Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games To Welcome In April Unknown 2:25 PM Edit Here we are at the end of another week of…well, ain’t the world just a fantastic place right now? Fortunately, civilization has provided us... Read More
Ubisoft Briefly Censors Nudity In An 11-Year Old Far Cry By Accident Unknown 1:25 PM Edit There’s a scene in Far Cry 4 in which a female NPC chastises the player if they look down at her bare chest. “Stop looking at my tits,” sh... Read More
No Matter The Hunt, These Are The Most Essential Items To Craft In Monster Hunter Wilds Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Given its name, you’d be forgiven for thinking Monster Hunter Wilds is solely about hunting down monsters. Sure, that’s a big part of the g... Read More
The Unfinished Version Of The Minecraft Movie Is Going Viral Online Unknown 12:25 PM Edit An unfinished digital version of The Minecraft Movie starring Jack Black recently leaked online via digital pirates, and clips of it have... Read More
Fast Fusion Brings Everyone's Favourite WipEout Rival To Switch 2 Unknown 12:41 PM Edit 60 fps and 4K HDR! Back in 2011, Shin'en Multimedia released FAST - Racing League on WiiWare and birthed a series which, this coming J... Read More
My Excitement For The Switch 2 Is Dying By A Thousand Cuts Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Let me get this out of the way first: I’m not a Nintendo girlie. A couple of decades ago, my parents gave me a choice between N64 or PlaySt... Read More
Nintendo Claims It Has Fixed Stick Drift And The Crappy eShop On Switch 2 Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Nintendo claims that it has built better, nicer controllers to help avoid stick drift on the Switch 2, and that it’s made the new console’... Read More
The Switch 2's Battery Life Is Worse Than The Original Unknown 1:25 PM Edit Battery life for gaming handhelds is always a challenge but the tradeoffs for the Switch 2 appear to be particularly brutal. Nintendo has c... Read More
Guide: Nintendo Switch 2 Direct April 2025 - Every Announcement, Game Reveal & Trailer Unknown 12:41 PM Edit Mario Kart! Elden Ring! Donkey Kong?! Well, we've gone from knowing next-to-no information to knowing a boatload of information in rou... Read More
Every Nintendo Switch 2 Launch Game Unknown 12:25 PM Edit On April 2, Nintendo pulled back the curtain and revealed all about the Switch 2. The upcoming console is set to launch on June 5 and will ... Read More
Bethesda Devs Threaten Strike As Union Negotiations Drag On At Microsoft Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Are you ready for your games to get buggier? Over 300 quality assurance testers working on Bethesda franchises like Fallout and The Elder S... Read More
Our Hopes And Predictions For The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Unknown 2:25 PM Edit We’re less than 48 hours away from the Switch 2 deep-dive everyone’s been waiting months for , and the biggest questions around power, pric... Read More
GTA 6's Second Trailer Will Likely Arrive Closer To Launch, Says Take-Two CEO Unknown 1:26 PM Edit 483 days ago , Rockstar Games released the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 . And assuming GTA 6 doesn’t get delayed , the CEO of Rocks... Read More
Make Sure To Snag These Legendary Weapons In Assassin's Creed Shadows Unknown 12:25 PM Edit I used to be the sentimental type in video games. For instance, if a certain character offered you a weapon—a keepsake—I would hang on to t... Read More
Nier Automata's Dev Was "Ordered" To Ignore What The West Thinks Of His Game Unknown 3:41 AM Edit "you can’t make games for overseas". Nier Automata is widely regarded as one of the finest action games in recent years thanks t... Read More
UK Charts: Old Favourites Keep Nintendo In The Race As Xenoblade Plummets From Top 10 Unknown 2:41 AM Edit Pain in the Mech. Well, that was somewhat short-lived. After briefly witnessing a new Nintendo release on the podium, the Big N's lates... Read More
The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Beyond The Horizon Announced For Switch, And It Looks Awesome Unknown 2:41 AM Edit Launching Fall 2025. NIS America has announced The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon for Nintendo Switch, currently scheduled to... Read More
