Members of Origin Access and EA Access can now download the ten hour trial for Battlefield 1, an entire day before…
The third episode of Telltale’s Batman game will be out for PC and console on October 25, the studio said today. It’s called New World Order, so hopefully there’ll be cameos by Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and that other guy.
Junkenstein’s Revenge marks the first co-op brawl in Overwatch. Fighting against waves of zombie robots and holding…
In 2008, Dear Esther asked players to do more than just press buttons on a controller. The game asked them to use…

The Witcher 3 is an astounding RPG full of countless quests. It ranges from sweeping epic battles to smaller, more…

Do you have a game you regularly return to, just because you like how it feels? For me, that game is Forza Horizon.

2003 puzzle platformer Voodoo Vince is a game that deserved better than original Xbox exclusivity. Creator Clayton…
The makers of Madden NFL 17, the most realistic football game on Earth, have confirmed to Kotaku that their latest…
Lost Odyssey, the underappreciated Xbox 360 JRPG, is now backwards compatible on Xbox One. Anyone with a disc copy—well, four-disc copy—of the Mistwalker game can play it on their new Xboxes starting today. Enjoy those short stories.
I’m finally into Grand Theft Auto Online. It took me a while. The game launched in late 2013, though I’m not sure I…
A Nintendo 64 emulator was briefly available on Xbox One earlier this week, but Microsoft yanked it from the store…

Ah, 2004. It was a simpler time—a time of MySpace and Xanga, a time of American Idol and 7th Heaven. In games, 2004…
There’s a new Witcher 3 patch/”hot-fix” today for consoles. Just hit. Looks like they want to get in on the shortening load-times thing, too. We can all agree that infinite loading screens are a tad too long, yeah?
It’s rare that the removal of a feature from a video game makes fans of that game happy, but fans of Star Wars…
Xbox has released October’s Games With Gold lineup: Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings, The Escapists, MX vs ATV Reflex, and I Am Alive. Remember: they’re “free” if you’ve paid for an Xbox Live Gold subscription.
A lengthy new blog post from the developers of The Division outlines major changes being made to character stats, skills and gear as part of the big October 1.4 patch that’s intended to make the endgame fun. The update, including big changes being made to popular skills like Smart Cover, will be playable on a public… Read more

The new paid Death Star expansion for Star Wars Battlefront won’t significantly alter the game’s reputation as a…

The most recent Black Ops III DLC added more Gobblegum power-ups to the game’s Zombies mode. Here’s a snippet of a match we played with the Newtownian Negation Gobblegum activated: “Zombies killed fall straight up.” We’re still divided on whether Gobblegum is worth focusing on in Zombies. Thoughts?

Womanhood can be a contortion act. Prospering is often a matter of stretching, compressing and jaggedly…

Irredeemably bad video games are a simple, tidy affair. Their badness is straightforward. The game stinks. It was a…