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It’s been a while since I’ve played something as refreshingly uncomplicated as Crackdown 3. You’re a big dude (or…

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Do you want to feel like you’ve taken something mildly hallucinogenic and you’re watching foreign-language kids’ TV?…

In real life, I turn a bit green at the sight of a butcher shop. In video games, I am a merciless killer of monsters…

The video games media reports on leaked information all the time. So why, when British website Trusted Reviews…

For a couple of months I’ve been dipping in and out of #SelfCare, a game about deciding to not get out of bed. It’s…

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This year I bought Shenmue for the third time. I bought it despite knowing, having played it and its sequel three…

For a couple of years, I ran multiplayer Kotaku Game Nights in bars and pubs around London and Brighton, UK. We’d…

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