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2015 has been a weird year for me and video games. In one way, it’s been defined by the fact there’s been a shortage…
It was a damn shame Rise of the Tomb Raider came out on the same day as Fallout 4, wasn’t it? Nevertheless, release…
It was a hell of a year for video games, a wonderful mixture of long-awaited games living up to their potential, and…

It’s late December with just days to go until the clock strikes the new year, which makes it the perfect time for Kot…
Now that the end of the year is here, everyone is starting to declare their "game of the year"—and Metacritic has…
According to the Bureau of Completely Made-Up Statistics, nearly a bajillion games were released in 2014. Of those…
No big upsets here: the Spike VGX named Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V their game of 2013. Other nominees were not…
Though Speak Up on Kotaku became one with the Force back around September, the reader-voted GOTYs it spawned lived…
The staff of Kotaku nominated nine games for 2012 Game of the Year. One game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, blew the…
The votes are in, and you have spoken. The second annual Speakys, the Kotaku community-voted awards organized by…

April 16, 2015
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Operation: Extraterrestrial Terrorism Response
Codename: Lost Spark
Mission…

Earlier today, our own Luke Plunkett nominated Crusader Kings II for Kotaku 2012 game of the year, writing that it's…

It's easy. Because it's the only game on this list that's about sex and politics.

The first time I played Journey, I thought, "Okay."

Papo & Yo did something that too few games manage to do: it let me step into the life of another,…

On the surface, Spelunky is a roguelike platformer where you become like Indiana Jones, going farther and farther…

The Walking Dead is lovely in the most horrifying ways.