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Cyberpunk 2077's New Patch May Fix One Of The Game's Biggest Annoyances Five Years Later
15.7.2025
CD Projekt Red is hosting a live stream tomorrow, July 16, to talk about the next update to Cyberpunk 2077. While the main team is working on the upcoming sequel, Virtuos is co-developing further updates on the original RPG because the studio can’t quite seem to let it go completely. I’m...
Two Years Later, Starfield Still Hasn't Given Me A Reason To Care
15.7.2025
Since my review of 150 hours spent in Starfield at launch, my opinion on the game has only soured. The added survival mechanics were of fleeting interest to me, and there are a handful of neat mods to toy with. However, nothing I’ve heard of the game’s singular expansion since its 2023 release–from...
A Creepy, Lore-Breaking Door In The Oblivion Remaster Has Finally Been Fixed
15.7.2025
The latest Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered patch makes a lot of changes and tweaks, but one very interesting and important change involving a lore-breaking door wasn’t listed in the lengthy patch notes published earlier this month. Read more
Helldivers 2 Players Are Crashing Each Others' Games Thanks To 'One True Flag' Update
15.7.2025
It’s a big day for Helldivers 2 fans. The sci-fi extraction shooter finally lets them plant flags anywhere they want, including on enemies. The morale boost from spreading the spirit of “mission accomplished” throughout the galaxy boosts weapon handling and defense for all players in...
9-Year-Old Visual Novel Runs Just Fine But Apple Is Booting It From The App Store Anyway
15.7.2025
Wheels of Aurelia is a 2016 visual novel about a young woman on a road trip in 1970s Italy and the people she meets along the way, and it’s about to get delisted from the App Store. Developer Santa Ragione says Apple is doing that because the game hasn’t been updated in years, even though it’s...
Persona 5 Gacha Players Review Bomb The Game After Accelerated Schedule Comes With Worse Rewards
15.7.2025
When it was announced that Persona 5: The Phantom X would be accelerating its story content rollout for the West to catch up to China, which has had the game for over a year, players were wary. As a gacha game with timed events and currency, The Phantom X is a game in which narrative developments...
Steam's Automation Fest Has Begun: Here Are Our Top Picks
15.7.2025
Steam’s “Fests” are an almost weekly event now, growing ever more niche as the behemothic game store tries to think up another category to highlight. Now that the Steam Summer Sale is over, the board is cleared for another fest, and this time it’s Automation. Which is to say, all those...
Peak, As Told By Steam Reviews
15.7.2025
Peak wasn’t on anybody’s radar at the start of this year, and that includes the people who made it. While it was originally pitched back in 2024, most of it was made in a four-week-long crunch session back in February. Months later, the ruthless climbing sim for friends is one of Steam’s biggest...
PS Plus Is Losing One Of The All-Time Best RPGs, And A Damned Great Action-Adventure
15.7.2025
Like a subscription service for werewolves, PS Plus has begun its monthly changes, with new games arriving from today, July 15, and others flagged as leaving from next month. Heading for the exit in August, among others, is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but already having stepped in to replace it is...
Why The Peeing Guy From Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Was Removed From The New Remake
14.7.2025
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 is a really good remake of the PS2-era skateboarding games THP 3 and THPS 4. However, it is missing something very important. In the game’s recreation of THPS 3's iconic Canada level, someone has been removed: The dude pissing off the edge of the map. I decided to reach...
The Best And Only Available John Wick Game Is Being Removed In 72 Hours
14.7.2025
John Wick Hex, released in 2019, was a tactical role-playing game that recreated the vibes and feel of the Keanu Reeves-starring action movies perfectly. And now, with little warning, John Wick Hex is being delisted from all platforms. Read more
When I Stopped Playing Mission Stories In Hitman, I Discovered What A Great Stealth Game It Is
14.7.2025
I spent about 35 hours in Hitman World of Assassination this past weekend—interrupted mostly by the non-optional need to sleep and occasional concerns over the health of my GPU running for so long in a non-air conditioned apartment room in New York City in the summer. But I was determined to find...
Even Sonic Fans Were Too Slow For Magic: The Gathering's Latest Secret Lair Debacle
14.7.2025
Today, July 14, I bought Magic: The Gathering cards for the very first time. Wizards of the Coast and Sega’s new Sonic collaboration set went up for pre-order on Magic’s “Secret Lair” site and it seems like, somehow, I may have cut the line. My brother was also in the queue and was willing to ship...
Unlock Every Character, Skin, And More Using This Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S Cheat Code
14.7.2025
Look, I don’t condone cheating on your significant other or swindling folks out of money. But as long as you’re not online hurting someone else’s gameplay experience, I say cheating in a video game ain’t so bad. Life’s short, after all. And for those diving into the Nintendo Switch 2's hybrid...
THPS 3 + 4 Puts Guitar Hero In The Trash, Devs 'Investigating' How This Happened
14.7.2025
Developer Iron Galaxy is “investigating” an Easter egg fans spotted involving a trash can and a Guitar Hero clone in the recently released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4.Read more
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Sweet Games We’re Beating Back The Summer Heat With
11.7.2025
After yet another week of just the most ridiculous temperatures and humidity levels (particularly here in New York City), we arrive at, well, probably another two days of ridiculous temperatures. But who knows? Right now there’s a nice breeze drifting in; it says 80 on my phone, a full 15 degrees...
The Best Jurassic Park Game Is Only $3 Right Now On Steam
11.7.2025
Since the first Jurassic Park movie, we’ve received many video games inspired by the original film and its sequels. Most were bad. Some were fine. And a few were really good. And the best of them all, the excellent dinosaur park builder Jurassic World Evolution 2, is only $3 on Steam right now.Read...
One Of 2025's Best Games May Have Saved Its Company From Going Under
11.7.2025
Before Too Kyo Games released The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, the tactical RPG/visual novel hybrid that is, in my opinion, secretly one of the dark horses for 2025 Game of the Year, co-creative director Kazutaka Kodaka had been pretty candid in saying that the studio needed the game to...
THPS 3+4's New Photo Mode Is A Powerful Tool You Should Be Using
11.7.2025
2020’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 didn’t include a photo mode. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 fixes this mistake and includes the popular option, and as you’d expect, it’s great for taking photos of your skater doing cool stuff. But it’s also a very powerful tool that you should use to find goals...
Anthem Was A Mistake, But It Didn't Deserve To Die Like This
11.7.2025
Last week, BioWare announced that Anthem, the studio’s ill-advised loot shooter from 2019, would finally be sunset on January 12, 2026. This wasn’t a surprise for anyone who had been paying attention, but for those who weren’t, it was a shock that the game hadn’t already been shut down years ago....