Final Fantasy XIV is a gargantuan experience, and that’s saying something for the series’ standard. The MMORPG is soon to welcome its latest expansion, Dawntrail , on June 28 for those who p...
https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-14-subscription-free-trial-download-1851428987
When Sucker for Love: First Date was released in 2022, its blend of cosmic horror vibes with dating sim mechanics made it a cult hit. But it’s essentially one big joke about how funny it would...
https://kotaku.com/sucker-for-love-date-to-die-for-review-pc-dating-cthulu-1851428910
The latest trailer for Destiny 2: The Final Shape takes players on a tour of the Pale Heart, a lush paradise plagued by corruption fans have been waiting a decade to visit. The trip is narrated ...
https://kotaku.com/destiny-2-final-shape-cayde-6-trailer-1851428894
You ever play Mario Kart 8 and get absolutely dusted by your friends? Maybe, after losing all four races in a single cup, you take your build back to the garage, tinkering with the stats in an e...
https://kotaku.com/mario-kart-8-deluxe-best-racer-fastest-build-peach-1851428796
We previously learned that Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar’s neverending success story that has outsold entire franchises on its own , once had several pieces of single-player DLC in the works. Ac...
https://kotaku.com/grand-theft-auto-5-dlc-agent-trevor-steven-ogg-gta5-1851428814
Team Fortress 2 is 17 years old, and one day we are all going to die. The in-built cruelty of entropy ensures our universe is finite, and all things must eventually fade into heat-death. Staving ...
https://kotaku.com/team-fortress-2-patch-half-life-2-update-1851428546
Well, this is weird. Pinups of Lara Croft appear to have gone missing in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered following a patch earlier this month to fix a bunch of bugs. Whether intentional or not, som...
https://kotaku.com/tomb-raider-3-remastered-patch-notes-posters-1851427547
Fortnite’s battle royale mode is so huge and popular in 2024 that most people forget the game actually launched without it. And Fortnite’s former boss, Donald Mustard, revealed in a recent in...
https://kotaku.com/fortnite-battle-royale-interview-epic-mustard-uber-ride-1851427317
SPOILERS FOR FINAL FANTASY XVI AND ITS EXPANSIONS FOLLOW. Read more...
https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-16-dlc-rising-tide-echoes-of-the-fallen-1851427350
The late Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama got the crew back together for one last job in 2020: a crowdfunding campaign for a spiritual successor to the beloved Japanese RPG series raised $4.5...
https://kotaku.com/eiyuden-chronicle-hundred-heroes-suikoden-2-ps1-rpg-1851427201
El Paso, Elsewhere, an indie third-person neo-noir shooter heavily inspired by Max Payne, is the latest video game getting a Hollywood adaptation. And while it’s surprising to see a smaller, in...
https://kotaku.com/el-paso-elsewhere-max-payne-stanfield-movie-film-indie-1851427111
Controversial streamer Adin Ross has a rabid fanbase that’ll do anything for attention, including driving a car into a lake because…reasons. These dare streams of Ross’ tend to come with ...
https://kotaku.com/kick-streamer-adin-ross-ai-johnjam11703-monkey-app-1851426778
“In loving memory of those who touched our lives. This game is a tribute to their enduring spirit,” reads the opening screen of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, the new Metroidvania from EA Originals a...
https://kotaku.com/tales-of-kenzera-zau-review-release-date-abubakar-salim-1851426666
Between in-game concerts , skins based on pop stars, and the addition of a rhythm game , Fortnite has been courting musicians and music lovers for years. I have to give props to Epic for specific...
https://kotaku.com/fortnite-festival-billie-eilish-season-3-leak-skin-1851426658
Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison, along with her robotic arm and famous three-barrel revolver, is back in Phantom Fury, a new FPS boomer shooter adventure set after the events of 2021’s Ion Fury...
https://kotaku.com/phantom-fury-review-is-it-good-fps-retro-pc-boomer-1851426541
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I love destroying things. The physical destruction of objects can be funny and cathartic. Thankfully, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth lets me indulge my desires for destruction in a limited but fun wa...
