kotaku.comadded August 2026
Kotakuby John Walker1d ago
It likely won’t surprise anyone that Unity’s just-announced AI vibe-coding game creator, Spark, is being met with derision at Kotaku. We’re not exactly enamored with genAI, it’s fair to say.
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen1d ago
Xbox is currently in the middle of its big corporate “reset,” which has involved the company shuffling around franchises and teams while it continues to lay off workers.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach1d ago
Star Wars Zero Company is an excellent XCOM-like and an even better Star Wars game. But a bunch of its developers were furloughed just prior to the game’s launch.
Kotakuby Amelia Zollner1d ago
This week, I became a proud parent. My new son’s name is Ingredient, and I dressed him up to look like a big dork: Ingredient is my beloved dog in the open beta of Dog Online, a semi-new browser...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen1d ago
There’s a lot of AI-generated slop out there these days. You might wonder, “Who even wants this?” Well, apparently, millions of people do, according to the folks behind Astrocade, a free online...
Kotakuby Ethan Gach1d ago
I was looking forward to Tom Cruise finally getting off the Hollywood action blockbuster treadmill and back into some headier acting again when Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger was first teased.
Kotakuby Lewis Parker1d ago
The PlayStation jailbreaking and homebrew scene is in absolute disarray at the moment, as the sudden explosion in vibecoded AI-slop projects is taking its toll on the community.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach1d ago
Everyone’s favorite entrepreneur, Bobby Kotick, is back in the business of games again, sorta. He’s been named to the board of the newly formed Skydance Corp., which now controls both Paramount and...
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard1d ago
With the Pokémon card market being so grossly lucrative these days, most people aren’t willing to trade rare and graded cards for anything less than a stack of cash.
Kotakuby John Walker1d ago
Word is coming in from the extremely reliable leaker billbil-kun at Dealabs that Forza Horizon 6 will not be arriving on PS5 until 2027. January 26, 2027 to be precise.
Kotakuby Rebekah Valentine1d ago
Order of the Sinking Star, like the puzzles it contains, is a game I have a lot of complex, often conflicting, feelings about. As a collection of sokoban puzzles? It’s excellent.
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard1d ago
On principle, I still oppose Overwatch turning Sombra—the ex-Talon hacker whose entire deal was that she would hack enemies, shut down their abilities, and create openings in opposition’s defenses...
Kotakuby John Walker1d ago
Rumors are flying that Evening Star, the developer behind Sonic Mania, is working on a new Ape Escape game, the first in over 15 years since 2011’s PlayStation Move Ape Escape created for the PS3...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen1d ago
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out now on PS5, Xbox, and PC. And it is one of the best games of 2026, combining fast racing, arcade action, and roguelike elements into one of the best Star Wars games...
Kotakuby Ash Parrish1d ago
A collection of a video game developer’s prototypes, design documents, and more has been sold off to collectors, spurring a conversation about video game preservation, privacy, and ethics online.
Kotakuby Ethan Gach1d ago
The merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. was finalized today. The resulting monstrosity has been rebranded as Skydance Corp.
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick1d ago
Takashi Iizuka, Kazayuki Hoshino, and Jun Senoue, three prominent members of Sega’s Sonic Team, sat down with Continue magazine in Japan to discuss the 35th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog...
Kotakuby Zack Zwiezen1d ago
As part of this job, I play a lot of video games. Many of these games include boss fights. And I find a lot of these battles to be serviceable at best, just testing to make sure the player...
Kotakuby Alicia Haddick2d ago
Solid Snake’s Japanese voice actor, Akio Otsuka, has had an expansive voice acting career playing everyone from Master Xehanort in the Japanese dub for Kingdom Hearts to Blackbeard in One Piece...
Kotakuby Kenneth Shepard2d ago
Overwatch’s new season launches today, and it brings new hero Doctrine, reworks Sombra and Roadhog, and leads us into the final chapter of Blizzard’s year-long narrative arc.
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