Platform Adventure

Earlier this week Sony unleashed 20 (mostly) new games on PlayStation Mobile, the new indie game delivery platform…

Used to be that Nintendo and downloadable content were two terms that you almost never saw together. But that…

Game publishers and developers have spent a great deal of time dreaming up bizarre ways to get people to vote for…

Jordan Mechner jumped and kicked his way into gamers' hearts with Prince of Persia and Karateka, two seminal…

Some facts hide in plain sight. You don't notice them until you move them around a bit. Then suddenly, like some…

Magical assassins. Two-dimensional plumbers. Japanese high schools. Those are just some of the nutty things you'll…

While I'm looking forward to Denpa Men, a new downloadable RPG for the eShop that sort of looks like a cross between …

While the western hemisphere slept, over in Tokyo our Kotaku East team swarmed the first day of the 2012 Tokyo Game…

I will not speak ill of the Nintendo Wii, even though others have done so for years.

Listen, I love Prince of Persia. With all that lovely animation and derring-do, Jordan Mechner's adventure games…