The free PlayStation Plus games are always revealed on the Wednesday preceding the first Tuesday of the month, but the September 2026 lineup has leaked ahead of time. August 2026 has proven to be a rather busy month for PlayStation Plus subscribers. A variety of games have been added to…

For years, Xbox fans have been begging for Microsoft to consider adding an equivalent to the best feature of PlayStation’s Trophy system: Platinums. Used to mark 100% completion on a game’s achievement list, Platinums have been an instantly recognizable way for players on PS3, PS4, PS Vita, and PS5 to…

A solo developer is making a Steam game where players take on the role of a farmer who must single-handedly separate wheat from chaff 10,000,000 times. Steam seems to have found a new subgenre of viral games that task players with organizing huge quantities of items. But this new title…

Xbox Game Pass has added Blood Dungeon to its ever-rotating content catalog, in addition to making one slightly older title available to even more subscribers. The day-one platformer is officially the 128th new addition to Xbox Game Pass in 2026, yet only the sixth brand-new Xbox Game Pass release since…

If the recent re-release of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North got you excited about the fantasy franchise and looking for more, Amazon currently has a great deal going for the Peter Jackson movies. The retailer is selling a digital copy of the three-movie extended-edition bundle for…

As one of Kotaku’s resident Pokémon guys, I’ve seen quotes from developers at Game Freak and creatives at The Pokémon Company floating around for decades. Today I’m thinking back on one from James Turner, the newly crowned Creative Director of Pokémon Art and Design at TPC, having returned to the…