Octopath Traveler I + II Switch Physical Bundle Announced Unknown 4:41 PM Edit Out next week. Square Enix has announced it will be releasing a two-in-one physical Switch collection for Octopath Traveler and Octopath T... Read More
Assassin's Creed Shadows Tips Galore And More Of The Week's Best Gaming Pointers Unknown 6:25 AM Edit Whether you want to know how to use Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ level scaling to your advantage, get rich quick in feudal Japan, or make your... Read More
Poll: Box Art Brawl: Tomodachi Life Unknown 3:41 AM Edit It's about time. Well, that's been quite the week, huh? Let's chill out with another edition of Box Art Brawl . Last time , we... Read More
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate 'Balance Of Power' Update Now Live Unknown 10:41 PM Edit Here are the full patch notes. Super Evil Megacorp has this week released its 'Balance of Power' update for Teenage Mutant Ninja Tu... Read More
New Details And Rumours About Zelda Live-Action Movie Revealed Unknown 8:41 PM Edit Could a trilogy be in the pipeline? The Zelda live-action movie this week locked in a 26th March 2027 release date and some new informatio... Read More
Dominate The Battlefield As Yasuke With These Early Game Skills In Assassin’s Creed Shadows Unknown 2:25 PM Edit The prologue offers a glimpse of what it’s like to play the powerhouse that is Yasuke, and then the early game revolves around Naoe. It’s a... Read More
Nintendo Showcases Every Switch Direct Game In New Infographic Unknown 1:41 PM Edit Which ones will you be buying? Just in case you need a little reminder of which games were showcased during the recent Direct showcase, Nin... Read More
Guide: 35 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games To Look Forward To In 2025 Unknown 12:41 PM Edit The best new Nintendo Switch games coming soon. Swept and updated with new entries from the March 2025 Nintendo Direct . Still plenty to lo... Read More
Lord Of The Rings Turned Into Studio Ghibli AI Slop Looks Like Garbage Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Studio Ghibli films are know for their crisp, naturalistic, and meticulously crafted animation. The Lord of the Rings is a story about evil... Read More
Fans React To The Best Moment From The New Nintendo Direct Unknown 2:25 PM Edit A surprise Nintendo Direct to cap off eight years of the original Switch just before next week’s Switch 2 showcase closed out with a shock... Read More
"Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Games" Are A Thing, According To Official Website Unknown 1:41 PM Edit As opposed to "Switch 2 exclusive". Today , Nintendo introduced Virtual Game Cards , a digital game-sharing feature coming to Swi... Read More
Soon Venom Will Be Twerking His Big Cheeks All Over Marvel Rivals Unknown 1:25 PM Edit Free-to-play juggernaut Marvel Rivals is getting a twerking Venom emote just in time for April Fool’s Day. And yes, this is real. Read mo... Read More
Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater Remake Will Fix One Of The Most Annoying Features Of The Original Unknown 12:25 PM Edit I’m just gonna level with ya’ll, I didn’t think much of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in 2004. But a new look at an improved gameplay fea... Read More
Ex-PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Says He Left Sony In Part Because Of Pivot To Live Service Unknown 2:25 PM Edit For many fans, the PlayStation 4 years were defined by blockbuster single-player GOTY contenders like God of War and Spider-Man. Then the P... Read More
Surprise, Avengers: Doomsday Is An X-Men Movie, Too Unknown 2:25 PM Edit If you haven’t tuned into Marvel’s painstakingly long live stream revealing the cast of Avengers: Doomsday , you might not realize that som... Read More
New Netflix Series Is About Scooby-Doo Being A Witness To Murder Unknown 1:25 PM Edit A new live-action Scooby-Doo series is officially happening at Netflix and the show is set to tell the tale of how the famous mystery-solvi... Read More
Every Marvel TV Show, Ranked From Awful To Sublime Unknown 1:25 PM Edit The MCU shows no signs of getting any smaller, does it? And now that Echo is here, it’s time to see where it sits in our ranking, from wo... Read More
