The Observed

Tuning into Byron “Reckful” Bernstein’s recent daily Twitch streams, you wouldn’t immediately suspect something’s…

Hades is my game of the year. It’s also the game of the year. I don’t mean to say that Hades is objectively the…

When you find art you truly love, it doesn’t leave you. Its lessons and rhythms, its shapes and sounds, start to…

One of the most enjoyable aspects of Twitch is that you can never entirely predict what sort of alchemical chain…

We live in divided times, but for the past few days, nearly every person living has been united by a single shared…

Last month I received a package that changed my life forever. I knew immediately what was inside, perhaps on account…

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku’s rank and file weigh in on…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward will take more steps to find and ban players using racial slurs…

Twitch’s policies around content it deems “sexual” are inconsistently applied, but body painting—creating art using…

I’ll never forget the period of time during which a bunch of my friends got super into Dragon Ball Z Abridged, a…