https://kotaku.com/ff7-rebirth-how-to-be-a-menace-to-society-and-get-the-1851426280
EA has been on a tear of releasing high-quality single-player titles the last few years, and perhaps no series has fared better than Respawn Entertainment’s third-person action-adventure Star W...
https://kotaku.com/stars-wars-jedi-survivor-ea-play-subscription-hike-1851426159
Amazon Prime’s Fallout series has been out in its entirety for almost two weeks. In that time, the incredible adaptation has sparked endless conversations and theory-crafting from everybody w...
https://kotaku.com/fallout-tv-show-prime-tim-cain-creator-theories-1851426058
Like the original Final Fantasy VII , Rebirth lets you play some tunes on a piano. And as is to be expected with Rebirth, it’s a far more elaborate mini-game this time around. With pianos spr...
https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-ff7-piano-sheet-music-rewards-1851426013
One of the year’s most popular shows is Amazon Prime’s Fallout , a television series based around the long-running post-apocalyptic sci-fi RPG franchise. The show is fantastic thanks to great...
https://kotaku.com/fallout-tv-show-nexus-mods-heavy-traffic-fallout-4-1851425977
There is a reason why Minishoot’ Adventure has that apostrophe in its name, but it isn’t a good enough one, so we’ll rightly ignore it from now on. But this certainly isn’t a game you sh...
https://kotaku.com/zelda-twin-stick-shooter-minishoot-adventures-1851425765
Final Fantasy 16 is a pretty casual-friendly game, despite its shift to combo-heavy action combat. So it’s come as a bit of a shock that The Rising Tide DLC has upped the difficulty quite a b...
https://kotaku.com/how-to-unlock-final-fantasy-16-the-rising-tides-secret-1851425791
Deadpool & Wolverine is bringing Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s iconic X-Men superhero characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe through a bunch of multiverse mumbo jumbo. But really, th...
https://kotaku.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-logan-new-trailer-hugh-jackman-1851425770
After a year of carnage following its unprecedented studio acquisition spree , Embracer Group going back to basics and doing what it does best: confusingly re-naming and re-arranging its portfol...
https://kotaku.com/mbracer-lord-rings-tomb-raider-1851425713
I had a lot of expectations for the Knuckles live-action mini-series that, it turns out, might have been a bit too lofty. But I don’t think the expectation that the titular echidna voiced by I...
https://kotaku.com/knuckles-paramount-plus-show-episodes-idris-elba-1851423004
It’s a good thing Knuckles, the six-episode Paramount+ mini-series is coming out during a fever pitch of hype for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The series debuts on the streaming service on April 26, d...
https://kotaku.com/knuckles-review-paramount-plus-episodes-season-one-1851423404
If you loved the Fallout TV series and want to dive into a game that’s like it, but not too like it, we curated a list for you. We’ve also got some hidden Nintendo Switch secrets to make the ...
https://kotaku.com/fallout-esque-games-you-should-play-nintendo-switch-se-1851422625
We got our first good look at the highly anticipated Hades 2 this week, and we have a lot to say about Supergiant Games’ first-ever direct sequel. But there’s also some Starfield news to get ...
https://kotaku.com/hades-2-hotties-starfield-updates-and-more-of-this-we-1851422626
Fallout fans ate good this week, thanks to a kickass Amazon TV series and tons of people getting back into the games because of it. But a good video game adaptation isn’t all that went down thi...
https://kotaku.com/fallout-tv-show-easter-eggs-old-gaming-kiosks-and-mor-1851422624
Sony has indefinitely decommissioned the PlayStation 4 servers for puzzle platformer LittleBigPlanet 3, the company announced in an update to one of its support pages . The permanent shutdown com...
https://kotaku.com/littlebigplanet-3-ps4-servers-sony-playstation-1851423658
Just like Echoes of the Fallen, Final Fantasy 16’s The Rising Tide DLC adds quite a few new pieces of gear for Clive to use. Among these is the Tonberry Knife, which uniquely deals low HP dama...
https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-16-fools-gold-tonberry-knife-1851423458
Tom Curtin had just secured the video game of his dreams: a factory sealed first run copy of Konami’s original 1986 Castlevania for NES with a rare hang tab on the back of the box. There are o...
