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If you wind up on the wrong side of Reddit or YouTube, you’ll likely come across bold declarations proclaiming “what gamers want.” Nine times out of ten, these takes are given in bad faith, often by people more concerned with imposing what they want than with understanding what the majority of players are truly… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/2fnB8ZP via New free games

Every year we play a ton of great games that we celebrate in December, and those games can be great for all sorts of reasons: amazing level design, incredible atmosphere, outstanding combat or exploration, you name it. But more often than not, it’s the heroes and villains of a great game that stick with us the… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/71WgRmF via New free games

Cinematic continuity be damned, Jason Momoa is putting the fish gills down for tattoos and violence. According to reports from Deadline , the man known around the world as Aquaman formally announced his return to the DC universe as the invulnerable Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/lhzGRxV via New free games

The term “pay to win” is typically attributed to competitive games with microtransactions that give players an edge in battle. An example would be an item you can buy that makes your character more powerful than that of someone who didn’t cough up real money. However, some Marvel Rivals fans are throwing the… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/Eixgwlb via New free games

Each live-action Sonic movie introduces another beloved character from Sega’s speedy platformers to the film universe in a post-credits scene , and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is no exception. Though the new addition to Sonic’s growing family of anthropomorphic animals doesn’t have any spoken lines in the movie’s stinger,… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/l9VxwTv via New free games

Marvel’s latest Disney+ animated series is called Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and it’s another origin story for the webcrawler, but with one brings some hefty changes with it as it explores an alternate history that exchanges Tony Stark’s tutelage for a mentoring Norman Osborne. The first trailer is full of… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/7RjLeTG via New free games

Writing a review is a tall order. Especially at a place like Kotaku, where we have a whole headline format meant to declare our “definitive” word on a game, movie, or show. It can come off as if we’re putting an authoritative stamp of approval or disapproval on whatever we’re critiquing, which can be pretty daunting.… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/sl3xegE via New free games

2024 was a really good year for video games . (But not so good for the people who make them .) And while it featured a ton of new games, both big and small, this was also a year with a lot of remasters and remakes. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/9NprOMk via New free games

Has this happened to you? You just opened your new PlayStation VR2 and everything seems fine. The setup goes swimmingly. You’ve got a handle on the controls, and you enter a game of your choice. Except, hold on a second—why don’t some of the buttons on your controller work? Everything worked before you were in a game,… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/G4rBOHR via New free games

After weeks of rumors, Warner Bros. and DC confirmed today that The Batman - Part II has been delayed again. The planned Batman sequel is now set to land in theaters in 2027, five years after the release of the first movie and nearly eight years after Robert Pattinson was cast as the iconic DC hero. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/da3bOcy via New free games

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of live-action remakes of popular animated movies. Will Wallace & Gromit ever get a Disney-like live-action remake movie? The duo’s creator has a simple answer: “NOOOOO.” Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/gArBGUH via New free games

The LittleBigPlanet franchise effectively died earlier this year when Sony took down the servers for and later delisted LBP3. But a group of self-described “hobbyists” are working on Restitched, a game that will likely be just what some sad LBP fans are missing. And a new trailer for it arrived as a last-minute… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/RYAG0vQ via New free games

Anime steampunk spin-off Arcane just wrapped up its second and final season on Netflix. While the League of Legends show cost $250 million to produce and didn’t make that money back, Riot Games cofounder Marc Merrill now says the company still considers the show a success because of how much fans loved it. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/chP8CXE via New free games

This was a really weird year for Xbox. You could argue that Microsoft’s gaming brand had an amazing year or that it had one of its worst, and either way I’d likely find myself nodding in agreement to most of your points. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/L4i7S29 via New free games

The PlayStation 5 has entered the latter stage of its lifecycle, Sony announced back in February. The fourth anniversary of the console has been marked by impressive victories and surprising setbacks . 2024 felt like an inflection point for the PS5, with Sony unofficially turning the page on the PS4 and paving the way… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/jrBCOim via New free games

Wow! Another year down. It feels like 2024 went by in a flash, and also feels like I spent half my life slowly trudging through this mostly awful year filled with a lot of bad news. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/4EnFexT via New free games

In a lot of ways, 2024 was a worse year for the video game industry than 2023. And that’s really depressing to think about considering how bad 2023 was for game developers and the media covering the industry. Still, even a shitty year can have nice moments and wonderful surprises. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/C2ObKJ4 via New free games

