First released in 1985, Gauntlet was a genre-defining arcade dungeon crawler. Now, it's being re-released for PC, in the form of a top-down co-op action RPG, all prettied up and modernized for a new audience. » 3/17/14 9:30am 3/17/14 9:30am

Playing social games doesn't have to mean clicking on a farm. In Dungeon Rampage's case, social means wading into hordes of enemies and traversing perilous dungeons side-by-side with other people; you know — old school social, the way your mother used to make it. » 11/09/12 3:05pm 11/09/12 3:05pm

When it released in 1980, computer voice compression cost around $1,000 per word. Berzerk spoke about 20, and it was a sensation. Gorf and later Wizard of Wor likewise used speech synthesis to heckle players. » 10/19/12 10:30pm 10/19/12 10:30pm

Artist Dave Rapoza, whose amazing work we've featured before here on Kotaku, let us know over the weekend about a little competition his (and fellow artist Dan Warren's) website, Crimson Daggers, was running. » 1/16/12 3:30am 1/16/12 3:30am

Picking up dudes for sex with...Gauntlet references. » 6/01/11 6:00am 6/01/11 6:00am

This is what happens when Paul Robertson, of Scott Pilgrim and Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight fame, sits down and designs something with Meat Bun, of rad gaming t-shirts game. » 9/21/10 5:30am 9/21/10 5:30am

Google's Android platform has a cute little robot logo, but what's this? The inspiration behind it is not, as I first thought, Metal Mickey, but is actually a Gauntlet game? » 9/06/10 10:00pm 9/06/10 10:00pm

While I generally don't pay too much attention to Maxim's video game coverage, mainly because I don't feel like I fit into their core demographic (Maxim readers), every once in a while the magazine that gave Sudeki for the Xbox 5 stars has something interesting to offer. Like a list of the 7 Greatest Faceless… » 11/18/08 1:40pm 11/18/08 1:40pm

I'd be quite interested to see the process involved with choosing what games become Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Originals. I am beginning to think a hat is involved. While some of the picks so far have been no-brainers, others are a bit more questionable. » 5/14/08 1:40pm 5/14/08 1:40pm