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2025 Steam Awards nominations are open, and I wonder if Valve's wonky personalized suggestions will affect the results—you'll know they did if Bongo Cat gets nominated in the 'story-rich' category

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Sonos Offloads Move 2 at Zero Margin, Portable Speaker Better Than Most Home Systems Goes for Pennies

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Battlefield 6 player hits max rank with 'death trap' jeep everybody hates, and it only cost his sanity: 'It’s a bad vehicle'

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'It wasn't fun for the first 7 years' says maker of fantasy sim Tavern Keeper, which spent more than a decade in development

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Identity Protection Service Drops 70% Off for Black Friday, Privacy Now Costs Almost Nothing

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'Most of the innovation in gaming has happened on PC' says EVE Online studio boss: 'When I love a game, it's so deeply PC'

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Soulless Robot Olaf Will Haunt Disney Theme Park In Search Of Friendship

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Kotaku Asks: What’s Your Perfect Thanksgiving Plate?

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Steam's first-ever Black Friday sale makes a surprise appearance to fill the gap left by the Steam Autumn Sale

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Windows 11 is going to start quietly preloading File Explorer in the background to make it faster, which is a good reminder that you should probably try a different file manager anyway

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How to win at Gift of the Gab in Where Winds Meet without tearing your hair out

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How to solve the wall puzzle in Where Winds Meet

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Titmouse's Drunkards, Druggies, & Delinquents drinking game is a rowdy but robust TTRPG

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Final Fantasy MTG Commander deck gets major price drop on Amazon

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Even Charlie Cox thinks his Game Awards nomination for Expedition 33 is misplaced

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What it's like to work from home in Skyrim VR

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Steam Awards' GOTY nominations are live and really fun

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Ghost of Yotei star Erika Ishii wants the world to know their pick for Game of the Year is not Ghost of Yotei: 'Blue Prince, all day, every day!'

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HBO Max Black Friday deal is a cheap way to watch Game of Thrones, DCU

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PlayStation’s Big Black Friday Sale Includes Some Fantastic PS5 Exclusives

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Timesplitters Remake Finally Launches After Messy Decade Long Development

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Bloodlines 2 Dev Was Begging To Name It Something Different

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s Multiplayer Battles Already Feel Stale

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How Pluribus pulled off its biggest stunt yet

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Ghost Of Yotei Dev Fired Over Charlie Kirk Joke Speaks Out: ‘At No Point Did Anyone Ask Me To Apologize’

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Kirby Air Riders is the best multiplayer game of the fall

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The Steam Machine Keeps Sounding More And More Expensive

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Fortnite's "sweaty" problem could be its downfall

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Assassin's Creed Shadows is getting an Attack on Titan crossover event

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Are Roblox and Discord protected from civil liability under Section 230?

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Gamers Are Using GTA V and Fortnite To Fight Against ICE

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Escape from Tarkov director says the launch week's wobbles were 'actual stress testing not only of our servers but also our mind and nerves'

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Solo Leveling: ARISE OVERDRIVE Is Available Right Now On Steam and Xbox PC

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The Chinese Room's cofounder told Paradox 'we can't make Bloodlines 2' but then they did make Bloodlines 2 and it was like 'untangling an anaconda f***ball of competing priorities'

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Wicked: For Good‘s Scarecrow Reveal Has Fans Both Horny And Horrified

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'These reports are misleading': Google denies claims that Gmail is scraping your emails to train its AI

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Wild Arc Raiders Moments Like These Show Why People Love It

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Apple Goes Margin-Blind With the M5 iPad Pro as Black Friday Brings an Unprecedented Drop for Its Newly Released Tablet

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Battlefield 6 Players, Please Capture Control Points

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Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona 5 director wants to usher in the age of 'JRPG 3.0', which will change 'the genre's structure and presentation at a fundamental level'

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Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart actor Jennifer English has advice for AI pushers: 'Don't'

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Strong Bad's email returns after three-year absence

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Former GTA Boss Isn’t Buying All Of The AI Hype

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Pixar's next movie, Hoppers, is Avatar but with beavers

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Roborock Decided Money Doesn’t Matter, Q10 S5+ Robot Vacuum Drops 50% Off With 10,000Pa Suction

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Blackpink's Lisa headlines Fortnite Festival Season 12

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'It's rumor and speculation. There's nothing to it': Intel's Lip-Bu Tan dismisses worries that the company's new hire gave it TSMC's 2 nm IP secrets

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The Most Underrated Tomb Raider Game Came Out 25 Years Ago Today

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Just Dance 2026 Edition Already Goes for Peanuts, Almost-Free Nintendo Switch Game Thanks to Amazon’s Black Friday Deal

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Jujutsu Kaisen's director helms the return of popular shonen anime with new movie

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