Inner Life

By the end of its second season, Netflix’s Castlevania show seemed to have reached its apex. Dracula was defeated,…

In Japan, tattoos and the yakuza often seem inseparable. Not every gangster has a tattoo and not everyone with a…

Hello, all you disturbing pheromone wolves, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to help…

2019 might be the strangest year of my life so far. It felt more like a full decade compressed into 365 days. But…

Three years after anime fan Dr. Steve Brule told me in a Kotaku comment to “fuck off” after I wrote the blog “Girls…

Children of Morta is a roguelike RPG by Dead Mage, published by This War of Mine studio 11 bit. It’s out on…

Death Stranding isn’t that weird of a game, but it does love to toss out lore and terminology without explaining…

The most important thing about Disco Elysium, an oddly titled role-playing game that came out last month for PC, is…

Fake classic games are everywhere: At the flea market, in your local game store, on eBay, and maybe even mixed in…

I recently picked up Disco Elysium, an introspective detective game that launched on PC a couple of weeks ago. Like…