The Tekken 8 community has been on ***** this month after players learned a new stage coming to the acclaimed fighting game wouldn’t be included in the $110 Deluxe version they purchased at launch. Instead, the DLC level would be sold separately for $5. A Steam review ******** campaign ensued, and now Bandai Namco is… Read more... View the full article
Konami and Bloober Team’s fancy remake of survival horror classic Silent Hill 2 appears to be a big hit, with the new game selling over a million copies in less than a week. Finally, fans have some good news after years of not-great sequels and poor management of the franchise. Read more... View the full article
Every now and then a company makes a figure that is meant to depict an iconic moment in a piece of media, and usually I look at these and go “cool,” before moving on. But this $300 statue of fan-favorite mercenary Rebecca from the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime made my jaw drop because it was, as one succinct X… Read more... View the full article
There are more games coming out every day than ever before, but the total number of people playing them hasn’t seemed to grow by nearly the same amount. Former SIE Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden says that mismatch can’t be fixed just by churning out endless big-budget sequels and more powerful hardware. Read more... View the full article
With Hades II already being ******* than its 2020 predecessor, it’s hard to believe the sequel to Supergiant’s blockbuster action-roguelite is still in Early Access. Well, now there’s even more of the game to explore thanks to the Olympic update. This is the biggest and most exciting patch the game has received yet,… Read more... View the full article
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is still going strong on Steam and 4.5 million players later the sci-fi shooter is finally getting its first new operation since launch. Patch 4.0 adds a new multiplayer mission on the planet Kadaku called Termination as well as some notable changes to the underlying gameplay. Read more... View the full article
New York Comic **** has become a central hub for the entertainment industry. Every year some of the biggest names in movies, TV, games, and comics gather in the Big Apple to talk about their upcoming projects. While we’ll no doubt be covering some of the news coming out of the convention here at Kotaku, you might be… Read more... View the full article
Multiplayer hero shooter Concord is possibly the biggest entertainment ********, ever. Not just in gaming, but all of entertainment, across all of time. A $400 million project that reportedly sold fewer than 25,000 copies, and never saw more than 700 people playing at once on Steam, pulled from ***** and deleted from… Read more... View the full article
Disney has announced a new way to skip the lines at its parks. But depending on where you go and when, you might have to spend over $400 a day per person to take advantage of the new Lightning Lane Premier Pass. Read more... View the full article
A space ship flying through a beautiful but menacing nebula. Cosmic horrors that feast on dreams and memories. That’s our latest look at Exodus, the sci-fi action RPG helmed by two ex-BioWare devs starring Matthew McConaughey, and it could very well be the most alluring and exciting this game is. Read more... View the full article
After numerous delays, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is set to arrive in November on Xbox, Game Pass, and PC. And for all you Xbox Series S owners worried about how the big open-world shooter will play on the less powerful machine, Ukraine-based developers GSC Game World have good news. Read more... View the full article
With its reveal ******* in the middle of Microsoft’s mammoth Xbox showcase over the summer, you could be forgiven for not being aware of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a fantasy RPG from French studio Sandfall Interactive that looks like a mashup of Dragon Age and Final Fantasy. The turn-based adventure continues to look… Read more... View the full article
If you hadn’t heard, there was a massive data ***** out of Game Freak, the team that makes the Pokémon RPGs and has its hands in most of the multimedia franchise in one way or another. As files and information gradually surface, most of what we’ve seen so far has been early assets and concept art for old games over the… Read more... View the full article
If you’ve been spending time in Throne and Liberty, Amazon’s newest venture into the rediscovered land of MMOs, you’ve probably noticed an abundance of different currencies and item types to collect if you want to purchase or upgrade items. Perhaps you’ve realized that gathering them all can be an overwhelming task.… Read more... View the full article
If you shelled out enough money for Early Access, you can now play the first two episodes of Life Is Strange: Double Exposure, the direct sequel to the 2015 Dontnod adventure game that kicked off the series. There’s already a lot of discourse over how Double Exposure handles its role as a follow-up to the original,… Read more... View the full article
Yesterday, Twitch suspended an account that belonged to streamer and famous YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt after he made ******* comments about the ****** of Palestinians in Gaza. Now, the YouTuber has responded to the temporary ban with surprisingly clear-eyed assessment of the controversy and what led up to it. Read more... View the full article
A new futuristic sports game has been revealed by 2K Games. And weirdly, this new game, Gravity Ball, will be playable in NBA 2K25 later this month as paid DLC. Read more... View the full article
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to town after taking out Zorba, the *********uses his last breath to resurrect the Human corpse in the square, and, just… Look, I’m sure there’s a perfectly rational explanation for why the Humans are the way they are in Metaphor: ReFantazio, but this guy looks like Old… Read more... View the full article
MindsEye, the next “AAA” game from former GTA and Red ***** producer Leslie Benzies, will be published by Hitman developers IO Interactive as the studio’s first foray into third-party publishing. Read more... View the full article
Analogue 3D is the retro console maker’s take on the Nintendo 64. For $250 it will play your old The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Banjo-Kazooie cartridges in 4K. It was supposed to arrive this year but has unfortunately been delayed until 2025. Read more... View the full article
You can’t be a proper Discord kitten without cat ears on your gaming headset. But what if instead of cat ears, you had Pokemon ears, wouldn’t that be cute? That’s the idea behind Razer’s new gaming headset based on Gengar, the original ghost-type ghoul from Pokemon Red and Green. Unfortunately, the headset and the… Read more... View the full article
The greatest strengths of Metaphor: ReFantazio, the latest roleplaying game from the minds behind Persona, come from the freedom the developers have exerted to pick and choose what they carry over from that beloved series. Unburdened by all the traditions and expectations attached to a name like Persona, Metaphor innov… Read more... View the full article
Back in 2006, Bethesda released its first piece of downloadable content on console for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It was armor for horses and it cost $2.50. Players were outraged, but Bethesda made bank. “That was kind of a head shaker for us: you’re all making fun of it and yet you buy it,” the game’s quest… Read more... View the full article
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure’s expensive “early access” ******* began yesterday, October 15, which allows folks to play the first two episodes of the game before the full launch on October 29. However, a revelation in those early episodes has sent shockwaves through the series’ fandom, especially those who were… Read more... View the full article
Can you ever satisfy the Diablo community? Does anything other than madness lie in wait for those who try? With the recent release of expansion pack Vessel of Hatred, squillions of people returned to the ARPG, but are they happy? Are they capable of happiness? Read more... View the full article
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The Tekken 8 community has been on ***** this month after players learned a new stage coming to the acclaimed fighting game wouldn’t be included in the $110 Deluxe version they purchased at launch. Instead, the DLC level would be sold separately for $5. A Steam review ******** campaign ensued, and now Bandai Namco is… Read more... View the full article