My Talking Tom Friends

In twenty thirteen, it was a very good year. It was a very good year for video games, with zombies and dames,…

“Sometimes I’m tempted to just, like, lie,” laughs a colleague across a table from me.

On a Friday night in Logan Square, a dozen friends have gathered to play some video games. There aren’t enough…

Sam Fisher is on the phone with his daughter. He's talking about his feelings. He's telling her he worries about…

This past week saw the Western release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the 3DS. Despite having never played an Anima…

Let me tell you, I've done some fantastical things while playing games. Saved the world. Visited galaxies. Destroyed…

At the start of a cocktail party that was to end an exciting, bewildering and altogether odd day at Microsoft's…

On November 6, 2012 a profoundly simple game called Curiosity was officially launched on iPhones, inviting people to…

The more venerable and successful a video-game series, the trickier it must be to make sequels. Fans who have been…

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