The other day, I thought to myself: "I've been working at Kotaku for nearly a year and not once have I brought up the band Black Flag and the game EarthBound in the same post." Then I thought to myself, "You know what I should do? Fire up Photoshop and make that a reality." Read… 1/22/13 12:30pm 1/22/13 12:30pm

While the folks at the iTunes gaming division might have trouble rooting out copycat games, what they excel at is making lists. In creating a list of ten games that can take a mobile gamer from casual to hardcore, those Apple list-builders have created a mini history of gaming in portable form. Read… 1/02/13 12:55pm 1/02/13 12:55pm

A team of four Barbarians joined together recently with a simple goal in mind: to take down the Skeleton King, one of Diablo III's earliest boss fights. An easy task, unless you're playing on Hardcore Mode, and you aren't allowed to upgrade your equipment. Girlish shouts ensue. Read… 5/29/12 9:30pm 5/29/12 9:30pm

If you asked Meterora3255 if he liked Uncharted 2 he'll tell you he never played it, but that's a lie. You see, Meteora3255 has a dirty secret. He didn't like Uncharted 2. He tried to hide his true feelings at first, but as we all know, the gaming community can be cruel and shamed him into silence, until now. So what… Read… 6/23/11 11:20am 6/23/11 11:20am

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Well, it reads like an essay, but this piece by David Hayward is actually a transcript of a talk given at the "Under The Mask, Perspectives on the Gamer" event a few days ago (slides included!). It's a brilliant and somewhat lengthy piece on culture-with-a-small-c, as it relates to gaming (as, in Hayward's appraisal,… Read… 6/14/08 4:30pm 6/14/08 4:30pm