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Mario Kart World: Where To Find Every Big Vehicle
11.7.2025
Between the large open world to the brand-new Rail and Wall Riding mechanics, Mario Kart World offers plenty to discover. One notable feature that isn’t explained at all are the handful of giant vehicles you can briefly take over. It doesn’t take long to figure out that driving into the large...
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4: The Kotaku Review
11.7.2025
I’m not sure heaven is real. But when I die, if there is a big oasis in the sky waiting for me, I’ll be happy to meet up with old family and friends. And then I’ll ask them where the room is that contains all the (good) Tony Hawk games. If heaven is truly paradise, a place where I’ll be happy...
Patapon 1+2 Replay Will Demand Quite A Bit Of Your Time
11.7.2025
Sony’s beloved rhythm strategy series, Patapon, is getting another lease on life with the Patapon 1+2 Replay collection. This bundle includes the first two games with updated features such as three difficulty levels, adjusting the timing of button presses.Read more
One Of Mario Kart World's Best Improvements Is Hidden, But Clumsy To Use
10.7.2025
Whether it’s from familiarity with the franchise or through cultural osmosis, launching a Green Shell forward to hit another driver is something everyone knows to do in Mario Kart World. Those with more experience also know that many power-ups can be thrown forward or backward. And now in Mario...
Nightreign's Everdark Sovereigns Will Return, Here's How To Prepare
10.7.2025
Last month, Elden Ring Nightreign introduced Everdark Sovereigns, which are beefed up versions of the game’s Day-Three bosses. They are much harder and often have new mechanics, behaviors, and attacks that make them more formidable than their original counterparts. So far, we’ve received three...
Astro Bot's New Update Finally Adds A Character Fans Have Been Waiting For
10.7.2025
Astro Bot, Team Asobi’s delightful PlayStation tribute platformer and Kotaku 2024 Game of the Year, is still getting free updates. Today, the team put out a handful of new levels and Special Bots, or little robot guys dressed up as different characters from PlayStation’s history. These updates have...
Nintendo Has The Best Reason For Why Pauline Is In Donkey Kong Bananza
10.7.2025
Pauline is gaming’s original damsel in distress, captured by Donkey Kong as a guy with a hammer dodges barrels and climbs scaffolding to save her. Now she’s returning to the DK universe with the Switch 2's Donkey Kong Bananaza, but this time as a kid. Some fans have wondered what the hell is going...
Astro Bot Now Has Over 90 Levels After Getting More Free Ones Today
10.7.2025
Astro Bot, one of the best PlayStation 5 games around, is growing a bit bigger. Today, the wonderful platformer is getting five new and totally free levels via an update. And developers Team Asobi are teasing something special if you beat them all. Read more
Mario Kart World Has Some Fantastic SNES-Era Throwback Tracks You Need To Try Out
10.7.2025
394 P-Switch challenge missions might just be the biggest time sink in Mario Kart World’s Free Roam mode. These missions can involve anything from collecting a certain number of blue coins to navigating around an obstacle course using a particular item. Seven of these tasks that particularly stand...
Nintendo Is Killing The Best Deal On Switch But Not Before You Can Use It To Save On Pokémon Legends: Z-A
10.7.2025
Another great discount program bites the dust on Switch. Months after abandoning its gold coin cash-back program for digital game purchases on the eShop, game vouchers for Switch Online subscribers are also going away. Nintendo announced it won’t be officially killing the deal until January 2026...
The Best Characters And Karts For Smashing Mario Kart World Time Trial Records
9.7.2025
Earning first place in Mario Kart World‘s 150cc races depends on a lot of factors, ranging from shortcuts, knowing where to wall ride, and how to deal with the uncertainty of getting bombarded with shells. That hasn’t stopped players from figuring out the game’s unspoken meta, locking down which...
Mario Kart World: 8 Clever Ways To Dodge Blue Shells And Keep Your Lead
9.7.2025
There is nothing more dreadful in Mario Kart World than losing your lead because of a Spiny Shell, a.k.a. the dreaded Blue Shell. The potential threat of a power-up item that specifically targets the driver in first place ensures you never feel quite safe. Thankfully, avoiding them isn’t...
The Rarest Mario Kart Track Is Playable Once More
9.7.2025
There are many Mario Kart tracks. But one of them, Piranha Plant Pipeline, is only available in Nintendo’s mobile phone game Mario Kart Tour. However, it’s only ever made playable for a limited time. This makes it arguably the rarest and hardest-to-play Mario Kart track in the franchise. And this...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...