Online Obsession

Anime fandom is a fortress of obscure slang, iconography, and inside jokes. After 16 years of fandom, I'm quite…

Throughout the last week, an obsession overtook some of the Hearthstone community. Allegation after allegation…

Video games are changing. Increasingly, we're seeing a subset of players focus their attention on one single video…

Kotaku publishes lots of stories, but we are not, as it turns out, the entire Internet. It's easy to miss some of…

I didn't go home for Thanksgiving this year.

In mid-October, I was approached by some Gamergaters who wanted to show me something important. They had bagged a…

Yes, you read that right. Baseball fighting game. Two combatants, two bats, one deadly, deadly ball. Oh, and some…

Some achievements are too easy, at times only requiring players to do mundane things like pressing start. Some…

Meet Rande. He's a level 5 Khajiit Nightblade named after my dead cat. He'll be my representative in the world of…

Palmer Luckey, the the man behind Oculus virtual reality goggles, is shockingly young. He may be responsible for one…