2?
8.6.2025
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the next entry in Activision’s long-running military shooter franchise and it’s once again coming to last-gen consoles. But what about the Switch 2? More than two-years after Microsoft and Nintendo entered into an agreement to bring Call of Duty to Switch, nothing...
Phil Spencer Just Lowkey Confirmed The Halo: Combat Evolved Remaster Making 2026 A Massive Year For Xbox
8.6.2025
What might have been the biggest news of the Xbox summer showcase didn’t come in the form of a surprise trailer but rather straight from the mouth of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. While there was no footage to debut, the executive quietly let slip that a new Forza is coming next year as well...
Black Myth: Wukong Comes To Xbox Exactly 1 Year After PS5 Debut, Reigniting Conspiracies About Exclusivity
6.6.2025
One of 2024's biggest hits, the boss fight-fueled action adventure Black Myth: Wukong, is finally coming to Xbox Series X/S. It releases there on August 20, exactly one year after it made its original console debut on PlayStation 5, once again stoking rumors that a Sony exclusivity deal was what...
Every Big Summer Gaming Showcase Happening This Week And How To Watch
2.6.2025
June is officially here which means Geoff Keighley-palooza 2025 is just around the corner. E3 might be dead, but Summer Game Fest will be kicking off its fifth year running this week with a crowded field of other gaming showcases riding its coattails. Below you’ll find the schedule for each...
Former GTA Lead Designer Hopes You'll Build The Content For His New Game For Free
30.5.2025
MindsEye looks like a flashy but somewhat genericthird-person shooter techno thriller from the Xbox 360 era that recently escaped containment and is now coming out in just a few weeks. Two of the most notable things about it are its director, longtime Rockstar Games producer and Grand Theft Auto...