When you look back on all that's happened in the gaming world—games released, scandals unveiled and surprises unleashed—it's been a long, long year. Let's take a look back at what that year has been like for Kotaku.
Pretty soon after I was hired here at Kotaku, I started doing weekly round-ups of our best content. So now I'm going to round up our best work from over the entire year, including the gorgeous pixel artwork you see above that Michael Myers made for us. Hopefully I didn't exclude anything.
The Most Beautiful Sunsets in Video Games
The Video Game Roger Ebert Loved
Valve Is Bringing Steam To Your TV Today. Watch Out, Consoles.
The Knights of New Vegas: How Obsidian Survived Countless Catastrophes And Made Some Of The Coolest Role-Playing Games Ever
Is Tic-Tac-Toe a Great Game? I Battled Some of the World's Best Video Game Creators To Find Out.
Banned From Making Money, These YouTubers Share Their Stories
How Diablo III Told Me My Marriage Was Over
The Herd Outsider's Guide to the Brony Phenomenon
Wii U: The Kotaku Review
The Contemptible Games Journalist: Why So Many People Don't Trust The Gaming Press (And Why They're Sometimes Wrong)
As Fans Say StarCraft Is Dying, Blizzard Plans Some Big Changes
Kotaku Timeline: Grand Theft Auto V
Why Video Game Characters Say Such Ridiculous Things
Geek Rap Star Kicks Fan Out Of Concert Over Tweet
Gameplay and Story Are Exactly Like Music and Lyrics
I Can Predict The Entire Halo 4 Plot, Using Only The Halo 4 Soundtrack
Mass Effect 3's Musical Secret
An Insider From One Of Those Cold, Calculating Mega-Publishers Is Back To Answer Your Questions Again [UPDATE: Interview Over]
Who Is Stealing Halo 4?
Confessions Of A Teenage Xbox Hacker
Borderlands 2 Has A Ridiculous Number Of Hidden Secrets. Here Are All The Ones We Know About. [Update: More Stuff!]
See The Room That Ate Ms. Pac-Man and Three Other One-of-a-Kind Video Game Experiences Right Here
The New Super-Slim PS3 Looks Great Compared To All Our Other Modern Consoles
Man Loses Xbox Account To Thief, Confronts Thief On Internet Forum
I've Seen the Future of Virtual Reality, and It Is Terrifying
Dota Dispatch: Watching People Play Video Games For $1.6 Million
The Extraordinary Quest to Put All the Super Mario Games On One Timeline
Pissed Off 'Employees' Bash Pretty Much Every Major Video Game Company
PC Gaming Studio Said She Ruined Their Game, But Only After She Sued The Boss For Sexual Harassment [UPDATE]
Cracking the Vita: A Hacker Speaks
A Team Of Seven Is Making A Game That 'Shouldn't Be Possible'
The Most Badass Weapons in Borderlands 2
Why Is Skyrim's World Better Than Amalur's? (And Other Burning RPG Questions)
Why I was Pokemon's Greatest Villain
Gold Vs. Plus: How Sony Is Making a Mockery Of Xbox Live
An Old Xbox Reveals the Secret Lives of a Good Friend
It Sounds Like Nintendo Wants to Make A Gamer's Version of Facebook
Mr. Awesome, the Greatest Video Game Player Who Ever Lived
HG Wells Practically Invented Modern Tabletop Wargaming
I'm Surprised By How "Black" Assassin's Creed Liberation Feels
The Real Problem With BioShock Infinite's Box Art: Poor Trigger Finger Discipline
I'm Sick of the Disturbingly Neat Lives Video Games Expect Us To Enjoy
My Awesome Sister is the Zelda Gymnast and Yes, She's a Lifelong Gamer
What In The World Is Final Fantasy? A Beginner's Guide To The Biggest RPG Series On The Planet
Here's Where Gangnam Style Didn't Hit It Big
Eight Men In: Cheating Tarnishes Everyone in 2K Sports' Million-Dollar Scandal
Why Robin Makes Batman Better
One Year after DC Comics' New 52 Reboot, The Same Old Problems Linger
1PP: Should We Worry About Preserving The Retro Games We Love?
Truly 'Adult' Video Games
Second Thoughts About Gaming's Most Hated Company
How To Get Into Comics
Athene, The 'Best Gamer In The World,' Is Taking Your Questions Right Now
How To Buy Video Games
How Sony Is Turning into a Ghost in Japan and Around the World
An All-Star Plan to Build a New $99 Hackable Video Game Console Requires $950,000 Of Your Money [UPDATE]
What Went Wrong With Silicon Knights' X-Men: Destiny?
One Shot, One Kill, No Skill: Why a Regular Gamer Started Paying to Cheat at Video Games
OK, Tensions Between China and Japan Are Getting Serious
Final Fantasy X Gave Me Control, After Spinal Surgery Took It Away
Three Words I Said to the Man I Defeated in Gears of War That I'll Never Say Again
Report: How Scammers Are Stealing Xbox Live Accounts, and the Few Things You Can Do to Protect Yourself [Update]
Another Day, Another Death Threat From Gamers to The People Who Make Video Games
The Life Of A Mass Murderer In World of Warcraft
The Next PlayStation is Called Orbis, Sources Say. Here are the Details.
The Next Xbox is Code-Named...Durango
One Assassin's Creed III Debate To Rule Them All
There Are Reasons I Don't Talk About Video Game Violence Much
Cinnabon's Pizzabon: The Snacktaku Hideous Abomination Review
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The Kotaku Review
The Nintendo 3DS XL: The Kotaku Review
Kotaku Reviews All Of This Year's Biggest Games
