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Fallout Shelter has been downloaded over 230 million times in 10 years

On the tenth anniversary of the release of free-to-play Fallout Shelter, Bethesda has revealed the management sim game has been downloaded 230 million times across all platforms. Read more

June 14, 2025

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FBC: Firebreak will keep you busy fending off a bunch of weird stuff right through to 2026 with multiple free updates

There's still a few days to go until Remedy Entertainment's latest entry into their Connected Universe, FBC: Firebreak, is unleashed onto the world. Whether it's any good or not in its entirety, we probably won't know for a while yet given that online shooters of its ilk are always guaranteed to receive numerous patches to iron out some kinks. Our own Nic found a good bit to like about the game in his preview, ignoring the at the time rubbish guns, at the very least. Read more

June 14, 2025

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Sony quietly removes PC sale restrictions in dozens of countries for four huge PlayStation games

Sony has seemingly loosened regional restrictions on a number of its PC games, including God of War Ragnarök, The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and Helldivers 2. Read more

June 14, 2025

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2025's Summer Game Fest is its biggest to date, with viewer numbers up 89% on last year's show

Summer Game Fest saw its peak viewership jump 89 percent year-over-year, making 2025's show the biggest to date. Read more

June 14, 2025

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What we've been playing - lessons in communication and, um, trash-talking

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. I bet you didn't even notice it's a couple of hours late this week. Shh, don't say if you did. This time, Bertie learns a lesson or two about communication while Tom O tackles Mario Kart World's Free Roam missions. Read more

June 14, 2025

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What are we all playing this weekend?

What's that? Sorry, mate. Can't hear you over all the sighs of relief now that Summer Game Fest is over and done with. You'd better write it down instead. Here's what we're all playing this weekend! Read more

June 14, 2025

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Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's Switch 2 Upgrade May Have Broken Shiny Hunting, And Fans Are Conflicted

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are among the handful of Switch games that got a technical upgrade on the Switch 2, and anyone who’s paid attention knows they are infamous for being absolutely busted on the original system. These games run like shit, are full of bugs, and that undeniable truth overshadowed what is… Read more...

June 13, 2025

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With Borderlands 4 nearly here, a community of archivists are racing to revive a dead Borderlands MMO

Video game archival is a noble act, especially in this day and age where always-online games vanish when their servers are turned off, or when niche but beloved games disappear alongside the services they're locked to. There are libraries of indies locked to Apple Arcade, the PS Vita, and elsewhere, never to be played again; and then there's Borderlands Online. Read more

June 13, 2025

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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Awesome Games We’re Jumping Back Into

Here we are at the end of another week and, hopefully, you’re staring at a healthy 48-hours of mostly free time to invest in some games. But if you’ve found yourself at a loss for what to play, you’re in luck. Read more...

June 13, 2025

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Same-date PC ports of PS5 games remain unlikely, as Sony talk up "thoughtful" multiplatform approach despite Xbox comparisons

PlayStation's bigwigs are content to stick with their current approach to multiplatform releases for now, making it unlikely we're going to see a sudden switch to day-and-date PC ports of Sony's big single-player games anytime soon. SlayPtation have been bringing their studios' multiplayer and live-service games to PC at release for a while now, it making sense with the likes of Helldivers 2 and, er, Concord, to try and ensure the maximum potential player base possible right out of the gate. On the other hand, for single player stuff like God of War Ragnarok and Ghost of Tsushima they've been content to wait a year to bring over to the other video game boxes. Read more

June 13, 2025

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Jump Ship’s demo grants a taste of its cheerfully shambolic space raids

My personal pick of this week’s Steam Next Fest demos is Jump Ship, which you might already know as that co-operative, 'Left 4 Dead meets FTL meets Sea of Thieves' space crew shooter previously known as Hyperspace. Godspeed, Captain Farts. All our previous looks at Jump Ship, including Edwin’s GDC 2024 preview, have seen it in varying states of unreadiness, with more missing parts than the game’s own spaceship after one of its many 1 vs. Loads dogfights. This public demo, however, looks and feels fairly polished, allowing it to serve as a rather moreish showcase of its mission loops. Which, at least for me and a couple of crewmates, seem to involve a lot of swishing around on grappling hooks while our vessel melts from within. Read more

June 13, 2025

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Cronos: The New Dawn trailer shows off Dead Spacious combat and merging enemies

