Borderlands 4 certainly looks like it's taking its story more seriously: 'We wanted to go back to this sense of dread about the villain of our game'

There's some fun cyberpunk DNA coursing through this thing.

Marvel Rivals' most exciting change in Season 3 is removing the need to grind the game every single day

Playing for the fun of it, rather than to tick off a challenge each time you log in? Revolutionary.

Turn your wall into the ultimate PC gaming display with these Prime Day Valerion projector deals

How to get the Amber Mutation in Grow a Garden

Make more money thanks to this new mutation.

UK looking to revamp defense laws as undersea cable sabotage and cyber attacks create 'gray zone threats'

When an eel bites the line and you're all out of time, that's a moray. I Can't help with the gray zone threats, though.

Racks packing Nvidia's newest and shiniest AI supercomputer Blackwell Ultra cards have just been deployed by CoreWeave

The GB300 NVL72 racks were assembled and delivered by Dell.

This striking two-toned mini PC features a fully customised fanless cooling system for Framework and AMD's new Halo Strix motherboards

But the real question is whether this can keep that integrated Radeon 8060S graphics unit cool when the mobo arrives.

Today's Wordle answer for Tuesday, July 8

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

Farming Simulator 25 finally figures out what the rest of us already knew: you gotta have some fishing in your farming game

And this being Farming Sim, you'll grow the fish yourself when the Highlands Fishing expansion comes out this fall.

OLED burn-in anxiety will ruin my sanity long before it ruins my monitor

Nice OLED you've got there, sure would be a shame if the pale outline of an Excel document burned into it.

15 hidden gems in the Steam Summer Sale you've still got time to grab

Hipster picks for oddball tastes, all without destroying your wallet.

A Pokémon fan got the Pope to sign his Popplio card

One recent visitor to the Vatican may have pulled off a historical first: getting the sitting Pope to autograph a Pokémon card. But that Pokémon fan’s interaction with Pope Leo XIV has another layer, because the choice of Pokémon card is so, well, choice. On Saturday, Pope Leo

Romero Games is not closed: 'We are doing everything in our power to ensure that it does not come to that'

The studio says it's now in talks with other publishers about finishing the game it was working on prior to last week's funding cut.

'Hi modders <3': Peak devs know we're using mods to break past the 4-player limit, and they're so cool with it they're even fixing mod-specific bugs

Peak decides that modders are its friends, not adversaries.

Mecha Break’s futuristic details extend deep into the bathroom

So far, I’ve been having a blast with Mecha Break. From its wildly detailed character creator to its wide variety of fun-to-play Strikers, everything about Mecha Break makes sense. In the words of Todd Howard, everything about the game “just works.” Well, almost everything

Today's Dune: Awakening patch takes another sidestep away from the PvP-heavy endgame

The Deep Desert keeps getting more friendly to players who want to avoid PvP.

Sorry, but the ‘best’ Mario Kart World kart is ugly

For some people, Mario Kart World is a nonstop cow party. For others, it’s a slow stroll that’s periodically interrupted by lightning strikes. But based on the emerging “meta” for Mario Kart World, the open-world kart competition has been diminished into a droll series of

Peak modder celebrates the grim achievement of generating 10,000 skeletons in a single day with a mod that 'creates a shared experience of failure and discovery' by littering the island with the corpses of your fellow scouts

And here I was worried that my failures weren't visible enough.

Xbox bet that Game Pass would be the future of gaming, and we're all paying for it

There's triage, and then there's this.

A Steam Deck owner with three thumbs asked for help modifying the handheld, and Reddit came through: 'I've got 100 different people trying to print different attachments and mailing them to me. Nicest thing anyone has ever done for me'

The effort to help out a redditor with a bad thumb situation is a nice reminder that sometimes, the internet is good.

