We don’t know much about the recently revealed Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake coming to Switch 2 later this year. And now we know even less, after Nintendo removed a short description of the game that fans found buried in some website code. Last week, during Nintendo’s most…

A Steam fan has said that they’re now a customer of Valve’s for life after the company had a surprise reaction to learning that the gamer’s Steam Deck accessory had been destroyed by their newborn. The move has impressed other fans of the PC gaming platform as well, with many…

Every time the Trump administration bastardizes the imagery of a video game or other nerd property for a meme, it does so in a way that’s wildly out of touch with the source material. Perhaps the most clear-cut example yet of the MAGA crew’s misunderstanding of something they’re using to…

Love and Deepspace, the incredibly sexy and sweetly romantic gacha game, is also a third, secret thing: a beginner’s guide to video game development. Colloquially known as LADS, the game is a bunch of different games stuffed into one very sexy trenchcoat. Beyond the combat challenges and interactive narrative, there’s…

Published Jun 15, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT Adrian has been writing, critiquing, and thinking about games since he first picked up an N64 controller many years ago. These days he writes reviews, news, and features for Game Rant and believes games should be held to the same artistic standards as books,…

Xbox is planning to shut down Compulsion Games, developer of Peabody Award-winning South of Midnight and We Happy Few, Kotaku has learned. It is unclear how many individuals total will be impacted; the studio’s LinkedIn page says around 90 individuals work there, though Kotaku understands the actual total to be…