Yakuza protagonist Kiryu Kazuma has traveled all around Japan throughout the series. From Tokyo to Osaka to Okinawa,…
In my last diary entry, I discussed my love for good mysteries. This week the first episode of an intriguing game…
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I have an early copy of Burnout Paradise Remastered, and I cannot enjoy it. Yes, I have, as EA suggests, sent my car…
I recently began playing through the episodics extensions of 2015’s Batman Arkham Knight, with the lowest of…
If Spaceman Mike stands completely inside a portal, he’s transported to another place. If even a tiny bit of him…
Last week, I set up a Nintendo GameCube to play Suda 51’s cult classic Killer7 on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. I haven’t…
Given that my Nintendo Switch contains about two dozen games that I’ve bought and downloaded but never played, I…
Among Fortnite Battle Royale players, there’s an oral culture of trading tricks: building zig-zag stairways along…
It’s not the loot boxes that bummed me out about October’s Shadow of War. When playing the game, you can easily…
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I’ve been playing Batman: Arkham Knight, a game about a billionaire who never says thank you to his employees. I’m…
Some games grab you right away. Super Mario 64 won me over on the first jump. Bioshock got me at its elevator. Threes…
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Every year since 2013, I start a new file in a specific JRPG. I grind, I level up, I do side quests. I pour anywhere…
Four recently-beheaded chickens, coming from four cardinal directions, all head toward a crowded chicken processing…
Deadbolt strips stealth down to the essentials and I can’t stop playing it.
I’m not sure Batman: Arkham Knight is a game anyone can ever finish. There’s so much to it, even if you skip the…
When last I wrote about Dishonored 2 I lamented how tough it is to play a game like this as a time-strapped parent,…
I love weird games, ones full of FMV cutscenes, mix-and-matched RPG battle systems, and nonsensical science fiction…
I can’t get enough of the Winter Olympics, so I’ve been looking for video games that recreate the feeling of…
I have a vice for mystery games. Since I first played The 7th Guest at a much-too-young age, I’ve loved solving…
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Florence, out this week for iOS, bills itself as an “interactive story” about a young woman’s first love. I’ve never…