Romero Games Says It’s Not Dead, But Looking For A New Publisher After Xbox Layoffs

Romero Games, the studio led by Doom designer John Romero, had been reported as one of the casualties of Xbox’s devastating layoffs last week . This was based on a statement from the studio itself, which announced that the publisher lined up for its next project had pulled

EA is reportedly betting the farm on a Battlefield 6 battle royale mode modeled after Call of Duty: Warzone

Launching a new battle royale in 2025 is a huge risk no matter how you slice it.

'Infinite damage' strikes again as Diablo 4 players overthrow the tyranny of mathematics with an exploit that grants sorcerers the power of the gods: 'No way that they leave that in the game'

Math has been real quiet ever since this dropped.

Subnautica Director Breaks Silence On Being Removed From The Studio Before The Sequel's Release: 'The Game Is Ready'

Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton released an unusual statement last week . Unknown Worlds co-founders Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire were being immediately removed from the studio and replaced by Striking Distance Studios chief development officer Steve Papoutsis. A

Jurassic World Rebirth Is Half A Good Movie, And Half A Bad Video Game Quest

Jurassic World Rebirth, out now in theaters , returns to the tried-and-true formula of the older Jurassic Park movies while almost completely ignoring the events of the last trilogy. Rebirth grabs a group of people and tosses them, some unwillingly, onto a jungle island filled

James Gunn Never Wants To See These Iconic Origin Stories Again

James Gunn has had enough. Less than three years after he was announced as the new co-CEO of DC Studios, the comic book nerd with the Warner Bros.-sized checkbook is ready to usher in his new era of the DCU with the July 11 release of Superman . And if it were up to him, we’d

This is the ultimate rebuke of studios killing their online games

All too often, publishers pull the plug on video games, whether that means delisting them from digital storefronts or shutting multiplayer servers off. The Stop Killing Games movement, spearheaded by YouTuber Ross Scott, is fighting against publishers killing their games, what

Capcom cancels a presentation on Monster Hunter Wilds performance at CEDEC 2025 amid ongoing developer harassment

Last week, Capcom issued a statement saying it may pursue legal action in cases of "severe" customer harassment.

Dune: Awakening: Is Fast Travel Worth It?

Until you unlock some of the better vehicles in Dune: Awakening , like an Ornithopter, you’ll travel most of the desert either on foot or via four wheels, always racing ahead of a sandworm. But hear this: You’re not driving all the way to Arrakeen easily. It’s quite the

You Have Until Wednesday To Take Out Nightreign's Everdark Soverign, Gnoster

Elden Ring Nightreign’s Everdark Sovereigns (ES) are harder versions of the game’s notoriously challenging bosses. The third ES has been cycled in and it’s a buffed up version of the Sentient Pest battle . This pesky bug and scorpion combo wasn’t all that troubling in the

The Nintendo Switch 2: One Month Later

It’s been just over a month since the Nintendo Switch 2 launched and ushered in the next generation of Nintendo hardware. Most of us here at Kotaku own the thing and have been playing it over the past four weeks. Now that we’ve had extensive time with the Switch 2, what do we

The Nintendo Switch 2 has replaced my Steam Deck — for now

Exactly one year ago, I found myself so bored that I decided to calculate just how much I was using each gaming platform I owned. The results weren’t surprising: Despite thinking of myself as a proper console player, I found that I was using my Steam Deck to run more than 50%

The Best Characters For Every Track In Mario Kart World

Mario Kart World ended the legendary 11 year run Mario Kart 8 held as the “current” Mario Kart. While Mario Kart World isn’t coming out the gate with the 96 courses its predecessor received over the course of the decade, it still features a standard roster of 30 courses . This

Arrakis Ain't Made For Walking, So Here Are All The Vehicles You Can Craft In Dune: Awakening

Have you seen the size of Arrakis? It’s an absolute unit of a planet, covered primarily in rock and desert, with giant sandworms, spaceships, and bandits who all want you dead. It’s not a happy place. And if you were forced to walk every step of the way to the Deep Desert, for

Vintage Story aims to save a piece of Hytale by hiring former Hypixel developers to create a new 'Adventure Mode' for the hardcore survival game

Anego Studios says it will start small and scale the project up as it gains traction.

