Reviews for Drag x Drive, Nintendo’s newest first-party Switch 2 game, went live across the web earlier today, and the overall consensus seems to be: Meh. By itself, that wouldn’t be much of a story, but Drag x Drive’s low review scores mean that two out of the five lowest-rated Switch 2 games on Metacritic … Read more
Marvel Rivals emerged late last year as an unlikely winner amid a sea of failed live-service slop. What made the free-to-play hero shooter succeed where others hadn’t? Was it the well-oiled gameplay loop, the massive comic book IP behind it, or the steady flow of gooner skins for iconic characters like Emma Frost? Following the … Read more
Later this year, PUBG: Battlegrounds will end support on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One after eight years of service as the developers focus on improving the game on current-gen hardware. On August 13, the development studio behind the extremely popular online battle royale game PUBG: Battlegrounds announced that the multiplayer shooter will no longer be … Read more
Spider-Man Remastered will once again be free for paid PS Plus subscribers to play when the hit open-world superhero adventure returns to the service later this month. In fact, August is looking like another decent haul for the Game Pass competitor, with Mortal Kombat 1 and Resident Evil PS1 classics also joining the fray. Spider-Man … Read more
On August 13, Konami confirmed that Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater Delta‘s new multiplayer mode–Fox Hunt–won’t support crossplay on PC or consoles. It’s not the only game to lack the popular feature this year. Elden Ring Nightreign doesn’t support crossplay and arcade soccer hit Rematch launched without it, too. But in 2025, it is weird … Read more
Is Mercy, the flying pocket-healing hero of Overwatch 2, actually the most oppressed character in the game? Are her fans, who get a never-ending stream of new cosmetics every season, the ones who are truly suffering the most under the hero shooter’s free-to-play regime? Are they cursed to forever have gradually more expensive bundles to … Read more
You can hardly log onto your PlayStation 5 or PS4 these days without seeing a banner for another massive 75 percent off sale. Sony’s latest discount event is pegged to Gamescom 2025, which kicks off next week, and it has some surprisingly decent deals. If you’ve been pining for a hundred hour RPG to whittle … Read more
Good morning, or good afternoon, or good whenever you are reading this. Kotaku’s Morning Checkpoint is back once more to share some news and other stuff with you. Today, that includes a wild story about a gaming convention gone wrong, more information on maps in Battlefield 6, a new union at Blizzard, a look behind … Read more
The second-best thing about being a Mario fan is that bad Mario games are exceedingly rare. But the first best thing about being a Mario fan is that Super Mario Odyssey exists. Whew, what a damn game. It’s a franchise entry that manages to be both wondrously inventive and comfortably familiar, setting the bar almost … Read more
Oh, thank goodness! Alien: Earth, Disney’s megabucks TV series set just before the events of the original Alien movie, is just brilliant. Showrunner, writer, and director Noah Hawley has created something truly special: a show that feels utterly built from the DNA of Ridley Scott’s earliest vision, but with the non-stop thrills of James Cameron’s Aliens … Read more