The Day That Changed My Life

Some time last year, I landed in Los Angeles. I was catching a connecting flight, the bane of the expedient…

Video games are meant to be an escape from the real world. Yet sometimes, escape be damned, they do such a good job…

Kotaku commenter Heyitsguy was once a video game pirate, downing PC games for free via the internet. Now he is not.…

It was a controversial year for gaming. The past 12 months saw the in-game assassination of Castro, playable…

It's been a week since Blizzard unleashed the Cataclysm in World of Warcraft, and I spent the past seven days…

Is Super Mario Bros. 2 bad? Was the Sonic series ever good? Who is the Ben Kingsley of video games? What does that…

The Xbox 360 was the first of the current generation of home consoles to launch, all the way back in 2005. If you…

A tricked-out dune buggy busts through a mural made up of post-apocalyptic imagery and battered road signs in the…

Michael Jordan returned to the NBA in 1995 with a famous two-word statement. He returns to video games with NBA…

A globe of fire temporarily replaced a portion of the blackness on the horizon. The fire shimmered close to where my…