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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Four Lovely Games We Are Eager To Get Back To
9.5.2025
It’s been a pretty neat week! Maybe even a good one? In 2025? Are we allowed to have those?Read more
GTA 6's Delay Has Reportedly Led To Chaos At Other Studios And Publishers
9.5.2025
A new report indicates that the recent delay of Grand Theft Auto 6, now scheduled to launch in May of 2026, has had a big impact across the gaming industry as studios and publishers try to plan their next moves fearing (or hoping) that Rockstar Games might push the release date back again for what...
Epic Is Promising Bonus V-Bucks To Fortnite Players Who Buy Directly From Its Store
9.5.2025
Epic Games is taking a victory lap after its recent court win by asking Apple to put Fortnite back in the App Store and giving players bonus V-bucks if they bypass the iPhone maker’s fees and buy directly from the Epic Games Store. It’s the start of a potential revolution on the App Store,...
Not Even Gearbox's Boss Knows What Borderlands 4's Price Will Be
9.5.2025
Borderlands 4 is now just a few months away, and if it’s anything like the previous games in the looter shooter series it will be one of the top-selling blockbusters of 2025. But how much will it cost? Will publisher 2K try to undercut the competition or match it as some new releases creep up...
Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'
9.5.2025
The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized. That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn’t have someone else reporting to them. It’s the second wall-to-wall union at the storied game maker since...
This Soulslike Will Respect Your Time, But Rewards You For Playing It Twice
9.5.2025
Soulslike fans continue to eat well in recent years as every developer under the sun seems eager to take a swing at the genre. Developer Silent Games’ Empyreal is among the newest attempts to capture the all-important thrill of challenging combat and dangerous exploration, casting players as...
The New Pope Plays Video Games
9.5.2025
Yesterday, the world was introduced to the newest leader of the Catholic church, Pope Leo XIV aka Robert Francis Prevost. He was elected after just two days and was born in Chicago, making him the first American pope in history. He also is very likely the first pope to regularly play video games....
Overwatch 2’s Street Fighter Collaboration Would Be Cool If The Game Wasn’t Becoming Fortnite
9.5.2025
I love Overwatch 2. I love Street Fighter. Put the two of them together for a skin collaboration, and that should, in theory, speak to me directly. But I don’t know, I feel like I’m becoming desensitized to all the collaborations Blizzard has been shoving into its hero shooter, even when they...
Doom: The Dark Ages: The Kotaku Review
9.5.2025
Doom as a franchise has evolved a lot over the decades since it first arrived in the ‘90s. But through all those changes, there remain a few things I need in a Doom game to feel satisfied with it. A Doom game checklist, if you will. It’s not long, but it does make up the core of Doom.Read more
THPS 3+4 Devs Explain Why They Removed 4's OG Career Mode
8.5.2025
In new interviews, the devs behind Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 have explained why the popular career mode from the original THPS4 isn’t going to be included in the upcoming remake. Read more
Fallout Season 2 Is Done Filming So Walton Goggins Is Free Once More
8.5.2025
Fallout’s highly anticipated Season 2 is done filming as confirmed by some of the stars of the show, including The Ghoul himself, Walton Goggins, who is now free to rip off all those prosthetics and smile. And that’s nice. I’m happy for you, Mr. Goggins. Read more
Rush Endgame With These Path of Exile 2 Huntress Tips
8.5.2025
If you spend any amount of time online, you’ll find that, as is common with anything cool on the internet, there’s a ton of discourse surrounding the Huntress in Path of Exile 2. Some find her incredible, myself included. Others think she’s weak, subpar, and squishy. To those doubters, I’d like...
A Beginner's Guide To Maelle In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
8.5.2025
Usually in an RPG, when you think “absolute assbeating swordwielder” in a video game, you picture the likes of Cecil from Final Fantasy IV, Auron from FFX, or even someone like Hulkenberg from Metaphor ReFantazio. What you’re usually not thinking of is a tiny befreckled orphan girl who wins the...
Path of Exile 2’s Huntress Has Powerful Early Game Skills You Should Take Advantage Of
8.5.2025
Path of Exile 2 already offers a handful of enjoyable and powerful character classes—Witch, Druid, and Mercenary, for example—along with more to come as Early Access progresses. With the launch of the latest season—Dawn of the Hunt—the most significant content update to the game yet, we have...
9 Games You Should Play If You Loved Fantasian: Neo Dimension
8.5.2025
2024 was an absurdly crowded year for RPGs, but it’s also a treasure trove—especially if you’re willing to look past all the big names. Fantasian: Neo Dimension is a neat middle ground. It’s a non-franchise IP from a less-known studio, but backed by Square Enix and led by some of the biggest...
Grand Theft Auto 6’s Jason Is Gaymers’ Latest Sex Symbol
8.5.2025
I was gonna play Grand Theft Auto 6 regardless of who I got to be, but I gotta give a shoutout to Rockstar for giving everyone some eye candy with its protagonist duo, Jason and Lucia. While Jason is in a loving relationship with Lucia and seemingly straight (to be determined), that hasn’t stopped...
Mafia 4 Launching In August, Will Cost Only $50
8.5.2025
Mafia: The Old Country, the next entry in the Mafia franchise, is officially arriving on consoles and PC this August. And interestingly, despite nearly every publisher charging more for new games, the Mafia prequel will only cost $50 across all platforms.Read more
People Can't Believe How Good The Beer Looks In Grand Theft Auto VI
7.5.2025
Rockstar Games are known for their big open worlds and ambitious cinematic swings, but they are just as much about painstaking attention to detail and meticulously fusing the real and the imaginary into an uncanny send-up of American culture that’s both fun to play and hard not to marvel at....
Over 1,000 PlayStation Games Are Just $20 Or Less In Massive Sale
7.5.2025
Are you looking for a new video game to play on your PlayStation 5, PS5 Pro, or even your aging PS4 console? Do you not want to spend more than, like, $20 bucks? Well, today is your lucky day. Sony is running a massive PSN sale focused on $20-or-less video game deals. Read more
GTA 6's New Trailer Features A Real Couple For The First Time In Series
7.5.2025
Grand Theft Auto 6's second trailer is packed with a lot of action, crime, and vehicular mayhem. This is the kind of stuff you expect to see in a GTA game. But what it also contains is something we’ve never really seen before in a Grand Theft Auto sequel: a couple cuddling and having a real...