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Everything In Destiny 2 Is Free Right Now If You Can Convince Anyone To Play With You
9.7.2025
Destiny 2's next expansion, The Edge of Fate, goes live later this month. It will provide the foundation for the struggling live-service shooter for the foreseeable future, and Bungie is making everything currently in the game free for all players on every platform. It’s a pitch to get lapsed fans...
Say It Ain't So, Charge Jumps Are Slowing You Down In Mario Kart World
9.7.2025
If you’re like me, you might have booted up Mario Kart World and immediately started spamming Charge Jumps as soon as you learned how to do them. After all, they seem like a Drift that lets you keep moving straight, and Drifts are awesome! Charge Jumps generate Mini-Turbos just like drifting does...
Cyberpunk 2077 Joins PS Plus For The First Time Ever Ahead Of Recently Teased Update
9.7.2025
PlayStation Plus just got a big boost: Cyberpunk 2077 is joining Sony’s subscription service and will be free for all paying members to play starting today, July 9. It feels like the 2020 sci-fi RPG is on its fourth or fifth wind right now, with new content on the way, a great Switch 2 port,...
Oblivion Remastered's Next Big Update Will Improve Performance
9.7.2025
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, one of 2025's biggest games, is getting a significant new update that is set to improve the game’s performance, fix a ton of bugs, and add more difficulty options, too. Read more
Persona 5: The Phantom X Is Accelerating Its Roadmap To Catch Everyone Up
9.7.2025
Persona 5: The Phantom X has been out in the West for only a week and a half, but in China, the gacha game has been out for over a year. As a result, most of the world is far behind the Chinese audience on story and character updates. Rather than letting most players lag behind, Atlus and developer...
World Of Tanks Developer's Live-Service Shooter Shutting Down After Only Six Months
9.7.2025
Live-service game development has become the ultimate gamble for any publisher. If you get a hit, you’re set—money will pour in for as long as you can surf the wave. If you miss, countless millions are lost forever. Most of them miss. The latest game to spectacularly fail to be a long-running cash...
Three Excellent Tracks To Snap Photos On In Mario Kart World
8.7.2025
Mario Kart World is overflowing with charm and whimsy, thanks to its colorful tracks and adorable cast of characters. So, whether you’re racing alone in Free Roam or Grand Prix, or you’re taking to the tracks with pals in some online races, you’ll want to take a moment or several to snap some...
Returning To R6? Here’s What To Expect In Rainbow Six Siege X
8.7.2025
After a decade of back-and-forth attack and defense missions in Rainbow Six Siege, it was most certainly time for an update. Most of us were probably expecting a sequel. But Ubisoft decided an update masquerading as an overhaul would suffice. Rainbow Six Siege X enters the picture and, with it,...
Five Games To Play After Blue Prince
8.7.2025
Blue Prince is a rabbit hole that seems to get deeper whenever you think you’ve reached the bottom. You could spend over 100 hours unpacking everything this roguelike puzzler has to offer. The craziest thing about that? That’s still not enough for some people out here! For example, you! The person...
11 Incredible Indie Games Every New Switch 2 Owner Should Have In Their Library
8.7.2025
The original Switch launched like a blank slate. With few games at release and no backwards compatibility, each new critically acclaimed gem that got ported felt like a special event. That’s not the case with Switch 2. Instead, new owners have access to a wealth of back catalog riches from...
The Best Uses Of Rewind In Mario Kart World
8.7.2025
If there’s one thing about Mario Kart that’s been consistent for decades, it’s that you rarely have to relearn the controls for each game. One button accelerates, another breaks, and then you have buttons to drift and use items. New features and obstacles have been introduced, of course, but...
How To Warp Directly To Lies Of P's DLC, Overture
8.7.2025
Lies of P was a breakout success when it first landed in 2023, leading fans to wonder if it would be the start of something new or a one-off adventure. So, it comes as no surprise that it was an exciting day for fans of the puppet-inspired soulslike when developer Round8 Studio revealed that...
Can’t Get Into Blue Prince? Try Playing It With A Friend
8.7.2025
Blue Prince is one of the most acclaimed puzzle games ever made, yet I almost put it down for good within ten hours of playing. Don’t get me wrong, I love puzzle games and roguelikes. I just quickly felt overwhelmed as I tried to gather clues and contend with the ever-changing Mt. Holly manor every...
Next PlayStation State Of Play Coming Soon And Is All About Ghost Of Yotei
8.7.2025
PlayStation’s next big State of Play has been announced, and you won’t have to wait long to watch. The event will go live on July 10 and will be dedicated to Sucker Punch’s upcoming open-world action game Ghost of Yotei. Read more
One Mysterious Tease Has Danganronpa Fans Imploding
8.7.2025
It doesn’t take much to reawaken a fandom that has refused to die even as its favorite series seems to have ended. In 2017, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony seemingly ended Spike Chunsoft’s murder mystery series with a decisive metacommentary about letting art die with dignity. Four years later...
PROMO: Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium Gears Up With Limited-Time Drops And Anime Expo Activation
8.7.2025
Commanders, prepare for deployment. Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium is rolling out a series of updates to help bolster your squad, vanquish enemies, and purify contaminated zones.Read more
Subnautica Director Breaks Silence On Being Removed From The Studio Before The Sequel's Release: 'The Game Is Ready'
7.7.2025
Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton released an unusual statement last week. Unknown Worlds co-founders Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire were being immediately removed from the studio and replaced by Striking Distance Studios chief development officer Steve Papoutsis. A wholesale leadership...
Jurassic World Rebirth Is Half A Good Movie, And Half A Bad Video Game Quest
7.7.2025
Jurassic World Rebirth, out now in theaters, returns to the tried-and-true formula of the older Jurassic Park movies while almost completely ignoring the events of the last trilogy. Rebirth grabs a group of people and tosses them, some unwillingly, onto a jungle island filled with dangerous...
The Nintendo Switch 2: One Month Later
7.7.2025
It’s been just over a month since the Nintendo Switch 2 launched and ushered in the next generation of Nintendo hardware. Most of us here at Kotaku own the thing and have been playing it over the past four weeks. Now that we’ve had extensive time with the Switch 2, what do we think about it?...
The Best Characters For Every Track In Mario Kart World
7.7.2025
Mario Kart World ended the legendary 11 year run Mario Kart 8 held as the “current” Mario Kart. While Mario Kart World isn’t coming out the gate with the 96 courses its predecessor received over the course of the decade, it still features a standard roster of 30 courses. This is almost on par with...