Paper Monsters

Oh, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. I want to like you. I really, really do. On paper, I should. On paper you and I…

During the two-and-a-half decades I've been playing JRPGs, I've learned three important lessons: 1) If an NPC tells…

We like to talk about video games. A lot. Sometimes we do it on camera, like on The Gameological Society's The Digest video…

Sometimes the pain just hurts so good. Etrian Odyssey IV, I love to hate you.

Long before LittleBigPlanet became a household name among gamers, no one knew exactly what to make of Sackboy and…

It would be easy, while reviewing Ni no Kuni, to sit at my desk and fling adjectives on the page like a fantasy…

You are perhaps wondering whether or not you should play Ni no Kuni, the RPG by Level-5 and Studio Ghibli that comes…

I've been writing for Kotaku, off and on, since 2007. I've been reading it longer than that. One of the accounts I…

You joined Facebook, which just proves Zuckerberg's plan is working. Whatever it is.

When PC role-playing classic Baldur's Gate was released in 1998, I was writing for a small gaming news site called…