Ex-Blizzard Devs' New Game Looks Like Sea Of Thieves In Space Unknown 1:25 PM Edit The first thing I thought after watching the Wildgate trailer was that we already have Concord at home (or at least we used to). The second... Read More
Nintendo Switch 2 Will Reportedly Launch In June With An Emphasis On First-Party Games Unknown 12:25 PM Edit With only a week to go until the Switch 2's big Nintendo Direct showcase , there’s new reporting about when the console will launch and... Read More
How To Level Up Mad Fast In Assassin's Creed Shadows Unknown 1:25 PM Edit While it’s completely viable to cut down your foes solely via stealthy assassinations and brute-force katana strikes as either Naoe or Yasu... Read More
Indiana Jones Will Let PlayStation 5 Players Punch Nazis In Just A Few Weeks Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Less than six months after it came to Xbox, sleeper 2025 GOTY contender Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will finally be playable on Pla... Read More
14 Final Destination Deaths, Ranked From Ludicrous To Chillingly Plausible Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Final Destination has always been less about death itself and more about the inescapability of it—especially when you’ve cheated it once. T... Read More
UK Charts: A Strong Xenoblade Debut Can't Escape Assassin's Creed's Shadow Unknown 4:41 AM Edit Pain in the Mech. It finally happened! A new Nintendo release is here, and it's performing well! Yes, Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definiti... Read More
Rumour: A Switch 1 Direct Presentation May Take Place This Week Unknown 3:41 AM Edit Colour us sceptical, though. Rumours have begun to swirl that suggest a Nintendo Direct may take place this week; specifically on Wednesday... Read More
Round Up: Minecraft Live (March 2025) - Everything Announced Unknown 5:41 PM Edit Get the full recap. Mojang hosted its first Minecraft Live broadcast of 2025 this weekend and it was packed with all sorts of announcement... Read More
Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Nobunaga's Ambition (SNES) Unknown 3:41 AM Edit Ambitious..? Hello folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl . Last week, we looked at Mario's Picross for the Game... Read More
Chrono Trigger's Lifetime Sales Have Now Surpassed The Five Million Mark Unknown 12:41 AM Edit How about a modern Nintendo version? The legendary 1995 role-playing game Chrono Trigger is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, an... Read More
Reminder: Nintendo Is Removing A Switch Online SNES Game Next Week Unknown 10:41 PM Edit Play 'Super Soccer' on the subscription service before it's gone. At the end of last month, Nintendo announced it would be remo... Read More
Minecraft Is Getting A Graphics Upgrade Unknown 9:41 PM Edit Mojang hopes to bring it to "as many devices as possible". Ahead of the Switch 2's arrival, developer Mojang has announced Mi... Read More
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games To Transport Us To A Better Place Unknown 2:25 PM Edit Happy Ostara to those who celebrate! For everyone else, happy Spring Equinox! Winter is finally friggin’ over, and while the world might st... Read More
There's A Lot Of Cool Dinosaur Games To Be Excited About Unknown 2:25 PM Edit A decade ago, in a poorly written post on my terrible old blog that I won’t link to here, I pondered why we didn’t have more dinosaur games... Read More
Okay, But What If Severance Ended Here? Unknown 1:25 PM Edit The most surprising thing for me about the end of Severance’s second season was how few questions I still had when it was all over. Apple T... Read More
PC Gamers Only Spent 8 Percent Of Their Time Playing New Games Last Year, Report Claims Unknown 1:25 PM Edit There are more folks spending more time playing PC games than ever before, but they’re increasingly spending their time playing older stuff... Read More
Assassin's Creed Shadows Streamer's Perfect Reaction To Racists Goes Viral Unknown 1:25 PM Edit “The quality of health of my morning shit had a bigger impact on my thought process today than you being upset that there’s a Black guy in ... Read More
