Linear Doom

Level designer and writer Robert Yang has written up a fascinating "People's History of the FPS" as a three part ser…

In 2007, shares in publisher THQ were going for over $30 a piece. Today, in 2012, they're going for around $0.70.…

Of all the things that Batman: Arkham Asylum had going for it—and there were a lot of them—my favorite thing was…

In today's fairly straightforward episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Monsieur Froid wonders why so many…

2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum set a new bar for super hero video games, a game unexpectedly great. Based on what…

After three weeks of fighting crime, I decided to fight for crime in D.C. Universe Online, starting anew as a…

I finished more than 50 video games in 2010. I did not plan to. But here's the list.

Playing through the latest Lord of the Rings video game is about as difficult as turning pages to read the Lord of…

In 1998, Stanford University's Henry Lowood began preserving video games and video game artifacts. Lowood, along…

Quake and Doom makers id Software may be treading well worn post-apocalyptic territory in Rage, but for all the…