Adventure: Welcome to the Genre

Late in the original Zelda's second quest, I got stuck. I couldn't find the relocated and very well-hidden eighth…

At the PAX East conference last year, a young man approached the microphone during the Q&A with Mike Krahulik and…

Fighting games came back. Adventure games came back. Can brawlers come back?

In 1992 Square released a special simplified Final Fantasy game on the Super Nintendo in hopes of popularizing the…

As the most high-profile video game movie since 1993's Super Mario Bros., Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has a…

Several years in the making, and at least one false start later, a new Splinter Cell is finally upon us. Fittingly,…

The Year of the Wii Lightgun Shooter continues with a Resident Evil entry that is two-thirds fun retro, never scary…

World of Warcraft was launched five years ago today, and Kotaku is celebrating all week long, starting with a look…

My drummer has this story he tells sometimes, about this one time when he was drumming in some other band, and some…

Fans of the horror video game genre are very, very protective of their Silent Hill franchise, paying deadly close…