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The Vibes Of Summer Game Fest 2025 Were Rotten
I vividly remember the moment I truly realized Summer Game Fest 2025 was a rotten event and an example of the industry trying to pretend everything is alright.
KotakuKotakuEverything We Saw At 2025's Summer Game Fest
You should know the deal by now: In our post-E3 world, we turn our attention to Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest.
KotakuSplitgate 2 Dev Says He's Tired Of Playing Call Of Duty And Wants Titanfall 3 While Wearing A 'Make FPS Great Again' Hat
1047 Games cofounder Ian Proulx took the stage at Summer Game Fest on Friday to promote his new game Splitgate 2 by calling out the current state of online shooters. Eschewing the marketing speak of most of his peers at the glossy showcase, he said he wants Titanfall 3 to come out and called his new game’s surprise…
KotakuCapcom Announces Street Fighter 6's New Characters By Paying Kenny Omega To Cosplay Them
I don’t watch wrestling, but I feel a kinship to Kenny Omega as a fellow Kenny. Well, I did, until I realized his name is actually Tyson Smith. He just took on the name, I was born into it. Anyway, since he is not a true Ken, I have found a new reason to connect with the wrestler after seeing him cosplay as every…
KotakuResident Evil 9 Executive Producer Announces He's Not Ready To Announce It Just Yet
Resident Evil 9's executive producer, Jun Takeuchi, announced today at Summer Game Fest that he was not ready to announce anything about the next main entry in the series. Sorry. See you later!
KotakuI Was Excited About The Deadpool Game Starring Neil Patrick Harris Until I Realized It Was Gonna Make Me Sick
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest showcase is about halfway over, and the show hasn’t really had the sauce so far. I don’t mean in terms of the games it’s showing, I’m talking about the actual showmanship. Keighley’s stage show has been pretty paint-by-numbers without a lot of good bits and showmanship. That changed…
KotakuThe Scott Pilgrim Game Is Getting A Spiritual Successor Over 15 Years Later And It Looks Awesome
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game was a 2010 downloadable movie tie-in that turned out to be an incredible beat ’em up, helping to lead an arcade gaming revival on console. Scott Pilgrim Ex is a spiritual successor to that project that’s getting the band back together for another River City Ransom-esque smash-fest…
KotakuSega Throws Shade At Mario Kart While Showing Off Sonic Racing: Crossworlds
At today’s Summer Game Fest showcase, Sega showed off Sonic Racing: Crossworlds. The kart racer is a big ol’ crossover event between the blue blur and other Sega characters. After previous leaks claimed Minecraft and Spongebob characters would join the racer’s roster, Sega revealed that several of its own heroes are…
KotakuJon Snow Hopes You Will Play His New Game Of Thrones Real Time Strategy Game
Game of Thrones fans will finally be able to retcon the HBO series finale with their own playthrough of Game of Thrones: War For Westeros, a real-time strategy game coming to Steam Early Access in 2026. A trailer for the newly revealed project at Summer Game Fest showed Kit Harington as Jon Snow fighting the Night…
KotakuStar Wars: Starfighter Has Found A Villain in Mia Goth
Imagine if the actress who suffocated her character’s mute, paralyzed father with a pillow in Pearl was now wreaking havoc across the galaxy. We don’t know if suffocation will be in Mia Goth’s arsenal, but we do know that the scream queen will be starring in the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter film, according to The…
KotakuSoulsborne Sequel Gets Very Metal Trailer Full Of E3 2008 Energy
Today, during Summer Game Fest, Mortal Shell 2 was announced with a trailer that made me miss the days of E3 circa 2008 or 2010. The dark and twisted souls-like is coming to PC and consoles in 2026.
KotakuSwitch 2 Is Selling Out But Nintendo Believes It Can 'Meet The Demand' Through The Holiday
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 issues that plagued the…
KotakuMario Kart World Players Are Pulling Off Some Incredible Stunts After Only One Day
I’m still waiting to get my Switch 2 because my system is getting shipped to my home in New York City while I’m in Los Angeles. The only way in which I can experience the whimsical antics of Mario Kart World is through clips of the lucky bastards who have their systems already. I don’t usually think of Nintendo’s kart…
KotakuLink Respects Women
Link, in all his variations, is a hero. The sword-wielding savior of Hyrule is always doing heroic shit in every Legend of Zelda game. He’s the embodiment of courage, goes to great lengths to defeat evil in whatever form it appears, and has saved the day countless times across the series’ convoluted timeline. It’s…
KotakuMario Kart World: Every Power-Up, Explained
Part of what makes a Mario Kart game so special is its vast collection of power-ups that you earn throughout the track. Mario Kart World is overflowing with them. Using these items can turn the tide of a race in mere moments, giving you exactly what you need to take the lead. Of course, other users can also use them,…
KotakuJurassic World Evolution 3 Trailer Leaks And Reveals Fan-Requested Baby Dinos
Jurassic World Evolution 3 is real and launching later this year, according to a newly leaked trailer which also reveals that baby dinosaurs and more fan-requested features are arriving in the anticipated prehistoric theme park simulator sequel.
