Japanese people have different tastes from their Western counterparts (Heck, many of Kotaku East's Culture Smash…
The staff of Kotaku nominated nine games for 2012 Game of the Year. One game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, blew the…
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April 16, 2015
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Operation: Extraterrestrial Terrorism Response
Codename: Lost Spark
Mission…
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Earlier today, our own Luke Plunkett nominated Crusader Kings II for Kotaku 2012 game of the year, writing that it's…
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It's easy. Because it's the only game on this list that's about sex and politics.
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The first time I played Journey, I thought, "Okay."
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Papo & Yo did something that too few games manage to do: it let me step into the life of another,…
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The Walking Dead is lovely in the most horrifying ways.
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To describe why Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward was my favorite game of 2012 is to describe why I fell in love…
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Far Cry 3 should not be my nomination for 2012 game of the year. I'm not a huge fan of first-person shooters. While…
On Monday, January 7, you will know what Kotaku's 2012 Game of the Year is. But before then, you're going to see us…
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Malcolm Klock put together this nice video book-ending the year in video games in under two minutes.
It's been a heck of a year for games. We've had our highs and we've had our lows, but more importantly, we've all…
One of the most interesting ways of determining the popularity of something is to see how many people are looking…