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Everything We Saw At Today's Nintendo Direct
With the era of the original Switch just about to set below gaming’s horizon, Nintendo has hit the internet with a curtain call of a Direct for the portable console.
KotakuKotakuNintendo Solves Digital Game Sharing In The Weirdest Way Possible
During today’s Nintendo Direct, the last one before the big Switch 2 Direct next month, the company shared a big change it’s making to digital games next month. While it will allow you to share digital titles with friends and family members, this is still Nintendo we are talking about, so the whole system is a bit…
KotakuMetroid Prime 4 Is Giving Samus A Red Suit And Psychic Powers
No Metroid game is complete without new abilities and a cool altered space suit. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has both, with the Switch game’s latest trailer showing off psychic powers and red and black space armor that almost makes Samus Aran look like a Geth trooper from Mass Effect (complimentary).
KotakuPokémon TCG Pocket's New Shiny Set Has A Card Locked Inside A $25 Bundle
New sets are coming to Pokémon TCG Pocket at a frantic pace—Shining Revelry is the fifth collection added since the game’s launch at the end of October last year. It also marks the first time the gacha mobile game has locked a card inside one of its extremely expensive bundles: if you want the inevitably sought-after…
KotakuGet Rich Quick In Assassin’s Creed Shadows To Lord Over Feudal Japan
When I first discovered the ornament vendor in Assassin’s Creed Shadows—the kindly woman selling decorations and customization options for the hideout—I had a feeling I’d end up spending tons of Mon decking out my dojo. Well, that assumption was correct. Many thousands of Mon later, I was rolling in rocks, trees, and…
KotakuAvengers: Doomsday's Huge Cast Is Missing Some Fan Favorites
In case you missed it, Marvel just wrapped up an hours-long stream announcing the cast for Avengers: Doomsday. The movie is the first of two big crossover movies bringing together heroes from across the MCU, including the Fantastic Four and, surprisingly, a ton of the X-Men. However, there are also some surprising…
KotakuEx-PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Says He Left Sony In Part Because Of Pivot To Live Service
For many fans, the PlayStation 4 years were defined by blockbuster single-player GOTY contenders like God of War and Spider-Man. Then the PS5 arrived in 2020 and Sony turned its attention to live-service gaming with the hopes of capturing a piece of the growing multiplayer market. Former executive Shawn Layden, who…
KotakuSurprise, Avengers: Doomsday Is An X-Men Movie, Too
If you haven’t tuned into Marvel’s painstakingly long live stream revealing the cast of Avengers: Doomsday, you might not realize that some heavy hitters of Marvel movies past are returning to the big screen. Yeah, there are a handful of predictable MCU staples showing up, like Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Anthony…
KotakuNew Netflix Series Is About Scooby-Doo Being A Witness To Murder
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-solving team came together. Apparently that origin story involves a young Scooby witnessing a murder and then vanishing.
KotakuOne Of 2023's Best Shooters Will Be Free On PS Plus
It might be hard to believe, but it’s nearly April already. Really. Feels like this year has flown by and yet it also feels twice as long as usual. Anyway, [as is tradition][1] when we reach the end of a month, Sony has revealed the upcoming free upcoming games for PS Plus members, and next month’s bunch includes the…
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KotakuWe May Know The New Mega Evolutions Coming To Pokémon Legends: Z-A
One of the big selling points of Pokémon Legends: Z-A is that the Switch RPG is bringing back Mega Evolutions. These are temporary transformations that only a handful of Pokémon get that alter their look and give them a major power boost. However, when Game Freak finally showed the game in action, it didn’t reveal any…
KotakuHow To Find And Hunt Down Tracktail Lizards In Monster Hunter Wilds
There is more to Monster Hunter Wilds than taking on gigantic animals with over-the-top weaponry. The Forbidden Lands is teeming with much smaller creatures categorized as Endemic life, and one of the first available side quests tasks you to find a Tracktail Lizard somewhere in the desert.
KotakuBe The Most Stylish Hunter In The Desert By Changing Your Appearance In Monster Hunter Wilds
I’ve heard tales of people willingly and happily spending an hour or two—sometimes even three or more—in a game’s character creator. Folks craft celebrity lookalikes, themselves, and their ideal vision of the perfect hero. Personally, I’m in and out in five minutes, ready to play. But what happens if you speed through…
Kotaku13 PS5 Games That Are All A Steal At $10 Or Less During Sony's Spring Sale
Sony is closing March out with its 2025 spring sale across PlayStation 5 and PS4. There are a lot of big games that are a great deal right now, thanks to discounts of up to 90 percent off, including one of my personal favorite games of 2024.
