All Chess

The very first time I was a guest writer for Kotaku, I wrote about Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV, which was my…

Chess is a game of seemingly endless complexity, each new match expanding into an intricate weave of strategies,…

Brooke Holden had all but given up on breaking into the video game business.

It’s another week in the world of Dota Underlords, which means there’s been yet another drastic balance shift that’s…

Ideally, Dota Underlords, like its auto-battler kin, plays out as a game of slow-build strategy in which you amass…

At its best, combat in Fire Emblem games is like an elegant game of chess. At its worst, it’s a morass of numbers…

A couple weeks ago, I came across a Dota Underlords video that changed everything for me. In it, a player managed to…

Are you someone who still battles in video games by using your fingers to directly input commands, like some kind of …

DOTA Underlords is Valve’s stab at the auto-battler genre. In Underlords, just like in Auto Chess and Teamfight…

Teamfight Tactics, Riot’s popular League of Legends-flavored spin on auto chess, the auto battler sensation that’s…