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The Best Gaming Tips Of The Week, From God of War To Xbox Deals
16.12.2023
It’s a quiet week for major releases, but a big week for savings and DLC from some of the biggest games in the land, like God of War Ragnarok and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Read more
The Week's Biggest Gaming News, From E3 To Steam Deck Huffing
16.12.2023
Despite The Game Awards officially capping off the end of video game news for 2023, we’ve still got stories to share, from GTA 6 controversies to the inglorious end of E3. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.Read more
Activision Sure Knows How To Bury A Story On A Friday Night
16.12.2023
Activision Blizzard has been the subject of scrutiny for several years now, due to its widely criticized “Boys’ Club” corporate culture of sleazy shenanigans. And now, late on a Friday evening just before the holiday season begins in earnest, The Wall Street Journal reports the embattled gaming...
There’s A Silver Lining To The Death Of The Last Of Us Online
15.12.2023
It’s a bit of a sad day for The Last of Us fans…well, sort of. Last night the world learned that the highly anticipated yet stubbornly secretive multiplayer TLoU game isn’t going to happen. Despite plowing multiple years of development into the project, Naughty Dog announced it was pulling...
Steam Trolls Players With Bans Wrapped Up Like Christmas Presents
15.12.2023
Video game companies have gotten very creative when it comes to punishing cheaters, from cutting their parachutes’ strings in Call of Duty to blowing them up in Grand Theft Auto Online. But Valve just set a new benchmark for trolling players: sending them permabans wrapped up like Christmas...
The Most Anticipated Shiny Pokémon Cards In Paldean Fates
15.12.2023
Next month, January of space-year 2024, sees the release of a whole new set of shiny Pokémon cards. Paldean Fates, a muddle of reprinted cards from 2023's sets and a ridiculous 100 new shinies. It’s also going to feature a brand-new shiny Charizard, which is going to cost all of the money. However...
Baldur's Gate 3 Devs Spent An Absurd Amount Of Time Making Those Endings
15.12.2023
Back in July of 2023—the month before Baldur’s Gate 3 finally released after spending years in early access—Larian Studios’ director of publishing Michael Douse said that the Dungeons & Dragons-based role-playing game has some 17,000 possible endings. “Wow,” you might be thinking, “that’s a lot...
Here's Why Baldur's Gate 3 Won't Be On Game Pass
15.12.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke believes the Dungeons & Dragons-based RPG is a big game worth paying for. I have to agree. The Larian Studios founder says that’s why the game isn’t coming to Xbox Game Pass. Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Shield You From The Cold
15.12.2023
It’s that time again: We’ve arrived at the weekend after another long series of cursed weekdays, and that, hopefully, means it’s time to get some gaming in.Read more
Ubisoft Just Delisted A Game Without Warning And Will Kill Its Servers Next Year
14.12.2023
Ubisoft’s The Crew, which was released in 2014 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, has been delisted without warning. Its servers will shut off next year, too. And because the game is an always-online experience, Ubisoft has confirmed that it will become unplayable once that happens....
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet: The Indigo Disk: The Kotaku Review
14.12.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s second DLC, The Indigo Disk, is a far less damning encapsulation of the base game than The Teal Mask expansion. The second half of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero embodies the best parts of Scarlet and Violet—even if it never quite matches its highest highs. It’s still...
Final Fantasy XVI's Leviathan DLC Lets Players Escape The Game's Gross Gray Sky
14.12.2023
Final Fantasy XVI is a wonderful game with many flaws. One of the low-key biggest is a grimy, dark pink sky that eclipses the world near the end of the game. It can make completing every side-quest and monster hunt real depressing. Fortunately, players will get a much-needed vacation from...
Pokémon GO Shooting Lands Former City Mayor In Prison
14.12.2023
On December 11 the former mayor of a city in Pennsylvania was sentenced to prison for threatening and shooting at people playing Pokémon GO outside a community food bank last year. Read more
Wow, Looks Like The Busted GTA Trilogy Is Better On Mobile
14.12.2023
Fans jumping into the newly released mobile ports of the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition games are discovering something surprising: It seems to include improved visual settings that more closely match the look of the original PlayStation 2 games, as well as new bug fixes....
How To Get Your Year-End Wrap-Ups For Switch, PS5, And Xbox
14.12.2023
With 2023 speeding to a close, you might be wondering how much time you spent gaming in what many have called the best year ever for the industry. (Was it, though?) It’s hard to remember the early months of the year when we enter the final stretch so, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have devised...
Hideo Kojima Is Finally Making His Own Movie
14.12.2023
Renowned video game developer and cinephile Hideo Kojima is expected to work with production company A24 to develop a film adaptation of his 2020 game Death Stranding. In a statement announcing the project, Kojima Productions said that the movie won’t be “just a direct translation of the game.”Read...
The Baldur’s Gate 3 Game Of The Year Speech You Didn’t Get To Hear
14.12.2023
The 2023 Game Awards was full of new trailers and announcements but light on actual awards. Host Geoff Keighley ended up speedrunning through many of them, ultimately denying the winners an acceptance speech or cutting them off before they could finish one. Fortunately, some of the devs behind...
Kotaku's Best Last-Minute Gaming Gifts Of 2023
14.12.2023
It’s that time of year again! By which I mean, that dread-inducing season when you realize the holidays are mere days away, instead of weeks. Maybe you were planning to give that special someone something one-of-a-kind and handmade. Perhaps you’d planned to make a run to the local mall, only...
God Of War Ragnarök: Valhalla: The Kotaku Review
14.12.2023
God of War Ragnarök’s free DLC, Valhalla, is so good I can’t believe it’s free. While the original Ragnarök was robust and a worthy successor to the 2018 reboot, it was also a bloated attempt to wrap up a trilogy’s worth of story in one game. Valhalla, meanwhile, is such a lean encapsulation...
Cheating Rampant in Blockchain Chess, Leading to Shutdown of Immortal Game’s Play-to-Earn Features
14.12.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Zdenek Sasek The management team of the blockchain chess game Immortal Game has decided to kill off its non-fungible tokens (NFT) play-to-earn (P2E) features. The reason: widespread cheating. “Our heart lies in chess,” the team said. They aim to make Immortal Game...