Movie Challenge

This week, we finished streaming David Cage’s crime thriller Heavy Rain on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. It’s a game of…

So you dream of moving to Japan and making anime. But what’s it really like? Just ask Thomas Romain.

Beneath the Hotline Miami series’ savagely violent mind-trip lies an acutely intelligent narrative—one that…

The new Reservoir Dogs video game Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days is occasionally fun. But every time I felt myself…

Imagine your old high school. Picture the doors you’d pass through at the start of each day. See if you can recall…

“Magic is secretly, not really … it’s not one game,” head Magic: The Gathering designer Mark Rosewater told me. “It…

Hail, ye Nintendo faithful! Loyal folk that you are, a Wii U rests beneath your TV. The console never quite hit its…

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm,…

Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It’s important that I do this when it’s still spongy and damp from the…

Batman: Arkham Knight spins one of the most ambitious video game stories ever told, and watching it thunder to its…