https://kotaku.com/castlevania-vintage-collectible-ebay-heritage-grail-1851423542
Fallout is currently one of the biggest things in the world thanks to Amazon’s hit TV show . However, before all that, there was a time when Fallout as a franchise seemed dead. Then Bethesda st...
https://kotaku.com/fallout-3-reveal-death-threats-security-guard-bethesda-1851423466
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Hades , Supergiant Games’ award-winning 2020 roguelite, was renowned for its excellent combat, beautiful art style, entrancing music, and very, very hot characters. You’d expect a game about ...
https://kotaku.com/hades-2-aphrodite-gods-characters-hot-sexy-1851423220
Final Fantasy 16 ’s (presumably) final DLC, The Rising Tide, is a fascinating case study on how fan speculation can wildly shape an audience’s expectations. On one hand, Square Enix and the f...
https://kotaku.com/ff16-final-fantasy-16-dlc-rising-tide-ending-cliv-1851423234
The future of physical media took another blow as Target confirmed previously reported plans that it would stop offering physical DVDs in store and transition to only carrying a select number of...
https://kotaku.com/target-dvds-games-phyiscal-media-removing-stores-discs-1851423129
Capcom’s high-fantasy RPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 will get a new update on all platforms this month that makes some much-needed changes, including one that makes Pawns more reliable, less dumb, and...
https://kotaku.com/dragons-dogma-2-patch-dragonsplague-update-pawn-changes-1851423006
This next sentence might make you feel very old and I’m sorry: Earlier this week, Cartoon Network’s first original show, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, turned 30 years old . And while many have ...
https://kotaku.com/space-ghost-coast-to-coast-cartoon-network-punchtime-1851422720
Fallout 76 , the online multiplayer game set in the long-running post-apocalyptic series, has seen a surge of players due to Amazon Prime’s hit TV adaptation . And if you’re thinking about gi...
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On the day I started here at Kotaku back in 2022, the very first post I wrote had an image of a character who looked like me right at the top. It was my custom V from Cyberpunk 2077, and he’s ...
https://kotaku.com/baldur-s-gate-3-cyberpunk-mass-effect-character-creator-1851422575
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 hours or so, pop superstar Taylor Swift unleashed a double album on the world, and as a Swiftie, it is my moral obligation to be deeply ...
https://kotaku.com/taylor-swift-grand-theft-auto-lyric-so-high-school-1851422268
The makers of Cities: Skylines II have pledged to focus on fixing the base game after fans revolted against a disappointing paid DLC. The $10 Beachfront Properties pack scored a stunning 96 perc...
https://kotaku.com/city-skylines-2-beachfront-properties-dlc-refund-steam-1851422206
It’s so over, y’all. Yuri on Ice , the gay ice-skating anime that took the world by storm in 2016, won’t be getting its long-anticipated follow-up film, Yuri on Ice the Movie: Ice Adolesce...
https://kotaku.com/yuri-on-ice-adolescence-anime-movie-prequel-canceled-1851421871
It shouldn’t come as an enormous shock that Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV show is getting picked up for a second season, given the combination of its enormous popularity and its being surprising...
https://kotaku.com/fallout-season-2-amazon-prime-bethesda-1851421573
A Reddit user found something quite odd inside their dentist’s waiting room: An old McDonald’s N64 video game kiosk that had been converted into an Xbox 360 arcade complete with multiple cont...
https://kotaku.com/xbox-360-mcdonalds-n64-kiosk-arcade-dentist-office-90s-1851420559
If you’ve played an MMO, you’re likely very familiar with the feeling of looking at a queue , waiting for the game to tell you it’s your turn to jump into the action. Multiplayer games have...
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If you’re a collector of action figures and model statues with money to burn, well then I’ve found something perfect for you. Premium Collectibles Studio, a company that’s been selling pop ...
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Warhorse Studios announced Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, the sequel to an ambitious and intriguing 2018 medieval RPG that had plenty of technical flaws and also became a lightning rod for contr...
https://kotaku.com/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-size-release-date-1851420482