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'What are most games about? Killing': Black Mirror Season 7 includes a follow-up to 2018 interactive film Bandersnatch
Netflix's horror anthology returns April 10.
Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have
This could be a little confusing—the new flick will apparently go back to the 1959 Robert Heinlein novel.
Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed and other big games
Nothing is finalized yet, but it sounds like Ubisoft is moving toward some kind of new deal that could involve Tencent.
Monster Hunter Wilds' new gyro controls are a fantastic option for disabled and able-bodied players alike
Wilds is the most accessible Monster Hunter to date, in more ways than one.
Kotaku Weekend Guide: 3 Great Games Keeping Us Grounded
Next week is a big one. Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches on the heels of new reporting that Ubisoft is looking to spin off the franchise into a standalone company backed by Chinese conglomerate NetEase. The 2025 Game Developers Conference kicks off in San Francisco with talks
How to get the Sane Jewel in Monster Hunter Wilds
The Sane Jewel is a decoration in Monster Hunter Wilds that is a bit challenging to locate, but the effects granted by it are worth the trouble. If you’re struggling on how to get the Sane Jewel, or what it does, read on. We cover what the Sane Jewel is and tell you how to […]
How to get Armorcharm and Powercharm in Monster Hunter Wilds
Both the Armorcharm and the Powercharm are powerful key items in Monster Hunter Wilds. You’ll get both of them as rewards for High Rank quests. You only get them as rewards the first time you complete each quest. The Armorcharm raises your defense by 12. The Powercharm raises
Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam
Star Wars: Hunters debuted on the Nintendo Switch in June 2024 and a Steam release was announced in November, but now the whole thing is off.
The Electric State should have been a video game
Director brothers Joe and Anthony Russo love to dream big, on screen and off. After delivering the grandest season finale of all time, 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, the duo set off in a million different directions, including franchise-building at Netflix, partnering with Epic on
Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close
Possibility Space was closed in 2024 under mysterious circumstances, and the rest of Jeff and Annie Strain's Prytania Media followed not long after.
Here’s what Troy Baker did to sound uncannily like Indiana Jones
I wonder if the developers of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — several years ago, when they were first outlining the game’s core pillars — felt like they knew what they were getting into when they decided to go the full-likeness route. That is, that the game’s protagonist
Ice-Pick Lodge founder Nikolay Dybowski departs Pathologic dev
Pathologic players recently uncovered allegations of abuse and kidnapping against Dybowski, and called on Ice-Pick to act.
Which of Nintendo’s internal teams might already be working on Switch 2 games?
This story was first published in Switchboard, a newsletter from Polygon that delivers all the latest Switch 2 news, reporting, and rumors directly to your inbox. Sign up here to get it weekly. Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal in January showed very little in the way of games, except
Fragpunk review
Fragpunk offers an innovative, unrestrictive, thrilling approach to competitive shooters.
New Avowed Update Will Make Your Character More Powerful
A new update is now live for Avowed, Obsidian’s recently released and very good open-world RPG . The patch is live on Xbox and PC and it fixes a lot of tiny bugs and other issues. But the biggest news is that all players will now be a bit more powerful thanks to some extra
Save on dozens of our favoite TTRPGs at DriveThruRPG
Your GM puts up with your party’s antics week after week, so why not show them a little love by checking out DriveThruRPG’s GM Day sale? This sale includes plenty of core rulebooks if you’re looking to get introduced to a new system like the Alien RPG, Cyberpunk RED, or Dune:
How to get herbivore carapaces in Monster Hunter Wilds
Herbivore carapaces are an equipment material in Monster Hunter Wilds. You’ll get them from hunting certain small monsters or as rewards for certain hunts once you reach High Rank. The Low Rank version is called an herbivore shell. You’ll need herbivore carapaces for armor like
Rise of the Ronin review
A year after its console launch, Team Ninja’s latest stumbles onto PC.
2024 was Steam's 'best year ever' of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn't celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet
Number goes up. Or does it?
How To Edit Memoirs In Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
If you carried a camcorder everywhere you went in the ‘90s, without advanced A/V technology you likely had a hard time editing video footage to create your own cinematic masterpiece. However, in Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, the narrative adventure game from Life Is Strange
$100 Xbox gift cards are $85 for the rest of the day
There are a lot of things you can buy with an Xbox gift card. There are games, of course, plus add-on DLC. You can use it to purchase TV shows, and movies, too. Instead of having a recurring subscription to Game Pass that requires a credit card, gift cards make it easy to buy
Human Computer raises $5.7 million in funding round
The year-old studio is preparing to release its debut project in Q4 2025.
Severance’s Best Storyline Stole The Show In Season Two’s Penultimate Episode
As we head into next week’s season finale, I’m starting to better understand the frustration some viewers feel with Severance’s pacing in its second season. We’re nine episodes in and not a lot has happened. There have been several character-driven episodes in a row and not
The Bazaar could be the future of autobattlers, if it stops strangling itself to death with its own microtransactions
Aggressive monetisation has made the existing community furious—but it also makes the new player experience miserable.
