Games have never been more social but the tools for connecting with friends and fellow fans across the gaming realm are still surprisingly fractured. Discord hopes to fix that with a new Social SDK it’s making available to developers to allow them to integrate the platform’s
There are plenty of reasons why you may want to change your Overwatch 2 gamertag on Battle.net. Maybe you’re starting a stream channel and you want your new user name to match your channel name. Maybe you made it while you were younger and have an embarrassing username taunting
It’s been more than eight years since we were first introduced to the Nintendo Switch. What was once seen as a bold new concept and a reinvention of Nintendo’s console business — a move that initially spooked investors — now feels pretty normal. Widespread adoption certainly
"Metro has always had a hard-hitting, political, anti-war and often emotional story—and you can be sure these themes will continue."
Specializing in supporting his team from a distance, Rocket Raccoon is a Strategist with a solid suite of abilities. He can deploy a mobile respawn center for defeated allies, fill the area with healing orbs, boost enemy damage with his ultimate, and even supply infinite ammo
Gorgeous and comfortable, this handheld has unfortunately had its internals stripped back.
The leadup to the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has been very ugly, and Ubisoft is bracing for launch day.
Brandon Sanderson is one of the most prolific and popular fantasy authors working today. But between his several ongoing series, his Kickstarter book projects, adaptations of his work, and everything else he’s working on, he’s always made time for a few video games every now
All of the speed, all at once.
Hybrids, rejoice.
There is, in fact, any deal.
I don’t know — and frankly, don’t want to know — why the first thing someone did after a recent Zenless Zone Zero update was inspect feline genitals, but thanks to this intrepid detective work, we all have to live with the knowledge that the action RPG’s cats have jiggly balls.
The pieces were all there for 2021’s Mortal Kombat movie: a fantastic and deep cast, produced during a new era of video game adaptations, with strong costuming and behind-the-scenes footage of some very kinetic fight choreography. Instead, we got a pretty bland mess with
Some rivalries you just can’t let go, even if one side has clearly outpaced the other. There’s Nintendo vs. Sega, Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake , and of course, Pokémon vs. Digimon . Bandai Namco’s monster tamer series hasn’t kept the vice grip on pop culture that Nintendo’s has,
The Percy Jackson Disney Plus show has been greenlit for a third season — which means it’s reached the important milestone of adapting the books past the ill-received 20th Century Fox movie adaptions. The third season of the show will follow the events of the third book in Rick
Like a skeleton playing their own ribs xylophone-style, while also falling down the stairs.
That'll be the Legion Go S then, presumably.
Like its predecessors, Civilization VII features numerous win conditions ranging from a cultural victory to a military victory. You could play nice with the other leaders, build alliances, share technology, and aim for the stars, as it were. Or, you could annihilate your
Hunter, the guild authorises you to obliterate that angry bird.
Voice actor Ashly Burch responded to an internal Sony tech demo featuring a generative-AI controlled version of the hero she plays in the Horizon Zero Dawn games, Aloy, saying it’s exactly why she and other game performers are currently on strike . “I am worried for this art
The next installment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, jumps out of an innocuous hay bale on March 20, but you can already save on the Digital Deluxe Edition at Newegg. Normally $89.99, this version of the game for Xbox Series X is discounted to
Support a good cause and snag some new TTRPG books at a huge discount with this Humble Bundle deal.
Inzoi: Creative Studio is launching later this week.
Warner Bros. appears to continue its landmark campaign for Worst Mega Corporation of 2025, following moves like shutting down Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions and killing its deal with long-running educational children’s show Sesame Street , by removing the
While NFL free agency is in a frenzy at the moment, college football fans don’t have much to do except run mock drafts to see which NFL teams might pick their favorite players in next month’s draft. Well… that and grab EA Sports College Football 25 for $9.99 (86% off!), its
It’s felt like only a matter of time until Starfield ends up on PlayStation 5 ever since Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that no game is off limits when it comes to the company’s new multiplatform strategy. Sure enough, a rogue PS5 logo on a recent mod pack for the
During a SXSW 2025 event, Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions showed off a new trailer for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach for PlayStation 5, which included a long-awaited release date. It’ll be washing ashore on June 26, almost six years after the launch of its predecessor.
With last month’s Katsucon in Washington D.C., the cosplay year is officially begun. As ever, Kotaku’s roving photographer Mineralblu was at the event to capture the most impressive fits, as well as make an always-entertaining video of the event. Read more...
Five new civilisations arrive in mid-April.
I don’t blame you if you believe all M. Night Shyamalan movies are just 90-minute setups for a twist you never saw coming (and probably didn’t want to see). I wouldn’t blame you because the man has revealed a child’s closest confidant was actually dead the entire time, the old
It can also replicate cake, lemonade, and fried egg. Mmmm.
You heard it here first, folks.
The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.
The new Discord Social SDK offers free friends lists, text and voice chat, and Discord client integration to game developers.
An old Jedi ritual.
As we approach the release of Pokémon TCG’s next set, Journey Together, the card game is in a really weird place . The sealed cards, bought either for playing the table-top game or for collecting, are broadly unavailable thanks to an ever-worsening feverish demand that is
Ah, the eternal developer debate: Bug, or feature?
"Good luck seeing your screen some rounds."
We didn’t know how good we had it in the 2000s. Sure, some things were awful, but the movie industry was something special. Every year felt like it held something new and fantastic: the Bourne movies, Avatar, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings, Pan’s Labyrinth, Lost in Translation,
Writer Dan Watters and artist Hayden Sherman’s Batman: Dark Patterns is a miniseries showcasing four spooky mysteries. Every three issues forms a new arc pitting a young Batman against some new weirdness in Gotham City. This week, to kick off the series’ second arc, the
No brain surgery required.
60% of the time, it works, every time.
Phenomenal processing power. Itty bitty screen space.
An Olympian task.
You won't be surprised to learn that the leap of faith is a little too Hollywood, though.
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
Ghost Bear: Flash Storm is due in April.
