Out of the Blocks

Building something big, exciting and cool in Minecraft is hard work. You have to spend hours or days building large…

There are a lot of reasons to not write about video games. For most of my career, I’ve written for mainstream…

Constellations, block puzzles, magic, and a Taoist monk collide in this odd but extremely difficult puzzle game…

My 2019 in games was weird. The year’s biggest offerings—games like Jedi: Fallen Order, Death Stranding, and Pokemon…

2019 was U.S. toy fans’ first full year without Toys’R’Us, or at least Toys’R’Us as we once knew it. Desperate…

It’s been a bad year for great games, but a great year for good ones.

Last week Nintendo updated Super Mario Maker 2 and added a bunch of new items, enemies and objects to the game. The…

MechWarrior 5 headlines a week filled with smaller games and ports. I know a lot of folks are pumped for MechWarrior…

Super Mario Maker 2 has finally leveled up with today’s release of the version 2.0 update. Some carefully-considered…

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