May 7
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Writing about games invites accusations of taking things too seriously. Criticism, it sometimes seems, is a dirty…
Apr 23
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Final Fantasy VII Remake bears a heavy weight on its shoulders, needing to recreate a beloved classic in a way that…
Nov 19 2018
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I first played Half-Life in 1998 and played it again recently for a series of livestreams on Twitch. It’s been 20…
Oct 29 2018
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Red Dead Redemption 2’s excessively detailed world tries to suggest reality. Fall and you get covered in mud; while…
Oct 21 2018
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Far Cry 2 was released on this day 10 years ago, so we thought it was appropriate to revisit what makes that game so…
Oct 15 2018
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey packs a lot of activities into its massive world, letting players wander to their heart’s co…
Sep 12 2018
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Spider-Man has taken on his share of street thugs and supervillains, sometimes teaming up with the police to face…
Jun 11 2018
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Fallout 76 will have nukes. Provided players find the keys, they will be able to fire these nukes off whenever they…
Jun 4 2018
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David Cage’s Detroit: Become Human wants to talk about difficult questions. The game from Cage’s studio Quantic…
May 21 2018
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III mixes the series’ familiar first-person shooting with a wild cyberpunk storyline. The…
Feb 12 2018
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The Shadow of the Colossus remake brings the PS2 classic to a new group of players, boosting up the graphics and…
Jan 26 2018
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The enemies in Echo copy any action that you perform until they’re highly dangerous walking death machines. Level…
Dec 27 2017
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Breath of the Wild’s vast open world is full of discoveries. The most important discoveries we make come when the…
Nov 6 2017
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Call of Duty: WWII wants to tell a harrowing tale of heroes and sacrifice by following the US Army’s 1st Infantry…
Oct 31 2017
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Wolfenstein’s BJ Blazkowicz is one of the original first person shooter protagonists. He is a muscle bound action…
Oct 25 2017
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Last night, I finished a playthrough of Binary Domain on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. The 2012 sci-fi shooter is rough…
Oct 20 2017
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Even if we can’t see out character’s face and body, animation tells us a lot about characters in first person games.…
Oct 10 2017
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I’ve been playing through Deadly Premonition and Binary Domain on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. One is an offbeat crime…
Oct 6 2017
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Giant robots are awesome and Gundam Versus has some of the best. But can a game offer you too many options? Heather…
Sep 22 2017
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Dujanah is a gorgeous and bizarre indie game full of glitch cats, existential spider-men, and death. With key…