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I’ve been playing Hades II non-stop for the past few weeks, and I’ve lost count of the number of times it has blown me away. Every few hours, there’s a new twist, turn, or revelation that makes me sit back in my seat and marvel at how truly marvelous this game is. And while I…
One of the best parts of the Steam Deck is its many different controls, and how you can customize them to let you do whatever you want with every single one of your games. Now, Valve is bringing that same level of flexibility into a new gamepad. I recently got to try it at Valve’s…
We’re living in a wonderful period for puzzle games. Seemingly everyone, from The New York Times to Linkedin, has fun puzzles to play, so every morning I have plenty of options to accompany my first coffee of the day. Lately, though, much of my daily puzzle time has come from an unlikely source: the Playdate.Panic’s…
Last week, the US Justice Department published an indictment involving NBA stars and members of the mob for allegedly running a network of rigged gambling games. One of their rigging tactics was a manipulation of a Deckmate 2 automatic shuffling machine—almost identical to an experiment done by senior correspondent Andy Greenberg and his hacking crew…
On the 15th floor of an upscale office building in Bellevue, Washington, security guards line the halls. They’re here to make sure we don’t stray — because I’m visiting Valve’s headquarters, a place few journalists ever get to go. The guards help escort me to a tiny demo room, where a pair of Valve engineers…
Valve is about to launch a new virtual reality headset, and with it, a comprehensive new approach to what a VR device should be. Most VR headsets I’ve tried have ended up collecting dust after the novelty wore off, and I thought I had sworn off VR for good. But after trying Valve’s new headset…
Valve is making a game console that might take on Sony and Microsoft. It’s also making a gaming headset to compete with Meta. These are big, ambitious, and messy efforts, and we have lots of questions. So do you!We’ve gotten a lot of questions about Valve’s huge 2026 hardware push and entry into the console…
You have an Xbox 360 controller waiting for you in your living room and a console hungry to entertain you. It’s an older console, sure. But it still has a ton of great games. This list was published on April 21, 2016. We’re re-posting it today in honor of the Xbox 360’s 20th anniversary. As…
Halo coming to PlayStation is one of those events that, five years ago, would have been the tell that “something is not right here” in a show about time travel or alternate universes. Looking at the state of Xbox with its layoffs, game cancellations, price hikes, studio closures, and a soft release schedule light on…
Imagine a compact box, and inside is a jumble of PC parts: a CPU, RAM, SSD, and a cleverly engineered thermal apparatus to keep everything cool under pressure. This box is meant for running demanding games at a fair clip. It’s designed to allow developers to create games around the system without any difficulty working with…
Valve is about to challenge the Xbox and PlayStation on their home turf. Ten years to the month after Valve’s original Steam Machines went on sale, the company is announcing… the Steam Machine.I flew to Valve’s headquarters to try the company’s new PC-based game console, alongside a brand-new Steam Controller and the new Steam Frame…
Nobody could have predicted the turbulent state that console gaming is in right now. Five years ago, Sony and Microsoft both launched next-gen consoles with very similar PC-based architectures. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X (and its less-powerful sibling, the Series S) promised even bigger and more realistic gaming experiences with near PC-quality graphics…
Valve signals it won’t subsidize the Steam Machine.Skill Up:It’s not going to be a sort of subsidized device, like Valve is not going into this thinking we’re going to eat a big loss on this so that we can group market share or category or anything like that, correct?Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais:No, it’s more in line…
Happy Thanksgaming, Kotaku readers! It’s especially happy because, while all the full-time staff are off worshiping a giant effigy of a turkey (I’ve yet to quite figure out what Thanksgiving is), I’m taking advantage of their all-consuming distraction to post as many unknown indie games as I can onto the front page of this popular…
8.5/ 10 SCORE Analogue 3D Pros Perfect playback Incredible sound reproduction Beautiful design Competitively priced Overclocking Cons Wireless controllers need direct line-of-sight Barebones UI Missing screenshot feature No Wi-Fi Doesn’t support flash carts Analogue 3D Review: The Purest Nintendo 64 Experience You Can Have on a 4K TV 4K Nintendo 64 sounds awesome, but turns…
When to watch United States vs. UruguayTuesday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT).Where to watchUnited States vs. Uruguay will air on TNT and TruTV in the US. 73% off with 2yr plan (+4 free months). Now only $3.49/month See more details United States vs. Uruguay: Livestream International Friendly Soccer From Anywhere Livestream…
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Liverpool head coach Arne Slot and Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola are trying to chase down Arsenal at the top of the Premier League tableManchester City manager Pep Guardiola described meeting Liverpool in his 1,000th game as a manager as “the destiny of the universe” after their shared domination of…
If you were hoping to spy how Microsoft intends to transform Xbox into a console/PC hybrid, watch the updates coming to the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X. Microsoft is slowly but surely updating the handheld software to make it feel more console-like. There’s more work to do, but it’s already a far, far better experience.…
For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of game that had become vanishingly rare following the rise of the microtransaction-stuffed free-to-play model. But as these services’ once enviable lineup of indie games dwindles,…
Nintendo’s latest livestreamed event is highlighting the smattering of indie games coming to the Switch consoles later this year, and the Indie World Showcase is scheduled to start on Thursday, August 7th, at 9 AM ET.Hades 2 might make an appearance, and there’s a slim chance the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong might show up as…
It’s always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell — the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, and lets aspiring programmers build and publish games…
Over the past decade and a half, Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry has become the most knowledgeable and trustworthy place to find out just how powerful a new video game console might be, where the hottest new games run the best, and why they sometimes don’t! Even Sony and Microsoft often favor DF for exclusive access to…
Studio MorganHarvey Hayman and Holly Hudson founded their own studio after graduating from a game design courseWhen Holly Hudson enrolled on a university video game design course, she imagined a job at a studio would be waiting at the end of it.Her dream was to work as a 3D artist, but the reality has been…