KotakuThe World Is A Mess, But This New Tiny Boat Game Lets You Clean It Up
I probably don’t need to tell you, a person reading a website on the internet in 2025, that the world is a big, horrible mess right now. It’s been like this for a few years, longer if you ask some people, and it doesn’t seem to be getting better anytime soon. Thankfully, Spilled is here. It’s a new game about a tiny…
KotakuThese Are The Best Skills To Grab First In Atomfall
To level your skills up in Atomfall, you’ll need to find Training Stimulants. And while you’ll have a solid selection of skills you can buy early on, you can add additional skills to your repertoire by finding manuals out in the world. But which to choose first?
KotakuMarvel Is Revealing Avengers Doomsday Cast In The Most Annoying Way Possible
Marvel is hosting a cryptic stream on its YouTube channel right now, and it seems like it’s making an elaborate show of announcing the cast of Avengers: Doomsday. The 2026 film is the next big crossover in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will also bring Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. back into the fold as Doctor…
KotakuPokémon TCG's Latest Set Feels Like It's Designed For Deliberate Disappointment
As we have reported many times already, the Pokémon Trading Card Game is in an awful lot of trouble. Since the launch of November 2024's set, Surging Sparks, the popularity of the 30-year-old collectible card game exploded, which in turn drew the attention of scalpers, which has rendered the products almost impossible…
KotakuGameStop Plans To Buy A Bunch Of Bitcoin As It Closes Even More Stores
GameStop might be dying, but thanks to its unprecedented good fortunes as a meme stock, it still has a whopping $4 billion in cash reserves. The video game retail chain announced this week it now has a plan for what to do with it: plough it into Bitcoin.
KotakuTomorrow's Nintendo Direct Sounds Like The Switch's Last Hurrah
We already knew that Nintendo will be holding a Direct next week to finally pull back the curtain in a big way on the Switch 2. However, it looks like the company also has a few more OG Switch games it wants to spotlight, as it’s holding a surprise Nintendo Direct tomorrow, March 27.
KotakuPlayStation 5 Now Lets You Post Beets In The Group Chat
A new update for the PlayStation 5 has arrived and it has two major components. The first is refreshed activity cards that now display more info. The second is the introduction of new emoji, including root vegetables, aka beets.
Kotaku12 Of The Biggest Choices We've Agonized Over In Games
One of the best things video games can do is let us have ownership over the stories we play through. Crafting meaningful, engaging moments of choice and consequence can be difficult for some developers to navigate, but when a game really makes you stop and consider why you’re doing something beyond just a raw desire…
KotakuWitcher 4 Is So Far Away It Sounds Like It Might Be A PS6 Game
If you are excited to play CD Projekt Red’s upcoming RPG The Witcher 4, just know that you’re gonna be waiting a long time. The developer has confirmed that the earliest possible release date for the sequel is sometime in 2027, making me wonder if The Witcher 4 might end up being a game we all play on PlayStation 6.
KotakuEvery Marvel TV Show, Ranked From Awful To Sublime
The MCU shows no signs of getting any smaller, does it? After 2023 and 2024 offered up a mixed bag of great shows (Loki Season 2), middling filler shows (Secret Invasion), and new standard bearers (X-Men ‘97), it’s time to see where the latest inclusions sit in our ranking, from worst to best, of the whopping 30…
KotakuEx-Blizzard Devs' New Game Looks Like Sea Of Thieves In Space
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 was that the sci-fi extraction shooter from ex-Blizzard developers might be able to succeed where Sony’s hero shooter did not thanks to a gameplay loop that looks way more like Sea…
KotakuTony Hawk Reportedly Intervened To Get Bam Margera Added Back To THPS 3+4
Professional skater and Jackass star Bam Margera will be included in the next major Tony Hawk skateboarding game after Hawk himself reportedly stepped in and forced Activison to add Margera to the game’s roster.
KotakuNintendo Switch 2 Will Reportedly Launch In June With An Emphasis On First-Party Games
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 some of what players can expect from the hardware’s first six months.
KotakuNapster's Corpse Sold To Metaverse Company For $200+ Million
Napster, a once-popular website people used in the late ‘90s to illegally share music online that went bankrupt in 2001, has been sold for $207 million to a 3D technology company with plans to bring the brand into the metaverse.
KotakuGo-To Strategies To Survive Atomfall's Irradiated Wilds
If you’re just diving into Atomfall, you should know this survival title is designed to test your skills and patience (in a good way). With danger lurking around every corner and extremely limited resources at your disposal, you’ll want to approach every moment with caution and planning. Before you set off on your…
KotakuYou Can Finish Atomfall Pretty Quickly, If You Rush Through The Wasteland
There have been quite a few games over the years that examine the fallout of a nuclear event, but developer Rebellion’s new title Atomfall distinguishes itself by using a real-life accident as the basis for its tale. Taking place in an alternate reality following the Windscale nuclear disaster of 1957, this UK-based…