Simple Fear

Japanese people have different tastes from their Western counterparts (Heck, many of Kotaku East's Culture Smash…

Welcome to The Best of Kotaku, where Tina usually rounds up our best reporting, funniest stories, and otherwise…

The odds should've been against Assassin's Creed III: Liberation. It starred a woman—specifically the half-black,…

A game based on existing media has three options. It can strive to be faithful to the original work, privileging…

You know the stereotype: the sensitive geek, intense in his/her passion, becomes a magnet for bullying, ridicule…

As a child of the 90s I was raised on a steady diet of Disney movies and positive reinforcement. I grew up in a…

Antwand Pearman is a father. As we spoke on the phone this afternoon, his kids chattered in the background. He kept…

The original version of Karateka launched on an Apple II two decades ago and helped show that video game design…

There was a moment on Sunday when I thought the PC gamers had been hiding something from me.

"I've found it is the small things, every act of normal folk that keeps the darkness at bay," Gandalf the Grey says…