It took six episodes, dozens of burning bodies, some Spice snorting, and too many betrayals to count, but Dune: Prophecy’sfirst season has finally come to an end. And, as did much of the first season, the finale is already creating possibilities that’ll have ramifications in the next season as well as the next Dune mo… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/yuqITQ2 via New free games

Originating from folklore and legends across different cultures and centuries, the supernatural creatures with a lust for blood and a fear of garlic and crucifixes have become some of the most iconic figures in horror and popular culture. And some of the most popular. The Twilight film series alone grossed over $3… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/F5Xq7JO via New free games

The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise has seen significantly more television and film adaptations than most video game series can claim. While it’s having its most widespread moment ever with its current live-action movie franchise, the blue blur has been starring in animated series for over 30 years. Each of these… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/DA4qlV3 via New free games

Last year’s remake of Dead Space proved a critical hit , reviving the beloved space horror series after it had been left fallow for ten years. However, despite being January 2023's second-biggest selling game (behind Modern Warfare II), this seemingly wasn’t enough success to satisfy EA, and it was reported in April of… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/OTJSUWm via New free games

Trying to sum up 2024 in video games in an entirely celebratory way would feel somewhat dishonest. In recent years, our efforts to recognize the best video games of the past 12 months always come with a caveat: Yes, great games undeniably come out, but things are bad for the industry. The world makes another trip… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/SE8BkCA via New free games

One of 2024’s biggest success stories has been Marvel Rivals, a third-person PVP shooter starring Marvel heroes and baddies. The game has already picked up over 20 million players and shows no signs of stopping. Which is cool but also very surprising! Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/SCJWatg via New free games

This week, Marvel Rivals continued to pull players in with its enjoyably chaotic take on the hero-shooter genre, and we’ve got heaps of tips to help you come to grips with the game and see what cool strats other players are using. We’ll also fill you in on everything we know about Intergalactic, Naughty Dog’s upcoming… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/YV89SQT via New free games

The year is wrapping up but the gaming news keeps coming. This week, tales of hurt feelings and anger among some developers and fans of Black Myth: Wukong emerged after it failed to take home Game of the Year honors at this year’s Game Awards. Additionally, the announcement that pricey Killzone skins were coming toHel… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/XubpH85 via New free games

The line between success and failure can get blurred under a deluge of criticism, especially when it starts affecting your real life. That appears to be what Jesse Eisenberg has been secretly dealing with for nearly a decade. Deadline reports that in a recent chat on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Eisenberg… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/dmN3fMc via New free games

A new report claims that Woody Johnson, who owns the NFL team the New York Jets, has used EA’s popular Madden video game series to help him make decisions involving real players. It’s even reported that a trade deal was killed due to stats found in the game. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/2tQY9Zp via New free games

We’re about one day away from the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and we know that the third movie in the live-action film franchise will include the iconic song “Live & Learn” from Sonic Adventure 2. While Sonic fans will likely feel real nostalgic upon hearing the song in the film, the artist behind the track and… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/UQmr57t via New free games

That took less time than it takes to discover all of the ways to annoy enemies with Doctor Strange’s portal in Marvel Rivals . A week after Amazon Prime Video released the first eight episodes of its animated anthology series Secret Level, the streamer has decided to give us more twisted video game adaptations by… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/BjuIZKT via New free games

McDonald’s is teasing a collaboration between itself and the extremely popular Evangelion anime franchise. But while the figures in the collab have yet to be announced, they have apparently leaked online via a promotional poster. The leak provides more details on the crossover, which is seemingly only going to be… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/yGZCqDb via New free games

EA College Football 25 is a massive hit. EA’s first college football game in over a decade is the top-selling game of the year, and has now become the best-selling sports game ever in the United States. Making its achievement even more impressive, it reached that milestone in less than five months. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/z4hkH8m via New free games

Guangyun “Guangguang” Chen, creative director behind Marvel Rivals, says that while many players have requested a role queue system, a matchmaking option to help create balanced teams, there are currently no plans to implement one in the free-to-play character shooter. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/6Alfbes via New free games

Every hero shooter has characters players loathe to fight against. Marvel Rivals is no exception. Jeff the Land Shark has become an early love-to-hate hero because he literally eats his opponents (and allies) and then spits them off the map. I personally hate to see Hawkeye coming because I know his arrows will find… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/7sK0zpW via New free games

Apple has released lists revealing the most downloaded and popular free and paid games on iPhone and iPad. The company also shared data on the most popular Apple Arcade games. Balatro sickos might be surprised ! Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/8oDVwU6 via New free games

