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Kotaku’s Biggest Gaming Culture News For The Week June 07, 2025
7.6.2025
From mergers to memes, the landscape of interactive entertainment is always in motion. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.Read more
Kotaku’s Opinions For The Week June 07, 2025
7.6.2025
Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we're no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.Read more
Switch 2 Is Selling Out But Nintendo Believes It Can 'Meet The Demand' Through The Holiday
6.6.2025
ChickenDog was the first person to get a Switch 2 at launch in New York City and Nintendo promises he’ll be far from the last. Even as the new system starts selling out at most retailers, the company says it believes it will be able to meet demand through the rest of 2025, avoiding the scarcity...
7 Things We Love And 4 Things We Hate About The Switch 2
6.6.2025
We finally have the Switch 2 in our hands. It’s a chonker! Nintendo’s biggest gaming handheld yet looks familiar on paper, but makes a stronger impression in person. We’re not ready to review the new $450 gaming console just yet. That’ll take a lot more testing and game time to get familiar with...
Nintendo Switch 2: 7 Awesome Accessories To Grab For Your New Console
6.6.2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 offers plenty of functionality right out of the box, especially considering it can be used in both handheld and docked modes without the need for add-ons of any sort to just jump into a game. Read more
Black Myth: Wukong Comes To Xbox Exactly 1 Year After PS5 Debut, Reigniting Conspiracies About Exclusivity
6.6.2025
One of 2024's biggest hits, the boss fight-fueled action adventure Black Myth: Wukong, is finally coming to Xbox Series X/S. It releases there on August 20, exactly one year after it made its original console debut on PlayStation 5, once again stoking rumors that a Sony exclusivity deal was what...
Don't Make This Mistake When Setting Up Your Switch 2
5.6.2025
If you’re buying a Switch 2 you probably have a Switch 1. That means you’ll likely want to transfer all of your system data from the old console to the new one. But maybe you’re really excited to finally have the Switch 2 and just want to get right to playing Mario Kart World, so you skip...
How Many Hammer Smashes Does It Take To Break A Switch 2?
5.6.2025
The Switch 2 is more powerful than its predecessor and a lot bigger, but can it take a beating? That’s what one YouTuber tried to find out, wasting absolutely no time before putting a stomach-churning beatdown on Nintendo’s new hardware.Read more
Nintendo Switch 2: Three Great Travel Cases To Consider
5.6.2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 is all about iteration, opting to expand on what helped make the original Switch one of the best-selling consoles of all time. LIke before, the new console lets you switch between handheld and docked mode any time you see fit, giving you plenty of freedom in how you approach...
A Bunch Of Switch 2 Consoles Are Showing Up With Free Pringles And Coke
5.6.2025
Happy Nintendo Switch 2 launch day! Did you get one? Are you still waiting on a delivery? Hopefully it all works out for you, like it did for some folks who pre-ordered a Switch 2 via Walmart. Not only did their consoles arrive early in the morning, but they showed up with snacks and other goodies...
An Ode To Those Of Us Whose Switch 2s Are Arriving Late
5.6.2025
As I write this, I’m in an Uber on my way to the airport to fly to Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest. Odds are, there wasn’t really going to be a good window for me to use my Switch 2 if it had showed up on time, but this doesn’t change my disappointment that it still has not arrived at my home...
Staten Island GameStop Stapled Receipts To Switch 2s And Punctured The Screens Because Nintendo Boxed Them In The Weirdest Way Possible
5.6.2025
Imagine you were up at midnight to pre-order the Switch 2. You waited months for the official launch day. Then you waited again in line at midnight to be one of the first to pick it up and play the new Nintendo hardware. But as you open it, the long-awaited moment of joy turns to horror as you find...
Fortnite On Switch 2 Is A Massive Improvement
4.6.2025
Epic Games has revealed more about the upcoming Switch 2 port of its popular battle royale game, Fortnite. The new version of Fortnite will support mouse controls, a higher framerate, and more on the new Nintendo hardware. It seems like a significant improvement over the janky version currently...
Switch 2 Launch Day: Everything Happening As Fans Finally Go Hands-On With Nintendo's New Console
4.6.2025
Nearly a decade after the original Switch came out, and following years of fans’ pining for a major upgrade to Nintendo’s wildly popular portable gaming platform, the Switch 2 is here. It’s already June 5—the console’s official launch date—in some parts of the world, and a day-one update with...
No Man's Sky Gets A Massive Switch 2 Upgrade And It's All Free
4.6.2025
No Man’s Sky is joining the Switch 2 launch party. The 2016 sci-fi survival sim has spent nearly a decade evolving, and Hello Games announced the live-service game’s latest milestone: a major new update called Beacon and a Switch 2 version that massively improves the game on Nintendo’s platform....
Sony Reveals Last-Minute PlayStation Showcase Ahead Of Summer Game Fest
3.6.2025
Just when it seemed like Sony might be ditching the not-E3 festivities this year, it announced a new 40-minute State of Play will be airing tomorrow on June 4. The PlayStation showcase arrives in a packed week that includes the launch of the Switch 2, Summer Game Fest Live on Friday, and the Xbox...
Nvidia CEO Pays Tribute To Late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata In New Switch 2 Video
3.6.2025
Nintendo’s latest Creator’s Voice video promoting the Switch 2 contains an unexpected surprise: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang paying tribute to former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata for being the visionary behind the original Switch hardware’s success. The head of the $3.3 trillion graphics card company...
Nintendo Appears To Be Shipping Stores 'Out Of Stock' Signs For Switch 2
3.6.2025
The Switch 2 is only two days away! And already people are getting prepared for it to be sold out. According to a post on Reddit (via VGC), gaming stores in the U.S. are being supplied with large “Out of Stock” displays for the Nintendo Switch 2, apparently sent by Nintendo itself to prepare...
PSA: Some Switch 2 Pre-Orders Are Being Canceled
2.6.2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 is launching later this week. Many people have pre-ordered the console and are eagerly checking to see if their new machine is beginning its journey from a warehouse to their home. But unfortunately, many people are seemingly discovering that their Switch 2 order has been...
Hang On, Why Doesn't The Switch 2 Have A Front-Facing Camera?
2.6.2025
One of the features distinguishing the Switch 2 from its less powerful predecessor is GameChat. Much was made of this new feature on the device’s announcement, a way for people to communicate with friends while playing games, even having their live faces appear as avatars within games. It’s such...