The lost joystick

The old parental and Congressional outrage about video games was always pretty stupid. The belief that video games…

We’ve had some good times, aeroplanes and video games.

Speedrunner Illudude has been playing Wave Race 64 since it was released in 1996 on the Nintendo 64. Yesterday, be…

A prominent Donkey Kong forum has removed some scores supposedly earned by legendary arcade game player Billy…

Unlike team games like Dota 2 and Overwatch where losing is always someone else’s fault, fighting games can make…

A venue-wide ban on a modernized Super Smash Bros. controller at a major tournament last weekend has re-heated the…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS, which comes out on September 5 and tells the…

You lost at a video game. And definitely it was not because you were bad.

Narcissa Wright used to be the fastest Zelda: Ocarina of Time player. Her best run was nearly perfect, the stuff of,…

The Kotaku readership has collectively broken many, many controllers. But here are some of the better (read:…