Hard to be a God

Video games have a dad problem. My colleagues broached the topic a few months ago on an episode of Kotaku Splitscreen

I have a new love, and its name is Grindstone. We spend time together every night before we go to sleep.

As of this week, Jin Sakai and the open-world samurai game he stars in—Ghost of Tsushima—turn six months old. Rather…

I finally finished Nier: Automata and I don’t think I’ll ever play it again. I don’t mean that in an, “Oh thank god…

When I think about diversity in last year’s crop of big-budget games I can see the bright spots. Some of…

35 years on, Princess Peach’s lot is somehow still primarily about being kidnapped and rescued. But is there hope on…

God, this year sucked. Video games were supposed to be a reprieve from that, and in many ways they were. But in…

The eternally burning tire fire that is 2020 hasn’t exactly been a laugh riot. And yet, as I reflect on what have…

It has been a bad year. A bad year with, mercifully, some very good video games.

This time last year, Microsoft’s current flagship console was little more than a swanky video spot aired during a…