kotaku.comadded August 2026
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine3d ago
In a weird twist, apparently consumer spending on new physical video games in the U.S. is actually up 5 percent year-over-year so far in 2026, and it’s mostly thanks to game-key cards.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard3d ago
I admit, I’m going into Final Fantasy VII Revelation jaded, as I’ve mostly found the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy to be an excessively long and padded experiment that refuses to lean into some...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach3d ago
The Witcher 3 Remastered‘s first week out in the wild wasn’t all some fans had hoped. Despite a bevy of free improvements and upgrades, there were also some hard-to-miss issues on both PC and...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine3d ago
This morning, Xbox announced that it will form a brand new division within its organization called “XP,” which will focus on reaching fans “beyond gameplay through film and television adaptations...
Kotakuby Zack Kotzer3d ago
The lurid environments of Hellraiser: Revival, a horror survival game continuing the sadomasochistic legacy of Clive Barker’s Hellbound Heart, might not be the best place to say “wow, deja vu!”...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen4d ago
A new report claims that a skeleton crew at Halo Studios is working on one last big content update for Halo: Campaign Evolved before the team will likely be completely cut and the studio closed.
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine4d ago
When I booted up Dragon’s Dogma 2 again to play a bit of New Game+ in preparation for the Dark Arisen DLC, I was initially feeling a bit humdrum about the whole thing.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard4d ago
This morning, IGN posted a lengthy interview with Rockstar about Grand Theft Auto 6, and while I’m sure there was a lot of valuable information in there for people who are excited about next...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen4d ago
Even before Gears of War: E-Day launched, there were some corners of the internet where the usual suspects were waging a culture war against the shooter over its inclusion of women.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach4d ago
The first wave of Xbox Game Pass additions for October 2026 has been revealed, and Battlefield 6 is joining the subscription service for the first time following its launch exactly a year ago.
Kotakuby Ash Parrish4d ago
We’re a little less than a month away from Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Tokyo which will likely contain some of the final major bits of info we’ll get on Evercold ahead of its January 2027 release.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard4d ago
Sometimes something happens in the real world that reminds you that dramatic soap operas and absurd sitcoms aren’t as outrageous as they seem.
Kotakuby John Walker4d ago
It likely won’t surprise anyone that Unity’s just-announced AI vibe-coding game creator, Spark, is being met with derision at Kotaku. We’re not exactly enamored with genAI, it’s fair to say.
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen4d ago
Xbox is currently in the middle of its big corporate “reset,” which has involved the company shuffling around franchises and teams while it continues to lay off workers.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach4d ago
Star Wars Zero Company is an excellent XCOM-like and an even better Star Wars game. But a bunch of its developers were furloughed just prior to the game’s launch.
Kotakuby Amelia Zollner4d ago
This week, I became a proud parent. My new son’s name is Ingredient, and I dressed him up to look like a big dork: Ingredient is my beloved dog in the open beta of Dog Online, a semi-new browser...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen4d ago
There’s a lot of AI-generated slop out there these days. You might wonder, “Who even wants this?” Well, apparently, millions of people do, according to the folks behind Astrocade, a free online...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach4d ago
I was looking forward to Tom Cruise finally getting off the Hollywood action blockbuster treadmill and back into some headier acting again when Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger was first teased.
Kotakuby Lewis Parker4d ago
The PlayStation jailbreaking and homebrew scene is in absolute disarray at the moment, as the sudden explosion in vibecoded AI-slop projects is taking its toll on the community.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach4d ago
Everyone’s favorite entrepreneur, Bobby Kotick, is back in the business of games again, sorta. He’s been named to the board of the newly formed Skydance Corp., which now controls both Paramount and...
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