Varjo Aero VR headsets seem to be not working on RTX 5090s, and its community is opting for strange solutions while waiting for an Nvidia driver release to fix it
Putting a dampener on that new card.
Microsoft co-authored paper suggests the regular use of gen-AI can leave users with a 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' and at least one AI model seems to agree
'Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.'
Kelly Marie Tran’s new horror movie turns the ‘pressure we feel to have it all together’ into a monstrous, consuming itch
The horror movie Control Freak, now streaming on Hulu, has a super relatable premise: the intense, nagging sensation of a persistent itch. It stars Kelly Marie Tran (Raya and the Last Dragon, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) as Val, a motivational speaker tormented by an itch on the
Get Rich Quick In Avowed With Our Totally Legal Scheme
Crashing on the shores of Avowed’s Living Lands, I didn’t have two gold pieces to rub together. But with one quick scheme—okay, it was actually multiple methods in a concerted effort—I managed to fill my coin purse and farm money fast in Avowed. Read more...
Freaky Friday 2's First Trailer Doubles The Body Swapping
Things are about get freaky. Again. Disney has just released the first trailer for Freakier Friday, a sequel to the 2003 film starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. And this time, four people are swapping bodies. Presumably, this is all happening on a Friday. Read more...
Final Fantasy 14’s next update makes getting around faster and smoother
When Final Fantasy 14’s 7.2 update — subtitled “Seekers of Eternity” — drops on March 25, it’ll bring with it all the flashy content players of the massively multiplayer role-playing game have come to expect from developer Square Enix. But nestled among all the info on
Final Fantasy 14 patch 7.2's trailer has me finally hyped to get stuck back in—and to go to the moon and pilot some mechs, because why not
Fly me to the moon.
World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
A sneeze-inducing 1.38 mm² and small enough to make a Raspberry Pi look like a bus.
The new Looney Tunes movie is basically John Carpenter body horror — as it should be
“Daffy Duck and Porky Pig get jobs at a bubblegum factory to pay their mortgage” reads like the plot of a classic Looney Tunes short. “Alien overlord taints that bubblegum with mind-control technology that turns consumers into zombies,” on the other hand, could be the logline
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners game, based on the Netflix series, is an incredible value
Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Combat Zone, the latest iteration of Monster Fight Club’s light and flexible miniatures skirmish franchise, is now widely available — including at local game stores and online at places like Amazon. We finally cracked the lid on this $79 starter box, only
Fortnite comes to Snapdragon: Epic Games announces upcoming Arm support for its Easy Anti-Cheat software
Soon you can build forts and fight knights in... look, I'm getting old, okay?
Report: Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft could create new IP unit to court major investors
The French publisher has already confirm it's pursuing 'various transformational strategic and capitalistic options.'
Sony Didn't Let Jonah Hill's Character In Superbad Use A PlayStation Because He Was Too 'Vile'
2007's Superbad was a massive hit comedy film starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as two virgin teens trying to party and get laid before graduation. In the movie, Hill’s character is such a shitty dirtbag that Sony , which was producing the film, made it very clear that he
The Super Nintendo Now Runs Infinitesimally Faster Than It Did 35 Years Ago And Players Are Trying To Find Out Why
Most hardware breaks down and gets worse as it ages. Some old Super Nintendo systems, however, are actually running faster. The changes aren’t noticeable to your average player, but dedicated fans have been measuring the differences and trying to uncover why the changes are
Fisch codes for March 2025
Fisch is a relaxing fishing adventure made in Roblox with a vast world and an ocean full of a fish. On your Fisch-ing adventure, you’ll trek the seas with your customizable gear from rod to bait to bobber, and catch a variety of unique fish. To help you get started, you can
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree gets Nebula Awards nom
The Nebula Awards, a long-running honor for excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing, has included video game writing since 2018. It previously bestowed its top prize in game writing to Elden Ring in 2023. FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki has now received the honor of
Inside UFO 50's incredible 8-bit journey
'One of the most gratifying things for us has been seeing players get interested in genres or styles of games that they never thought they'd be into (or perhaps didn't know existed!)'
'We've been keeping fans waiting for an awfully long time': We finally got to see more of Silent Hill f and boy, does it look great
This is the kind of Silent Hill content I love to see.
8 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
Yeah, playing as a yakuza running around the streets of Japan is cool, but have you ever tried it in Hawaii, while dressed like a pirate with a crew that includes no less than three highly intelligent zoo animals? No, you’re lying, of course you haven’t, which is the secret
Penne for your thoughts: This pasta display can show three individual frames and it's trying its best, okay
There cannelloni be one. I'll stop now.
The hooligan hacker guild that tore up WoW's newest raid (twice) just posted video evidence of the whole thing, and it's got me feeling weirdly nostalgic
A simpler time. Maybe not better, but simpler.
Genshin Impact version 5.5 livestream codes
Hoyoverse just wrapped up the Genshin Impact version 5.5 preview livestream, showing off all sorts of details about the upcoming patch. Most importantly, there were several codes that award Primogems and other rewards shown during the stream. Our Genshin Impact 5.5 livestream