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January's Can't-Miss Game Releases, A Surprise Horror Hit On Steam, And More Of The Week's Top Stories
4.1.2025
This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, arguably, a predictably slow start to the often-relentless news cycle of video games. But slow news hardly means no news, and we kicked off the new year with a look at the games to keep an eye out for this month. Also, the chief creative...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games We’re Settling Into 2025 With
3.1.2025
If you’re reading this right now, you did it: you made it through 2024. Time will tell if 2025 ends up being even messier and more chaotic for games and everything surrounding them but in the meantime, a short respite! Here are some great games (and game-spectating experiences with the return...
Don't Sleep On 2024's Most Underrated Tactics RPG
3.1.2025
SteamWorld Heist II snuck out last year in early August and didn’t create as many ripples as some of the other genre spin-offs in its quirky robotic universe. That’s a shame because the bones of this tactical RPG are some of the strongest around, even if the surrounding fluff can get in the...
BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
3.1.2025
In a recent interview with Games Industry.biz, Ken Levine disparaged his most famous and popular game, BioShock, as “a very, very long corridor.” He uses this description pejoratively to distinguish the 2007 first-person mystery game from his current project, science fiction FPS Judas, a game...
Pokémon Go's Dreadful Community Days Are Doubling In Price
3.1.2025
For so many years, so many have been lamenting the dire state of Pokémon Go’s monthly Community Days. What should be events that encourage players to fill local parks for a fun series of challenges have become repetitive, desultory events that can be completed almost without trying. And now they’re...
This Fan-Made Sonic Game Looks Just As Good As The Real Thing, And You Can Play It Right Now
3.1.2025
There are a lot of great fan-made Sonic the Hedgehog games out there. Sega has been notoriously chill with fans of the Blue Blur using its characters in their own projects, and there are even a handful of community-driven remakes of old games that could use a modern touch-up. The one we’re talking...
Apple TV+ Is Free This Weekend And Secretly Hiding Tons Of Great Shows
3.1.2025
Apple TV+ is a strange ol’ streaming service, spending wads of Apple’s infinite money on incredibly expensive prestige television and movies, and then hiding it all as best it could. In recent months, it’s occurred to the company that perhaps it’d be good if people saw the stuff it’s making, adding...
Free COD: Black Ops 6 Crossover With Squid Game Locks Best Rewards Behind A Paywall
2.1.2025
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is getting a Squid Game event this weekend following the hit Netflix show’s recent return with season two. Unlike previous events, however, this one will lock some of its best rewards behind a paid event pass. Think of it as a battle pass within a battle pass, on top of...
Google Tries To Ban Game That Inspired Balatro Over Nonexistent Gambling Gameplay
2.1.2025
Before Balatrothere was Luck Be a Landlord, a roguelike deckbuilder about manipulating a slot machine to try to pay rent amid an ever spiraling out of control cost-of-living crisis. Despite the gambling aesthetic, there’s no part of the game that actually includes gambling with money, real...
One Of Sonic 3’s Biggest Game References Is Hidden In Plain Sight (And Fans Are Split On It)
2.1.2025
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is heavily based on the events of the 2001 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure 2. The live-action movie doesn’t recreate the platformer’s story beat for beat, but it introduces Sonic’s revenge-driven rival Shadow, explores villain Doctor Robotnik’s family, and the moon gets blown...
Helldivers 2 Dev Says 'Make Good Games,' Not 'Contemporary Political Statements'
2.1.2025
Helldivers 2 was one of the biggest surprise success stories of last year, selling over 10 million copies and becoming a cultural phenomenon. The alien shooter’s creative director kicked off 2025 by asking fans about their hopes and dreams for Arrowhead Game Studios’ future projects, culminating...
Nintendo Patent Details AI-Upscaling Tech Ahead Of Switch 2 Reveal
2.1.2025
It’s finally 2025 and Switch 2 speculation is hitting a new fever pitch. A new patent published this week shows how Nintendo could use AI-upscaling to make new games look better without taking up tons of space, while alleged leaks of a motherboard have fans debating just how powerful the...
2025 Is The Year We're Finally Getting An Unofficial (And Stunning) Remake Of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
2.1.2025
In a gaming world where cease-and-desists are the most typical response to fan-made remakes or tribute games, it’s incredibly refreshing that Bethesda tolerates such projects. Following 2024's free player-made Unity remake of Daggerfall, 2025 looks set to finally see the release of...
January's Free PS Plus Games Include One Of 2024's Biggest Flops
2.1.2025
PlayStation Plus’ free games for January includes Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League a year after the live service shooter’s critically-panned launch. It joins the paid monthly subscription service just in time for players to experience the final season and access the long-requested offline...
Black Myth: Wukong Devs Say Xbox Series S Is The Cause Of Release Woes
2.1.2025
Available on PC and PlayStation 5 for the last four-and-a-half months, 2024's smash hit Black Myth: Wukong is still conspicuously absent on Microsoft’s consoles. Exactly why has been a matter of some controversy, with the Xbox makers previously suggesting it’s nothing to do with its tech. However...
13 Exciting Games Kicking Off The New Year In January
1.1.2025
Another year is in the books and that means that backlog season is officially upon us. We used to get several months for catching up on old stuff as the new year got off to a slow start, but now the season barely lasts a couple of weeks. January might be a good time to give your wallet a rest...
Kotaku’s 15 Most-Read Stories Of 2024
31.12.2024
If you wind up on the wrong side of Reddit or YouTube, you’ll likely come across bold declarations proclaiming “what gamers want.” Nine times out of ten, these takes are given in bad faith, often by people more concerned with imposing what they want than with understanding what the majority...
The Best Video Game Characters Of 2024
31.12.2024
Every year we play a ton of great games that we celebrate in December, and those games can be great for all sorts of reasons: amazing level design, incredible atmosphere, outstanding combat or exploration, you name it. But more often than not, it’s the heroes and villains of a great game that stick...
Steam's Surprise End-Of-Year Hit Is A Psychological Horror Game About An Anime Girlfriend
30.12.2024
Steam’s latest mini-sensation has arrived and it’s called MiSide. The meta thriller in the vein of Doki Doki Literature Club has already racked up one of the highest ratings on Valve’s storefront just a couple weeks after its completely under-the-radar launch, thanks in part to streams by Mark...
Fans Want Sonic To Be An Absolute Simp In The Fourth Movie
30.12.2024
Each live-action Sonic movie introduces another beloved character from Sega’s speedy platformers to the film universe in a post-credits scene, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is no exception. Though the new addition to Sonic’s growing family of anthropomorphic animals doesn’t have any spoken lines in...