The Fear Island

This past weekend, readers alerted us to an absolutely contemptible ripoff on the iTunes App Store. Someone had…

Trion Worlds takes its massively-multiplayer online role-playing game expansions seriously. Tripling the size of…

I can summarize my experience designing user interfaces like this: if you were to place a refrigerator and a toilet…

After over a decade in Japan, this week I got a letter from the Japanese government. It said that the alien…

Is there anything worse than killing a child? It's one of the most reprehensible things a person can do. Not just in…

In this super-sized edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter DocSeuss tells us the difference between being immersed…

Many ruder-than-scientific words exist for "homosexual"; the faceless internet crams my inbox with them every day.

I've never played as a black video game character who's made me feel like he was cool. Worse yet, I've never played…

Tim Schafer wants more video games to make you laugh. The legendary designer behind Grim Fandango and Day of the…

One of the many eternal battles the gaming community consistently fights among itself is the seemingly…