God of War is in the PlayStation Plus Collection for PS5 owners. Sony September’s free collection of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers are in. From Sept. 7, subscribers can get Hitman 2, Overcooked All You Can Eat and Predator Hunting Grounds for free. You should be excited about two of […]
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AMD’s second-fastest Zen 3 gaming CPU, the Ryzen 9 5900X, is down to $495
AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900X takes pole position in our roundup of the best gaming CPUs, the only real downside being the price (especially since it doesn’t come with a bundled cooler). Now that it’s more widely available, though, it’s prone discounted pricing. To wit, you can buy one today for […]
What Steam’s most-wishlisted games tell us about the state of PC gaming
Steam has many scoreboards. The “Top Sellers” section ranks releases by total recent revenue (which explains why the $999 Valve Index regularly tops Steam’s sales chart). Steam Stats tabulates who’s playing what. And elsewhere on Steam, a crystal ball contains a list of the most-wishlisted games. It’s a revealing, ever-changing […]
Blockchain-based gaming booms with help from Axie Infinity, outpacing NFTs, DeFi
Blockchain-based gaming is being adopted at an increasingly rapid rate, new data suggests, even as the popularity for other applications such as non-gaming tokens and decentralized finance (DeFi) show signs of wear. According to the most recent from the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA), over 804,000 unique active users connected to […]
Xbox has ruled out Game Pass on other consoles in near future
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has ruled out the possibility of launching Xbox Game Pass on other console platforms in the near future. In a GamesRadar interview, Spencer was specifically asked whether Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox Game Pass to Nintendo Switch. “We have no plans to bring it to […]
Activision Blizzard’s QA Devs Are Sharing Horror Stories
Call of Duty MobileImage: Activision Blizzard Long hours. Low pay. Tremendous instability. Working in quality assurance (QA) for a video game studio is notoriously difficult and painstaking enough as it is without factors like these complicating matters. Yet for QA testers at Activision Blizzard, a company that has come under […]
Old Nintendo Switch Games Are Outselling PS5, Xbox Titles
Image: Nintendo / Kotaku Nintendo continues absolutely dominating the competition in terms of game sales. The Japanese Switch maker had eight of the top 20 best-selling games for July 2021, according to analytics firm NPD Group, and most of those games aren’t even new. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, […]
Kotaku Splitscreen Podcast Gives Video Game Cats Some Love
Who doesn’t love cats? Image: CyberConnect2 / Kotaku It’s any given moment in time, and you all know what that means: It’s time to celebrate everyone’s favorite fluffy little bundles of chaotic indifference, cats. Whether they’re sneaking through the back streets of a cyberpunk dystopia or being loaded into a […]
Mario & Luigi Devs’ Tomato Adventure Translated Into English
Image: AlphaDream / Nintendo / underthegame The obscure 2002 Game Boy Advance RPG Tomato Adventure is finally playable in English thanks to a fan translation patch released last week, arriving nearly 20 years since the role-playing game first came out in Japan. Despite launching in the early aughts, Tomato Adventure […]
Only one of Epic’s ‘first wave’ of exclusives made money, and it wasn’t Metro
Epic Games, we learned courtesy of a likewise epic document dump in the midst of its lawsuit with Apple, is spending mountains of money to make games exclusive to its store—which is fine, because it’s got mountains of money to spend, and big plans for the future. But a more […]