The Flames

Today is my last day at Kotaku.

2016’s Doom reimagined the classic shooter into a frantic but modern mold. The bloody escapades of the Doom Slayer…

In Japan, tattoos and the yakuza often seem inseparable. Not every gangster has a tattoo and not everyone with a…

In 2019, I played the brilliant sci-fi space exploration game, Outer Wilds. If only the game’s time loop was a real…

Early last year, then-Twitch streamer Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang received an email from a fan who’d donated $200…

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and…

If you thought Fallout 76 couldn’t get any more nihilistic, there’s now a campsite that burns players alive if they…

It’s been a bad year for great games, but a great year for good ones.

The original Yooka-Laylee attempted to capture the magic of 3D platformers like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64,…

In my couple of hours with turn-based survival game Overland, I’ve lived multiple short, doomed lives in the…