Of Dead Earth

In my first game of Dead Cells, I died after about four minutes. In my most recent one, I lasted almost an hour. The…

In 1993, before the magical girl anime Sailor Moon was released in the U.S., there was an alternate vision for it.…

Dying Light 2 takes parkour zombie slaying to a new city, and there’s a reason for that. Where the first game,…

I think we all took the Xbox 360 for granted. Other all-time greats like the SNES and PS2 seem to be remembered more…

In the mid-nineties, at the approach of the millennium, the creators of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest combined…

Last week I was on vacation, which was a great time to catch up on some TV. Kotaku’s editor-in-chief Stephen…

Video games’ version of paternalism is usually reductive: parents and children rarely stray from the roles of…

Hyrule Warriors came out for the Nintendo Wii U in 2014. It came out for the Nintendo 3DS in 2016. In 2018, Nintendo…

While on vacation last week, I finally finished Far Cry 5. Though I’d already spoiled myself on the ending…

Destiny 2’s Warmind expansion introduces a new explorable area on Mars. Like the game’s other patrol areas on Earth,…