Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

It’s one thing to hate software, but that hate takes on new dimensions when you have to use it for your job. To choose software and have it fail is unfortunate; to be chained to it for sustenance and ...

Hello [local business owner]! I see that you've started posting new ads and menus on Facebook, Instagram and sometimes even outside your store on physical signs, and they're starting to look ...

When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...

Welcome signs on the road into Maryland bear a slogan chosen by the governor. The last guy went with “Open for business.” In 2023, the new governor updated the signs with his own motto, the one I saw ...

When the Steam Machine was first announced, a non-zero number of people zeroed in on a single accessory in the video. The Steam Machine takes swappable faceplates, allowing for customization, and the ...

You’re probably familiar with cartoonist Alison Bechdel from Fun Home (the book or the musical), or from the “Bechdel Test” for the portrayal of women in fiction. But unless you are or were a lesbian ...

Today Microsoft laid off 1,600 people from its games division—roughly the same number it unceremoniously showed the door last year. As part of this, the company is cutting loose four studios either ...

There are certain games whose impact is largely obscure to most Western audiences due in large part to what made it over here. And though fan translations and YouTube have helped quite a bit, certain ...

When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger. Reddit, Discord and Facebook ...

I adore a garbage paperback. My younger years were spent reading the flimsy science fiction novels they dumped out constantly in the 70s with ancient covers that would disintegrate when you shoved ...