How To Unlock Yasuke In Assassin’s Creed Shadows Unknown 12:25 PM Edit You’d be forgiven for thinking Yasuke is the starting character in the early moments of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The opening cutscene foll... Read More
Lunar Remastered Collection Talks New Voice Acting And Classic Mode Unknown 1:41 PM Edit "Throughout development we frequently consulted GAME ARTS". With just a month to go before the Lunar Remastered Collection launc... Read More
What To Do First Upon Reaching Honolulu In Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii Unknown 1:25 PM Edit After spending so much time drifting between minor islands, stumbling upon a massive city like Honolulu, in a pirate ship of all things, is... Read More
New Cartoony Zombie Game Is Perfect On Steam Deck Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Released earlier this month, Zombieville USA 3D is a new, super-stylish top-down indie roguelike zombie shooter that is both simple and inc... Read More
The Antidote To Sephiroth Posting Is Barret Posting Unknown 12:25 PM Edit You’ve no doubt encountered someone who posts on social media like they’re Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII , right? You know what I mean.... Read More
Split Fiction Director: Working With EA Is Great, But 'Nobody Believes Me' Unknown 3:25 PM Edit A lot of people don’t like Electronic Arts— two time winner of The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America award —for various reasons. But J... Read More
How To Survive Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Unknown 2:25 PM Edit As we are all aware, the purpose of a ninja is to flip out and kill people. Nobody does this better than Ryu Hayabusa, which is why when de... Read More
Talking Point: What's Your Dream Pokémon LEGO Set? Unknown 1:41 PM Edit Wish upon a Starmie. It's the collaboration that we only thought possible in our dreams, but LEGO and The Pokémon Company are officiall... Read More
Square Enix Announces A Big RPG Sale In The Best Way Possible Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Something about spring always gets me in the mood to play an RPG. So it’s perfect timing that Square Enix is running a sale on some of its ... Read More
Jeff Minter's 'I, Robot' Reimagining Is A Blast From The Past This April Unknown 12:41 PM Edit "Defy the eye". Atari and Llamasoft have announced that I, Robot will be coming to Switch on 17th April 2025. Following on from... Read More
How To Change Your Overwatch 2 Username On Battle.net Unknown 12:25 PM Edit There are plenty of reasons why you may want to change your Overwatch 2 gamertag on Battle.net. Maybe you’re starting a stream channel and ... Read More
Pokémon TCG Scalping Is So Bad That Official Stores Are Removing Packaging Unknown 6:25 AM Edit As we approach the release of Pokémon TCG’s next set, Journey Together, the card game is in a really weird place . The sealed cards, bought... Read More
Nintendo Museum Launches Keychains That Play Your Favourite Console Jingle Unknown 5:41 AM Edit Portable nostalgia. We've all got a favourite Nintendo console jingle, right? Y'know, the start-up tune that would play whenever yo... Read More
Rumour: Metroid Prime 4 Will Apparently Make Quite The Splash At The Switch 2 Direct Unknown 4:41 AM Edit Beyond expectations. If you can believe it, we are a little over two weeks out from the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. While we're all ready... Read More
AI Upscaling On Nintendo Switch 2 Is Basically Real Thanks To Updated Patent Unknown 3:41 AM Edit What a resolution. A newly updated patent published on 13th March 2025 provides further details to Nintendo's proposed AI resolution ... Read More
Poll: Box Art Brawl: Mario's Picross Unknown 3:41 AM Edit Ticking a lot of boxes. We are back with another edition of Box Art Brawl and things are about to get puzzley. Before we dive into this w... Read More
Gundam Breaker 4 Receives "Free March Update", Here's What's Included Unknown 12:41 AM Edit New Mobile Suits and more. Bandai Namco is still showing support for last year's release Gundam Breaker 4 and to get the new year unde... Read More
First 4 Figures Teases New Banjo-Kazooie Statue, Pre-Orders Open Next Week Unknown 10:41 PM Edit Update: Here's a look at the Definitive Edition. There hasn't been a new Banjo-Kazooie game for many years now, but there are stil... Read More
