Oh My Hero

The single greatest thing to come out of Adult Swim since Adult Swim just got even greater. How could Robot Unicorn…

For this week's Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk look at how gaming impacts their everyday life. Why is it so hard…

Among hardcore Japanese otaku (geeks) there are few games more popular than those of The Idolm@ster series. The…

For this week's Burning Questions, Kirk and Jason talk about one of the oldest traditions in video games: boss…

At the end of part one of this essay on analog games, I said I'd talk about specific examples of board games to show…

It sounds like a joke at first: What if Batman got addicted to drugs? But legendary Batman writer Denny O’Neil took…

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

China Mieville's been trying to break into comics a long time. The native Londoner has busied himself with becoming…

Many ruder-than-scientific words exist for "homosexual"; the faceless internet crams my inbox with them every day.

Warning, spoilers ahead, starting with the end of Casablanca: