Origin of Digital

Long-running video game franchises and genres all have to start somewhere, and it’s not always pretty. Looking back…

After nine anticlimactic years the Origin name is no more. Going forward, EA will simply refer to its PC gaming…

One of the first places I wanted to fly in Microsoft Flight Simulator was the Grasberg Mine, an open pit mine high…

When someone first starts playing a long-running video game, a ritual begins. Friends who’ve spent considerably more…

Electronic Arts released a handful of its games on Steam today. This move, combined with last year’s release of Star…

Madden NFL 21 now has a Steam page with a release date of August 28, making it the first game in the series to come…

Breaking up sucks. It sucks even more when you weigh external factors. Who gets the cat? Who gets the friend group?…

In order to get some museum experts to join me on a tour of Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ museum, I had to spend a…

When I left the theater after a private screening of Sonic the Hedgehog, one of the organizers walked up to me with…

Gita Jackson, Kotaku staff writer and likely Sims replicant, has filed her last epic essay for this site—a timely…