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Some Of The Best PS5 Games Are On Sale Right Now
A new, massive Summer Sale event is now live on the PlayStation Store, letting you grab some big PlayStation 5 games like Elden Ring, Spider-Man 2, Helldivers 2, and more for less than usual.
KotakuKotakuDestiny 2's New Metroid Ball Mechanic Might Be The Worst Thing It's Ever Added
Destiny is a game about orbs. It began with a giant orb (The Traveler) hovering over the last city on earth in a post-apocalyptic near future. The main thing you do in the sci-fi MMO is shoot enemies to get loot, which they leave behind in various colored orbs. Most raids involved at least one orb-based mechanic. And…
KotakuUbisoft CEO Makes His Son Co-CEO Of New Ubisoft
Earlier this year, Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft got $1.25 billion from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent to spin-off its most successful gaming franchises into a separate subsidiary. Now we know who’s running this new Ubisoft within Ubisoft: North American studios head Christophe Derennes and CEO Yves Guillemot’s…
KotakuIn Jurassic World Rebirth, PTSD Is A Bigger Threat Than Dinosaurs
Jurassic World Rebirth’s opening scene is perhaps its strongest. In a flashback sequence set in an experimental dinosaur breeding facility, a carelessly discarded Snickers wrapper gets sucked into a pressure-sealed door, allowing the film’s mutated Distortus Rex to escape its containment, which is technically the…
KotakuStranger Things Season 5 Looks Like An Action-Packed And Bonkers Finale
After a very long wait, we finally have the first real trailer for the fifth and final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things. And folks, this might be the biggest and most bonkers season of the show yet.
KotakuYou'll Need Lots Of Gold In Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma To Keep Villages Running Smoothly
Even when you’re able to ride a flying dragon and romance goddesses, money still makes the world go round. Thankfully, in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, earning money from any one of your many villages proves approachable with the right plan. Whether you’re solely focusing on farming, grinding out levels in the…
KotakuReady Or Not's Controversial 'Censorship' Patch Rolled Back By Modder Almost Instantly
Popular online SWAT sim Ready or Not received a patch on Steam removing some nudity and implementing other changes designed to make it easier to port the game to consoles, which have stricter content rules. And within an hour, most of those changes were rolled back by a modder.
KotakuMusk's Grok AI Follows Up 'MechaHitler' With Anime Goth Waifu And Red Panda That Wants To Teabag Everything In Sight
A week after Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok descended into antisemitic rants and declared itself “MechaHitler,” the social media platform X is back with new AI-controlled chatbots for paid subscribers to “SuperGrok.” These new companions are the anime goth sexbot Ani and a rude Red Panda named Bad Rudi, the latter of whom…
KotakuSteam's Wildly Unclear New Rules On 'Adult Content' Have Already Seen Hundreds Of Games Delisted
If you’re a regular user of Steam, you’ll know that Valve’s industry-dominating PC games store is absolutely buried in adult-themed games. Sex stuff. Porn. So much of it. Scrolling the new release lists reveals the astonishing number of both crap and quality adult games that are released every day. But on the advent…
KotakuThe Last of Us Could End With One More Season, Rather Than The Planned Two
HBO and its representatives have stated multiple times that the plan was for its live-action adaptation of The Last of Us to span at least four seasons. The show just wrapped up its second season, covering roughly the first half of The Last of Us Part II’s story, and showrunner Craig Mazin has said he plans to…
KotakuSourcing Iron In Dune: Awakening Means Risking Life And Limb
Dune: Awakening’s desert is filled with raw resources like crystals, metals, ore, stone, and even corpses, that lend their essence to crafting useful survival tools and equipment. One of the most important materials is Iron. It’s a raw resource found in two key zones outside of the starter area, and you’ll need plenty…
KotakuDonkey Kong Bananza Reviews Say It's The Blockbuster Exclusive Switch 2 Fans Are Waiting For
Is Donkey Kong Bananza the Super Mario Odyssey-sized adventure the Switch 2 needs? That’s the question players have been asking ever since the 3D sandbox smasher was first revealed earlier this year. Based on early reviews, it just might be. With rave assessments and perfect scores from some outlets, Nintendo’s first…
KotakuNintendo's Other Switch 2 Exclusive Gets A Limited-Time Demo
During April’s big Switch 2 Direct, where the console was revealed in all its glory for the very first time, Nintendo showed off an in-house game that supported the new console’s Joy-Con-as-mice feature. Drag x Drive, a wheelchair basketball game, was a complete surprise, and things have been pretty quiet since. But…
KotakuThe Best Games Of 2025 So Far
We’re more than halfway through 2025, and as we head into the summer lull, what better time than the present to look back at some of the incredible games we’ve played this year? A whole new console launch happened since we last updated this list, and if that’s not a reason to give our Best Games of 2025 So Far list a…
KotakuThe Zelda Movie's Lead Actors Have Been Revealed By Nintendo
Nintendo and Miyamoto have just announced the two lead actors in 2027's live-action Zelda movie. We now know that both lead roles will be played by British actors, with Link portrayed by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Pinocchio) and Bo Bragason (Three Girls) appearing as Zelda .
