Gif: Square Enix / Kotaku Final Fantasy XVI doesn’t hit PlayStation 5 until June 22, but players have already gotten a chance to check out the Game of Thrones-influenced action-RPG early thanks to a two-hour demo on the PlayStation Store. It’s excellent, and also reveals some cool features I hadn’t been aware of before. My

The Hollywood Reporter published a profile of Tom Holland on June 14 and revealed to the world how cute and nice Uncharted actor Tom Holland is. As it flew around Twitter, eliciting enthusiastic GIF reactions and photosets of Holland looking deep in thought (he is multitalented), video game writer Eric Stirpe revealed the shocking truth:

Capcom’s Street Fighter series has given us some of the most recognizable and iconic game characters in history. But when attached to Street Fighter V, a game with a rocky 2016 launch it never fully recovered from, those characters got relatively little attention. Thankfully, Street Fighter 6 has reinvigorated the franchise, catching the interest of

Cinderys is a professional cosplayer from France who has been active in the scene for almost a decade now. Over the years she’s cosplayed as a bunch of Blizzard characters, from World of Warcraft to Hearthstone, but her latest Diablo work is terrifyingly good. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Diablo IV Before we

Do you hear that? The faint sound of thousands of Grand Theft Auto fans going wild online over the latest (possible) GTA 6 conspiracy. This time it involves an odd shirt with a coded message that briefly appeared in GTA Online after the latest update. And while the shirt seems to be gone now, the

Steam! We use it every day, sometimes all day, but as functional as it is, it has also—for much of its now decades-long lifespan—looked like ass. That’s something Valve were looking to address in a big new update that’s rolling out worldwide right now, and it’s something they’ve largely succeeded in. 3 The Top Ten

During the Summer Game Fest Xbox Showcase, developer inXile revealed its new steampunk roleplaying game called Clockwork Revolution. “New” though the game may be, the trailer had some viewers experiencing deja vu, as in some ways it appears to ape ten-year-old trailers for Irrational Games’ BioShock Infinite beat-per-beat. Why The Hot New Redfall Gameplay Trailer

FromSoftware’s Bloodborne will probably linger in your mind when playing Lies of P. While the similarities are obvious, the Pinocchio Chalamet-led Soulslike is more than just a xerox of the 2015 Victorian-era masterpiece, and the recent demo makes it clear that developer Round8 Studio is more enamored with FromSoft’s aesthetic than it is obsessed to

Image: Nintendo / Universal / Kotaku The Super Mario Bros. Movie is officially out on DVD and Blu-ray. To promote it, Universal Pictures has released some new behind-the-scenes videos about the blockbuster animated adaptation of Nintendo’s beloved series. The videos provide some interesting insight into how the film was created, but more importantly, Donkey Kong

Image: Capcom / Kotaku This part of the document details Guts Man’s weapon, which apparently had more features at this point. In the final game, Mega Man can lift rocks and throw them, but the catch was that the rocks had to already exist in the stage design. This page suggests that the original plan