Later this week, popular character shooter Marvel Rivals will launch its first big holiday-themed event. The new winter update will add new costumes for multiple characters, as well as a new Splatoon-like mode featuring only Jeff the Landshark. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/rJImdBq via New free games

Capcom has confirmed that the publisher plans to revive more old, dormant video game franchises after recently announcing a new Okami and Onimusha. That sound you just heard was thousands of Dino Crisis fans around the world gasping at once. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/cdvz3Zu via New free games

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is finally coming to theaters this week on December 20. However, there have been some early screenings for press and fan events, which means spoilers are bound to sprout up ahead of time. Unfortunately, it also means that phone recordings of the film’s post-credits scene are starting to appear… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/T1L0DyC via New free games

Award ceremonies are very silly. One film, or book, or game, isn’t objectively better than all the others, because that’s not a thing. But the notion that it is nonetheless serves as the bizarre basis for such events, and it’s one that it seems the developers and players of Black Myth: Wukong are really not coping… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/gB4rvlj via New free games

Game of the Year winner Astro Bot is one hell of a platformer with plenty of creative and thrilling levels to complete throughout its campaign. And since launch, developer Team ASOBI has continued to release new levels to keep players interested even after completing everything the base game has to offer. Such is the… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/Qtged8p via New free games

The Game Awards , the biggest annual celebration of video games, commenced this past Thursday, handing out awards to the titles that have proven most popular in 2024. There’s a fairly good chance that if you’re fortunate enough to be bought gaming gifts, one of these could be showing up in your stocking. So we’ve… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/8XOR7kU via New free games

This week, players everywhere dove into the epic adventure that is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It’s a game packed with secrets and even with basic mechanics the game isn’t always great about foregrounding, so our tips can help you make the most of your time as the famed archaeologist. On top of that, we’ll… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/2desZfQ via New free games

I love The Last of Us and Uncharted, but I would also be content to never see another game in those series again. After all, for nearly 20 years now, Naughty Dog has been exclusively developing games in these same two franchises. Wild to think about, right? The first Uncharted game’s development began in 2005, and… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/mR5JAeT via New free games

As I perused the many trailers that appeared at last night’s Game Awards , I had a fair few moments of, “Ooh, yes!” and “Oh wow, that looks fun!” but it wasn’t until the reveal for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet that I sat up and said, “I need to play this now please.” Given I absolutely did not like The Last of Us … Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/jXEPizM via New free games

Balatro is about to have a big day, as the hugely popular roguelike card game is nominated in five different categories at tonight’s Game Awards. But that’s not all, as developer LocalThunk has announced a new collaboration update that brings cards based on eight different games to the fold. Not a bad reason to boot… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/oOzcAHg via New free games

Director J.C. Chandor preemptively asked all of us to be nice to his Kraven the Hunter film, imploring us to forget the past failures of Sony’s Spider-Man Extended Universe. Unfortunately for that man, he not only made a movie that brings more attention to why these Spider-Man villain movies aren’t working, but the… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/3FVJOc7 via New free games

This month Sony is adding a recent Sonic game, Jurassic World Evolution 2 , the divisive Forspoken , and a Star Wars VR experience to its large PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. All these games arrive just in time for being stuck indoors due to snow and family gatherings. Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/kApmBIi via New free games

I’m having such a good time with Indy and his splendid circle. My hopes for the game were incredibly raised when I saw the first in-game footage at Gamescom this year , but even that didn’t properly convey that this was going to be a full-fledged immersive sim adventure. It’s tremendous fun, and a big part of that is… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/0VY13jx via New free games

Back in 2022 , Epic Games agreed to pay $245 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over “dark patterns” that may have tricked players into spending in-game currency on cosmetics, dance emotes, and other items they didn’t actually want. Two years later, the first payments are finally… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/cg3ywvJ via New free games

All good things must come to an end, unless it’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Then, you just throw the actor into the multiverse, and out comes a new beginning. In an unsurprising surprise move by Marvel, The Wrap exclusively reports that Chris Evans is set to make his formal return to the MCU . Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/hC5Kun4 via New free games

Marvel Rivals launched last week, and as fans are flocking to the game in droves , they’re also figuring out who their favorite and least favorite characters are on the hero shooter’s roster. Right now, the game feels like it’s in the pre-patch state of just being a real chaotic shooter that hasn’t yet been sanded down… Read more... from Kotaku https://ift.tt/Zjh2v8S via New free games