Kate Cox's posts

Heroes of Newerth, originally launched in 2010, is one of the many multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games…

At a hefty 17", the Samsung Series 7 Gamer is not exactly what you might call "portable." It's a laptop that's…

I am looking forward to seeing The Dark Knight Rises this weekend, because I like Batman. He's rich and spoiled and…

There are times, when playing a game, that the hours just sail past. The player becomes completely immersed in the…

PC Gaming feels alive and well! It thinks it will go for a walk! Either that, or it'll just take over Kotaku for the…

Does an outmoded sense of "political correctness" really prevent daring and innovation? The wandering mob is too…

It's easy to be cynical about the world of online multi-player gaming. We've all had our bad experiences with…

Ron Gilbert is a legend in the world of adventure games. He created Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island, touchstones…

Last spring, I read a novel called The Passage, and I'm re-reading it again now. The book posits a scenario that in…

Sega recently announced that their upcoming game Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will feature the titular hero…

It's true: the guy with the knife always has far more power than he should. And a handgun is just as effective as a…

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed: Revelations both had competitive online multi-player modes.…

All right, I admit: in all honesty, Wonder Woman doesn't actually punch Batman in the face in these clips. She more…

Day Z, the apocalyptic survival mod developed for Arma II, has taken the world by storm. Over half a million…

Many years ago, researchers confirmed the existence of the "Lady Macbeth Effect." The gist of it is that we humans…

The last new Ultima game to see daylight was Lord of Ultima, a browser strategy game more or less totally unrelated…

There's nothing quite like a bard in a tavern, strumming his medieval proto-guitar of choice (here a mandolin, there…

Slow jazz? Check. Disheveled office? Check. Intimations that someone will walk through the door at any moment?…

I am not what you would call a hardware fetishist. I came to be a PC gamer because when I was a child and, later,…

It's not that I'm terrible at combat. On the contrary: I'm pretty good at slicing things up. I've got solid DPS and…