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Last Tuesday, I played a preview build of this fall’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla for three hours by streaming it…

Whether or not you like The Last of Us Part 2, there’s no denying it’s a diverse game. People of different genders,…

What kind of game is Red Dead? You wouldn’t be wrong if you said it’s a video game that plays like every other…

Atari collectors all know about the so-called “Taiwan Cooper” line of bootleg cartridges that were sold around the…

In some ways Metal: Hellsinger looks like a traditional first-person shooter. At first I try to play it like one,…

In 2012, in my second month running Kotaku, I introduced readers to four new staffers (and one new columnist) who…

Grand Theft Auto Online launched without heists, large scale multi-stage missions that involve two to four players…

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

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Soon after the coronavirus struck my busy Brooklyn hospital, I found myself caring for an older gentleman with…