Word Island

People become gamers by accident, usually when they're young. A school-friend's console turns them into one. Or a…

This week ends the summer for most people in school and for those who follow the rules regarding wearing white…

Final Fantasy VII's Wikipedia entry is 6,596 words.The Wikipedia entry for William Shakespeare is 5,999 words. Let's…

The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we…

The people behind the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot say they misspoke while using the word "rape" to refer to a scene…

E3 2012 wasn't just a banner year for bows and helicopters, it was also quite the year for throat-trauma. From Splint…

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

Mother's Day is this weekend, and so the commercials for flowers and jewelry and Hallmark cards are incessant and…

I don't like most zombie games because, well, they're not really zombie games. They're action games using the…

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