Fragile Box

Not too long ago, I got a box from my folks with a bunch of stuff I had been keeping in their attic. I live in New…

It’s a Saturday afternoon in Osaka. My two youngest sons are sitting at the kitchen table, pulling out sheets of…

To a collector of classic video games, there’s no sight sadder than a shattered Sega jewel case.

I’ve been playing a lot of incomplete and glitchy games lately, from Radical Heights to Far Cry 2. Their messy…

Metal Gear Survive is wreckage of the long battle between the series’ lead creator, Hideo Kojima, and Konami, his…

Last week, I wrote that my PC building adventure would lead to a three-part series on Kotaku, unless something went…

The Nintendo Switch is a fascinating new game console built around a novel and well-executed central idea. It also…

Can you hate a movie but love its characters, or does a bad cinematic experience poison you against them? Batman V…

Anki, the makers of Anki Drive, graduate from robotic cars to full-blown robot buddies with Cozmo. He might be tiny,…

Blood Blockade Battlefront was one of our favorites from the Spring anime lineup this year. But the final episode…