Castlevania spiritual successor Bloodstained will be out on June 18 for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC (June 25 for Switch), the developers said today. You can watch the ridiculous new launch trailer, complete with promises to address all of those player complaints, right here.
The Final Fantasy XII remake came to Switch this week, and the good news is that it runs pretty well in handheld…
With Gangsta’s Paradise, some vintage hijinks from Jim Carrey, and a joke about kidnapping children, this first…
The night is dark and full of blurry camera cuts. Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones delivered one long, brutal…
Game of Thrones has returned, and with it, so has Kotaku Splitscreen’s weekly recap of all things Westeros. This…
What’s the deal with Days Gone, a video game about killing zombies and being sad on a motorcycle? On today’s Kotaku…
In December 2018, developer BioWare teased the next Dragon Age game, hinting at a mysterious future for the popular…
An unusual teaser in Ubisoft’s loot shooter The Division 2, highlighted weeks after the game’s release, reveals that…
This week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen digs into some of the behind-the-scenes and after-effects of our BioWare reporting. We also talk about the brilliant Baba Is You, Sekiro, and Phoenix Wright. You can listen to the show on your favorite podcast provider or right here:
A new opinion piece published in The New York Times today calls for video game developers to unionize. Momentum is building. (The author of said piece might look familiar.) Read more
The head of BioWare addressed a Kotaku report on the studio’s cultural issues yesterday afternoon, acknowledging…
The PC video game store wars rage on, with the newly announced Borderlands 3 the latest game to pick a side.…
It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the…
The long-anticipated third Borderlands game is coming, Gearbox said today, following months worth of hints and…
The makers of Divinity: Original Sin 2, one of the best role-playing games in modern memory, are putting out a brand…
It’s 1995, and the role-playing game rockstars at Square are trying to decide what to do with the seventh entry in…
The video game publisher Electronic Arts is laying off 350 people in marketing, publishing, and other areas, the…
There’s a certain trick that smart game designers use to mess with their players. You’ll finish a level, all…
Divinity Original Sin 2 had a disastrous production, according to director Swen Vincke, who said in a postmortem panel at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that they didn’t finish the writing until months before the game came out. They even changed a chunk of Sebille’s origin story one week before… Read more
Are you at GDC in San Francisco this week? Maddy and I will be doing a Kotaku Splitscreen meet-n-greet in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel at 2pm on Wednesday, March 20. Come say hi, show us your games, and/or make an offer to buy us from Univision? Read more
