Eternally Us

Hades is my game of the year. It’s also the game of the year. I don’t mean to say that Hades is objectively the…

Among games in which you can pet the dog, Hades faces a unique challenge: The dog—Cerberus, the eternally fearsome ho…

I emerged from my three-hour The Last of Us Part II demo session tense and anxious, a coiled fire hose of pent-up…

Overwatch is a game with gravity. Assembled from the scraps of the never-released MMORPG Titan by one of the most…

When I think back to my childhood and teenage years, when my literary tastes were being forged in the crucible of…

I think I’m bad at role-playing games. I’m far too impatient, too lusty, too easily distracted. I usually leave a…

During these dark times of difficulty discourse—in which brothers tear down brothers and Sekiro purists get memed to…

It’s late December. Let’s take a moment and look back at some of the Kotaku East stories from over the past year.

On March 25, 2015, the weather in Bellevue, Washington was just warming up enough to play hacky sack, a favorite…

Magic: The Gathering is a card game, but the storytelling and worldbuilding that goes into informing those cards is…