Kirk Hamilton's posts

You know how you tell yourself you’re gonna finally try some new restaurants, then a week later you’re back at the…

I love Souls games, but until recently, I hadn’t played much of the first Dark Souls. That’s changed with Dark…

The PS4’s latest blockbuster moviegame Detroit: Become Human is like something my Alexa would come up with, were I…

Have you met Thaviks, The Depraved? He’s a jerk. If you’ve ever finished Destiny 2’s Exodus Crash strike, you’ve…

Destiny 2’s Warmind expansion introduces a new explorable area on Mars. Like the game’s other patrol areas on Earth,…

This week, Destiny 2 got its second major expansion since it came out last September. It’s called Warmind, and in…

It is still too early for me to say whether or not Destiny 2’s new Warmind is the breath of fresh Martian air that…

Last night, Nintendo announced that the Switch will be getting cloud-save backups in September. That means you have…

The HBO show Westworld is largely focused on a single question: what does it mean for people to kill and abuse…

God of War tells an unusually satisfying, self-contained story. But because it exists in this age of interconnected…

I really like interacting with the Nintendo Labo. I like popping, snapping, folding, and even just looking at each…

Half a year ago, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Origins. It was in some ways the most ambitious Assassin’s Creed…

There are a lot of cool sequences in God of War. Let’s talk about the coolest one.

God of War has a lot of stuff in it, and some of that stuff isn’t strictly necessary if you just want to see the…

HBO’s wild west androidapalooza Westworld is back for its second season, and we’re here to talk about it.

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, I talked with composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate) about…