Kotaku Game Diary

In my Resident Evil Village review, I said that the scares were a little light for an installment in the popular…

Help, I can’t stop playing Skate City, a lo-fi skateboarding game that landed on consoles and PC yesterday following…

A few nights ago I was minding my own business in Elder Scrolls Online when I stumbled upon a bunch of corpses laid…

When I booted up The Elder Scrolls Online last week I didn’t expect to take part in a player-created large-scale…

In a development shocking to absolutely no one, Stormblood is fucking awesome. I started Final Fantasy XIV’s second…

As the last of the notes disappeared from the screen, I put my fake, plastic guitar down to look at my hands. They…

Last time on my journey Heavensward, I said it was too hard to level my fifty ‘leven jobs evenly, so I decided to…

My journey through Heavensward has slowed down considerably. I have other games to play and review. And generally,…

I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a character creator as aggressively bland as the one in Outriders. All the faces…

Over the past week or so I’ve sunk about 25 hours into Outriders—on top of the dozen-ish I spent repeatedly running…

I have never felt more in tune with a video game character than when Disco Elysium’s detective protagonist, his…

Reused NPCs. An environment you’ve already spent dozens of hours in. Contrived progress gating based on time. On…

Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t get into Monster Hunter Rise. Fans of the kaiju-killing series are legion, and…

Bored and without a large, engrossing game to play until Disco Elysium: The Final Cut drops later this month, I did…

I have a complicated relationship with Genshin Impact. I adore its vast, lovingly handcrafted world and charming…

I do not speak a lick of French, and yet the first thing I did upon (finally) unlocking Heavensward, Final Fantasy…

Last month, a demo for Outriders dropped on most every platform but the Switch. Then, yesterday, Microsoft announced…

The first thing I did upon setting foot in Foundation, the hub world central to Final Fantasy XIV’s Heavensward…

I started playing Oddworld: New ‘N Tasty and oh god, I’m going to have to save all 299 of these Mudokons, aren’t I?

I’ve done the unforgivable: I lowered the difficulty in Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection because I wasn’t getting…