Lazy Master

Last week I asked our community to create their dream custom video game console. One of them created mine, which…

It's so easy to resort to lazy and hurtful stereotypes whenever we talk about orcs. If nothing else, Middle-Earth:…

The fall is usually a time for people plow through the latest and greatest games. This year, however, I've also been …

You're playing a shooter. Some Marine stands in front of you, barking out commands. Whatever he's saying doesn't…

My first question for Watch Dogs was, "Well, what if I don't want to shoot Maurice?"

I’ve grown up — rather fondly, I might add — with Pokémon. Over the years the several different hundreds of pocket…

Before last year I had never seriously played a social game. I was never interested in Bejeweled or Farmville (as…

I'm a 31-year-old, fifth-generation Mormon (member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) from Salt…

I've been writing for Kotaku, off and on, since 2007. I've been reading it longer than that. One of the accounts I…

Hitman: Absolution is a wickedly smart, darkly enjoyable video game, one that's as generous to players as its…