Just Another Jump and Run

Last week I began playing Warframe, a video game about robot gymnasts who spend all their money on clothes. I blew…

For the 12th straight year I’ve made a list of the video games I’ve played in the past 12 months. I’ve tweaked the…

Most years, I find whittling a best-of list down to just 10 entries a tortuous process. Not so in 2017, because in…

Dwarf Fortress is a two dimensional fortress-building game about dwarves, which often breaks in fascinating ways.…

Super Mario Bros. is available on the Switch! Well, a long-forgotten version of it, anyway, that’s probably not the…

I need a break from open-world games. While I’ve had a blast with Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ghost…

There’s a reason Breath of the Wild is played in German. It’s just a heck of a lot faster. Speedruns use different…

As the seconds counted down in a round of the unusual game The Darwin Project this past weekend, I was aware of…

Call of Duty has recently gotten lost in a future of jetpack boosting, robots, and wacky laser guns, leaving the…

Just what makes Super Mario Odyssey so delightful to play? Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, let’s discuss.