Our Dark Heart

Soon after the coronavirus struck my busy Brooklyn hospital, I found myself caring for an older gentleman with…

The first thing every player sees when starting a new game of Pokémon Red or Blue is the pixelated image of a…

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Twitch’s policies around content it deems “sexual” are inconsistently applied, but body painting—creating art using…

Once every month or two, I have this dream. I’m standing in a cavernous entryway to what my brain tells me is…

My coworker Ethan Gach and I watched press screeners of the first season of Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet, a sitcom…

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

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On this day 25 years ago, the Sony PlayStation released in Japan. A lot of us here at Kotaku have pretty fond…

Felix the Reaper is a puzzle game described by developer Kong Orange as a “romantic comedy about the life of Death.”…