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Mount & Blade 2's naval expansion will have complex sailing with wind, currents, and respect for a boat's draft

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Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day over the last few years remains completely unchanged'

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Academics critique Farming Simulator's portrayal of 'good farming' and praise modders for agro-ecology add-ons

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Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards

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European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims 'These proposals would curtail developer choice"

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Best gaming laptop in 2025: I've put the best of this new generation head-to-head and we have a winner

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Former Forza dev says original Motorsport series died in Microsoft's cuts, but Forza Horizon lives on

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Best gaming chair in 2025: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

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After nearly 4 years, Windows 11 is finally more popular than Windows 10

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Even the beginner zone in Dune: Awakening isn't safe from sandworm-manipulating griefers anymore

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What happened to the creator of Gunman Chronicles, Valve's forgotten FPS? 'My relationship with Gabe didn't really go that great'

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Runaway city-building success Manor Lords is getting a major overhaul to its systems: 'It's not just a new feature or two. It's a full rework'

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Can you guess gaming's weirdest currencies in our latest quiz?

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I’m playing Mario Kart World every day, so I guess it was a good launch game

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Kotaku’s Opinions For The Week July 05, 2025

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Kotaku’s Biggest Gaming Culture News For The Week July 05, 2025

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Kotaku’s Best Game Tips For The Week July 05, 2025

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Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers

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RoboCop: Rogue City's expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I'm more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9

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Here's a mod that puts Halo's multiplayer into Half-Life, which to me feels like putting tea in your coffee

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Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, July 5

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the anime so good it made Cyberpunk 2077 cool again, is getting a sequel

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Deep Rock Galactic board game Kickstarter pulls in nearly $1 million in 1 day for a trio of new expansions

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Ratatan, the new rhythm game from the designer of Patapon, delays early access release in response to negative demo feedback

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In the wake of Perfect Dark's cancellation, Joanna Dark's voice actor urges fans to help save the series: 'Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you'

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Hideo Kojima's mysterious OD reportedly escapes the cancellation axe at Microsoft

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CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: 'We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption'

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The Eternal Die team always knew Lost In Random would make a great roguelike

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Perfect Dark dev shoots down claim the ace-looking reveal was fake: 'It's probably more real than you think'

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Fortnite hints at making its hottest new mode permanent by asking fans what they want next

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The 12 best Switch 2 games

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Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from 'internet enshittification' for nearly 30 years

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Michael Madsen, the voice of Dishonored's supernatural assassin Daud, has died

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I don't need 64 GB of RAM but I am tempted when prices are as low as they are right now for genuinely speedy sticks

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Marvel Rivals players may soon be able to vote on what heroes they want added: 'We will use them as an important factor in our planning'

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Everything you need to know about Blitz Royale, Fortnite's newest mode

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Celebrate Indie-Penance Day With 10 More Incredible Indie Games!

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Picking the best GPU of 2025 has been the biggest challenge of my near 20-year PC gaming tech testing career. Now my brain hurts

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The Silksong subreddit is conducting elaborate ritual ban sacrifices in an attempt to cure 'silksanity' and secure the game's release

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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand

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World of Warcraft: What’s Up With the Collector’s Bounty?

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Happy Indie-Penance Day! Here Are 10 Amazing Indie Games You've Never Heard Of Before

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Aniplex announces new Resident Evil mobile game

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A 'little educational game for middle-schoolers' left DayZ's creators obsessed, inspired, and embroiled in a contentious presidential campaign: 'It's 4.5 years later, and I'm still talking about this story'

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Resident Evil Requiem Connects To A Lost Classic

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Phoenix's terrifying team-up in Marvel Rivals Season 3 has me starting a campaign to get Wolverine banned in all my matches

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Death Stranding 2 Is The First Truly Good Social Media Network

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Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now

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Tech billionaires including Palmer Luckey set up dumb new bank for those who didn't get burned enough in the 2022 crypto crash

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Rematch plans to add an in-game report system, punish own-goal griefers with 3 days in the slammer, and slap cheaters with indefinite bans

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