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Sisi Jiang’s Top Ten Games of 2021
29.12.2021
I’m not an accommodating video game critic. A game either sinks its hooks into me within the first hour, or I immediately bounce to something else. I’ve never had any patience for this “it gets good after ten hours” nonsense. A game either understands its own brilliance, or it doesn’t. And only...
The New Tales Of Action-RPG You Probably Don't Know About
12.11.2021
The Tales series returned in flashy fashion this September with Tales of Arise, the 17th mainline title and one that breathed some life into the long-running action-RPG franchise. That’s a proper Tales game, replete with an anime opening and fast gameplay and all the good stuff series fans love....
Unsighted Is The Best Metroidvania Of The Year
29.10.2021
Unsighted, the recent isometric Metroidvania from two trans Brazilian developers, Studio Pixel Punk, is the genre at its best. From its impeccable art, music, and atmosphere, to its open-ended “explore how and where you want” structure, deliciously anxiety-inducing time limit, and satisfying...
The Real Fakery Of The Ouija Board
25.10.2021
There’s a simple explanation for how the Ouija board works: it’s not ghosts, but how you feel about them.Read more
New Rocky Game Is Basically A Visual Novel With Arcade Boxing Action
12.9.2021
As somebody who loves underdog stories and punching, you know I enjoy me some Rocky. I’ve watched all the movies (good and bad) and I’m a big of the recent sequel franchise, Creed. So when I got sent a code to check out a new Creed/Rocky boxing game, I was excited. When I saw it was a throwback...
Beat This Dentist At Smash Bros., Get A Free Teeth Cleaning
3.9.2021
For many, the dentist’s office is an awful place. They’re terrified of going. Personally, I hate going to the dentist. But Dr. Tej A. Shah has video games, and if you kick his ass in Smash Bros., he’ll clean your teeth for free. But if you lose, you must post on your social media account that...
Six Hours With Garden Story, A Zelda-Like For The Stardew Crowd
30.8.2021
When I first watched the trailer for Garden Story, I was reminded of one of my favorite Game Boy Advance games from my childhood. I wasn’t given much money as a kid, so I would stand at the GameStop demo booth and play The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap for hours on end. I wanted Garden Story...
Boyfriend Dungeon Director: Despite The Bad Faith, It’s Good That We’re Talking
25.8.2021
The recent discourse around Boyfriend Dungeon has distracted from something important: That it is a very good video game, which I like a lot. I hope to remedy that now. In fact, I like it so much that I felt the desire to sit down with the game’s director, Tanya X. Short. After a short conversation...
A Rogue Bee Kept Breaking Skyrim's Iconic Cart Intro
17.8.2021
No matter how many times you’ve watched Skyrim’s opening cart scene, you probably still haven’t seen it as much as Nate Purkeypile has. That’s because back during production a mysterious entity kept throwing the cart off course and the developers couldn’t figure out why. The mysterious culprit?...
The Ascent Looks Fantastic In First-Person
11.8.2021
The Ascent is an isometric shooter, and a beautiful one at that, but I’m honestly surprised at how good it looks once you break the camera off and zoom it down to ground level.Read more
Goodbye Nathan, Wordsmith And Internet Whisperer
24.7.2021
Senior reporter, Twitch expert, and longtime Steamed proprietor Nathan Grayson is leaving us today. We tried to get him to stay but after seven belly-achingly long years he decided it was time to finally go join Facebook Gaming as its new head of Good Community Vibes. Read more
RIP To Me, The Person Writing This, A Real One
23.7.2021
Are you allowed to call yourself a real one? No, I would argue, you are not. That pretty much immediately disqualifies you from being a real one, so I’m already off to a rough start here. But today’s my last day at Kotaku, so I consider it my solemn duty to close out my award-wanting “RIP To A Real...
Jurassic World Evolution 2 Coming This Year
10.6.2021
Today during Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest, a different Jeff—one of the Goldblum variety—announced Jurassic Park Evolution 2.Read more
Backbone: The Kotaku Review
9.6.2021
I’m pretty tired of fantasy racism. At this point, portraying racism in video games through the proxies of elves forced into squalid ghettos, stateless space alien nomads, and disenfranchised robots feels a cop out. So I was surprised that I enjoyed Backbone so much, a noir adventure set...
Gina Torres on fighting demigods, flying through space, and the time she unofficially played Catwoman
17.2.2021
The actor: “Formidable” is often used to describe Gina Torres’ onscreen presence, whether she’s playing the unflappable second-in-command on a ramshackle spaceship on Firefly, a midriff-baring Sumerian princess on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, or a high-powered lawyer intent on making the most...
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14.2.2021
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13.2.2021
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12 Romantic Movies to Thaw Even the Coldest Hearts
11.2.2021
You’d be forgiven for not being thrilled about celebrating a(nother?) pandemic Valentine’s Day. It’s often a fraught, stressful occasion in the best of times. This year, while everything is still terrible, we can’t even go out to a restaurant. (Or we shouldn’t—don’t be a dweeb.)Read more
For The Streamer From The Last Of Us Bunny Meme, Virality Led To Death Threats Over Things She Never Did
4.2.2021
If Emme “Negaoryx” Montgomery’s chat moderator hadn’t gotten up to use the bathroom, 6 million people would not have seen what happened next. During a stream last week, a viewer asked Montgomery, “What color is your thong today?” Usually, Montgomery doesn’t acknowledge those sorts of messages....
Glitter, doom, and elephant sex: An oral history of Southland Tales
28.1.2021
In 2005, director Richard Kelly was in a unique position inside the Hollywood ecosystem. Four years earlier, he had watched his debut feature, a bizarre blend of ’80s needle drops, teen angst, and high-concept science fiction called Donnie Darko, first bomb at the box office, and then miraculously...