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As the year winds down, we ran our annual round-up of best surprises and biggest disappointments. Disappointments…

It’s not just the Christmas season that seems to start earlier each year. The year-in-review season is on its way to…

It’s supposed to get slow in December, but it sure wasn’t slow last week, not with fresh game releases, some new…

Short week last week. But we wedged some good stuff into it, I dare say. My favorites:

Last week was... interesting. We ran some huge reviews, discovered a flaw in a widely-reported piece of news and…

What a week. Good stories. See below.

Last week was the calm before the Fallout 4 storm, a good week to find some unexpected stories, which the team did…

This is late late late. No matter, last week boiled down to some gems, to mix-metaphors. Allow me to re-highlight…

Short and sweet this time, topped by one of the best investigative pieces we’ve ever run.

It’s been a quieter fall than normal for big game releases, but we’ve been covering a slew of smaller new games and…

We published some good stories last week that didn’t involve a certain game about shooting aliens or somesuch. Here…

Who knew that one of the most interesting stories we’d find last week would involve proper implementation of a power…

Marvel Comics used to have Assistant Editors’ Month, and last week, for reasons planned and unplanned, Kotaku had…

Tokyo Game Show and The Taken King dominated our coverage last week, but what were our best stories? I have some…

The most popular story we ran last week was the announcement of Pokémon Go. Quite the surprise. But what else stood…

It’s Labor Day in the U.S., and I shouldn’t be working. But it’s also Monday, and Monday is when I highlight my…

August is nearly over, and what do we have to show for it? Among other things, another week of good Kotaku stories.…

I’m back from a week of sort-of vacation, and there’s plenty to catch up on. The site looked good while I was away.…

Stephen’s out on a long overdue vacation this week, so this week’s hand-picked Kotaku stories will, of course, be…

It’s summer, the so-called slow season. Sure, there was some product-related excitement out of Gamescom, where…