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It’s been just over a month since the Nintendo Switch 2 launched and ushered in the next generation of Nintendo hardware. Most of us here at Kotaku own the thing and have been playing it over the past four weeks. Now that we’ve had extensive time with the Switch 2, what do we think about it? How has Nintendo’s…
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Mario Kart World ended the legendary 11 year run Mario Kart 8 held as the “current” Mario Kart. While Mario Kart World isn’t coming out the gate with the 96 courses its predecessor received over the course of the decade, it still features a standard roster of 30 courses. This is almost on par with most Mario Kart games…
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Have you seen the size of Arrakis? It’s an absolute unit of a planet, covered primarily in rock and desert, with giant sandworms, spaceships, and bandits who all want you dead. It’s not a happy place. And if you were forced to walk every step of the way to the Deep Desert, for one, you wouldn’t make it, and two, you’d…
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“Xbox launching without exclusives is so crazy, it just might work,” read one headline from November 2020. It did not. While the PlayStation 5 rang in the holiday that year with Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Demon’s Souls remake, the Xbox Series X/S was huddled up alongside next-gen upgrades for games everyone had…
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Mario Kart World added an unexpected, interconnected open world where every track exists simultaneously. Both the Grand Prix and the new Knockout Tour mode take advantage of this by including the connecting roads as part of the races. While it’s a lot of fun, this can make the tracks themselves feel less special if…
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Mouse mode might not have taken the world over by storm, but it remains one of the exciting features available on the Nintendo Switch 2. It may sound silly or uncomfortable—and it can be for some folks—but it’s also really unique and surprisingly well-implemented. In a first-person game like Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate…
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World of Tanks is introducing a new tank and cosmetic items inspired by the boomer shooter icon (?) Duke Nukem. Yeah, it’s pretty weird, very silly, and kind of sad. Hail to the king, baby?
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If you haven’t been outside much over the first 4 1/2 months of 2025, it’s totally understandable; some of the best TV shows in years have been released, giving you plenty of reason to stay indoors. With The Studio, Adolescence, and Severance, Apple TV+ and Netflix have produced the year’s most talked-about shows,…
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No JRPG is truly complete without some status effects to shake things up, and Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD keeps that tradition going full force. Whether it’s losing HP every turn with Poison or going apeshit from Berserk, you’ll always need to be aware of what types of status effects can disrupt battles in this…
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About a year after it was officially unveiled, Jurassic World Rebirth has landed in theaters, and immediately stomped the box office competition. It’s well on its way to being one of 2025's biggest movies.
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Last year, Ross Scott who runs the Accursed Farms YouTube channel posted a video about Ubisoft taking The Crew offline and not only making it unplayable for everyone who purchased it, but also revoking people’s digital copies. He used it to launch the “Stop Killing Games” initiative which calls on companies to invest…
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Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD is a lengthy role-playing adventure with tons to do and plenty of features to keep track of. Luckily, the game does a decent job of keeping you updated on how its mechanics work and what to expect from your journey through this colorful world.
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Way back in 2022, when the first season of Netflix’s incredible Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime premiered, CD Projekt Red said that the show wouldn’t be getting a second season. In the three years since then, however, both the developer and the animation team at Studio Trigger said multiple times that they’d be open to a…
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Almost four years after coming to the service, some of the Nintendo 64's most iconic games are still missing from the Switch Online + Expansion Pack retro library. Now, fans think Super Smash Bros. and more are headed to Switch soon, thanks to some very blurry “teases” in a YouTube video that appeared back in May.
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Düsseldorf’s Dokomi is an annual anime and Japanese entertainment convention, with a special focus on cosplay. So of course that means Mineralblu were there, in order to capture the finest fits on the show floor, to share with you today.
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If you’re stuck on a tricky boss fight or a challenging puzzle, or just want to make the most of your time with a new release, we’ve got you covered. Here are some of the tips we found most helpful this week.
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From mergers to memes, the landscape of interactive entertainment is always in motion. Here’s your cheat sheet for the week’s most important stories in gaming.
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Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we're no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.
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Earlier today we told you about 10 fantastic-looking unknown games that really deserve your attention. But that’s not enough penance! We’ve done so much wrong. So here come another 10 indie games that are going under the radar, this Indie-Penance Day.
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As part of the run-up to patch 11.2, Blizzard is closing out Season 2 of World of Warcraft: The War Within with a couple of special events. One of them is a buff called Collector’s Bounty which is aimed at transmog collectors and mount farmers. Here’s what you might want to know before you jump in.
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I’m so incredibly pleased to welcome you to the fifth—fifth!—annual celebration of unknown or under-known indie games, Indie-Penance Day. It’s the day Kotaku completes the sacrament of forgiveness for AAA coverage by dedicating large amounts of space to smaller games. It’s also a good pun.
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There were two big surprises when Resident Evil Requiem debuted at Summer Games Fest. One was the timing of its appearance, coming roughly 17 minutes after executive producer Jun Takeuchi asked us to wait a little longer. The other was how Requiem draws on a strange, almost-forgotten corner of the Resident Evil franchi…
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One night, I pushed too far and took too many risks while playing Death Stranding 2. I was in the middle of an area infested with deadly BTs, aka evil tar ghosts who can kill you. I was running low on battery, meaning my exosuit would stop functioning and all my cargo would suddenly become too much for me to carry. I…
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I’m sure that any time you took an in-game screenshot of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, or any other original Nintendo Switch game, you would immediately want to share it on your favorite social media platforms to show off your latest gameplay exploits.…
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You could say the Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn’t had the best last few years. Now, in 2025, we’ve had two new MCU films — Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* — that were either critically panned and commercially disappointing, or critically loved yet struggling to make MCU-sized returns. Marvel is in…
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It’s real tough to be proud of one’s American heritage at this moment. But that’s not what we’re here for. Independence is ours to define and right now, as you may have heard, this very site is celebrating a kind of independence day of its own. More on that later, I’m sure.
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Grand Theft Auto V was released worldwide in 2013. However, Rockstar’s massively popular open-world crime sim never officially launched in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. That is finally changing later this month, and could be good news for gamers in those countries excited to play Grand Theft Auto 6 next…
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There was a lot of carnage this week at Xbox after Microsoft laid off over 9000 employees across its many divisions. People lost their jobs and some of Xbox Game Studios’ upcoming projects have been canned. This included high-profile games like the Perfect Dark reboot and Rare’s new action-adventure game Everwild, but…
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Choosing who to race with isn’t just an aesthetic choice in Mario Kart World. Every character belongs to a particular weight class and their set stats change when paired with the various vehicles.
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The launch of semi-open-world action game MindsEye has been a bit of a disaster, attracting a low player count and bad reviews as studio Build A Rocket Boy has implemented layoffs while some buyers demand refunds. Now former Grand Theft Auto producer and Build A Rocket Boy CEO Leslie Benzies is reportedly blaming the…