Nintendo has announced the upcoming retirement of Takashi Tezuka, a long-time developer who worked on games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Tezuka made his start at Nintendo working on sprites for the arcade version of Punch Out!! and was hired to work full-time for the company…

New images from the Forza Horizon 6 title screen compare its graphics and visual details with an earlier preview build of the game, and the difference is striking. Forza Horizon 6 has already gone gold and is set to launch soon, but these new shots reassure fans that the final…

Pokopia dominated sales and reviews when it released earlier this year, establishing it as the highest reviewed game in the Pokemon franchise and of 2026, but it has lost the title of “highest reviewed game of the year” to a new May 2026 release. To be clear, Pokopia is fantastic…

“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017.This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two decades and was moving onto different genres. Returnal was the result…

I’ve been at Kotaku for three weeks now and have already been hard at work blessing and/or cursing you all with my weird niche interests and opinions. You’ve already heard me ramble about a spelling bee game show and a video game that doesn’t want you to play it. But…

Marvel’s Wolverine is still on track for its September 15 release date, Insomniac Games has confirmed. It has been a long and mostly silent wait for the game, with many fans growing impatient as the PS5 nears the end of its life cycle without the promised exclusive. Thankfully, the end…