Strange Diary

Playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s new battle royale mode Blackout is both familiar and strange for anyone into the…

Curly vs. Gunvolt. Shovel Knight vs. Isaac. If these match-ups don’t get you excited, you may have missed out on…

Last night, I started playing through Max Payne on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. Returning to the 2001 game after so many…

The Sims is a pretty good simulacrum of human life. Sims fall in and out of love, move, change careers, have…

Mixing survival gameplay with a narrative is always a tough task for developers, but it’s one the creators of We…

In the treacherous world of Super Mario Bros., it’s useful, if not realistic for platforms to hover and fireballs to…

In real life, death is my greatest fear. In video games, I’ll court disaster. When faced with obvious traps or…

The iconic lighthouse that players encounter in BioShock’s opening moments stands like a beacon, ushering lost souls…

Games give players countless tools to help turn the tide in their favor. But as players survive in a game longer,…

Hello—my name is Jason Schreier, and I am now officially a PC gaming snob.