When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense. The studio had been around for over a decade and had several hits with mobile games like Triple Town and Alphabear. That approachable style of puzzle game seemed like a good fit for Netflixâs mobile-first strategy, and, as…
Media caption, Click above to watch this week’s episode of The Whole 10 YardsByPaul HighamBBC Sport journalistAfter yet more enthralling finishes in the Divisional Round, four teams remain with just one final hurdle to overcome to reach Super Bowl 60.And for the first time since 2011 is four new teams from last year.The Seattle Seahawks…
Itâs no secret that Cassette Boy is inspired by the classics. Itâs a top-down adventure game in the vein of a retro Legend of Zelda, while your home base is a small town like in an older PokĂ©mon game, complete with a mom who is constantly wishing you well. The gameâs blocky 3D graphics evoke…
It can be tempting, in an era where there are simply way too many great games coming out every month, to give into list inflation. Top 10s become top 25s. Top 25s become top 50s. By 2030, we might even see our first top 100 GOTY list. Kotaku has not been immune to the ebb…
This year, we may finally see if PC gaming can become the de facto mode for play. Valveâs long-promised Steam Machine is ready to make landfall early this year. Yes, we still donât know how much it will cost (and judging by current RAM prices, we donât imagine it will be cheap). We doubt it…
This yearâs Winter Olympics will showcase some of the worldâs best athletes across 116 different events in eight sports, attempting to ski, skate, snowboard, curl and sleigh their way to a gold medal. But you may be disappointed by the lack of options to catch all of the Olympic action this winter if you donât…
2026 is shaping up to be another big year for video games. The next 12 months are set to bring massive sequels like Forza Horizon 6, Resident Evil Requiem, and Gears of War: E-Day. There are also some smaller games weâre excited to get our hands on, like Bubsy 4D, Mouse: P.I. for Hire, and…
The latest of Steamâs creative weekly sales has just gone live, and this time itâs a Detective Fest. But rather than become entangled in red string as you try to pin all the available games to your enormous pinboard, weâve inspected the selection through our microscope, whittled down the suspects, and then performed yet another…
Ilia Malinin competes during the men’s short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in St. Louis. Stephanie Scarbrough/AP hide caption toggle caption Stephanie Scarbrough/AP The U.S. Figure Skating Championships, the sport’s annual national title event and the final qualifier for next month’s 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortino, are underway…
After years of corporate shuffling and various adaptations getting announced and coming out, everyoneâs favorite Tomb Raider, Lara Croft, is finally returning to video games with two titles. At last weekâs Game Awards, Crystal Dynamics revealed Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Tomb Raider: Catalyst. The former is a remake (or âreimaginingâ) of the original…
Tom RichardsonBBC NewsbeatRockstarA long wait: Grand Theft Auto 6 might finally arrive in 2026The video games industry is unpredictable.If you’d told us this time last year that a previously unknown French studio would claim game of the year, Battlefield 6 would knock Call of Duty off the top of the annual charts and that Saudi…
âŠ.And weâre back. Sorry about last year. Our previous owners, G/O Media, were a pack of idiots with more money than brains, who decided to stop anyone at Kotaku from writing personal top ten lists. Why? Pretty simple, really: They had no idea what they were doing and nearly destroyed this place. Anyway, theyâre all…
The thing that surprises me most about these personal GOTY lists, which Iâve been doing most years since I started working at Kotaku (including in the delivery room for my third child), is just how little I remember them after they go up. I could guess what was on the 2020 list, or the 2018…
In a June interview with Rolling Stone, the musician Woodkid spoke about working with Hideo Kojima to create the soundtrack for this yearâs Death Stranding 2. Asked what heâs learned from his time with the veteran game director, Woodkid shares an illuminating anecdote about a time when Kojima approached him with a concern. According to…
Oh hey, itâs been a while since we did one of these. Actually, before we get to my favorite games of 2025, here were my favorite games of 2024 that I was so rudely not allowed to tell yâall about last year. Metaphor: ReFantazio Dragon Age: The Veilguard Mouthwashing Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure 1000xResist Shadow…
Fallout is not a direct adaptation of the beloved gamesâneither the Black Isle/Interplay classics nor the revived Bethesda/Obsidian era of the seriesâwhich means that thereâs plenty of space for it to carve out its own imagining of the franchise in its corner of the wasteland. That hasnât stopped game fans, especially as the show begins…
AMD, eschewing a number in favor of an esoteric moniker, is now positioning the new version of its upscaling tech, dubbed âRedstone,â as a true competitor to Nvidiaâs DLSS (deep learning super sampling) software suite. Youâll need the latest AMD GPUs to get most of these updated features, but even if you donât game on…
Itâs Game Awards season, yâall. That special time of the year when we gather together to celebrate video games and the people who make them⊠by watching expensive commercials briefly punctuated by the odd awards speech or musical performance. For better or worse, The Game Awards is the biggest night on the video game event…
Netflix is â100% committedâ to releasing WB films in theaters.Netflixâs co-CEOs, in a letter to WBD stockholders:Thereâs been a lot of talk about theatrical distribution, so we want to set the record straight: we are 100% committed to releasing Warner Bros. films in theaters with industry-standard windows. While this hasnât been part of our business…
Itâs a big deal that Valve is making a game console. But Iâm beginning to think the Steam Machine may end up a footnote in gaming history. What if Valve could bring PC games not just to its own living room consoles, but also to the Arm chips that billions of people have in their…
My classic Sony CRT television wonât power on. My living room is chilly because my Mitsubishi heat pump isnât putting out enough hot air. I want my Japanese N64 to play US games, too, but Iâve been too busy to pop the hood. What if I had an AI companion to talk me through?iFixit just…
2025 was the year generative AI made its presence felt in the video game industry. Its use has been discovered in some of the most popular games of the year, and CEOs from some of the largest game studios claim itâs being implemented everywhere in the industry including in their own development processes. Meanwhile, rank-and-file…
Kelce’s closing dance? Why Chiefs famous particular person would perchance well also retire from NFL
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Travis Kelce has helped the Kansas City Chiefs reach five of the past six Super BowlsByBen CollinsBBC Sport journalistTravis Kelce already has a good idea how tough a decision it is for an NFL player to retire.Almost two years ago he watched his older brother Jason go through the process.Travis…
Goodness gracious, 2025 has been a fantastic year for video games, and most excitingly, for games of all scales and budgets. Big-name releases have hit the spot, while indies have sprung from nowhere to become breakthrough hits, such that wrestling them all down to a top 10 with which Iâm happy has been an ordeal.…
The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamersâ opinions on which title should be named the Game of the Year. I donât wanna say itâs a foregone conclusion what this yearâs GOTY will be â Silksong…