How We Know We're Alive

The things that stick out to me about Grand Theft Auto V are not the major things I was supposed to focus on when I…

Months before I had played Dark Souls, I came across a list of things that players should finish up at the end of…

I always found Metal Gear Solid 4 to be not a brilliant game, but a fascinating one. A mad ideologue glutted with…

Mass Effect is about a lot of things. Shooting. Flying. Driving. Talking. Space magic. It's also a series about…

MADISON, Wis.—Most of us are realistic about our shot. We are going to get our asses kicked, and then go to the bar.…

I never wanted to have sex with Lara Croft. And I didn't want to protect her either. In the early Tomb Raider games…

There are games that I like. And then there are games that I like that I become obsessed with. Fire Emblem: Awakening…

I've been writing for Kotaku, off and on, since 2007. I've been reading it longer than that. One of the accounts I…

Every Friday afternoon, the staff of Xseed Games have a meeting. They sit in a conference room, break out the booze,…

Mega Man is a saint to legions of fans, martyred because of the sins of an apparently clueless parent company. To…