Game news

The latest headlines from around the games press. Articles open on the publisher's site.

Kotaku · 47m ago

BioWare Co-Founder Says EA’s Private Equity Acquisition Was ‘Final Nail In The Coffin’ For The Mass Effect Studio

Greg Zeschuk left the studio after Mass Effect 3 , but still weighed in on the company's closure earlier this month following EA's acquisition by private equity

Kotaku · 3h ago

World Of Warcraft’s Long Awaited Housing Feature Was The Best Thing About This Expansion, So Why Did I Stop Visiting?

You can always come home

Kotaku · 3h ago

World Of Warcraft: Forever Had ‘The Largest Beta In Franchise History’

'The craziest numbers I've seen in 17 years'

Kotaku · 4h ago

Xbox’s First Report Card Following Its Big ‘Reset’ Looks A Lot Like All The Others

Hardware down

Kotaku · 6h ago

Get Up To Speed On World Of Warcraft: Forever’s Big Launch: Everything You Need To Know

See you at the Crossroads

Kotaku · 6h ago

Gorgeous Stardew Valley For Witches Cozy Sim Finally Has A Release Date After 10 Years Of Waiting

Chucklefish is finally ready for players to hop into Witchbrook

Kotaku · 7h ago

Athanasia Is System Shock With Dinosaurs, And It Works So Damn Well

Athanasia is an immersive sim with dinos, secret passages, and codes hidden in emails

Kotaku · 7h ago

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 Developer Deletes Layoff Announcement, Then Reposts It Just Two Weeks After Scoring 96 Percent Positive Review Rating On Steam

Auroch Digital deleted its initial layoff announcement

Kotaku · 8h ago

Everything You Need To Know About The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Pre-Orders

Nintendo's going all out with a special console, Pro Controller, carrying case, and a special-edition foil game box. Good luck getting any of them

Kotaku · 8h ago

PlayStation Plus Free Games For November 2026 Include Tomb Raider Classics And A Superb Deckbuilder

And after skipping spooky games for October, a zombie action-adventure arrives ahead of Turkey day

Kotaku · 9h ago

When You Search For This New Switch 2 Indie Game, An ‘Unauthorized’ Knockoff With ‘AI-Generated Assets’ Shows Up, Too

Haunted Paws was just shown off at this morning’s Indie World showcase

Kotaku · 9h ago

PS5 Finally Gets Really Cool-Looking Translucent Controllers And Console Covers

The Prism Collection is going on sale in November

Kotaku · 10h ago

Valve Knows Steam Has An AI Slop Problem And Has A ‘Significant Number Of People’ Working On It

However, as usual, the company puts the onus to solve it on the developers who are getting screwed

Kotaku · 10h ago

Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker Launches $72.5 Million Lawsuit Again CNN Contributor Scott Jennings For Defamation

Jennings aired an edited video that made it look like Piker was calling for lynchings

Kotaku · 10h ago

Everything We Saw At Nintendo’s October Indie World Showcase

Nintendo held a showcase featuring some of the smaller games coming to the Switch family of systems

Kotaku · 11h ago

Umamusume: Pretty Derby Cosplayer Details Brutal Arrest By ICE Agents

Attacked by four agents in New York, Tan was then detained at a facility for the wrong gender

Kotaku · 11h ago

Wordeex Challenges Your Vocabulary and Your Logic, But Does It for Free

This challenging new word game available in 27 languages on iOS and Android is also playable offline.

Kotaku · 11h ago

Report: Mass Effect: Universe Devs Scrubbed Diversity From Demos To Avoid Negative Feedback From EA

EA closed BioWare shortly after being acquired by a consortium that included the Saudi Arabian government

Kotaku · 12h ago

Fans Can’t Believe Walmart Canceled Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Switch 2 Pre-Orders The Day Before They Were Meant To Arrive

The retailer seemingly oversold its pre-orders for the special-edition console coinciding with the Ocarina of Time remake

Kotaku · 12h ago

Xbox Says It Has To Fix Its Review Code System After Missing Modern Warfare 4 Metacritic Score

The new shooter still barely has any critic reviews on Xbox

Kotaku · 13h ago

Was Kingdom Hearts’ Gummi Ship That Bad, Or Were We All 12?

Examining one of the series’ most maligned minigames

Kotaku · 13h ago

Wuhu Island Is At Its Best In Nintendo Switch Sports Resort

Wii are so back

Kotaku · 1d ago

GTA 6′s Expectedly Massive File Size Has Been Revealed

Leonida needs its space

Kotaku · 1d ago

Some Discord Server Messages Are About To Show Up In Web Search Results

Starting in December, discoverable Discord server messages will show up in search results unless administrators opt out

Kotaku · 1d ago

It Took Mass Effect Fans Less Than 15 Minutes To Crowdfund Billboards Outside EA’s Offices And The Game Awards

The #SaveMassEffect campaign is rallying to be heard in places EA can’t avoid

Kotaku · 1d ago

Toei Animation Tried To Cancel Its Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime, So Weekly Shonen Jump Threatened To Pull Its Dragon Ball License

My grandpa's publishing company has no pathetic anime IPs, Kaiba!

Kotaku · 1d ago

This Room In Dark Souls Is My Personal Waking Nightmare

I get knocked down, but I get up again

Kotaku · 1d ago

9 Limited-Time Halloween 2026 Events You Can Play Inside Great Video Games Right Now

These games are getting festive for the spooky season

Kotaku · 1d ago

You Can Reserve Your Character Name In World Of Warcraft: Forever Starting Today

You don't need multiple umlauts in your name unless you want them

Kotaku · 1d ago

You Don’t Know Jack Devs Say They Didn’t Plagiarize Board Game: ‘We Intentionally Don’t Share Submissions With Our Game Teams’

Sam Greszes says that Jackbox Games went silent after requesting a demo of his board game Die on this Hill . A year later, it launches Debate and Switch .

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