Dark Country

One dry October morning in 2019, my father came to my apartment, already in tears by the time I opened the door, to…

The Final Fantasy franchise has been many things to many people in the decades since the series debuted in 1987: a…

The idea behind Pokémon games is a weird one. Kids trekking across the country in their quest to collect cute,…

Boy, do people love Final Fantasy Tactics. They love it so much they’d marry it, if human-video-game marriage were…

In this, my most enormous video yet, I tried to capture the essence of what I believe to be the secretly best year…

On this day 25 years ago, the Sony PlayStation released in Japan. A lot of us here at Kotaku have pretty fond…

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Across thousands of years of existence, we as a people have come to regard war as pretty bad. Senseless violence and…

The Outer Worlds comes out this week. For many fans, this is the true follow-up to Fallout New Vegas they’ve been…

Control is the latest game from the makers of Max Payne, Alan Wake, and Quantum Break. It’s a twisted, haunting…