Kotaku7 Things We Love And 4 Things We Hate About The Switch 2
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 all of its little…
KotakuElden Ring Nightreign: A Beginner's Guide To Mastering The Duchess
In Elden Ring Nightreign, there are two unlockable characters, one of which is the Duchess. She’s the game’s agile, stealth archetype. While her overall strength may be lacking, her abilities make up for it. She probably has one of the most compatible team synergy in the game, and is dangerous in the hands of a…
KotakuMario Kart World: Four Essential Tips To Improve Your Racing Skills
Mario Kart World is Nintendo’s most recent entry in the long-running racing franchise, and this one sports tons of characters, power-ups, and tracks, as well as an open world to explore. There’s so much packed into the experience that it should keep fans busy for years to come. But if you’re about to play the game, or…
KotakuThe Teen Who Hacked Elon Musk And PlayStation Network Is Getting A Docuseries
Ten years after Elon Musk’s Twitter account was giving out free Teslas and the PlayStation Network was shut down, the then-teenage hacker behind it all is finally having his story told. The trailer for the new Max docuseries, Most Wanted Teen Hacker, previews how Finnish hacker Julius Kivimäki’s cyber exploits will be…
KotakuNintendo Switch 2: 7 Awesome Accessories To Grab For Your New Console
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.
KotakuFans Desperate For Half-Life 3 Are Tracking Gabe Newell's Superyacht In Hopes Of Manifesting A Summer Game Fest Miracle
Not-E3 is in full swing today with Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest Live showcase scheduled for the evening of June 6. No one but the Game Awards host and his close circle of confidants and business partners knows what will be announced during the event, but fans are once again praying for the impossible as fanatics…
KotakuBlack Myth: Wukong Comes To Xbox Exactly 1 Year After PS5 Debut, Reigniting Conspiracies About Exclusivity
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 it kept it off the…
KotakuDune Awakening Proves A Massive PC Hit, Despite Competition From Switch 2 Release
Realizing your big-budget, high-risk online game is coming out at the same time as the most anticipated new console in half a decade can’t be a great feeling. But I bet discovering that nearly one hundred thousand people played it at the same time anyway, almost a week before it’s officially released, made all the…
KotakuGet Every Borderlands Game And All The DLC For Only $35 On Steam
In September, Borderlands 4—the next main entry in the popular first-person looter-shooter series—launches on consoles and PC. As a Borderlands sicko, I’m very excited. And if you’ve been wanting to replay the older games or check out some of the spin-offs or DLC you might have missed over the years, a new Steam sale…
KotakuDon't Make This Mistake When Setting Up Your Switch 2
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 the system transfer and leave…
KotakuLegendary Producer Timbaland's Next Artist Will Be AI-Generated
Grammy Award-winning producer Timbaland is going to make us listen to his AI music if it’s the last thing he does. Today it was announced that he will be launching a new AI entertainment company, Stage Zero, and introducing the world to his first AI-generated artist known as TaTa.
KotakuCyberpunk 2077 Devs Refuse To Stop Making The Game Better As They Tease Another Massive Patch
Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.1 arrived in December 2023. It seemed like the last major update the open-world RPG would get before CD Projekt Red moved onto other priorities, including a Cyberpunk sequel and The Witcher 4. Instead, the developers released patch 2.2 a year later that included new cars, character customization…
KotakuThe New Persona 5 Spin-Off Is Sapping My Excitement With Gacha Mechanics
I want to be excited for Persona 5: The Phantom X. I played about two hours of the game, and it’s got a lot of the staples of the RPG social sim fans know and love. It even adds a few new bells and whistles to the series’ turn-based combat, lending new dimensions to a typically straightforward system. However, mapping…
KotakuHow Many Hammer Smashes Does It Take To Break A Switch 2?
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.