kotaku.comadded August 2026
Kotakuby Ethan Gach28d ago
August was an exceptionally good month for the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, with Helldivers 2 headlining a meaty group of fresh additions to Sony’s subscription service library.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach28d ago
The original Final Fantasy VII proved that a turn-based role-playing game could be one of the best-selling games around.
Kotakuby Tom Regan28d ago
Sitting opposite the director of Final Fantasy VII’s remake trilogy, Naoki Hamaguchi, in a makeshift cardboard meeting room erected at Gamescom 2026, I notice that the deceptively youthful-looking...
Kotakuby Hayes Madsen28d ago
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is a massive game, perhaps the biggest mainline game in the entire Final Fantasy series, outside of the MMOs.
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick29d ago
Dontnod, developers of the original Life Is Strange and, more recently, Lost Records: Bloom and Rage and Aphelion, has admitted to growing financial uncertainty in its recent statements...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach29d ago
PlayStation helped Hideo Kojima reveal his next stealth action game Physint in January 2024. In June, it decided to cancel the project. Then Xbox swooped in to take over as the publisher.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach29d ago
The next espionage thriller from Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima won’t be published by PlayStation.
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen29d ago
It appears a playable build of Rare’s canceled SNES fantasy RPG, Project Dream, has suddenly surfaced online.
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick29d ago
Backrooms has finally been released in Japanese cinemas, many months after its initial release in the United States, and Hideo Kojima has been notably involved in the film’s rollout for its release...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen29d ago
Very few games gross me out. Frogwares’ recently released Lovecraftian survival horror game, The Sinking City 2, is one of the few things I’ve played that truly made me go “Bleh.” It’s a game...
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick29d ago
Silent Hill f, the grand return of Konami’s signature horror franchise, released to great acclaim and quickly became one of the fastest-selling titles in the series.
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen29d ago
The September Nintendo Direct was a bit of a snoozefest compared to some of the past ones. It didn’t help that a lot of the trailers shown in the event were for ports of games that already came out...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen29d ago
When I woke up this morning, I didn’t expect to write about a new Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim mod starring Matt Berry as a talking Ikea shelf. And yet, here we are, folks.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard29d ago
I can’t really drag most of this morning’s underwhelming Nintendo Direct for focusing on old games without acknowledging that the thing that got me most excited is also half a remake of one of my...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach29d ago
There’s a new open-world Kirby game coming and this one is hiding some big secrets. When the pink blob sees a crack in the sky and smashes it wide open to reveal “a world beyond,” it’s a neat...
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine29d ago
The Nintendo Switch 2 is over a year old, and we’re fresh off a Nintendo Direct full of games for it.
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick29d ago
In recent years, Sega has undergone an ambitious transformation seeking to broaden the appeal of its iconic series beyond gaming, and that effort isn’t limited to Sonic the Hedgehog and Angry Birds...
Kotakuby Ash Parrish29d ago
Attention Blood of the Dawnwalker players! Put down the mod that lets you bypass the game’s time constraints and get one that actually improves your experience: a goddamn minimap.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard29d ago
Nintendo has held two Direct showcases this week. Yesterday’s was all about the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, and today’s was a more general presentation about games coming to Switch 2.
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine29d ago
Kirby and the World Beyond was just announced to close today’s Nintendo Direct. It’s coming in spring 2027, and it looks like a new open-world adventure for the little pink guy in which he gets a...
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