Year In Review

When I think about diversity in last year’s crop of big-budget games I can see the bright spots. Some of…

2020 was a terrible year in many, many ways, but we did get some great games too. Hades, Ghost of Tsushima, Fall…

2020 is over, which is great, even if it doesn’t mean everything terrible about this year is now in our collective…

Gaming resolutions? Well, I’m hoping to really go all in on 4K for...Hold on. What’s that? Ah, my editor tells me we…

We are six years into The Sims 4, and with 2021 around the corner, it will be exciting to see what’s next from this…

Wow, what’s a year it’s been. I memorized the pattern of tiny paint bubbles on the wall behind my computer monitor.…

As many year-end articles will remind you—not that you needed reminding—2020's been rough. That made it harder than…

In the 2020 gaming judgment system, year-end lists are determined by two separate but equally important groups: the…

2020 was a shit year for a lot of things, but a bunch of really good games came out during it. And not just your…

2020 sucked. You know it, I know it. It was amid this chaotic year that the fighting game community found itself…

I can’t believe the year is almost over. 2020 has felt interminable. Between work, taking care of my kid, a new book…

2020 was tough. There were nights we wondered where and how this year would end. Just when things seemed like they…

The past year has been one endless, pitch-black night with a single burning, incandescent star: video games. I mean,…

God, this year sucked. Video games were supposed to be a reprieve from that, and in many ways they were. But in…

The eternally burning tire fire that is 2020 hasn’t exactly been a laugh riot. And yet, as I reflect on what have…

Every year, we run down the best annual surprises from the world of video games. Needless to say, 2020 was not like…

This is the first time I’m doing one of these…well, professionally, at least. I was hired at Kotaku right before the…

Ahh! My first “Top 10 Games” post for Kotaku, so exciting! Arriving here has fundamentally changed my relationship…

It has been a bad year. A bad year with, mercifully, some very good video games.

Despite the harrowing circumstances impacting the world, 2020 was a stand-out year for PlayStation.