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The Very Best Cosplay We Saw In 2024
10.1.2025
Every year is a good year for cosplay, but there’s definitely a sense of things returning to full blossom after the difficulty of the covid years. 2024 has shone with some of the most extraordinary, imaginative, and fantastically strange costumes worn at shows all around the world—here are some...
Remedy Has A Plan To Make Sure Its Online Shooter Doesn't Flop Like Concord
9.1.2025
In 2025, the idea of releasing a paid, online-only multiplayer shooter seems very risky, as we’ve seen plenty of them fail. But Remedy, the developers behind Control and Alan Wake, have a plan to make sure their first multiplayer game—FBC: Firebreak—succeeds and doesn’t flop like Concord...
Assassin's Creed Shadows Delayed Again
9.1.2025
Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed again. The open world stealth game was set to arrive in February following its initial delay in September 2024, but now it won’t launch until March 20. Read more
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...
Toughen Up Like A Dragon For This Yakuza-Themed Astro Bot Trophy
9.1.2025
There are a lot of unique, one-off trophies to earn in Astro Bot if you’re trying to unlock the game’s platinum trophy. Some of them are worded in a way that makes you stop and think for a bit, which isn’t the most helpful for us digital completionists. For instance, if you’re stuck on...
Astro Bot: How To Snag The Net Profit Trophy
8.1.2025
Astro Bot is a gorgeous and thrilling platforming adventure for all ages, and most of the experience is fairly easy. However, if you decide to go for its platinum trophy, you’ll need to put in a bit of extra work completing some difficult challenges and performing a handful of optional tasks.Read...
Troubled Transformers Game Finally Canceled Amid Cuts At Studio Behind Gears Tactics
8.1.2025
Transformers: Reactivate was first teased back at The Game Awards 2022, in a short 60-second trailer set to Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Just a little over two years later, developers Splash Damage announced the online multiplayer game based on the hit sci-fi action figures is not wanted...
This Astro Bot Trophy Is A Treat For The Ears
8.1.2025
Astro Bot is a charming and lighthearted platforming romp that is all but certain to keep a smile on your face from beginning to end. And if you love the game as much as many folks do (it did win Game of the Year at the Game Awards last year, after all), you’ll likely have your eye on its platinum...
PS VR2: Eight Essential Games To Check Out
8.1.2025
Sony’s PlayStation VR2 is an impressive piece of tech, but all signs indicate it hasn’t had a particularly successful launch. Fortunately, thanks to some steep Black Friday sales last year, the VR Headset is enjoying a small second wind of attention. If you’re among the new PlayStation VR2 owners...
How To Unlock The Golden Bot Trophy In Astro Bot
7.1.2025
If you’re working on clearing the entirety of Astro Bot, you’re in for quite a challenge. While most of the game’s levels are fairly breezy, there are no doubt plenty of difficult moments to overcome as you work your way through the charming platformer. There’s also a ton of bots to find...
The Best Video Game Moments Of 2024
6.1.2025
It’s January 2025 and we’re still thinking about all the best games and moments of 2024. We’ve looked back on our favorite games of last year, the characters who stuck with us throughout the last 12 months, and the various highs and lows of the industry. While we’ve celebrated the best games...
MARA Holdings Lends Out 7,377 BTC to Generate Single Digit Yield
6.1.2025
The bitcoin miner holds 44,893 BTC on its balance sheet, it said in a production report
Crypto ETFs Soar: Nearly $1 Billion Poured Into Bitcoin Funds in a Single Day
4.1.2025
On Friday, spot bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted gains, reversing losses from the previous day. Approximately $908.10 million was poured into these ETFs, with dominant players like IBIT, ARKB, and FBTC securing the majority of the inflows. A Billion-Dollar Day:...
January's Can't-Miss Game Releases, A Surprise Horror Hit On Steam, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
4.1.2025
This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably slow start to the often-relentless news cycle of video games. But slow news hardly means no news, and we kicked off the new year with a look at the games to keep an eye out for this month. Also, the chief creative...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games We’re Settling Into 2025 With
3.1.2025
If you’re reading this right now, you did it: you made it through 2024. Time will tell if 2025 ends up being even messier and more chaotic for games and everything surrounding them but in the meantime, a short respite! Here are some great games (and game-spectating experiences with the return...
Don't Sleep On 2024's Most Underrated Tactics RPG
3.1.2025
SteamWorld Heist II snuck out last year in early August and didn’t create as many ripples as some of the other genre spin-offs in its quirky robotic universe. That’s a shame because the bones of this tactical RPG are some of the strongest around, even if the surrounding fluff can get in the...
BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
3.1.2025
In a recent interview with Games Industry.biz, Ken Levine disparaged his most famous and popular game, BioShock, as “a very, very long corridor.” He uses this description pejoratively to distinguish the 2007 first-person mystery game from his current project, science fiction FPS Judas, a game...
This Fan-Made Sonic Game Looks Just As Good As The Real Thing, And You Can Play It Right Now
3.1.2025
There are a lot of great fan-made Sonic the Hedgehog games out there. Sega has been notoriously chill with fans of the Blue Blur using its characters in their own projects, and there are even a handful of community-driven remakes of old games that could use a modern touch-up. The one we’re talking...
Google Tries To Ban Game That Inspired Balatro Over Nonexistent Gambling Gameplay
2.1.2025
Before Balatrothere was Luck Be a Landlord, a roguelike deckbuilder about manipulating a slot machine to try to pay rent amid an ever spiraling out of control cost-of-living crisis. Despite the gambling aesthetic, there’s no part of the game that actually includes gambling with money, real...
One Of Sonic 3’s Biggest Game References Is Hidden In Plain Sight (And Fans Are Split On It)
2.1.2025
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is heavily based on the events of the 2001 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure 2. The live-action movie doesn’t recreate the platformer’s story beat for beat, but it introduces Sonic’s revenge-driven rival Shadow, explores villain Doctor Robotnik’s family, and the moon gets blown...