60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data...
A newly released game industry report by market researcher Newzoo shows that while the PC and console market grew 2.6 percent in 2023, overall playtime decreased as gamers spent more and more time in a smaller list of...
Owners Report Valve’s Priciest Steam Deck Model Has A Cracking Problem
The nearly $700 Limited Edition Steam Deck OLED was released in November 2023 and came with all the improvements found in the normal OLED Deck, but also sported a translucent plastic shell. But this pricier, limited variant seems...
FF7 Rebirth’s Rufus Shinra Is A Pain To Fight (Here’s How To Beat Him)
In what has to be one of the more annoying battle sequences of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, President Rufus Shinra shows up to take Cloud on in a one-on-one match in the Gold Saucer in Chapter 12. As...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Is Rapidly Outpacing The Original’s Sales
Screenshot: Capcom / KotakuIt sounds like the 12-year wait between Dragon’s Dogma and its sequel has worked out in Capcom’s favor. In its first two weeks, Dragon’s Dogma 2 has already sold twice as many copies...
Hollow Knight Silksong’s April Fools’ Day Update Is Real
Image: Team CherryThis year, like every year, the gaming industry celebrated April Fools’ Day with a myriad of fake news to entertain fans. That included classic celebrations in Overwatch and the continuation of a tired trend...
Helldivers 2’s Robots Back With A Vengeance, Now Have Gunships And Walking Tanks
Image: Arrowhead Game Studios / SonyWar…war never changes…or at least that’s what some people say. They’d be wrong though, because in the case of the satirical co-op shooter Helldivers 2, war is frequently changing—often at the...
New Research Suggests Some Gamers' Eyes See More FPS
Image: Mediatonic / Roman Samborskyi / Kotaku (Shutterstock)Ever wondered how pro gamers get so, well, pro? Sure, it’s the hours of grinding and practicing, mastering a game’s systems and applying them in competitive...
Helldivers 2 Players Finally Liberate Malevelon Creek, AKA 'Robot Vietnam'
The narrative of the co-op shooter Helldivers 2 has taken unpredictable twists and turns that have kept its community on its toes since it launched, but no surprise has been greater than the reverence for Malevelon Creek. The...
Thanks To Hits Like Wordle, The New York Times Is Now A Gaming Company
Image: New York Times / SEC / KotakuThe New York Times might be best known for its long-running newspaper. But new data shows that thanks to popular games like Wordle, Strands, Connections, and more, the Times...
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Players Really Want To Kiss Their Pawns
Dragon’s Dogma 2, Capcom’s latest high-fantasy action role-playing game, lets you romance all sorts of non-player characters. From a city leader to a town fool, a brothel host to a young blacksmith, there’s plenty of love in the...
