Smalland is a survival game in which you’re mysteriously the size of a pebble. While games like Ark have you contending…

Christmas came early for Counter-Strike players in the form of a new battle royale mode with its own fun (albeit…

These days, anything goes on Steam, but not anything anything. If games are “illegal, or straight up trolling,” Valve…

It’s a big day for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve’s tactical shooter mainstay has gone free-to-play, and it’s a…

It’s one thing for a gaming company to announce a Steam competitor—and believe me, many have—but it’s something else…

Valve has explained the Steam algorithm troubles that led to smaller games losing traffic. It started with an early…

Over the years, people have pondered what a viable competitor to Steam’s dominance would look like. Who would pull it…

Steam is constantly evolving behind the scenes, but the latest reorganization of the storefront’s molecules has left…

Prodeus is a shooter that tries to replicate the look of FPSes of old, but with modern graphical techniques. I’m not…

When I tell friends about video game protagonist murder mystery The Hex—the latest game from the creator of the…

It seems like only yesterday that Valve declared it was making hardware. In reality, Steam controllers, Steam machines,…

Artifact is, for better and worse, shaping up to be a very Valve card game in that it’s a clever, complex re-imagining…

Void Bastards is a strategy-shooter inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2. In it, you guide a group of prisoners…

Somewhere deep inside Valve’s labyrinthine compound of Steam-sustaining tubes, wires, and pipes, somebody is thanking…

Skatebird is a game about a bird who skateboards. Not sure what else you were expecting, really. In it, you skate…

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is, to hear people (including Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo) tell it, pretty good, despite some ques…

Accounting+, a VR collaboration between makers of Rick and Morty and The Stanley Parable, is out. I got to play it last…

I’m just gonna cut to the chase: The Hex is this year’s Frog Fractions, Undertale, or—perhaps most aptly, given that…

Does an overtly low-budget game in which a controversial politician smacks down black and gay people count as “straight…

A little more than a week ago, Steam developer HyperReuts was at rock bottom. The studio had given out 10,000 free keys…