Hero Among Us

Kazuma Kiryu, the hero of Sega's Yakuza series, has a back full of yakuza-style ink. But it's not only Japanese…

Marc ten Bosch is the only man I have ever treated as if he had a super-power. Not super-strength. Not heat vision.…

For Bobby Kotick, it all started with a handshake in a parking garage under an Atlantic City casino. The story of…

Take otaku hero Shoko Nakagawa. Combine with illustrator Noizi Ito. What do you get?

My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so…

Civilization creator Sid Meier was our guest for Kotaku Talk Radio this week. You can listen to the full episode now…

Drew Brees, quarterback of the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, has a couple of TV talk show…

The news this morning that Konami will publish Def Jam Rapstar raises hope among the hip-hop-minded among us that…

In the beginning, I played video games. And, often, I played the role of God.

I ended my tour of PAX East 2010 with two games vying for the title of Stephen's Favorite New Game At The Show. This…