After just one weekend in theaters, Five Nights At Freddy’s is already breaking records and racking up an impressive $130 million at the global box office since releasing on October 27 to less-than-stellar reviews.
Source: Kotaku – Despite Negative Reviews, Five Nights At Freddy’s Film Killing At The Box Office
Alan Wake 2 has been out for just a weekend, and Remedy has already put out a new patch. However, the patch notes aren’t terribly specific, with one amusing exception.
Source: Kotaku – Alan Wake 2’s New Patch Promises Technical Fixes And ‘Friendlier’ Error Messages
The Finals is a forthcoming free-to-play first-person shooter from new studio Embark, set in a fictional game show’s death arena. Its open beta—which you can sign up for now through November 5 on Steam, PS5, or Xbox Series X/S—promises confetti colors and similarly striking flames and explosions. It looks exciting,…
Source: Kotaku – Players Love This New FPS, Except For The Cheaters And AI Voice Acting
Controversial streamer Nick “Nickmercs” Kolcheff recently announced a massive $10 million deal with Twitch rival Kick, and it seems that, although he once implored pro-LGBTQIA people to “leave children alone,” he’s not worried about teaching children how to gamble.
Source: Kotaku – Nickmercs Will Stream Gambling On Kick, But Not ‘A Sh*t Ton’
In addition to an unspecified number of job cuts, Destiny 2 maker Bungie has also been racked by delays. Bloomberg reports that the sci-fi MMO shooter’s The Final Shape expansion has slipped from February to June, with upcoming extraction shooter Marathon getting delayed to 2025.
Source: Kotaku – Report: Destiny 2’s Climactic The Final Shape Expansion And Marathon Shooter Delayed
The fact that you can, today, play Capcom’s Resident Evil Village natively on an Apple iPhone is undeniably impressive. But actually trying to play this popular horror game on Apple’s latest pocketable device doesn’t make for a great experience.
Source: Kotaku – Resident Evil Village On iPhone Is Impressive, But Not A Great Way To Play
Super Mario Bros. Wonder has levels full of secret paths to explore, but did you know a few of them lead to entirely new mini-worlds and levels for you to run and jump through? There are several levels that have secret exits that you have to work to find, and while all of them will give you a new Wonder Seed, a…
Source: Kotaku – Here’s How To Find Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s Special Worlds
Nintendo recently filed a patent for a handheld device with a design that might surprise you. The patent reveals a handheld that looks a lot less like what you might expect of the upcoming Switch 2, and more like if the 3DS had a third screen.
Source: Kotaku – Switch 2 Could Look Like One Of Nintendo’s Classic Handhelds
Bungie is the latest PlayStation studio to face layoffs. While the scale of the cuts wasn’t immediately apparent, multiple, now-former staff members began posting on social media on October 30 that they’d been let go by the beloved Destiny 2 maker.
Source: Kotaku – Destiny 2 Maker Bungie Latest PlayStation Studio To Cut Staff
A recently uncovered Rockstar Games patent suggests the developer could be using new technology to make NPCs in its games more immersive, particularly when it comes to the highly anticipated action-adventure crime sim GTA VI.
Source: Kotaku – GTA VI Patent Hints At Rockstar’s Most Immersive Game Yet
This story is part of our new Future of Gaming series, a three-site look at gaming’s most pioneering technologies, players, and makers.
Source: Kotaku – Kotaku’s 24 Most Anticipated Games Of 2024
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is one of the biggest games of 2023 and a few of us at Kotaku have been playing it quite a bit in recent weeks. After wrapping the main story, Kotaku writers Ethan Gach and Zack Zwiezen (along with a surprise cameo from Kotaku’s new Editor In Chief, Jen Glennon) came together to discuss…
Source: Kotaku – What We Loved And Hated In Spider-Man 2 On PS5
Microsoft appears to be cracking down on third-party peripherals for its consoles. Players are reporting getting error messages when they try to use certain off-brand controllers on Xbox Series X/S, with the accompanying text telling them them that the devices are not authorized and will no longer usable come…
Source: Kotaku – Xbox Is Banning ‘Unauthorized’ Controllers And Accessories
To commemorate Godzilla Minus One, the first Japanese film in the kaiju franchise since 2016 (out December 1 in the U.S.), the New York Japan Society screened a dusky archival print of the original 1954 movie Godzilla, which I had never seen before. Earlier this month, I came to the non-profit’s snug Midtown…
Source: Kotaku – Godzilla Can Teach Us Something In Time For Its 69th Anniversary
The end of October is nigh, which means the spooky decorations are about to make way for snow, presents, and mistletoe. But before we say goodbye to the jack-o-lanterns and trick-or-treating, we can still pay tribute to the spookiest, the scariest, the ghouliest(?) of Pokémon: the ghost types.
Source: Kotaku – It’s Halloween, Let’s Rank The Best Ghost-Type Pokémon
When Hi-Fi Rush shadow-dropped on January 25, it was a shockingly pleasant surprise. Beautiful, vibrant, playful, the rhythm action platformer quickly won players over. A day later, Hitman World of Assassination appeared, deploying clever roguelike mechanics to reinvent the best stealth game of 2021. A day after that, …
Source: Kotaku – 2023 Is The Best Year For Games In A While (And Maybe Ever?)
The 2022 horror movie Barbarian wasn’t on my short list of recent films I thought might get a video game adaptation. But it sounds like one is coming from the company behind the Friday the 13th and Evil Dead games.
Source: Kotaku – One Of 2022’s Best Horror Movies Will Soon Be A Video Game
It’s nearly Halloween, so it’s once again time for Valve to throw a big ol’ spooky-themed Steam sale. And this year there are plenty of great deals on new and old games, most of which are scary and perfect to play on Halloween night. Also…
Source: Kotaku – Don’t Sleep On These Great Steam Halloween Sale Deals
Games For Gaza, an itch.io fundraiser for Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) that features 256 items ranging from games, stories, soundtracks, game assets, and more, reached its first, $10,000 goal within hours of its October 27 launch.
Source: Kotaku – Games For Gaza Fundraising Bundle Surpasses First Goal In Hours
