Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is an easy video game to like in spite of its flaws. It's buoyed by a winning cast of characters and has some of the prettiest vistas this side of an actual trip to India. It also includes one of the most entertaining hidden features I've ever encountered in a video game.

Most of the time, it isn't terribly difficult to slot games on Steam's best-sellers list into categories. You have your multiplayer survival game of the week, your triple-A hit, your discounted indie, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and so on. West of Loathing, though, defies categorisation. It marches to the beat of its own drum, spits into its own spittoon, and tells its own poop jokes.

For years, Blizzard faithful have been clamoring for a remake or remaster of Diablo II, and now that StarCraft's remaster is fresh out of the hatchery, they have only gotten louder. One fan is trying to give them the next best thing.

When black markets develop on the sidelines of most massively multiplayer online role-playing games, most developers would panic. But with today's rise of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, a growing group of game-makers are embracing some gamers' tendency to turn in-game currency into real-world money.

I love complicated action games in general, though I have a particular soft spot for ones that make my hands hurt. I am pleased to announce that Resogun and Super Stardust HD developers Housemarque's latest game, Matterfall, takes a seat beside God Hand at the roundtable of games which might cause carpal tunnel. In this video I walk you through Matterfall's wacky controls, and partially lose my mind doing so.

Back in June I made my PlayStation 4 look old and classy with a wooden cover by a company called Toast. It was fast and easy. Doing the same thing to my Nintendo Switch took a little more work.

Fallout and Civilization are already in the midst of getting the official board game treatment, and now two more iconic franchises are in the works: Breaking Bad and the Kick-Ass films.

Are you are a woman who wants to compete in a fighting game event, but you don't know where to start? Maybe you're worried you don't know enough or aren't good enough. (Probably not true.) Or maybe you just want to know what these events are like ahead of time. Which ones should you try first? What should you bring? Are people going to make it weird as soon as they notice a girl is there?

Big superhero events are always marketed with promises of permanent status quo changes and shocking developments. The problem is, nobody believes that any more.

Kotaku can reveal that EB Games has paid $8500 to at least one of its former staffers to settle a formal complaint lodged against the company.

Hearthstone's new Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is out, and that means that on top of being able to play with fresh strategies, we get to partake in another more underappreciated pleasure: Watching pro players fail to play around new cards.

With the release of StarCraft: Remastered this week, I felt like going back to the original for yesterday's ScribbleTaku. And just about everyone guessed the Zerg melee upgrade, with mysteryman getting in first. Well done everyone.

Let's see if you're just as sharp today.

As previously discussed, my son is getting pretty good at video games. Because of this, despite being only four years old, I've started letting him play Zelda: Breath of the Wild by himself. It has turned out to be a very good decision.

I went out on the streets of New York City to ask the people a question that has burned game-likers' brains since the announcement of the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey: Is Mario a human?

The Witcher 3 for $23, Elite: Dangerous for under $26, DiRT Rally for the price of a pub steak and Wolfenstein: The New Order for the price of an expensive smoothie. That's part of what PSN has to offer right now.

To this day, I still remember finishing Mass Effect 2 and looking at the menu thinking, "Man, I wish I paid more for that game."

There are debacles and there are debacles. There are board games and there are board games. But there is nothing quite like Glory To Rome.

A few years back, games artist Toby Lewin had an image he drew for a Blizzard contest go viral. You see it all over the internet these days, from posters to mouse pads, but this week it turned up in the real world on ... a war memorial in the Ukranian capital Kiev.

If you haven't played it already, Scythe is an extremely good board game that blends strategy with massive mechs and the 1920's. And now there's a game set in the same universe.