Word Monsters

The heat was unbearable. A group of kids scurried to find shade, but they did't find it under trees.

The recently released XBLA side-scroller Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet wears each of its various influences proudly…

I've finished Duke Nukem Forever. There are a lot of things wrong with it, which I'll get to next week in my review.…

Terraria is a 2D game that has often (and somewhat unfairly) been called "Minecraft in 2D". Not that the four…

ENOUGH ALREADY | JAPAN: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7 according to some reports rocked northeastern Japan…

This week marks my third anniversary with Kotaku, spending all of that as the site's weekend editor. On my third…

Dead Space 2 arrives next week. Sometime soon we'll be getting Dead Space on the iPhone, in a game whose story…

The world of Pokémon is bright, colorful, and filled with joy and wonder, but what if we replaced those colorful…

How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What…

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