Step to the Beat

Last year, Yakuza 0 brought gaming’s best crime thriller and cabaret management series to a new group of fans. Yakuza…

Last week, I invited my longtime friend Bennett Foddy into Kotaku Headquarters to play the hardest part of Battletoad…

Two winters ago, a high school pal whom I hadn’t seen in several years while he served in Afghanistan was back in…

Celeste is pure. Each room offers new challenges, but the solution is always the same: jump. Jumping is remixed in…

Video games gave me much comfort in this very trying year. They also stressed me out like you wouldn’t believe.

No matter how many times the “You Died” screen pops up, I restart and keep pushing forward. Enter the Gungeon is…

Speedrunning a long role-playing game requires both concentration and stamina. There are endless menus to navigate…

Last year, YouTuber pannenkoek2012, someone who knows more about Super Mario 64 than most people ever will, finally…

Elex is a terribly constructed video game full of glitches, lag, eye-sores, and confusing mechanics. I would not…

Dam is the first mission in GoldenEye. For fifteen years the fastest anyone was able to complete it as 53 seconds.…