We all know that video games are ruining our minds, but perhaps games are at the same time teaching us lessons that can aid us in living our lives. That's what Ryan Higa gets at in his new video. » 3/08/14 4:02pm 3/08/14 4:02pm

What's going on, Kotaku? Hello and welcome to the first installment of Ask Dr. NerdLove, an advice column specifically for your geeky relationship issues. To kick things off, this week we're going to talk a little about getting the results you want from online dating. » 1/15/14 3:00pm 1/15/14 3:00pm

On Monday, Kotaku ran Eric Zimmerman's Manifesto for a Ludic Century, a treatise on the importance of games as a paradigm for understanding the 21st century. Eric outlined systems thinking, play and design as crucial future literacies and argued that games as an art form should not have to be justified. » 9/11/13 3:00pm 9/11/13 3:00pm

Stacks of games sit around my living room, as I organize photographs from my phone. I log onto Ebay and check prices. I list a few games. I sell one almost immediately. That one doesn't surprise me. Tales of Symphonia. It's one of the rarer in my collection, and I had expected to make quite a bit, quite quickly. Ebay… » 3/05/13 2:00pm 3/05/13 2:00pm

It's not every day you discover a whole new way to play video games. Yet over the past month, I've done just that—I've found a way to play games that makes me feel better, more alert, healthier, and more involved. How have I accomplished this? I've started playing video games while standing up. » 8/07/12 2:00pm 8/07/12 2:00pm

Before I tell you the story of how I tricked and deceived my son, an innocent 7-year-old who trusts me with his life, his happiness and his dignity, let me first explain how much I hate Plants vs. Zombies. I cringe just typing the name. A clip of the music or a piece of the art is enough to make my gut shrink. I don't… » 7/03/12 7:00pm 7/03/12 7:00pm

For this week's Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk talk about video game controllers. Which controller is better, Xbox or PlayStation? What do touch-screens like the Wii U and the Vita hold for the future? Is the Kinect good for anything except pausing Netflix videos (and is it even that good at that)? What is the… » 5/16/12 8:00pm 5/16/12 8:00pm

For this week's Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk look at how gaming impacts their everyday life. Why is it so hard to maintain a social life and play games? Is there something about some games that is simply incompatible with being social? What games do we like to share with people, and what games do we play alone?… » 5/08/12 8:00pm 5/08/12 8:00pm

Why won't my father game with me? » 2/10/12 1:00pm 2/10/12 1:00pm

The quotes on the box are marvelous: » 1/30/12 8:00pm 1/30/12 8:00pm

One of my earliest memories of videogames is also one of the last clear memories I have of my aunt, my father's sister, Donna. It was cold out, but not quite the holidays. We were sitting on the shag carpet in my grandparents' house, where she lived, playing Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle. The ColecoVision was… » 1/24/12 8:00pm 1/24/12 8:00pm

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result," wrote Winston Churchill, in The Story of the Malakand Field Force in 1898. » 8/23/11 12:00pm 8/23/11 12:00pm

Today NASA will hold a press conference revealing to the world the discovery of a form of life unlike any other on Earth. What twisted alien landscape gave birth to such a life form? Try California. » 12/02/10 11:30am 12/02/10 11:30am