World of Blocks

There are a lot of reasons to not write about video games. For most of my career, I’ve written for mainstream…

My 2019 in games was weird. The year’s biggest offerings—games like Jedi: Fallen Order, Death Stranding, and Pokemon…

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

Last week Nintendo updated Super Mario Maker 2 and added a bunch of new items, enemies and objects to the game. The…

On this day 25 years ago, the Sony PlayStation released in Japan. A lot of us here at Kotaku have pretty fond…

Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, which means we have officially entered the swirling vortex of vacation days,…

Children of Morta is a roguelike RPG by Dead Mage, published by This War of Mine studio 11 bit. It’s out on…

There hasn’t been a better time to be a Star Wars fan. As this is being written, the ninth and final entry in the…

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the latest game from the company behind Pokémon Go, lets players harness the magic of…

Warsaw, released on Steam last week by Polish developers Pixelated Milk, is a difficult, turn-based dungeon-crawler…