The Day That Changed My Life

Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva,…

For Civ fans, the future has been set in stone since October 2016: no matter how good Civilization VI was at launch,…

Playing a main series Dragon Quest game is a serious time investment. I’ve finished half of them, and the last three…

Mortal Kombat 11's art director Steve Beran has seen a lot of fatalities, given that he’s worked on the series since…

Kieron Gillen will never forget the time that he was a female Soviet air bomber in WWII and an airplane turned his…

At the close of every year, Kotaku highlights not just video games but gamers—people who did noteworthy or…

It’s late December. Let’s take a moment and look back at some of the Kotaku East stories from over the past year.

I played more games in 2018 than in any prior year, which makes sense given it was also my first year as a full time…

Negotiating the complexities of playing a powerful warrior steeped in the male gaze

It began with a joke. Twitch streamer Johnny_now resolved to make a mad dash toward his fitness goals ahead of his…