If you pine for the rotting corridors and tactical limb-surgery of Dead Space, it looks like Bloober's upcoming Cronos: The New Dawn may have you covered. Fresh from revealing that they're remaking the first Silent Hill, the Polish team have released a new trailer for Cronos that shows off more of its bubble-suited third-person gunnery. In particular, it spotlights the Merge mechanic, whereby guttural tendril beasts known as Orphans devour the corpses of their brethren to enhance their abilities. It's implied that they can do this more than once, so be sure to clean up after yourself. As in so many other walks of life, punctual incineration may be the cure. Read more

June 13, 2025

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PlayStation Says Marathon Is Learning From Concord's Mistakes As It Doubles Down On Live Service Gaming As A 'Key Strategic Pillar'

It was just four years ago that Sony promised to launch 12 live service games by early 2026. Since then, many of those have been delayed, canceled, or taken offline. But that doesn’t seem to be deterring the console maker. PlayStation Studios CEO Hermen Hulst said in a new business update that live service games… Read more...

June 13, 2025

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This Unused Art Is The Coolest Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Party Has Ever Looked

When a game is in the works as long as Dragon Age: The Veilguard was, it’s bound to have a ton of unused assets and concept art. Developers like BioWare go through so many artistic iterations of a game within normal development cycles, so you can imagine how many more a game like The Veilguard had when it was rebooted… Read more...

June 13, 2025

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The Trolley Solution is a moral quandary that suddenly turns into a tragically touching tale of tram love

There aren't many games lately which have compelled me to do a tweet, or skeet, or whatever you prefer to call ejaculating one's thoughts out onto the socials. The Trolley Solution's Steam Next Fest demo not only did that, it convinced me to post a tweet I didn't even write. It's a game from indie dev byDanDans that starts off as a series of moral quandaries, each inspired by philosopher Philippa Foot's famous and now also thoroughly memed-to-death Trolley Problem. That being a thought experiment which forces you examine the ethics of either letting nature take its course to deliver one outcome that could cause harm to others, or actively intervening to cause another that might do the same in a different fashion. I didn't go in expecting to become enraptured in what I can only describe as a tragic rail romance. Read more

June 13, 2025

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Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2: a cutting-edge game translates well to Nintendo's console hybrid

Few games among the Nintendo Switch 2 launch line-up can match Cyberpunk 2077 in putting the system through its paces. It's a staple of our PC benchmarking suite for good reason: the open world design is a solid stressor for any CPU, while its effects-heavy battles challenge GPU resources as well. This Switch 2 release has clearly been a big undertaking for developer CD Projekt Red too, who produced the port in-house with unique optimisations for Switch 2's ARM-based architecture. It's also remarkably the Ultimate Edition of the game, with both the core adventure and the more taxing Phantom Liberty expansion bundled in - an extra portion that proved too demanding to justify a last-gen console release, and was instead restricted to PS5 and Series X/S, and yet here it is running on Switch 2. Read more

June 13, 2025

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A Hot-Fix Is On The Way For MindsEye's Frustrating CPR Mini-Game

MindsEye's first hotfix plugs up its memory leak, and pledges to pop up PC hardware-related crash warnings

Good news, people who're still interested in giving MindsEye a go for reasons that don't involve gleefully watching as a poor NPC undergoes a sudden glitchy elongation. Developers Build A Rocket Boy have just pushed out the first in a series of updates designed to swat a bunch of the performance and crash-related issues that've plagued the game's launch. If you were busy with other hobbies such as arctic exploration or hardcore spelunking earlier this week, the GTA/Cyberpunky Mindseye suffered a pretty nightmarish debut. The user reviews weren't totally negative right out of the gate, but it's fair to say it didn't land in the fashion ex-Rockstar bigwig Leslie Benzies' studio probably hoped. Read more

June 13, 2025

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The Alters Rewards Multiple Playthroughs With Its Strange Journey Of Self-Discovery

Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios has just released its newest game, a sci-fi adventure called The Alters. This game mixes base building with sim management and has a really engrossing story about self-discovery and existentialism. It follows Jan Dolski as he crashlands and gets stranded on a planet as the only… Read more...

June 13, 2025

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Elden Ring Nightreign: A Beginner's Guide To Mastering Revenant

Elden Ring Nightreign has two unlockable character classes, with one of them being the Revenant. This one is a back line magic user with the ability to summon friends. Read more...

June 13, 2025

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