Image: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios / Sega At the beginning of the year, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth launched a hell of an opening salvo. The latest installment…
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Read more Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy MasterpieceScreenshot: The Gentlebros / Kotaku Cat Quest III departs from the first two games of this light-hearted action-adventure series in a variety of ways, especially with its pirate-themed…
Read more Destiny 2 Pointers, How To Nab Fallout 76’s Union Power Armor, And More Of The Week’s Top TipsAfter years of marketing, delays, betas, and name changes, XDefiant from Ubisoft is finally here and…things aren’t going very well. Players are currently unable to find matches as…
Read more Ubisoft’s COD-Like Shooter Is Finally Out–But Matchmaking Is BrokenThe feeling of being somewhere overwhelmingly positive is unusual. In 2024, it seems ever-more likely that even the most upbeat of events would be coated in a veneer…
Read more Pokémon’s All-Pervading Positivity: How The Euro Championships Spread Infectious JoyImage: Naughty Dog/PlayStation 2020’s The Last of Us Part II is a revenge story built around two sides: that of Ellie (as played in the show by Bella…
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Read more Palworld Continues To Grow As It Shoots Past 25 Million PlayersScreenshot: Naughty Dog / Kotaku Anyone who was on the internet around the release of The Last of Us Part II knows it was a bad time. But…
Read more The Last Of Us Part II Actor Says Fans Threatened Her SonLast week, Microsoft laid off 1900 video game workers across its various studios. This included cuts at recently acquired Activision Blizzard. And one employee, before being laid off,…
Read more Blizzard Dev Uses Company Perk To Get A Decade Of WoW Time Before Being Laid OffCall of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare III’s Season 1 Reloaded update launched midday on January 17—and almost immediately broke both FPS titles. The Reloaded update promised anti-cheat…
Read more Call of Duty: Warzone Devs Worked Overnight To Fix Busted UpdateWith the pre-release of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown started, Ubisoft has chosen this week to rebrand its Ubisoft+ subscription services, and introduce a PC version of…
Read more Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your GamesImage: GameShark In a new press release from audio electronics company Altec Lansing, it was revealed that GameShark is returning, sort of via an artificial intelligence-powered successor called…
Read more Switch 2, Pokémon With Guns, And More Of The Week's Biggest Gaming NewsImage: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku Pokémon’s profit margins probably don’t reflect it, but the franchise had a rough year in 2023. Without a new mainline role-playing game…
Read more Genre Bests, Personal Top 10 Lists And More: One Last Look Back At 2023Pokémon’s profit margins probably don’t reflect it, but the franchise had a rough year in 2023. Without a new mainline role-playing game to dominate the series’ headlines, Pikachu…
Read more Pokémon’s 2023 Showed The Darker Side Of The Pikachu MachinePhoto: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard has been the subject of scrutiny for several years now, due to its widely criticized “Boys’ Club” corporate culture of sleazy…
Read more Activision Sure Knows How To Bury A Story On A Friday NightGaming’s biggest night has come and gone, and perhaps the biggest surprise of all was just how little time devs were given to thank their family, fans, and…
Read more The Week's Biggest Gaming News, From GTA 6 To The Game AwardsHappy Halloween! Ubisoft Netherlands invites you to celebrate the spooky festivities with AI-generated Assassin’s Creed art. Terrifying indeed! How Alan Wake 2 Builds Upon The ‘Remedy-Verse’ People first…
Read more Ubisoft Using AI-Generated Assassin’s Creed Art Amid Cost CuttingBethesda’s newest giant role-playing game Starfield, which hit Xbox’s Game Pass service the day of its release, enjoyed a very loud launch last month. In fact, its developer…
Read more Starfield Just Busted The Biggest Myth About Xbox Game PassWhen speculation rife that Microsoft expects to finalize its purchase of Activision Blizzard this week, and COD: Modern Warfare III out in a month, it seems people have…
Read more Activision Blizzard Games Should Hit Game Pass In 2024Screenshot: Digital Eclipse Play it on: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, Windows (Steam Deck: YMMV)Current goal: Bring some game history to life (and survive the…
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