Brain Escape

Spelunky 2 can be a violent experience. While searching for the main character’s parents is its ostensible goal, you…

Peril on Gorgon is a good excuse to return to the Outer Worlds’ retro-futurist dystopia. I only wish doing so had…

Now this is how you do a Summer of Not-E3 video game livestream.

God I love Games Done Quick. The biannual speedrunning charity event is like a video game holy week for me. I watch…

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they…

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku’s rank and file weigh in on…

I’ve fallen into a pop-cultural rut: Dunno why, but I feel incapable of ingesting new media that isn’t part of my…

In times of distress—and right now, I am constantly distressed, despite what manner of bullshit I post on…

Back when this era of social distancing began two months and also an incalculable number of years ago, I was playing …

Writing about games invites accusations of taking things too seriously. Criticism, it sometimes seems, is a dirty…