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Designing a game that manages to be both tough and fun is a difficult task, but Cuphead designers Chad and Jared…

For Mario, 3D used to mean freedom. In 1996, Super Mario 64 broke Nintendo’s mascot from the shackles of having to…

For 13 minutes, Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios’ face barely moved. It was the Grand Finals match of a Super Smash Bros. Wii…

While it's inspired many games, there have only been two Blade Runner games made

I’ve been playing through Deadly Premonition and Binary Domain on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. One is an offbeat crime…

In 2017 most video game consoles look pretty similar: black boxes of varying size aimed at being as discrete as…

Undertale’s stigma as a toxic fandom arose after incidents involving harassed YouTubers, pornography, and fans who…

There’s no such thing as a happy ending—at least, not for everybody.

Before I played Final Fantasy VII, I didn’t think it was going to be very good. I don’t remember how I was…

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can. Apparently spiders can reboot their movie franchises twice in 15…