If you ask a bunch of folks which Star Wars video game is the best, more often than not you'll be told Knights of the Old Republic. The first one, not the second, of course. I disagree.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a damn good video game, but still. Here is a bad thing about it: I don't like that for the first 10-20 hours of the game its weapons disintegrate just by looking at them.

Video game releases tend to slow down in December, but there were still plenty of ones to love. Here are our favourite games from December.

My 2016 was a year of surprises. There were so many games I didn't expect would capture me the way they did, featuring genres and mechanics I usually don't like but that nevertheless thrilled me. I tried a lot of new kinds of games this year, and I found a lot of new favourites. Here's my top 10.

Something happened in the '80s that forever shaped the way I thought video games would be when I got older. And that something was this scene from the Japanese animated series Macross.

Happy spring, readers! The weather is getting warmer, but it's still just cool enough to curl up inside and play video games. Here's all the new games the Kotaku staff enjoyed in September.

It's been a dramatic handful of days for Steam. Infamous shovelware developer Digital Homicide sued 100 Steam users for $US18 ($24) million and subpoenaed Valve for their information, at which point Valve booted them and all their games from the service. The worst part? This was all painfully avoidable.

Everyone remembers the first time they played a really good video game. The constant surprises of Half-Life, or the drama of Final Fantasy VI, or the stress and catharsis of Far Cry 2. As good as those games were the first time around, they'd almost certainly be better the second. Or the third. Or the fourth.

If you couldn't tell by now, No Man's Sky is not the game a lot of people wanted it to be. But what is that game, exactly?

July was a whirlwind for new games. From a mobile phenomenon to indie releases, here are our favourite games from July.

From big-budget hits to indie gems, we played some great games this month. Let's look at some of our favourite games from June.

A lot of great games came out in May, from reboots of classics to new team-based shooters to the end of a dashing adventure series. Take a look at some of our favourite games from the last month.

In the last couple of years, I've developed a strange relationship with JRPGs. I found myself tiring of their beautiful exteriors that lacked heart. Since writing that article about my growing frustrations, I took a break — distancing myself from the genre that dragged me into gaming. It was a necessary betrayal.

We got some big games this past month, including Dark Souls III, the new Ratchet & Clank and the Banner Saga sequel, to name just a few. But those three are just a small part of the two dozen games we've looked at, and loved, in April. Have a look.

You must have heard by now. Word on the grapevine is that God of War is swapping out a loin cloth for hide trousers, sandals for boots and the Blades of Chaos for axes, and heading north to desecrate the world of Norse mythology.

How many games do you know that manage to combine Jungian psychology, Japanese school-life and urban legends? Just like me, the Persona series isn't as popular in the West as Final Fantasy, but it's been around just as long (since 1987), and is arguably much more interesting.

April Fools' was just a few days ago, but the games listed here aren't jokes. On the contrary! They're actually quite good, in various ways. From indies to triple-As, expansions to re-releases, the 19 below were our favourite games last month.

Video games are amazing, because you can be anyone or anything in the universe: A blue hedgehog! A ghost! A unicorn with rocket launchers! About 80 per cent of the time, though, you get to be a brooding white guy. There are so many of them that it's hard to keep track. And they all seem to have dead wives.

February's the shortest month of the year. Does that affect our recommendations for February? Not sure but, as a matter of fact, we are down to 18 games this month. Those 18 are pretty good, though. Take a look.