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We’ve been waiting for this one! After a few teasers, including as recently as gamescom – featuring a very hot anime man, MiHoYo has finally lifted the veil off the major upcoming Genshin Impact chapter. This is what you may have been expecting would be called version 6.0. Its official name was revealed to be Version Luna 1, which could signal a change in what these will be called going forward. Song of the Welkin Moon: Segue is the name of this particular episode, and it’s only the first part of what the developer says will be a year-long Song…

It doesn’t feel like Nintendo just released a new console. Last year around this time we were inundated with weekly leaks about the Switch 2. They all pointed to the same thing: it would be a bigger, more powerful version of the console we already knew and loved. Nintendo kicked 2025 off by showing us a Switch 2 that was exactly that. It launched in June to significant fanfare and hype, and there has been surprisingly little to say about the Switch 2 ever since.  It looks lean, feels sleek, and runs older blockbusters and even some newer ones surprisingly…

The Pokémon Company cursed the world with the Pokémon TCG: Diamond & Pearl expansion and the Bonsly card back in 2007. In it, the Gen 4 rock-type is depicted by the illustrator Midori Harada in a, shall we say, compromising position. Here, the predecessor to Sudowoodo can be seen knocked over and crying. Don’t be fooled, though. As its move Fake Tears suggests, Bonsly is trying to manipulate their opponent’s emotions in the hopes of decreasing their attack. Memorable card, no? Electroacoustic harpist Emily Hopkins certainly thinks so. And she’s got a binder with 305 Bonsly cards to prove it.…

What do you think of when you think of a woman in pain? There are no tidy universalisms here, but for many of us, even most of us, pain is private and domestic. You could think of a mother shouldering burdens alone while her husband is at work. The father in the waiting room while the mother screams with strangers. A woman going to the doctor about an ache, only for him to tell her to lose weight and deny the problem is even happening.All these things are simple clichés–tropes stolen from life and television. When Silent Hill f conjures…

Infinity Nikki has kicked off a surprising new cross-over with its latest update. The new patch, version 1.9, is live now, and heralds the start of a new season alongside the aforementioned collaboration. You may have assumed that there’s already a lot of cross-over between Infinity Nikki players and Stardew Valley players. Infold Games clearly agrees, because the developer is teaming up with the farming simulator for this next event. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Patch 1.9 arrived in the game following the usual maintenance. Some parts of the update were available to download…

At the end of each year, we recognize the best games we played in their entirety, but we also like to zoom in and celebrate the individual moments we loved most; the mechanics, scenes, and other details that made this year’s best games so unforgettable. That’s what we do with our “Best Moments” lists. These can be big story reveals, or they can be small moments that stuck out in otherwise massive games. If you’re worried about spoilers, we’ve got you. Here are the games we’ll be talking about and in what order, so if you see something on this…

We haven’t quite caught up with the future of 12 Monkeys just yet. The Terry Gilliam-directed movie extends as far as around 2035, 40 years after its Dec. 29, 1995 release, and still another decade off from this, its 30th anniversary. But maybe we’ll catch up soon. In 12 Monkeys, a virus is strategically released in 1996 and quickly wipes out much of the world’s population. Survivors are forced underground, sending imprisoned “volunteers” to the uninhabited surface to collect samples. Our closest equivalent is the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 and has since been mitigated but not exactly beaten.…

Epic has spent the past few years trying as hard as it can to will the Fortnite metaverse into being–and now, at the end of 2025, it’s actually starting to look like it’s getting there. Things are still very messy, but Epic’s moves in that direction–which frequently seem to involve trying random things just to see what happens–may have finally borne fruit.Back at the end of 2023, Fortnite attempted to usher in its metaverse in earnest by launching Fortnite Festival, Rocket Racing, and Lego Fortnite all at once. It didn’t quite work, because all three were half-baked and missing key…

Apart from balance patches, The Sims 4 developers have been a little quiet recently. The team has certainly been cooking, though, because we just had our first look at the game’s next big moment. The next major release for The Sims 4 is Adventure Awaits, the expansion that’s just been revealed. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings Today’s trailer is brief, only really serving to unveil Adventure Awaits to the world. As with most trailers these days, it arrived via the medium of YouTube Premieres, and quite a few people had been idling in chat…

As the holiday week winds to a close, some of us on the east coast of the United States are patiently awaiting a few inches of snow (and hopefully not rain). I’m probably not alone in looking forward to a quiet weekend in which I can hopefully carve out an hour or two of relaxing game time before the end-of-year parties and the race back to the grindstone in 2026. If you’re looking for recommendations of what to play, here’s what we at Kotaku are making time for this weekend. Cast n Chill Wombat Brawler Play it on: PC, Switch…