Instant Death

The science-fiction action game Returnal, out today for PlayStation 5, drops you all by your lonesome on a haunting,…

The marsupial of legend returns and he’s never been so fluffy. But there’s nothing soft and cuddly about Crash…

Hitman 3 is b-a-n-a-n-a-s. IO Interactive’s latest stealth game puts you in the spit-shined oxfords of international…

Months ago, I wrote an elegy for the lost traditions of World of Warcraft Classic for Kotaku. After a long hype…

I crashed eight times during my playthrough of Deadly Premonition on the Switch, often at critical moments. In a…

Despite the harrowing circumstances impacting the world, 2020 was a stand-out year for PlayStation.

Demon’s Souls, released last Thursday for the PlayStation 5, is a monumental achievement for developer Bluepoint…

The only scary thing in Amnesia: Rebirth is motherhood. The monsters are rare and dispersed enough to be manageable…

Most tactical games condition you to avoid failure. In XCOM, once a character dies, they’re gone. Same for Fire…

Aloy wasn’t originally designed to roll around post-apocalyptic jungles, deserts and snow peaks at 120 frames per…