Asha Sharma: Quick, we need something that can simultaneously distract from the brutal layoffs that are sweeping across Xbox and bump up our stock prices for the shareholders. Anyone got any ideas?

Execs at Department of Forks LLC stunned to learn that users on We Hate Cutlery don't want them to purchase fork-hating website

6 Classic Games With Cool Details Hidden on Their Unpatched Physical Discs:

In conclusion, Mole is really good and you should play Mole.

oh cool, physical gaming media just died. cool cool cool. this hobby is cooked.

Please enjoy my breakdown of exactly how much money the ESA makes from its AAA-publisher members, which is included in this article about the ESA lobbying against Stop Killing Games’ Protect Our Games Act for no specific reason.

"in Mortal Kombat X, female characters allegedly carry genuinely smaller hitboxes"

guys I’m on bluesky to get away from all of the talk about GTA elsewhere, but all bluesky is doing is TALKING ABOUT HOW EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT GTA. THAT IS ALSO TALKING ABOUT GTA (Posts about people talking about how people are talking about people talking about GTA get a pass)

hey guys, just woke up, did I miss any video game news?

Reading this after reading Entertainment Weekly's article, which is just 40 paragraphs of EW shamelessly simping for Xbox, is suddenly making me feel very embarrassed about being a video game journalist

hey so like, I get not liking Ubisoft, but all the posts I'm seeing celebrating Claude Guillemot's death seem like a bit much Call me a bleeding heart, but I don't think terrible business decisions justify that. I hate rich people as much as anyone on Bluesky, but goddamn, give it a day at least

video game journalist hate this one trick:

The best comment I've seen regarding Evie's is "She looks so young that she'd have to ask her parents to buy Stellar Blade for her at a GameStop."

Genuinely, what was the logic behind making this? "Hey, Hideo, you ever feel like people like and respect you a bit too much?" "You know what, Nicolas? You're so right, I AM too beloved! Let's do something about that."

The 10 New Summer 2026 Anime You Should Be Most Excited For https://kotaku.com/the-10-upcoming-summer-2026-anime-you-should-be-most-excited-for-2000698322

ngl writing this one was just an excuse to use this image as the thumbnail kotaku.com/a-yu-gi-oh-v...

live footage of the video game journos in the UK desperately trying to finish 007 First Light and write their reviews in time for embargo during a record-breaking heatwave

I've seen posts from people online who were able to buy physical copies of 007 First Light earlier than this from Walmart btw

kotaku.com/calx-is-the-journey-looking-action-rpg-soulslike-i-never-knew-i-needed-until-i-played-it-2000699178 @kotaku.com did a cool article about our game 👀

I think Calx is neat and that you should play the demo for Calx kotaku.com/calx-is-the-...

If you need to reach out to me anonymously and/or securely with info, tips, or just to say hi, I'm over on Signal at LewisP.58

Had to try very, very hard to not lose my shit while writing this, so I'll lose my shit here instead This isn't just scummy and predatory--it's fucking evil. Dozens of people on flimsy contracts woke up on the 21st and found out that their jobs would be become untenably fucked by the 22nd

seeing this poster for the new Gundam Base store in London is the closest I have ever been to feeling patriotic

Painfully easy to predict exactly how these dipshits will react to anything.

this has radicalised me in a way that would lead to my BlueSky account getting banned if I verbalised it

I don’t know if this is a spicy take but this is a fucking terrible, dogshit pick just reminding you that this guy wrote this book

I've been staring at this article for 30 minutes and still can't believe Kotaku let me write it

I've been lucky enough to work with Chris a few times over the years, so I can confidently say that this is phenomenal news. If you're new and nervous about pitching a big dog like Eurogamer, don't be. Chris helped me get my start when I was just a newcomer. Eurogamer is in good hands.

STOP POSTING THE KISSING SCENE FROM MIXTAPE EVERYWHERE I'M GONNA FUCKIN VOM BRO

Shout out to this guy on Kotaku for posting the funniest comment I’ve ever seen on one of my articles

Mr McCloud, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings...?

A MindsEye developer speaks out about allegations of crunch, spying on employees, and self-sabotage: "I hear stories of people going for interviews, and while they're in the interview... https://kotaku.com/mindseye-build-a-rocket-boy-leslie-benzies-mark-gerhard-cyber-boi-layoffs-teramind-2000691386

waking up just before my shift writing video game news and seeing that the suspected White House shooter published an indie game

came all this fuckin way just to find out they cancelled the cruise already

just combed through the leaked GTA 6 the hackers released online and can exclusively reveal that a yet to be announced car driving mechanic will be in the final version of the game

Hot off the heels of Videogamer's AI-generated Resident Evil Requiem review, Esquire has decided to publish an AI-gen'd interview in which Claude AI roleplays as Mackenyu Maeda. What's next? A gonzo-style piece about AI Hunter S. Thompson describing the feeling of doing ketamine with Al Gore?

If you wrote a novel using AI... no you didn't. An AI wrote a novel, and you edited it. Saying you "wrote" it is like saying you cooked a dish you ordered at a restaurant.

Is The RAM AI-pocalypse Finally Over? Probably Not:

I spent way too long researching this and concluded that a) no, a Five Nights at Freddy’s Epstein clone is “not sweeping the nation,“ and, more importantly, b) adults are mad at children for not taking Epstein seriously? even though adults and the US government isn’t? “I learned it from you, dad!”

Is A Epstein Version Of Five Nights At Freddy's Really Going Viral? https://kotaku.com/five-nights-epstein-freddys-viral-school-browser-2000682875

debunk so good the mfer that made it up deleted their Reddit account

In light of this, I hope devs start following Slay the Spire 2’s lead when it comes to placeholder art. AI gen’d placeholder art: cringe, looks weird, makes me think you used AI elsewhere MS paint placeholder art: charming, funny, makes me certain a human designed everything

we've officially reached peak discourse: the chuds are now AI-generating "woke" Crimson Desert articles to get mad at

Hey, I'm in here saying you should play Esoteric Ebb!

The Best Games Of 2026 (So Far) https://kotaku.com/best-new-video-games-2026-2000680583

Seeing all these "game journalists were wrong about Crimson Desert!" takes on the other place, so I assumed that maybe the general public was actually loving it, and oop--

I know the Digital Foundry fellas are going through it atm, but... they missed a huge opportunity by not yassifying their faces in the DLSS 5 Q&A video thumbnail

Wikipedia, I'm begging you, there *has* to be a better source for this somewhere

Nice to write a wholesome, feel good story every now and again. Wishing @jacksonwryan.com and @serrels.bsky.social the best of luck with CONTINUE. Here's the Kickstarter page if you're feeling generous www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

'Defiant New Videogames Magazine' Continue Funded In 7 Hours On Kickstarter: