Gears of War: Reloaded, the newly released remaster of the original Gears of War, has a low review score on Steam due to crashes and missing split-screen support. This follows a day-one patch that was supposed to fix a number of bugs and crashes on both console and PC. On August 26, Xbox launched Gears … Read more
Where is Judas? That’s the question BioShock creator Ken Levine keeps getting asked. On Wednesday he took to the PlayStation Blog to tell players he still doesn’t have an answer. “While we wish we could give you an exact date today, we’re not quite ready to finalize that,” he writes, though he does offer some … Read more
The next batch of PlayStation Plus freebies is arriving next week and it’s a darn good haul of games, including the beloved indie blockbuster Stardew Valley. On August 27, as is usual around the end of the month, Sony announced what next month’s free PS Plus games will be. These games are available to all … Read more
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony and Netflix are entering early talks about producing a sequel to KPop Demon Hunters. This is hardly surprising given the animated musical’s success, but knowing a follow-up is coming means we get to spend the next however many years speculating about what comes next. Spoilers ahead! Is Jinu alive? … Read more
It’s been just over a year since Microsoft fractured its very good, very straightforward Game Pass subscription into a bunch of differently priced tiers that seemed designed to be as confusing as possible. The company is now throwing players who are subscribed to the cheapest Game Pass tiers a bone: increased access to PC and … Read more
Last week, it was revealed that upcoming open-world RPG Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 would launch in October with two of its important, playable vampire clans locked behind $22 day-one DLC. This didn’t go over well with folks online. Now, the devs behind the sequel are planning to make some changes. On August 19, … Read more
Mario Kart 8: Deluxe was one of the top-selling games in the U.S. last month across Nintendo Switch 1 and 2. Huh? Now in its 11th year, the racing game refuses to go gently into that good night even with a next-gen sequel available. Mario Kart World may be the franchise’s future, but Mario Kart … Read more
The (nearly) complete Hitman: World of Assassination experience, including all 25 levels and bald assassin Agent 47 himself, is making the leap from consoles and PC to iPhone and iPad. But folks might be shocked by the high sticker price of this new, portable version of the stealth action game. On August 27, as previously … Read more
What retro revival could resurrected ’90s licensed game publisher Acclaim possibly be teasing? Why doesn’t the director of Dragon’s Dogma want to make Soulslike-slop? And how did novelist turned film maker Alex Garland achieve every FromSoftware fan’s dream of showing his Elden Ring fanfic to Hidetaka Miyazaki? It’s another edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku‘s daily … Read more
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is one of 2025’s biggest surprise success stories. Sandfall Interactive’s turn-based RPG has gone on to sell more than 3.3 million copies since its launch in April, and is a frontrunner as we head into Game of the Year talks in December. Naturally, Sandfall Interactive is looking to capitalize on all … Read more