Kotaku Game Diary

Video game menus are like assholes—every game has them and more often than not, they stink. They are often the…

Many survival games feature animals you can hunt for crafting supplies and sustenance. Only in Valheim do they get…

My journey through Final Fantasy XIV continues apace. My bard and black mage are now at level 46, and I’m currently…

Nintendo’s first big release of 2021, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, packages together a re-release of a…

I’ve done it. I’ve finally begun my journey with Final Fantasy XIV, after six years of aborted attempts I made it…

My time with Valheim so far can be summed up thusly: I killed a fuckton of deer. They screamed in fear and died in…

Lurking out in the fields and forests of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla are immensely powerful beasts. The kind of…

Xbox Game Pass has once again proven its worth by allowing me to confront a bully of my past: the Carthaginian…

One meets a variety of NPCs while playing Final Fantasy XIV. Some can be pretty annoying—looking at you,…

It didn’t start out as something I tried to do. It just happened. The year was 2012. I’d reached the point in Mass…

I’ve been putting a bunch of time into Hitman 3 since it launched a few weeks ago. It’s very good, if a little too…

This morning Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs were awarded the Vince Lombardi trophy after defeating Tom…

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. I did everything right in Mass Effect 2. I slapped armor plating on the Normandy…

Last night, after just over a week of daily playing, I finished Final Fantasy XV. And I realize now why I stopped so…

Noctis drains his fifth elixir in as many minutes, rising to his feet as Prompto, Gladio, and Ignis groan on the…

My partner and I spent $1000 on a game yesterday. We didn’t spend it on Pokémon cards, or Fortnite V-bucks, or…

When I sit down for my daily session of Final Fantasy XV I’m expecting one of two things: A happy-funtime road-trip…

In my epic quest to finish Final Fantasy XV by Friday, I am literally and figuratively on a train that is barrelling…

Stop the Regalia, I want to get out. In my quest to finish Final Fantasy XV before this Friday, when it disappears…

In my push to finish Final Fantasy XV before it leaves Xbox Game Pass I had hoped to make up for lost time. Doing…