In 2025, the idea of releasing a paid, online-only multiplayer shooter seems very risky, as we’ve seen plenty of them fail. But Remedy, the developers behind Control and Alan Wake, have a plan to make sure their first multiplayer game—FBC: Firebreak—succeeds and doesn’t flop like Concord or XDefiant. The Week …
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delayed Again
Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed again. The open-world stealth game was set to arrive in February following its initial delay in September 2024, but now it won’t launch until March 20. Is Alan Wake Worth Playing Before Its Sequel? | Total Recall Assassin’s …
Read More »Marvel Rivals’ First Balance Patch Gives Hela A Slap On The Wrist
Part of the beauty of Marvel Rivals, NetEase’s hero shooter starring characters from the comic book company’s biggest properties, has been that it doesn’t feel like a super-polished, esports-aspiring competitive game, instead opting for dumb fun and overpowered kits. It’s refreshing after seeing Overwatch 2 sand off all its edges …
Read More »Sony Announces Helldivers And Horizon Zero Dawn Movies
Image: Arrowhead Game Studios Sony has big Hollywood plans for its hit gaming franchises. The PlayStation 5 maker announced a series of new movie spin-offs at CES 2025 this week, including movie versions of Helldivers 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn, as well as an anime spin-off of Ghost of Tsushima. …
Read More »The Sonic Movies Have Now Made Over A Billion Dollars
Image: Paramount / Sega Sonic the Hedgehog 3 hit theaters late last month and has already grossed more than $300 million worldwide, pushing the film series based on Sega’s popular video games past the one-billion mark and making it one of Paramount’s biggest ongoing franchises. The Top 10 Most-Played Games …
Read More »January’s Can’t-Miss Game Releases, A Surprise Horror Hit On Steam, And More Of The Week’s Top Stories
Image: Nintendo / Jump Over the Age / Yellow Brick Games / Kotaku, Apple / Kotaku, Arrowhead Game Studios, Rocksteady Studios, Nintendo / Kotaku, Game Science, Screenshot: AIHASTO, TES Renewal Project, TrampolineTales, Photo: SOPA Images (Getty Images) This past week saw the end of 2024, the arrival of 2025, and, …
Read More »Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games We’re Settling Into 2025 With
Image: Night School Studio Play it on: Mobile Current goal: Stop those damn kids Oxenfree is one of my favorite games ever. Its compelling combination of naturalistic, banter-y dialogue and spooky podcast-like storyline clicked strongly for me, entirely drawing me into its mysterious narrative. Peculiar radio signals, ghostly apparitions, and …
Read More »Don’t Sleep On 2024’s Most Underrated Tactics RPG
SteamWorld Heist II snuck out last year in early August and didn’t create as many ripples as some of the other genre spin-offs in its quirky robotic universe. That’s a shame because the bones of this tactical RPG are some of the strongest around, even if the surrounding fluff can …
Read More »BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A ‘Corridor,’ But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever
In a recent interview with Games Industry.biz, Ken Levine disparaged his most famous and popular game, BioShock, as “a very, very long corridor.” He uses this description pejoratively to distinguish the 2007 first-person mystery game from his current project, science fiction FPS Judas, a game he says is being made …
Read More »This Fan-Made Sonic Game Looks Just As Good As The Real Thing, And You Can Play It Right Now
Screenshot: Starteam / Kotaku There are a lot of great fan-made Sonic the Hedgehog games out there. Sega has been notoriously chill with fans of the Blue Blur using its characters in their own projects, and there are even a handful of community-driven remakes of old games that could use …
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