Pastimes - Game Box

The robots have already come for our jobs. Now they’re coming for our pastimes.

The best video game sidequests are detours worth taking. They can be even more delightful than a good game’s main…

Hyrule Warriors came out for the Nintendo Wii U in 2014. It came out for the Nintendo 3DS in 2016. In 2018, Nintendo…

Alex McCabe isn’t the kind of person who usually gets profiled on a video game website. He doesn’t make games,…

Douglas Adams dreamt up the Starship Titanic in 1982 as a half-page gag in Life, the Universe and Everything, the…

When I was a kid, I sometimes took weekend trips to my grandparents' house in Queens. I told my parents it was to…

Forza Horizon coined a new term for itself, more out of self-defense than to describe its creative goals. "Action…

I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for Dishonored. "Well, it's Deus Ex meets BioSho…

Maybe video games are stupid. Maybe they're junk or trash or action movies, at best. Perhaps they are not at all…

In today's installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Dracosummoner explores the controversial role of sex and…