Research and Development

X019, the annual Xbox fan festival, is currently running in London at the Copper Box Arena, where I caught up with…

According to its creator, upcoming management sim Mondo Museum represents an ideal version of what museums can be.

Snowy city-builder Frostpunk was one of my favorite games of 2018, even though most of my Victorian outposts fell to…

What is enough for a free expansion? We’ll find out for The Division 2 this month, as the game’s second expansion,…

Overland, the road-tripping survival game that Kotaku editor Riley MacLeod recently described as an “indie rock…

Within a couple generations, after climate change has more visibly ravaged the Earth, the easiest way for humanity…

“Action game.” That’s what Astral Chain’s publisher Nintendo calls it. That’s what its developer Platinum Games…

Eliza, a visual novel from development studio Zachtronics, revolves around a therapy service of the same name,…

The developer of the acclaimed new retro shooter Ion Fury has apologized for what it referred to as “sexist and…

During Evo 2019, I sat down with Samurai Shodown director Nobuyuki Kuroki to discuss his work on the new game. Since…