Grow Big (or Go Home)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out today. I’ve spent a lot of time with this massive game over the last few weeks,…

At the beginning of the PC game The Longing, your character, a skinny gollum called a Shade, is ordered to wake…

Over the past 72 hours, I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time watching TikToks created by Twitch streamers. It all…

Once every month or two, I have this dream. I’m standing in a cavernous entryway to what my brain tells me is…

When people ask me to name my game of the decade, I pause. There are so many. I took away hard-won lessons from some…

Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.

Sometimes, as borders erode, new fissures form in their wake. In 2019, more games flowed between PC and other…

Donkey Kong Country turned 25 years old on November 21. I waited until yesterday to stream it on Kotaku’s Twitch…

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