Try. Die. Repeat.

Civilization creator Sid Meier once famously said that a game is "a series of interesting decisions."

Let's go back in time. It's 1990. The Company Then Known As Squaresoft is living large, riding the waves of success…

I am become Death, destroyer of crates.

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

There are misdemeanors I have committed in this life, I'll admit it. For example, I recently got a ticket for…

Into the midst of the PlayStation Vita's launch lineup drops a fiery comet, crashing through the Earth's crust and…

Great games often spring from a single brilliant idea, like a protagonist that can pull himself back together after…

I was designing a user interface for someone else's social game the other day, and I was completely oblivious that…

Green Lantern isn't just the story of an ordinary run-of-the-mill fighter pilot who gets a magic ring from space.…

Author Greg Bear isn't just a one-time Kotaku guest columnist and a prize-winning science fiction author. He's also…