Stick Combat

Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo called The Library Halo: Combat Evolved’s most notorious level. An entry on Hal…

Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing, has been off the clock for a few weeks. But just as the…

When Darkest Dungeon first launched on Steam Early Access in February 2015, it was almost universally beloved. A…

Plenty of games have been touched up and altered as the years went on, but few games have seen as many changes as…

Meet Brock “The Problem” Kucao, aka Spider “The Spider” Spider. He may not look like much with his neon wildman…

A retrospective look back at one of the all-time great strategy games

Most Star Wars games put you in command of a few brave heroes of the galactic struggle. Star Wars: Rebellion, a new…

The cutman is indispensable to combat sports. A good one adds a veneer of civility to a brutal affair by reducing…

You can judge a first person shooter almost entirely on the strengths of its shotguns. A good video game shotgun is…

The beginning of my least favorite Zelda game makes a much better impression the second time around. It probably…