Fire in the Goal

The Expendables is all about elite mercenaries, intense action sequences and a lot of meat-headedness. Seems like it…

During my first 25 years playing video games I had no theory about what makes a video game good. I knew the good…

My favorite things about Far Cry 2 won't be in Far Cry 3.

Larian Studios' Divinity franchise has had an uneven past. The first game, Divine Divinity, was very good, but…

In 2007 my older sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. She went through hell fighting against the malignant…

I can summarize my experience designing user interfaces like this: if you were to place a refrigerator and a toilet…

Joey Logano, the driver of Gamestop's No. 20 Toyota in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, by all rights won Saturday with…

Every past Call of Duty game has featured a rigidly linear single-player campaign. They've gotten shorter and…

There must be something about the number three that signals that Rockstar Games is done messing around and is about…

In this super-sized edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter DocSeuss tells us the difference between being immersed…