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Reviews

Deltarune Chapter 5 – The Festival: The Kotaku Review

Alone together

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 25, 2026

Games

An 11th-Hour ARG Clue Is Upending A Year’s Worth Of Deltarune Fan Theories

Used up

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 23, 2026

CultureFeature

I Am Looking For My Father In Blue Prince’s Spiral Of Stars

There are two true boxes in this room

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 21, 2026

Games

Celeste Fans Need To Check Out This New Platformer ASAP

Tethergeist is a clever spin on a familiar genre, with a parade of new and interesting ideas giving it a soul all its own

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 18, 2026

Voidling Bound Official Image From The Steam Store Page Hatchery Games

CultureNews

Voidling Bound Is The Game I Wanted Palworld To Be

Voidling Bound is less Pokémon with guns, and more Spore if it was a third-person shooter

By Lewis Parker Published June 17, 2026

Culture

Pay Attention To These 7 Summer Game Fest Indies You Might Have Missed Amid All The Hype

Fungus-infested Thatcher-era nightmares. Sega Saturn-styled subversions. Here are a few gems that might have slipped your radar.

By Zack Kotzer Published June 14, 2026

Games

Deltarune’s Baffling ARG Just Updated Again, And Exactly 1,229 Specific People Are Able To Solve It

Before the sun goes down

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 11, 2026

Pixel sprite characters talk in a mansion.

Games

Mina The Hollower Devs Explain The Incredible, Chrono Trigger-Style Twist In The Game’s Grand Finale

Shall we employ the guillotine?

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 11, 2026

CultureNews

Two New Cuphead Games Are On The Way, And One’s An 8-Bit Platform Shooter

And the phone works, I guess

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 5, 2026

Games

Someone Has Found A Secret Bad Ending To Mina The Hollower

You feel your sins crawling on your back

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 5, 2026

Games

Mina The Hollower‘s Weird Modifiers Are Absurdly Fun

I've always wanted to be 1.5x bigger

By Rebekah Valentine Published June 4, 2026

Games

I Love Mina The Hollower’s Bad-Joke-Telling Jump-Scare Clown

Do keep laughing, lest you cry!

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 29, 2026

Games

Balatro Publisher To Be Sold To Same Private Equity Firm That Owns GameSpot

Integrated Media Company owns GameSpot, Fandom, Curse, Screen Junkies, and a number of other media and entertainment brands

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 29, 2026

Games

This Indie RPG Isn’t A Remake Of Chrono Trigger, It’s Something Much Weirder

Nobody reads the manual

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 28, 2026

Games

Help, An Immortal Snail Is Chasing My Mouse Cursor While I Work And If It Touches Me I Can Never Play This Game Again

I will not let it catch me—oh god wait no there it is

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 28, 2026

Games

The Dev Of Cult Hit Butterfly Soup Is Making A Queer Chinese Fantasy About Solving Murders While Riding A Giant Crane

We'll get to the bottom of this

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 27, 2026

Games

My Most Anticipated Game Of The Summer Still Doesn’t Have A Release Date

Don't forget

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 21, 2026

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CultureNews

In Palestine, One Game Developer Wants To Share A Dream Of His Land’s Beautiful Past

“We wanted to talk about Palestine, which is a land full of people"

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 18, 2026

The Game Is Not Real Official Promo Art Viv

CultureNews

Horror Romance Visual Novel With 24,000 Wishlists Gets Rejected By Steam For ‘Not Meeting Platform Criteria’

While both Steam and developers Viv have been vague about the reason behind This Game Is Not Real's removal, the culprit appears to be the "non-consensual" content listed on its new store page

By Lewis Parker Published May 15, 2026

OpinionImpressionsIndie of the Week

I Love This Frog-Based Musical Deckbuilder Made By Theater Kids, For Theater Kids

Bonnie Bear Saves Frog Time is a surprisingly fun little strategy game wrapped up in an adorable and earnest musical theater performance

By Rebekah Valentine Published May 5, 2026