The Platformer

There are a lot of Sonic games. There aren’t too many Sonic games because one can never get enough of the blue…

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning…

The speedrunning festival Awesome Games Done Quick is not yet over but the greatest run of the event has already…

Yoshi, upon its debut, was a bright green agent of change in the Mario franchise. In its first appearance, it bursts…

How do you evolve a franchise with an almost-static main character? You look to his antagonist: Bowser, King of the…

35 years on, Princess Peach’s lot is somehow still primarily about being kidnapped and rescued. But is there hope on…

After 10 long years Super Meat Boy is back, this time as an auto-runner in a sequel that channels much of the…

In the 2020 gaming judgment system, year-end lists are determined by two separate but equally important groups: the…

When LittleBigPlanet creators Media Molecule launched the game-as-an-engine PlayStation 4 exclusive Dreams into…

Every year, we run down the best annual surprises from the world of video games. Needless to say, 2020 was not like…