2019 was U.S. toy fans’ first full year without Toys’R’Us, or at least Toys’R’Us as we once knew it. Desperate…
It’s been a challenging year for many reasons here at Kotaku—well, really just one reason—and I don’t know what the…
It’s been a bad year for great games, but a great year for good ones.
2019 was a weird year for games. Some great stuff was released in the last 12 months, but there was also a lot of…
We had such high hopes for 2019, and then it happened. Sure, there was good stuff, but there were some downers, and…
Fighting games have never been as big or monetarily supported as they were in 2019. Every major fighting game…
A lot happened in 2019, and we did not see all of it coming.
Our annual list of gamers of the year is based on a simple premise: that the people who play video games are an…
I’m going to get this out of the way upfront: I did not think 2019 was a great year for video games. Between the…
2019 might be the strangest year of my life so far. It felt more like a full decade compressed into 365 days. But…
It’s true: Five is a ridiculous number for summing up a decade’s worth of video games. It’s far too small. One can’t…
The decade has come and gone, with the passage of time once again showing that we live in a meaningless universe…
Sometimes, as borders erode, new fissures form in their wake. In 2019, more games flowed between PC and other…
PlayStations don’t tend to go quietly at the end of a console generation. The PS2 got God of War II a few months afte…
Nearing the end of its life, the Xbox One feels less like a box for spinning video game discs and more like a…
2019 was the year of the Switch.
For 13 years, I’ve been listing the games I’ve played each year. This used to be a means for me to log how many…
2018 has come and gone. As we do every year, Kotaku’s staff came together to play, consider, and debate the games…
In 2018, I enjoyed playing some excellent games from, uh, 2017. It’s too bad that 2017 Maddy didn’t play Assassin’s…
Skies are an integral part of many video games, the backdrop against which all the action takes place. Even the most…