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Shadow of the Vampire at 25: How 2000 comedy-horror revamped the Nosferatu myth

Steam has quietly become the best place to buy videogame soundtracks—even for games that were never released on PC

2025's biggest movies share one big message: Don't trust billionaires

The Fractal Design Scape feels like a gaming headset from the future, which makes it the best thing I've tested in 2035. I mean, this year

I played more than 20 metroidvanias this year other than Silksong, and these are the ones doing the most creative/experimental things with the genre

Pluribus season 2 needs to answer these 9 major questions

The End Times are almost here, but can you name all 105 Legendary Lords in Total War: Warhammer before Nagash consumes their souls?

I'm obsessed with detective games, and I think these 9 prove that 2025 was the best year for the genre ever

Disney's embarrassing AI-generated Star Wars video of scrambled-up animals was the opening salvo in a year full of AI humiliation

2025 was the best year for ninja games ever, but all of them just made it clear that 2008's Ninja Gaiden 2 remains untouchable

Nintendo couldn't screw up 2025's Switch 2 launch, no matter how hard it tried

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming mouse of 2025

A game about giant, helpless teddy bears fleeing a dying world may be a bit on the nose right now, but it's also my favorite game of 2025

Overwatch 2 had its best year yet in 2025

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming keyboard of 2025

Umamusume: Pretty Derby made everyone a horse girl in 2025

Slay the Spire gets the best Christmas present a deckbuilder could ask for: a new all-time concurrent player peak on Steam nearly 7 years after release

Scream 7 star Matthew Lillard is worried he's ruining the movie

PC gaming on Arm chips didn't quite happen in 2025, but the die is cast for an epic battle with x86 CPUs in the next few years

The best indie Pokémon-like on PC is free on Epic for a limited time

Welcome to the FPS vibe shift

Strangers Things season 5 resolved its love triangle in the best possible way

Stranger Things season 5 resolved its love triangle in the best possible way

It was a good year for survival crafting sickos, and I'll be playing some of these well into 2026

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

DCU 2025 releases: How James Gunn launched a cinematic universe by breaking Marvel's biggest rules

Are these Arc Raiders myths true or false? You tell me

Minecraft's rarest death, explained

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming motherboard of 2025

Counterfeit Monkey is so magnificent a text adventure that I'm convinced the puzzle genre went wrong when it added graphics

A psychic baby and whacky control scheme undersell the mundane brilliance of one of my favourite games this year

The best video game boss fights of 2025

PC Gamer Hardware Awards: The best gaming CPU of 2025

The Automatic Pizza Vending Machine In The Detroit Airport: The Kotaku Review

Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We Can’t Wait To Get Back To

There Are Still Some Surprisingly Good Deals On A Few Killer Switch Games Right Now

Action RPG players will exploit anything in the name of efficiency, which is why Path of Exile 2 players are locking themselves in the campaign for profit

Every Time Todd Howard Has Talked About Fallout 5

Stranger Things' episode 8 had the entire cast crying, star says

Peak devs were ready to go 'into vacation mode' after releasing it, but then it sold 1M copies in the first week: 'That quickly became a pipe dream'

I spent 2025 digging through all the word game roguelikes flooding Steam to see if any could capture Balatro’s magic—here are the highly scientific results

Relax after a holiday feast by joining us for a nostalgic tour of old Japanese game mags that blurred the lines between analogue and digital

Pluribus' existential art question, answered by Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn

PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby

'It was definitely interesting': Persona 5: The Phantom X developer was surprised that people outside of Japan were 'cheering' for the Subway Slammer

Professor Layton Boss Wants People To Stop Demonizing Generative AI

A Giant Lord Of The Rings Minas Tirith Lego Set Rumored To Cost Over $600

Persona 5: The Phantom X had a hard time doing away with the series' iconic calendar system: 'It was very difficult to convince the team'

Marathon’s Visual Overhaul Has Some Fans Shocked At How Good It Looks While Others Think It’s Lost Its Soul

Iconic Scooby-Doo star Matthew Lillard's advice for the next Shaggy