Prototype Blocks

On this day 25 years ago, the Sony PlayStation released in Japan. A lot of us here at Kotaku have pretty fond…

Everybody calls Rob Kuntz last, he says. Those who want to know about the history of Dungeons & Dragons start with…

New Super Mario Bros. U is the second-best 2D Mario game. New Super Luigi U is an incredible showcase of inventive…

“You’re a rabbit now; you’re a kid now” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, but Splatoon almost went there.…

10 years after his last game, designer Will Wright is back with a new project called Proxi, a mobile game where…

Sometimes you need to punch a skeleton and use their severed arm to smack a ghost in the face. Long Live the Axe is…

Last week, publisher Perfect World shut down Runic Games, the Seattle-based developer of Torchlight and Hob. To…

Fighting games are complicated. That’s just a simple truth. As the genre has developed over the last few decades,…

My childhood friends thought the original The Legend of Zelda for the NES was easy: just gather the eight triforces…

The Interactive Gym, the latest project from the Canadian tech company SAGA, takes the traditional idea of gym class…