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Photo: Michael San Diego (Shutterstock) A big question around the Switch 2 has just been answered. While everyone (in the U.S. at least) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo officially confirmed that its next gaming console will be backwards compatible with the Switch. This Stylish Noir-Punk Side-Scroller Is Like Celeste With Guns “At today’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the...

Image: Netflix Details on Stranger Things season 5 have been few and far between over the last couple of years. Well, on Wednesday Netflix at long last gave fans a tease of what to expect from the final set of episodes and when they’ll eventually air. Netflix’s One Piece Live-Action Trailer Has A Treasure Trove Of Anime Easter Eggs A new title tease for the final season lists “coming 2025″ as the release window, followed...

One of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero biggest draws is the different narrative branches and what-if scenarios. Fans love to see crazy story beats, especially when they result in unique fights or new characters. A great example of this is Gohan Black, a fun twist on the diabolical Goku Black. He’s become popular enough that everyone wants to play as him, although that’s easier said than done. This Lesbian Mafia Anime Might Actually Make You Want...

Photo: Michael San Diego, The Washington Post, Image: Hello Games, The Pokemon Company / Kotaku, Nintendo, The Pokemon Company / Kotaku, Sony, The Pokémon Company / Kotaku, SEGA, Screenshot: Xbox / Bungie Whether you think the art you consume should be a distraction from the real world or a reflection of it is up to you and your capacity for curiosity. While such a divide doesn’t exist for fans of film, music, literature, or television,...

Image: Rockstar / Kotaku When Red Dead Redemption launched initially on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, I was still in my senior year of high school. I didn’t have much time to complete such a monumental open-world adventure. So, despite spending countless hours exploring the Wild West, RDR fell on the back burner until the following summer, when I finally sat down one weekend to grind through the entire story. What an experience! The Top...

There is a way to play the Pokémon TCG on your phone or tablet that is entirely free. Not “free-to-play,” but “free to leave it with your kid and not ever worry.” While it’s not the world’s best piece of software, Pokémon TCG Live is an application that lets you play the full-size, 60-card deck version of the trading card game for an unlimited amount of time and doesn’t feature a single way to pay money. Cards...

Image: Sony, Sony / Kotaku, The Pokémon Company / Kotaku, Leikir Studio / Dotemu, Screenshot: BioWare / Kotaku, BioWare / Kotaku, The Pokemon Company / Kotaku We won’t belabor the point because if you’re a normal person with normal mutuals, chances are your timeline is already doing that—this week sucked, and so will the next four years. But what made the past few days slightly less awful was getting to share our impressions on a...

Screenshot: Blizzard / Kotaku Barbarians have been a mainstay in Diablo for a long time at this point, and Diablo IV has revamped them significantly. Weapon masters of the highest order, they have a versatile set of abilities they can use to trample through enemies and carve a path to victory. As a live-service game, Diablo IV has gone through a few changes, so if you’ve checked out for a little bit and are returning...

Metal Slug Tactics isn’t what I was expecting. Fortunately, that’s not a bad thing. Instead of Final Fantasy Tactics, it’s Into the Breach with some clever twists that help infuse it with some of the classic arcade series’ run-and-gun roots. I’m having a fun time with it so far, even if it has some glaring annoyances. Dragon’s Dogma 2’s New Class Is A Twirling Death Machine First, the good news: a few hours with Metal...

In September, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro and its $700 price tag. Immediately the reaction from folks online was negative. Many were confused by the high price point and weren’t convinced by Sony’s initial videos that the upgrades to games like Spider-Man 2 were worth it. After playing around with the PS5 Pro for a week ahead of its November 7 launch date, I’m both impressed by what it offers and reluctant to recommend...