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Steam's First Big Sale Of 2025 Is Live, Here Are The Best Deals
22.1.2025
RTS Fest, Valve’s first big Steam sale of 2025, is happening right now, and if you’re a fan of PC city builders, tactical war games, or other strategy-focused genres, you’ll want to check out some of the best deals we’ve spotted. Read more
Modders, Please Remove The Worst Part Of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth From The Game
22.1.2025
Modders, we need to have a chat. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is coming to PC tomorrow, January 23, and no doubt y’all are gonna get cracking on modding some important and meaningful shit, like making Vincent and Cid playable characters and adding Zack Fair to the party. But before you get to any...
A Closer Look At One Of The Nintendo Switch 2's Newest Features, Teased Back In 2017
22.1.2025
The Switch 2 might not be a radical reinvention of what came before, but Nintendo’s new hardware does sport some unique quirks, distinguishing it from the original handheld hybrid that arrived back in 2017. One of these features is the bigger Joy-Con controllers which now connect to the screen...
5 Big Takeaways From The Newest Developer Survey On The State Of Gaming
22.1.2025
Ahead of the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in March, the organization behind the event released its latest annual survey of creators on the state of the industry. The feedback showed that gaming has been rocked by layoffs over the last 12 months, but also pointed to some silver linings for...
Netflix Is Raising Its Prices Again, Even For People Watching With Ads
22.1.2025
The most popular streaming service behind Stranger Things and other hits is raising its prices for the second time in as many years. Netflix announced it will charge users anywhere from $12 to $24 more a year depending on their subscription tier. Even viewers who are already watching ads will have...
Is there a ‘best’ month to release your game in?
21.1.2025
Also: a popular hole-y game, and lots of discovery news
Wow, Xbox Game Pass Is Ending January With A Surprising Amount Of New Releases
21.1.2025
Xbox has announced more games coming to Game Pass this month, including Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders, a new Sniper Elite game, Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, and Citizen Sleeper 2. Read more
Kai Cenat And Mark Phillips Among Streamers Named In Drake's Lawsuit Against UMG
19.1.2025
That Drake filed an official defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), accusing the company of spreading the false narrative that he is a pedophile through Kendrick Lamar’s now-legendary diss track, “Not Like Us” has annoyed many in the Hip-Hop community.Read more
Our Reactions To The Switch 2 Reveal And More Of The Week's Takes
19.1.2025
This week, we share some of our own thoughts on the reveal of the Switch 2, as well as look at reactions from across the internet. We also talk about a serious problem impacting the Pokémon TCG, consider the suggestion that GTA 6 should cost $80+, and go hands-on with the upcoming Like a Dragon:...
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 5 Amazing Games We Just Can’t Quit
17.1.2025
Gaming’s ever-shrinking winter doldrums are almost over. In the quiet before the February release storm, we’re spending the three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend getting cozy with some older games and one new one.Read more
Far Cry 3 Does What Every Game Should And Ditches Unobtainable Multiplayer Achievements
17.1.2025
Far Cry 3 was released over a decade ago, and while it supported achievements on console and Ubisoft’s own PC launcher, it didn’t include any Steam achievements. But as Ubisoft returns to Steam, it’s also going back and adding these missing challenges to older games, including Far Cry 3. And even...
Pokémon TCG's Prismatic Evolutions Is A Fantastic Set, If You Can Find It
17.1.2025
The Pokémon TCG is in a bit of a precarious place right now. Due to unprecedented interest in new cards driven by Pokémon TCG Pocket, spiking resale prices, and over-excitement at a new Eevee-based special set, the latest sets are selling out everywhere before regular customers can find them. It’s...
Donkey Kong Looks Old-School In New Mario Kart And Not Everyone's Happy
17.1.2025
Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2 yesterday, giving us some bits of information and plenty of new cause for speculation, but the only game we saw was the next Mario Kart. Fans are already calling the kart racer Mario Kart 9 despite us having no official title yet. Though we only saw a...
God Of War Multiplayer Game And More Canceled Following Concord Flop
17.1.2025
Questions about Sony’s live-service plans continue to mount. The company confirmed two games were canceled at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, responding to a report by Bloomberg that the PlayStation 5 maker had canned two projects were part of the company’s ongoing multiplayer push. Neither studio...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Reveals Trading Rules That Will Keep Players From Sharing Their Rarest Cards
17.1.2025
Since it launched last year, Pokémon TCG Pocket players have been eager to get to do the “trading” part of the game’s title. Well, the feature is finally coming to the hit mobile adaptation later this month, and the developers have revealed how that system will actually work in practice. Will...
There's A VR Game All The Kids Are Playing, And They're Convinced It's Haunted
17.1.2025
There is a game that you’ve likely never heard of, yet it’s by far one of the most popular VR games ever made. What is ostensibly a simple game of multiplayer tag for pre-adolescent children is also, I have recently discovered, a wild hotbed of ludicrous in-universe conspiracies fuelling a genuine...
Here's When Switch 2 Pre-Orders Might Go Live
16.1.2025
On January 16, Nintendo officially unveiled the successor to its incredibly popular Switch. The new device is simply called the Switch 2, it’s bigger, sleeker, and most of your old games should work on it. But now, the next question you might have is “When or where can I pre-order this thing?”Read...
5 Details Fans Noticed In The New Mario Kart Trailer
16.1.2025
Right now we only know about one game for the newly announced Nintendo Switch 2: the next Mario Kart. Nintendo didn’t reveal a title, but fans are already calling the kart racer Mario Kart 9 and scanning every frame of footage we got from the announcement trailer. We’ve gathered a few of those...
Where's Bloodborne 2? Former PlayStation Exec Has A Theory
16.1.2025
Bloodborne came out over eight years ago. No FromSoftware game has lived more rent-free in the minds of all the studio’s fans. A sequel to the Sony-published PlayStation 4 exclusive seems like an obvious choice, but one still hasn’t come. Why not? Outgoing PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida...
Is The Switch 2 Weird Enough?
16.1.2025
Earlier today, Nintendo revealed the Switch 2. In many ways its what everyone wanted and hoped for: A new version of the Switch that’s more powerful, sleeker, and supports all the old games. However, is this new console too...safe? Boring? This is what Kotaku’s staff debated shortly after...