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Avowed's Best Great Axe Is There For The Taking At The Start Of The Game
5.3.2025
There are a whole bunch of Great Axes that are worth hauling around in Avowed, and it’s hard to go wrong with any of them. There’s a specific Great Axe obtainable at the very end of the game that would likely take the top spot overall, but given that you have less than an hour of playtime left when...
Marvel Rivals Company Has A Second Hero Shooter Coming Out, Gives Fans Free Stuff After Last-Minute Console Delay
5.3.2025
FragPunk is a first-person hero shooter where you use deckbuilding card mechanics to augment your characters’ strengths and weaknesses. It’s the next free-to-play game from NetEase, which also produced Marvel Rivals, and it’s coming out this week, just not on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S where...
The Best Games Of 2025 So Far
5.3.2025
It’s only the beginning of March but 2025 already has some bangers worth spotlighting, including real standouts like Split Fiction and Avowed, so we decided to start compiling the best games of the year early and update this list as the days, weeks, and months go by. Here are some of the best games...
PlayStation Hit With More Layoffs Following Recent Game Cancellations
4.3.2025
The PlayStation-owned studio Visual Arts was hit with with fresh layoffs this week amid a further restructuring of Sony’s U.S. game development operations. While some of the cuts included staff who had contributed to recently canceled projects like an upcoming live-service game at Bend Studio,...
24 Games Coming In March We Can't Wait To Check Out
4.3.2025
Peak release season for the first half of 2025 is officially upon us. The February flood picks up into a tidal wave in March with dozens of new games both big and small to check out, as well as tons more that will blow up or be discovered in the weeks ahead. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the...
PlayStation Launches New PS5 Beta Testing Program
4.3.2025
Are you someone who loves participating in video game beta tests? Perhaps you enjoy trying out new console features early, before they are released to everyone? Well, then you should check out Sony’s new PlayStation beta program. Read more
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 Officially Revealed, Launching In July
4.3.2025
After plenty of teases and rumors, Activision officially announced Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4, the next main entry in the long-running Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise. The newly announced game remasters the third and fourth entry in the series adding new skaters, songs, and parks. Read more
Fix Monster Hunter Wilds' Greediest Microtransaction And More With These Five Great Mods
4.3.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds has already sold over 8 million copies, making it the fastest-selling in the action-RPG franchise’s history. Many of those players are on PC, which means their eligible to take advantage of dozens of player-made mods to alter and even improve the game’s overall experience...
Split Fiction: The Kotaku Review
4.3.2025
In the dozen or so hours a friend and I put into Split Fiction, the latest co-op game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight, it never seemed to run out of ideas. This latest release, with its marriage of fantasy and science fiction, still feels as fresh and inventive as It Takes Two and A Way...
We're Finally Getting A Gorgeous New Suikoden And It's A Mobile Gacha Game
4.3.2025
Never before have classic JRPG fans veered so quickly from “we’re so back” to “it’s so over.” Konami did the unthinkable and announced a new Suikoden game in the year 2025 and it looks beautiful. Yay! Then it confirmed it’s a mobile-only release with gacha monetization. Booo! Read more
Get Ahead In Path Of Exile 2 By Farming Uniques
4.3.2025
Whether you followed an intricate online build guide, or decided to wing the entire experience and choose fabulous skills and passives, Path of Exile 2 offers a metric ton of variety regarding how you grow in power. But one of the most essential aspects isn’t your class or abilities; it’s the gear...
We Probably Won't See A Console Launch As Good As The Nintendo Switch Ever Again
4.3.2025
We’re just a month out from the big Nintendo Direct giving us the full rundown on the Switch 2. Fans have been patiently waiting for the new hardware for years, excited to see what the future holds for the successor to one of the best video game consoles ever made. I’m excited too, but I also know...
Popular Female Streamers Stalked And Attacked During IRL Stream
3.3.2025
Popular streamers Valkyrae, Emiru, and Cinna were stalked and attacked by a young man during a livestream as they walked around the Santa Monica Pier. Thankfully, nobody was hurt during the encounter. Read more
Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man Cards Look Cool But Prices Have Gotten Out Of Control
3.3.2025
Magic: the Gathering recently revealed some of the cards coming to its comic-book-inspired Marvel’s Spider-Man set, including Venom, Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and of course the webbed wall-crawler himself. The cards look cool and seem like they’d be fun to play. They’re also very expensive, continuing...
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Promises It's Not Going Full Live-Service Game After Latest Botched Event
3.3.2025
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is very much not a live-service game. That’s one of the things that felt so refreshing about the sci-fi shooter when players flocked to it last fall. But it felt eerily like one late last month when an in-game reward was locked behind a busted community event....
Avowed's Best Sword Might Be The Best Weapon In The Whole Game
3.3.2025
Avowed’s fiery Last Light of Day isn’t just the best one-handed sword in the game, it’s arguably the best weapon you can find period, thanks to its high damage, fire accumulation, and fantastic enchantment that restores your health upon killing enemies. The fact that it can be obtained so early...
Monster Hunter Wilds Devs Are Fixing A Game-Breaking Bug While PC Players Edit File Typos Because Of Bad Performance
3.3.2025
Monster Hunter Wilds continued its massive launch into the weekend with the second-most players on Steam, helping propel the Valve-owned storefront to a new record-breaking 40 million concurrent users. The action-RPG’s performance on PC, however, has remained somewhere between less than stellar...
Two Point Museum Is Great, The Nemesis System (RIP Monolith) Was Incredible, And More Of The Week's Takes
1.3.2025
This week, we shared our thoughts on Two Point Museum, the latest in developer Two Point’s humorous series of management sims. We also offered up some opinions on what the big takeaways are from this week’s PokémonPresents showcase, and paid homage to the Nemesis system, the patented technology...
Legendary Studio Monolith Shuttered, Assassin's Creed Shadows Leaked, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
1.3.2025
This week, Warner Bros. shuttered Monolith, the legendary studio responsible for games ranging from 2000's The Operative: No One Lives Forever to 2017's Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The closure means that the studio’s promising Wonder Woman game, first revealed in 2021, has been cancelled as well....
Monster Hunter Wilds went... how big, how unoptimized?
28.2.2025
Also: a game attracting wishlists, lots of news, and our GDC Plus meetup