The Rainbow Road master is back with a new record in Mario Kart World

If anyone can lay claim to the most iconic track in Nintendo’s jubilant kart racer, it’s probably Twitch streamer Technical. The 22-year-old holds the distinction of having the fastest possible run time in Mario Kart 8’s Rainbow Road, both for original version and the Deluxe

The Jurassic Park franchise could have been a lot worse — and there’s proof

By now, it’s a familiar pattern: A new Jurassic Park franchise movie movie comes out during the summer, garnering middling and sometimes exhausted-sounding reviews. Yes, it has some decent special effects and maybe a fun set piece or two, but it’s not a patch on Steven

Xbox Failed At The Most Important Part: Games

“Xbox launching without exclusives is so crazy, it just might work,” read one headline from November 2020. It did not . While the PlayStation 5 rang in the holiday that year with Spider-Man: Miles Morales and the Demon’s Souls remake, the Xbox Series X/S was huddled up

Final Fantasy 9 fans are eating well this year

Final Fantasy 9 fans have a lot to be excited for 2025, on the occasion of the game’s 25th anniversary. In a year already filled with Final Fantasy flavor due to the success of the Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy set, the series ninth game is back in the spotlight. From a

Every Mario Kart World Track Has A Closed-Circuit Version, But It's Not Easy To Play Them

Mario Kart World added an unexpected, interconnected open world where every track exists simultaneously. Both the Grand Prix and the new Knockout Tour mode take advantage of this by including the connecting roads as part of the races. While it’s a lot of fun, this can make the

The Jurassic World movies just had their Last Jedi ‘nope’ moment

In 2018, Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gave the 25-year-old Jurassic Park franchise its most ambitious, startling shift since the first movie brought dinosaurs into the modern world. Until that point in the series, the various resurrected dino species had

After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: 'The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square'

I got one more in me!

Hey, Don't Forget To Try Out Switch 2's Mouse Mode For Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition

Mouse mode might not have taken the world over by storm, but it remains one of the exciting features available on the Nintendo Switch 2. It may sound silly or uncomfortable—and it can be for some folks—but it’s also really unique and surprisingly well-implemented. In a

Ousted Subnautica studio co-founder says it was a 'shock' to get fired, Subnautica 2 is 'ready' for early access release, and no longer working 'at the company I started stings'

Sounds utterly brutal.

Duke Nukem Is Back, But In A Very Silly And Sad Way

World of Tanks is introducing a new tank and cosmetic items inspired by the boomer shooter icon (?) Duke Nukem. Yeah, it’s pretty weird, very silly, and kind of sad. Hail to the king, baby? Read more...

Developer’s Game Pass critique has set off a firestorm

Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription is likely the best deal around: For a fraction of the price of a full game, you get access to hundreds of titles every month, some of which are brand new. But when video games cost millions to make, and news of studio layoffs are constant, you

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is 'from Poland and people in Poland are sad. They are born sad, they die sad, so I just wanted to make the whole world sad'

This is also why all English media is stultifyingly dull.

Every Status Effect In Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD, And How To Cure It

No JRPG is truly complete without some status effects to shake things up, and Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD keeps that tradition going full force. Whether it’s losing HP every turn with Poison or going apeshit from Berserk, you’ll always need to be aware of what types of

How Netflix’s Sandman series adapted two of the comics’ most controversial characters

The second and final season of Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, which kicked off July 3, is the first project to move forward since the writer was accused of sexual assault, leading to pauses in production on Good Omens season 3, Disney’s adaptation of The

The new Rimworld expansion adds therapy pandas, tameable insect hive queens, nanotech-enhanced alligators, prehistoric beasts, giant toads, flamingos, and something called a 'bog hound'

Odyssey is packed with animal magic.