2017 In Review

For the 12th straight year I’ve made a list of the video games I’ve played in the past 12 months. I’ve tweaked the…

We downloaded, we installed, we played. We nominated, we debated, we decided. Here, in alphabetical order, are Kotak…

Most years, I find whittling a best-of list down to just 10 entries a tortuous process. Not so in 2017, because in…

Games seem to get bigger and more complex every year: more levels to explore, more enemies to fight, and more stuff…

2017 has been a wild ride for me personally, but it was also a year that reminded me why I love games so much. From…

Games love to pummel you with lists of things to collect, places to get to, and enemies to beat. Sometimes you just…

People who play video games don’t just sit in the audience and watch, clap or boo. They interact and sometimes even…

I played a lot of very good video games in 2017.

Another year, another crop of video game paintings doing their best to class up the place.

Not every toy in 2017 was a fidget spinner or a tiny piece of collectible plastic in an unmarked box. Beyond the…

The video games of 2017 were’t just fun to play; they were fun to listen to.

It’s absolutely insane to think that 2017 was so good to me that The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, a game…

In fandom, the rules of fiction don’t matter, or at least matter a lot less. This is what allows shipping to exist,…

This year, some things were unexpectedly good. But a lot of things sucked, too. Let’s put all those sucky things…

Before you say I have a type, five of my top ten games of 2017 do not contain androids, virtual pop stars or cat…

This year, a lot of things sucked. But a lot of things were also unexpectedly good! Let’s celebrate those latter…

I’ve played approximately two billion video games this year. Narrowing that list down to 10 was a painful and bloody…

While The Witcher 3 was obviously the game I played the most this year, did you know there were other games too? It…

This year was a pretty damn good one for new video games. It was also great for old ones!

Patches are one of the best parts of gaming; you get to play Calvinball in real time, over the span of years. When…