KotakuPokémon TCG Pocket's Desperately Needed Trading Improvements Will Appear At The End Of The Month
Pokémon TCG Pocket is already nine months old, because time has come loose from its moorings and there’s a global conspiracy to cover up this chronological catastrophe. Over its three-quarters of a year, the mobile version of the collectible card game has introduced many new sets of cards, a new ranked tournament…
KotakuThe Second-Best Deus Ex Is Stupid Cheap (And DRM-Free), But Hurry
We may never get another Deus Ex game featuring Elias Toufexis’ lovely voice as Adam Jensen again, but right now you can snag Human Revolution, the debut of our sunglass-wearing badass cyborg, for less than five bucks and, since it’s on GOG, there’s no DRM, meaning you can back up copies of it, responsibly lend it to…
KotakuYou Probably Won't Survive In Dune: Awakening If You Don't Pay Your Taxes
It often feels like the entire world around you is conspiring to bring about your demise. On Arrakis, that’s true. Between the sandworms and the other deadly players, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone or anything friendly. Even worse, your only haven—the base you build—isn’t free or safe. You owe money to the local…
KotakuCyberpunk 2077's New Patch May Fix One Of The Game's Biggest Annoyances Five Years Later
CD Projekt Red is hosting a live stream tomorrow, July 16, to talk about the next update to Cyberpunk 2077. While the main team is working on the upcoming sequel, Virtuos is co-developing further updates on the original RPG because the studio can’t quite seem to let it go completely. I’m not complaining, however,…
KotakuDestiny 2 Hits Fans With A Nostalgia Bomb As Soon As They Start The Newest Expansion
There is a twinkling sound every time you turn on the original Destiny that lives on in the hearts of anyone who spent hundreds of hours playing it. Over a decade later, Destiny 2's newest expansion transported players back to those fond early days by re-using the old menu music for The Edge of Fate’s login screen.
KotakuTwo Years Later, Starfield Still Hasn't Given Me A Reason To Care
Since my review of 150 hours spent in Starfield at launch, my opinion on the game has only soured. The added survival mechanics were of fleeting interest to me, and there are a handful of neat mods to toy with. However, nothing I’ve heard of the game’s singular expansion since its 2023 release–from the inclusion of…
KotakuMinecraft Adds Jack Black's Lava Chicken Song, But You Gotta Do Something Special To Get It
Remember that really catchy but also very annoying Jack Black song “Lava Chicken” from the Minecraft movie? If you are a parent with kids under the age of 16, you likely do, and you are probably so happy to finally be free of it. Well, bad news: The song was just added to the actual Minecraft game. Sorry.
KotakuAfter Two Decades, One Of The Stars Of Kingdom Hearts Is Finally Playing The Games
The original Kingdom Hearts came to the PlayStation 2 in 2002 when David Gallagher was 17 years old. The actor, now 40, has played deuteragonist and noted “sexy guy” who “the gamer girls” go crazy for, Riku, for more than half his lifetime, but somehow hasn’t ever played the Disney RPGs. Gallagher has a Twitch channel…
KotakuSuperman's Big Kiss Was Cut By The Censors In India
Superman is a box office hit, a really good superhero film, and one of the best movies of the summer. And that’s all still true if you saw the movie in India. However, moviegoers in the country did miss out on one of the film’s most romantic moments because the censors found it a bit too intimate.
KotakuNintendo 64 Fans Left Waiting A Little Longer As Analogue 3D Maker Blames Tariffs For Latest Delay
The Analogue 3D promises a classic Nintendo 64 experience on modern displays with all the bells and whistles that entails. The $250 retro console sold out last year and was supposed to ship in early 2025, but the company behind it says orders have been delayed yet again, this time blaming tariffs.
KotakuA Creepy, Lore-Breaking Door In The Oblivion Remaster Has Finally Been Fixed
The latest Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered patch makes a lot of changes and tweaks, but one very interesting and important change involving a lore-breaking door wasn’t listed in the lengthy patch notes published earlier this month.
KotakuHelldivers 2 Players Are Crashing Each Others' Games Thanks To 'One True Flag' Update
It’s a big day for Helldivers 2 fans. The sci-fi extraction shooter finally lets them plant flags anywhere they want, including on enemies. The morale boost from spreading the spirit of “mission accomplished” throughout the galaxy boosts weapon handling and defense for all players in the surrounding radius.…
KotakuIMAX Tickets For Christopher Nolan's Next Epic Might Sell Out Before It's Even Done Filming
Christoper Nolan’s The Odyssey starring Tom Holland, Matt Damon, and a bunch of other big-name actors is set to hit theaters on July 17, 2026, aka a year from now. The movie is still filming as you read these words. And yet, Warner Bros. will soon start selling tickets for IMAX 70MM showings that will likely sell out…
KotakuGetting Donkey Kong Bananza To Run At 60FPS Was Important For Nintendo
Nintendo’s next big Switch 2 exclusive, Donkey Kong Bananza, launches later this week and will finally deliver that big single-player binge-worthy game that the hybrid console currently lacks. When you finally get your hands on the new game, you’ll be destroying everything at 60FPS, and that’s because Nintendo…
Kotaku9-Year-Old Visual Novel Runs Just Fine But Apple Is Booting It From The App Store Anyway
Wheels of Aurelia is a 2016 visual novel about a young woman on a road trip in 1970s Italy and the people she meets along the way, and it’s about to get delisted from the App Store. Developer Santa Ragione says Apple is doing that because the game hasn’t been updated in years, even though it’s feature-complete and…