The Murderer

The image above is that of a woman trapped at the moment before her violent death, endlessly repeating the…

This week, we finished streaming David Cage’s crime thriller Heavy Rain on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. It’s a game of…

In preparation for the upcoming narrative game Detroit, I’ve been streaming David Cage’s 2010 crime thriller Heavy…

Lovecraftian horror is a tricky genre to nail down. The creeping sense of dread, of being locked in the throes of…

The fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us gave us a world torn apart by conflict between between two of comics’…

Everything about The Sexy Brutale is great. Well, aside from maybe its name.

Video games often employ lots of cruel tricks in which gamers find themselves in precarious pickles—the gigantic and…

One of Mass Effect: Andromeda’s earliest sidequests is called “First Murderer,” and it is a total flop.

My mom loves mystery stories, but I’ve never really seen the appeal. While we both love reading, she likes to puzzle…

Agent 47 is many things, but mainly a murderer. However, the eponymous hitman is also living a sartorial dream:…