2026

Former Rockstar North CEO and current Build a Rocket Boy co-CEO Leslie Benzies has denied allegations of involvement with billionaire pedophile and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, saying in a statement provided to Kotaku that “these allegations are false.” Benzies’ statement comes a few days after Build a Rocket Boy co-CEO Mark Gerhard issued a “formal…

Though it brings me immense psychic pain to acknowledge the grinding forward churn of passing time, it’s already been a year since the launch of Civilization 7. And while its reception could have been a warmer one, Firaxis is celebrating Civ 7’s first anniversary by sharing its plans for an expansion-sized overhaul update that will…

NEED TO KNOW What is it A free-to-play hero shooter with a funky raid mode.Release date January 26, 2026Expect to pay Free-to-playPublisher Wildlight InteractiveDeveloper Wildlight InteractiveReviewed on RTX 5090, Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz, 64GB RAMMultiplayer Up to 10 playersSteam Deck UnsupportedLink Official site I have found myself in the inconvenient position of being a…

It took until February but the Epic Games Store has published its year in review for 2025, and it seems like it was a pretty good one all in all: Spending on third-party games—those not developed or published by Epic—went up by 57%, as did the amount of time people spent in them, and the…

It’s not the cheapest time to be getting into PC gaming. Prices are going up. The iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 in front of me for review isn’t immune, either. The system, priced at $1,699 in September, is currently sat at $2,149. That’s a tricky thing to navigate when determining value here, as nothing…

In a new interview with PressBoxPR, Bethesda veteran and Skyrim’s lead designer Bruce Nesmith talks at length about his time at the studio. Among the topics Nesmith addresses is why it wouldn’t make sense to switch to Unreal Engine, and how studio head Todd Howard is an inveterate fiddler, even if he “desperately” tries not…

Website XDA claims that the Intel Arc B770 graphics card is dead, a casualty of “financial viability.” In other words, with memory chips now so expensive, launching a new 16 GB GPU at anything resembling a reasonable price isn’t a goer. Specifically, XDA says that Intel has “pulled the plug on the Arc B770 due…