Someone Just Won The Biggest, Wildest Pot In TV Poker History
What’s the most you’ve ever won in a single hand of poker with some friends? Maybe $50? $60? Perhaps you...
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Here's The Reason Your Games Nail That Cozy Vibe
When the first few sounds of a video game’s loading screen music are glinting synth starbursts, disintegrating into airy jazz...
PlayStation Plus Adds Some Great Games For June
Another month, and another chance to add more games to your PlayStation library if you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber. While...
Game Gets Wrongfully Banned On Switch After A Child Gambling Joke
Last week, Nintendo mistakenly blocked and rejected the release of a cutesy animal game, after it took a jokey TikTok...
Male Video Game Characters Talk Way More Than Women, Research Shows
A new study has uncovered a not-so-surprising truth about gender bias in video games: Across 50 role-playing games, male characters...
Tears of the Kingdom’s Frost Gleeok Is One Of Its Toughest Bosses, Until You Know This
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has plenty of tough bosses, but the Frost Gleeok in Tabantha Tundra...
Tears Of The Kingdom: Yes, You Can Fuse Zonai Devices To Arrows And It’s Awesome
It’s Wednesday, May 31, and that means it’s another day where I tell you about something you might not’ve known...
New Survival RPG Has You Go Full Assassin’s Creed On Invading Conquistadors
Ecumene Azted is a newly announced survival action RPG where you play as an indigenous warrior in 16th century Mesoamerica...
Superb Game Pass Action RPG Has More Original Ideas Than Diablo
I cannot imagine how daunting it must be to begin making a Diablo-like action-RPG. Not only are there so very...
The First Diablo IV Fans To Hit Level 100 In Permadeath Mode Get Something Special
After a decade-long wait, the next chapter in Diablo is finally upon us. With it come dozens of dungeons and...
Riot Threatens To Cancel Entire Esports Season If Striking League Of Legends Players Can't Reach Deal
Earlier this week League of Legends players voted “overwhelmingly” to strike over plans to make rule changes that would cut...
Studio Denies Laying Off Artists For AI After Fans Spot Character With Six Fingers
Rayark, the developers of the excellent Cytus rhythm action games (which we’ve covered previously), have this week faced allegations that...
Tetris (But With Sand) Is Incredibly Satisfying
Odds are high that, you a Kotaku reader, have played Tetris before. In fact, you’ve likely played a lot of...
I Put Dozens Of Hours Into Diablo IV And I'm Only 20 Percent Done
I was collecting boar tusks for an enterprising child in rain-soaked Scosglen, one of Diablo IV’s five major regions, when...
2023 Already Has More Great Games Than 2022
2023 is barely halfway over and yet this year has already seenh great games coming out across nearly every platform....
9 Times The World's Most Famous GeoGuessr Player Pulled Off An Extra Wild Find
GeoGuessr players are out of this world. If there’s anything that comes close to real magic on the internet, it’s...
See Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’s Depths All Lit Up
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an incredibly polished game, so what happens if you try to...
Game Developers Open Up About The ‘Worst’ Games They Worked On
Last week, Daedalic Entertainment, the developers of the stealth adventure J.R.R. Tolkien video game The Lord of The Rings: Gollum,...
Overwatch 2’s Pride Event Shows Blizzard's Trying To Do Better By Its Queer Community
It feels like Overwatch 2 is gayer than it’s ever been. First Lifeweaver was revealed as the series’ first pansexual...
Tears of the Kingdom Players Have Already Found An Easy New Dupe Glitch
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players briefly fell on hard times last week when Nintendo patched out...
Diablo IV Reviews Suggest It's More Of The Same, In A Good Way
It’s been over 10 years since the last Diablo. Nuts, right? Diablo IV arrives on June 6, 2023, and while...
The Witcher 3 Is Now One Of The Best-Selling Games Ever
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt—CD Projekt Red’s massively successful and critically acclaimed open-world RPG—has now sold over 50 million copies,...
In A Series First, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Is Coming To PC
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will soon be available to play on PC, marking the first time Sony’s 21-year-old action...
Game Pass Will Get This Highly Anticipated Horror Game Day One
Amnesia: The Bunker—the fourth game in the legendary survival horror series—will come to Xbox’s Game Pass streaming service on the...
How A Wild Video Game Rumor Races Around The Internet Before Getting Shut Down
It’s almost summer and gamers are starting to lose it. In the midst of a renewed console race frenzy and...
