A World Abandoned

Spring isn’t officially here for another few weeks but it’s already over 50 degrees outside, new growth is starting…

After seven years, the haunting episodic adventure game Kentucky Route Zero is finally complete. The game’s first…

There are a lot of reasons to not write about video games. For most of my career, I’ve written for mainstream…

Gita Jackson, Kotaku staff writer and likely Sims replicant, has filed her last epic essay for this site—a timely…

I hate writing top ten lists. At the end of a year, I’m so exhausted that I can barely remember which games came out…

The original prototype of the PlayStation—a Super Nintendo with a CD-ROM drive attached, created via a partnership…

It’s true: Five is a ridiculous number for summing up a decade’s worth of video games. It’s far too small. One can’t…

The decade has come and gone, with the passage of time once again showing that we live in a meaningless universe…

Shenmue has always straddled the line between the epic and the everyday. Yu Suzuki’s ambitious adventure game series…

Final Fantasy VIII is easily one of the most action-packed and compelling games in the series. It was amazing when…