Fallout is not a direct adaptation of the beloved games—neither the Black Isle/Interplay classics nor the revived Bethesda/Obsidian era of the series—which means that there’s plenty of space for it to carve out its own imagining of the franchise in its corner of the wasteland. That hasn’t 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 “Redstone,” as a true competitor to Nvidia’s DLSS (deep learning super sampling) software suite. You’ll need the latest AMD GPUs to get most of these updated features, but even if you don’t game on…
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…
It’s Game Awards season, y’all. 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…
My classic Sony CRT television won’t power on. My living room is chilly because my Mitsubishi heat pump isn’t putting out enough hot air. I want my Japanese N64 to play US games, too, but I’ve 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 it’s being implemented everywhere in the industry including in their own development processes. Meanwhile, rank-and-file…
Netflix is “100% committed” to releasing WB films in theaters.Netflix’s co-CEOs, in a letter to WBD stockholders:There’s 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 hasn’t been part of our business…
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…
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…
Oh hey, it’s 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 y’all about last year. Metaphor: ReFantazio Dragon Age: The Veilguard Mouthwashing Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure 1000xResist Shadow…
….And we’re 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, they’re all…
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 I’m happy has been an ordeal.…
In a June interview with Rolling Stone, the musician Woodkid spoke about working with Hideo Kojima to create the soundtrack for this year’s Death Stranding 2. Asked what he’s 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…
The thing that surprises me most about these personal GOTY lists, which I’ve 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…
Today, Nvidia is soft-launching its latest gaming GPUs in the cloud — upgrading its $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate cloud gaming service with RTX 5080 graphics for select games, with more to come down the road. At the same time, it’s also adding thousands more titles to the bring-your-own-games service by letting you install them yourself,…
Media caption, Ben Proud talks about joining the Enhanced GamesByBen Collins, BBC Sport journalist and Patrick Gearey, BBC Sport senior journalist reporterOlympic swimmer Ben Proud has become the first British athlete to join the controversial Enhanced Games – but insists what he is doing is not undermining ‘clean’ sport.Proud, 30, is a world and European champion at 50m freestyle,…
Hollow Knight: Silksong, one of the hottest games of the year with a reported five million players in its first week, didn’t launch on smartphones. But that won’t stop you from playing it on Android — because a new leap in Windows to Android emulation means you can easily install and run the Steam version…
A busy year for Nintendo continues with its latest Direct livestream. And it was a big one spanning more than an hour of announcements and trailers, with quite a few surprises.That includes a title for the next Super Mario Bros. movie, release dates for Metroid Prime 4 and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, a Pokémon…
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Tuchel managed Paris St-Germain, Chelsea and Bayern Munich before becoming England bossByUmir IrfanFootball tactics correspondentThomas Tuchel’s England have only played six games together and Tuesday’s 5-0 win against Serbia was the most impressive.With the World Cup fast approaching, Tuchel has the difficult challenge of refining his best 11 and the…
So I heard you want to play Kirby on hard mode: tough bosses, tricky platforming, complicated puzzles, hidden collectibles, and maybe even punishments for failing. The Star-Crossed World expansion in Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s Switch 2 edition certainly introduces new challenges. There’s pressure from time constraints and consecutive platforming sequences, multistep puzzles, and bosses…
I love me a stupid-ass action movie. Something where the plot is thin while the muscles and accents on all the henchmen are thick as hell. Think Broken Arrow or Eraser — movies that were artistically and sometimes commercially terrible but nevertheless thrilling watches that you forgot about almost immediately after leaving the theater.Borderlands 4…
(Image credit: ILM) AC thVRsday This week, guest editor Michael Hicks is covering Nick Sutrich’s weekly column on all things VR, from new hardware to new games.Quest headsets took a back seat at Meta Connect 2025. Zuckerberg focused on smart glasses and signaled that Meta will shift its VR focus to 3D media like Avatar.…
(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central) AC thVRsday In his weekly column, Android Central Senior Content Producer Nick Sutrich delves into all things VR, from new hardware to new games, upcoming technologies, and so much more.I’ve been obsessed with the idea of mixed reality gaming ever since the Meta Quest 3 debuted almost 2…
Thursday September 11, 2025 11:04 am PDT by Juli CloverApple and Epic Games have been involved in a high-profile legal battle in the United States, but the two companies have also been facing off in court in Australia. Back in August, Australia’s federal court ruled that the Apple App Store had violated competition laws by…
The court order that required Apple to collect no fees from developers who link to purchases outside of the App Store is unconstitutional, Apple said today in a reply brief directed at Epic Games and filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Apple argues that it has been stripped of its rights to be…