The Games We Loved And Hated This Week, And Other Kotaku Opinions
Opinions are like Kotaku — they’re a bunch of assholes! I think that’s how that saying goes. Anyway, this week, we liked Pragmata and hated Crimson Desert, felt skeptical of…
I was surprised and delighted to learn that every FromSoft protagonist outside of Elden Ring Nightreign is 5 feet 7 inches tall, aka the best height for cool people
Aside from when it’s wildly out of whack with the game world, I don’t think about the height of videogame characters much. At a modest 5’7, I generally assume that…
Mario Kart World wouldn’t be in the running for Game of the Year even if it was perfect
Following Grand Theft Auto 6’s retreat into 2026, last week’s launch of Nintendo Switch 2 will likely stand as the gaming event of 2025. And at the center of that…
Still Wakes the Deep is getting an expansion where you investigate the events of the base game ten years later, and it’s out next week
Last year’s first-person horror Still Wakes the Deep combined three of my favourite things, namely Scottish people, oil rigs, and The Thing. It’s the best game that The Chinese Room…
Less than a week from launch, FBC: Firebreak has broken out its roadmap, with two new updates coming this year adding new levels, enemies and even systems
Chaotic cooperative shooter FBC: Firebreak isn’t out until next week, but developer Remedy has already unveiled its longer-term plans for its multiplayer Control spinoff. Players can expect two new areas…
The Sunday Papers
The weather is supposed to be pretty nice by Sunday afternoon, according to the forecast as I write this, which means that Sundays are for going to the park to…
Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, June 15
Finish the week with a guaranteed win. We’ve got a clue for today’s Wordle that you can either use as a springboard for your first guess, or keep to one…
Why was The Witcher 3 so dark? ‘It’s dishonest to always show and paint the world in a positive light’
As part of The Witcher 3’s 10th anniversary celebration, CD Projekt Red spoke to GamesRadar about the “secret sauce” that made its quests so special. Maturity was cited as the…
Silent Hill series producer Motoi Okamoto says ‘as the series progressed, I felt that the essence of Japanese horror was lost’
While the big news out of Konami’s Press Start event was the welcome announcement that Bloober Team is remaking the original Silent Hill, there was also a substantial behind-the-scenes segment…
Somebody actually bought that $3,000 Steam Deck prototype off eBay, then they let a YouTuber crack it open to see what’s inside
Tech YouTuber Bringus Studios has published a 36-minute video analyzing, testing, and disassembling the prototype Steam Deck that sold on eBay in April. Bringus’ analysis shows it to be a…