Certain Death

Most tactical games condition you to avoid failure. In XCOM, once a character dies, they’re gone. Same for Fire…

I am, by nature, regrettably competitive. I like winning—big fan of not falling on my face and eating shit, here—but…

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It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites assemble to deliberate on a single…

I knew this would happen. The second I saw that Dragon Age 4 video at Gamescom, I knew I’d be back on my particular…

Six minutes into Windbound, I died. Shortly after the game started, I found myself stranded on an island with…

When someone first starts playing a long-running video game, a ritual begins. Friends who’ve spent considerably more…

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites assemble to deliberate on a single…

After waiting through COVID-related delays, the newest patch of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers is finally…

Horizon Zero Dawn’s release on PC is welcome, but for a lot of people right now the game’s performance isn’t exactly…