Simple Machines

Long-running video game franchises and genres all have to start somewhere, and it’s not always pretty. Looking back…

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning…

Hades is my game of the year. It’s also the game of the year. I don’t mean to say that Hades is objectively the…

One of the first places I wanted to fly in Microsoft Flight Simulator was the Grasberg Mine, an open pit mine high…

In 2013, during the runup to the launch of the PlayStation 4, Sony released an “instructional” video on how to share…

For a modern game, Paper Mario: The Origami King’s settings are archaic. When you first start out, you can adjust…

In June, when the anthropomorphic narrative game Goodbye Volcano High was announced, the first thing my nonbinary…

Joy-Con shoulder buttons don’t make very comfortable pinball flipper controls. That’s why Nerds&Makers’ Tommy…

Rockstar never meant to support GTA Online for nearly a decade and counting. That was never the plan. Yet GTA Online…

Kotaku’s Mike Fahey put it best when he said that Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition “makes an excellent third…