3 days 23 hours ago
When Switch cases arrived back in 2017, they looked comically unnecessary. The SD cards the games were installed on were tiny while the plastic surrounding them was exponentially bigger. Most cases didn’t even come with anything else inside. I’ve enjoyed collecting them but they were a huge waste. According to a new…
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Ethan Gach
4 days 1 hour ago
ARPGs like Path of Exile 2 and portable gaming devices like the Steam Deck go together like spaghetti and meatballs. Fighting huge mobs of enemies and grinding out rare loot is perfect for pick-up-and-play gaming, especially while you lay in bed listening to all those podcasts your friends keep bugging you to check…
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Timothy Monbleau
4 days 1 hour ago
Marvel released a new sneak peak teaser for its upcoming and highly anticipated Fantastic Four film. And that’s cool I guess, but why did they include a very overused sound effect of kids laughing? And why does it pop up not just once, but twice in the 15-second clip?
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Zack Zwiezen
4 days 1 hour ago
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is the second re-release of the original Wii version of this classic platformer. Prettier graphics aside, basically everything fans love (or hate) about this Kong outing remains intact to enjoy all over again—or for the first time. If you’re new to the game, we’ve got three tips that we…
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Billy Givens
4 days 2 hours ago
Timothy Monbleau
4 days 2 hours ago
If Severance hasn’t commandeered enough of your real life already, now it’s going to try and teach you about yourself. Apple Books recently released the eight-chapter ebook The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You written by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD, the Severance character played by Michael Chernus who is the…
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Keith Nelson Jr
4 days 2 hours ago
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is out this week, and reviews for the overwhelmingly massive open-world RPG sequel are here and mostly positive–though not all. It sounds like the new medieval sim, similar to its predecessor, won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. Some critics are calling it a Witcher 3-level breakout while…
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Ethan Gach
4 days 2 hours ago
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD marks the second time the popular Wii game has been ported to another Nintendo console. But it’s the first time it’s been given the full high-definition treatment. The game certainly looks better than ever, though it’s worth noting there are no meaningful changes to the gameplay added in…
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Billy Givens
4 days 4 hours ago
EA has pulled back the curtain on the next mainline entry in its long-running Battlefield franchise, explaining a new development plan involving four different studios, as well as a new way for players to hop in early to provide feedback on what the teams are making.
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Zack Zwiezen
4 days 4 hours ago
What do PlayStation 5 owners have to look forward to in 2025? A new Sony showcase later this month might finally give fans a better idea of what to expect. According to gaming insider NateTheHate, a State of Play presentation is slated for mid-February. Will we finally get a real look at how Insomniac Games’ Wolverine is…
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Ethan Gach
4 days 5 hours ago
MultiVersus’ final season update isn’t even live yet and conversation around the game has already broken down dramatically. Since the team behind the multiplayer game announced it would shut down just a year after returning, online discourse has turned ugly. “When there are threats to harm it’s crossing the line,”…
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Ethan Gach
4 days 7 hours ago
Last week, some three months after launch, Pokémon TCG Pocket finally added the ‘T’ from the game’s title, the trading. And it’s hard to imagine how it could have been worse. Almost impossibly “expensive” to use, the system has measures in place presumably meant to prevent real-money markets and scalpers, but they’ve…
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John Walker
5 days 7 hours ago
This week, we’ll help you hook up your PS VR2 to your PC, start strong in Sniper Elite: Resistance, and snag the best deals in Nintendo’s current Switch sale. Read on for these tips and more.
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Kotaku Staff
6 days 4 hours ago
This week, our roundup of takes includes a recommendation for a very cool new RPG on Game Pass and an even stronger rec for a new dungeon crawler on Steam. Also, we look at what certain reactions to a new Superman TV spot reveal about how some fans relate to movies nowadays, and see why the trading system in Pokémon…
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Kotaku Staff
6 days 7 hours ago
This week saw the return of the first 2 Sims games, the revelation that another big open-world samurai game is coming to PC alongside Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and YouTube allowing controversial streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm remonetize his channel. Also, No Man’s Sky got a colossal update, and card trading came…
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Kotaku Staff
6 days 7 hours ago
Tonight, CM Punk looks to exorcise his Royal Rumble demons. In last year’s match, he tore his tricep, forcing him to miss a planned WrestleMania bout with Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship. In 2014, he suffered a concussion and wound up legitimately leaving the company the next day (and stepping away…
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Macklin Stern
6 days 23 hours ago
Oh hey, it’s another weekend. Hopefully that means you have some time off from work, the chaos of the 21st century, or other annoying responsibilities and realities. And what better way to escape from that stuff than by jumping into the beautiful interactive art form that most of us refer to as video games?
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Claire Jackson, Carolyn Petit, Kenneth Shepard, and Ethan Gach
6 days 23 hours ago
Ethan Gach
6 days 23 hours ago
Zack Zwiezen
1 week ago
Overwatch 2 has what Blizzard calls “groundbreaking changes” on the way next month, but before that, it has a smaller, welcome one in the pipeline. Clash, introduced in season 12, is Overwatch 2’s newest game mode. As director Aaron Keller describes it, the mode was inspired by the original hero shooter’s two-point…
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