XBOX created its own version of a subreddit and people are demanding exclusives and free multiplayer kotaku.com/xbox-has-a-n...

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

Looking for some freelance writers who are attending Anime Expo in July. DMs open!

Inside you there are two wolves

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why isn’t anyone talking about this game (also 12-year-olds need stuff like this, so that headline isn’t necessarily a criticism)

Remember chooms Epistrophy quest, about Delamain's self-driving cars going haywire in Night City? Seems we got another prediction right 🫣 kotaku.com/cyberpunk-20...

Sharing my big turn-based interview one more time before the weekend, because I like it that much - insight from Naoki Hamaguchi (FF7 Rebirth director), Kenichi Goto (Persona battle planner), Thierry Boulanger (Sea of Stars director), and more. gameinformer.com/feature/2026...

Went down to the National Mall to talk to folks about video games

It's 2003. 15-year-old me would never believe that 23 years later there will be a Lego set featuring the cherry tomatoes from Return of the King

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It's going to be interesting watching Marathon potentially dilute itself to try to become something more people will actually play. I can still see a version of this game 12 months from now that is very cool and almost nothing like what we experienced these first few months.

What's your favorite video game desk

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

I think "this looks like, but does not play like, the standards of the genre" is one of the harder things to communicate in games. It's a tough balance of trusting the player vs holding their hand! If we do another game that's mechanically out of left field we'll have to revise how we tutorialize.

Good morning. I profiled Amy Wallace, the only sibling of David Foster Wallace. I don't think you need to know much about David (or his work) to understand how his sister saw him — and how he loved her.

I wonder if it had anything to do with all of the people who stopped wanting to work with him

There's a perfect game for everyone, even if they're someone who thinks "video games" aren't for them. Unfortunately, even if they're lucky enough to find that one, there are very few good tools for getting the next perfect game in front of that marginal player.

If you noticed that I posted about getting in a bike wreck and then disappeared last week, it's because I got a concussion! While it's always interesting to have a new life experience, I can't say I recommend this one

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Keep this man away from journalists, journalism, the internet, and other people’s money.

"So it was the Afterschool Club of Like Minds versus the Strictly Hierarchical Athletic Types, and it was that unusual combination that brought forth Zelda for Game Boy Color." Satoru Iwata describing Nintendo vs. Capcom.

SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

Fun thing: Got to go song-by-song through Mixtape's soundtrack with the Beethoven & Dinosaur folks to find out why each song made the cut and what they mean to the team.

I have bellowed "orrr is it just a trick of the light?!" at my dog at least forty times

We also highlighted 7 different new indie games across the site this week, including @botherer.bsky.social's coverage of a recent novel RPG roguelite about a defeated final boss called Demon Lord: Just a Block:

Our review of Tomodachi Life from @manateemailbox.bsky.social also went up this week! It's long, thorough, and considers the joy of the franchise being back alongside some of its unexpected hollowness. kotaku.com/tomodachi-li...

Zelda 2 is great! I'm sorry Mr. Miyamoto doesn't agree. A new Nintendo dispatch from @duckvalentine.bsky.social

Rough couple of weeks. You deserve a few small beers. Happy Friday to you guys.

I'm not a comms guy but I wouldn't be yelling at a random NYT op-ed if everything was going great

Tell me about it

🌭AVAILABLE NOW🌭 Peter and I each bring our FAVORITE 30 GAMES to an extra-long episode of our BONUS PODCAST! $5 and up subscribers can listen now at patreon.com/criticalerror

The Boys season 5 promos are getting a bit out of control

The generous reading of PlayStation's CEO's comments on AI is that the technology will solve gaming's high budget graphics race. The more cynical reading is a future where AI is both the cause of slop and the only way to effectively navigate it.

If they ask you to write slop like this, you should tell them no

Life comes at you fast

Me and the squad doing Star Fox karaoke

I can't believe they did this just to spite NateTheHate

Notoriously irreverent and edgy publishing label Devolver Digital has been conspicuously quiet about the chuds on its tl today

Jared Palmer just joined Xbox as an engineering VP and technical advisor to CEO Asha Sharma. He comes from the product side at CoreAI. Here's a snippet from an interview last summer where he riffs on AI and uses a Guitar Hero analogy.

New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced today that this initiative is dead. Haiyan Zhang, who presented it at GDC 2026, left Microsoft shortly after following 13 years at the company. kotaku.com/xbox-copilot...

I sat down with Mark Rosewater (@maro254.bsky.social) during MagicCon to play a game of Mood Swings, his passion project 28 years in the making, and asked him all about it. He gave some good insight into design/ balance, and how it feels to finally release it. templeofgeek.com/magic-design...

Some Borderlands 4 fans thought recent patch notes read suspiciously like AI, and yesterday Randy Pitchford shared a "selfie" of ChatGPT. He says Gearbox has a no AI rule for stuff that can be seen by players. Many companies are reportedly experimenting with it for presentations, coding, and QA.

Andrew Ross Sorkin tries and fails to drag GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen through the details of his own proposal to buy eBay. The meme stock exec says he didn't approach eBay about the deal before announcing it and he's currently $14 billion short of the actual promised sale price.

This is nuts

Reggie rarely gives fresh behind the scenes nuggets these days. This is an unexpected treat.

This split will imo be indicative of the differing power dynamics among creatives within film vs games

i talked to ap thomson about the weird game he made and all the bits of himself that he put in it: kotaku.com/titanium-cou...

we are LIVE!!!!! playing diablooooo www.youtube.com/live/UjccWS-...