Tears Of The Kingdom: Players Are Finding Amazing Ways To Cheese Bosses
Tears of the Kingdom is clearly proving it should’ve been named The Legend of Zelda: Betcha Didn’t Know You Could...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's Big Home Update Brings New Monsters And New Problems
After six months, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet now have Pokémon Home support, allowing players to transfer some of their old...
The Most Unique Silent Hill In Years Just Got A Freaky New Trailer
Silent Hill Ascension, Konami’s cryptic “live, real-time interactive series” game, just got a brand new trailer. It looks tense, with...
15 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Honkai: Star Rail, Genshin Impact Devs' New RPG
HoYoverse has just released its latest gacha game, Honkai: Star Rail, and this latest space adventure has met endless comparisons...
Tears of the Kingdom's 'Pinball' Shrine Is Driving Players Bonkers
Some Shrines in Tears of the Kingdom have obvious solution. Others, well, if you’ve come across the Mayachin Shrine, which...
Street Fighter 6: The Kotaku Review
To say Capcom fumbled Street Fighter V is an understatement. SF5 launched in an incomplete state, going all-in on “esports”...
Diablo IV Interview's Questions From 'Fans' Are Very Questionable
Last week a video was released featuring two senior developers working on Diablo IV: Associate Game Director Joseph Piepiora and...
That Is An Excellent Portable Computer Design
Timur Kvasov is a veteran concept artist based in Serbia who has done work for companies like Tencent and 5518...
Should Mods Be Paid For? Not In Valheim
Mods have for decades been a way for fans to create content for their favourite games, and for decades have...
Lord Of The Rings CCG Will Include Diversity And Originality
Next month sees the release of Magic: The Gathering’s Universes Beyond expansion for Lord of the Rings. The Tales of...
10 Indie Games That Are Bursting With Imagination
If you’re as sick of AAA development practices and staff treatment as you say you are, then you really ought...
Final Fantasy XVI Will Have Perfect Grapes
If you don’t follow a game particularly closely, then the storms that occur within its communities can seem very bizarre....
9 Of The Most Fascinating Indie Games For Your Steam Wishlist
Hello, sit down, and welcome. It’s time for some Indiegeddon! This is where I distract the entire Kotaku crew with...
What Your Favorite Pokémon Game Says About You: Brutal Callout Edition
Everyone’s got a favorite Pokémon game. Whether it’s one of the mainline RPGs where you catch ‘em all and become...
Nvidia's New AI Is Coming For Absolutely Every Gaming Job
AI is coming to games, whether you like it or not. Last night’s Nvidia keynote showed just how powerful—and devastating—that’s...
Nintendo Asks Valve To Kick GameCube And Wii Emulator Off Steam, Says It's Protecting Its Creativity And Work
Valve removed the Steam listing for Dolphin, a popular emulator for the GameCube and Wii, after it received a cease...
Wow, Bungie's Marathon Is The Coolest-Looking Shooter In Years
Rarely do I watch a trailer for a video game more than once. Yet with Bungie’s Marathon reboot/sequel/whatever, I’ve found...
This Tears Of The Kingdom 'Air Bike' Is Starting A Revolution
With a game as expansive and malleable as Tears of the Kingdom, there are countless ways to solve puzzles, traverse...
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Will Include Five Games You Need To Play
The official reveal of a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake was one of the headliners of Sony’s recent PlayStation 5...
The Most Disgusting Game Of The Year Is Here And Steam Loves It
The Outlast Trials is excessively nasty and obscene—appropriate, considering it’s developer Red Barrels’ first follow up in six years to...
Twitch Star Amouranth Wants Her AI Chatbot To Put Trolls In Their Place
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, from software like the language processor ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E to AI chatbots—and now,...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Now Accidentally Fighting Furries
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempts a presidential run, he’s still finding time for his ongoing hobby of angering different...
Last Of Us Multiplayer Not Ready To Show, Naughty Dog Says [Update]
The Last of Us’ long-awaited multiplayer game was notably absent at the PlayStation Showcase on Wednesday, and now we know...
Bonkers Destiny 2 Shard Farm Gives You Unlimited Exotics
A new glitch in Destiny 2’s Season of the Deep makes it easy to farm infinite Legendary Shards through unlimited...
FaZe Clan Signs Stranger Things Streamer On Twitch Only To Spark Civil War
Esports company turned Wall Street laughing stock, FaZe Clan, is at the center of another controversy as its members fight...
