Out of Darkness

When Dark Souls released in 2011, it helped solidify a new genre of action RPG. Since then, players have held onto…

I love the feeling of getting back into Destiny. No matter how long I’m away, picking it back up again is like…

Puzzle-platformer Forgotton Anne plays like a side-scrolling Studio Ghibli movie. Without a health bar, an inventory…

When Lauren S. Hissrich, the showrunner of the upcoming Witcher Netflix show, posted a picture of her writer’s room…

By the time I got to the elementary school in Silent Hill, I was so scared that I had to turn off my PlayStation. If…

The forests of The Witcher 3 are some of the most lifelike and beautiful in video games. There’s a lot more to them…

Big game gets hype. Big game comes out. No one seems to care. Big game flops. Life moves on. Except, these days,…

Shining Force was the game that made me fall in love with tactical JRPGs. Everything from its anime visuals to its…

At a Square Enix event in London yesterday evening, I played through an hour of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the final…

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, I talked with composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate) about…