Emio - The Smiling Man Wins Best Adventure Game At Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards 2024 Unknown 9:41 PM Edit Pokémon also acknowledged. Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club has won the best "adventure" game award at the Famitsu... Read More
Switch 2 GameCube Controller Rumours Resurface Following New Nintendo Filing Unknown 11:41 PM Edit Don't call it a comeback... The GameCube generation ended years ago, but the controller for this system is still a popular choice for m... Read More
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 3 Great Games Keeping Us Grounded Unknown 2:25 PM Edit Next week is a big one. Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches on the heels of new reporting that Ubisoft is looking to spin off the franchise... Read More
Star Wars: Hunters Servers To Close Later This Year Unknown 12:41 PM Edit Forced out. Zynga has announced that it will be shutting down servers for the free-to-play shooter Star Wars: Hunters on 1st October 2025 .... Read More
New Avowed Update Will Make Your Character More Powerful Unknown 12:25 PM Edit A new update is now live for Avowed, Obsidian’s recently released and very good open-world RPG . The patch is live on Xbox and PC and it fi... Read More
Switch 2 Predicted To Cost "$400 Or More" Unknown 6:41 PM Edit It could also become the "biggest console launch ever". Switch 2 is on the horizon and analysts are predicting it to be the ... Read More
M2 Is Working On A Brand New 'Night Striker' Game Unknown 2:41 PM Edit And we've got some footage. M2, the emulation wizards who are responsible for multiple Sega Ages titles, Virtual Console ports, and the... Read More
Disco Elysium Is Coming To Mobile To ‘Captivate The TikTok User’ Unknown 12:25 PM Edit You ever want to get excited for something but then get put off by how the people making it talk about it? That’s what I experienced when l... Read More
Monster Hunter Wilds Player Reveals Exploit Behind Mysterious 2-Second Monster Capture Time Unknown 2:25 PM Edit Hunts in Monster Hunter Wilds can take anywhere from 10 minutes to half an hour depending on the level of difficulty and how geared up the... Read More
Mountain Dew Collector Recalls Disastrous Leak That Ruined 100+ Cans Unknown 1:25 PM Edit Earlier this week, a Mountain Dew collector shared some sad news with the Mountain Dew subreddit: A huge chunk of his collection of sodas... Read More
Dadish Dev's Adorable Gravity-Bending Platformer Jumps Onto Switch Today Unknown 12:41 PM Edit Brave and with heart. If you're a fan of the absurdly charming platforming series Dadish , then you'll be pleased to know that deve... Read More
PS Plus Adds Ubisoft's Best Game In Years And Some Classic Armored Core Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Another month, another bunch of games is joining the catalogs for PlayStation Plus’ Extra and Premium tiers. This time around, fans of arca... Read More
Battlefield 6 Leaks Have Me Very Excited About EA's Upcoming Shooter Unknown 1:25 PM Edit The next Battlefield game —referred to unofficially as Battlefield 6—is currently holding an early beta and despite players having to sign ... Read More
Commodore 64 Platformer 'Beyond The Ice Palace' Returns With Brutally Difficult Sequel Unknown 12:41 PM Edit Out today on Switch. Today marks the release of Beyond the Ice Palace 2 , and no, you're not imagining things — this is a sequel the 1... Read More
SpongeBob SquarePants Meme Cards Are Coming To Magic The Gathering Unknown 12:25 PM Edit Magic: The Gathering owner Wizards of the Coast and Paramount have announced the next big crossover coming to the popular card game. Are yo... Read More
Capcom Slashes The Price Of Monster Hunter, Ace Attorney In Big eShop Sale (US) Unknown 1:41 PM Edit Mega Man, Resident Evil, Ghost Trick all discounted. Capcom is having a huge eShop sale right now in the US, with up to 75% off of some of ... Read More
An Xbox Handheld Is Reportedly Coming As Early As This Year Unknown 1:25 PM Edit Microsoft may be pivoting to a multiplatform approach for its biggest games, but that doesn’t mean it’s abandoning hardware just yet. The ... Read More