The Idle

It’s been a dramatic handful of days for Steam. Infamous shovelware developer Digital Homicide sued 100 Steam users…

I have an overactive imagination. When I read books, I imagine myself as being in the book’s world, as sharing the…

This is Raccoon, my new World of Warcraft rogue, looking dapper at level 24. This screenshot was taken on Friday…

A lot of us that write about games end up here kind of by mistake. I did—when I left college I had very different…

Hardship is a social glue, especially in games. Shared victories and mutual defeat, confusion, frustration— these…

Today on Highlight Reel we have well-placed bombs, Ana teams, immolated characters, slams, and much more!

The Fallout fandom is about to have a LOT of arguments over one of the plot points in Far Harbor, Fallout 4's…

On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen I’m joined by game designer, composer and Idle Thumb Chris Remo. We spend most of…

As of yesterday, the super addictive Cookie Clicker’s 2.0 update, titled “Legacy” and in beta testing since…

Crashlands is a new Steam action role-playing game that has me hooked. That’s a problem, because I can play it…