For the sixth year in a row, I have tallied the number of video games I played in the last year. For the sixth year in…

While Portal 2 walked away with Kotaku's official game of the year award for 2011, Kotaku commenters held their own…

It's been a lot of fun cataloguing and recognizing the best video game music of the year. We've gone from AAA…

We love video games here at Kotaku. We love them so much. We think they had a good year in 2011, although it was a…

After several weeks of debate, discussion, and deliberation, Kotaku's 2011 Game of the Year Award came down to a simple…

The hardest thing at the end of the year is to parse yourself from the hype you're experiencing and think back to the…

2011 saw its share of disappointments, but it was also a year that contained a good number of nice surprises. Some were…

2011 is coming to an end. Best of lists and worst of lists, it's time to look back at the year that was.

What Valve did this year seemed impossible: they improved on the perfection that was the first Portal. That feat was…

This may sound off-key coming from the guy who nominated the 12th edition of annual sports franchise for overall GOTY…

I played a ton of games in 2011. More, probably, than any other year of my life. So when it came time to choose the…

This year has been good to gaming. Hold on, let me restate that. This year has been amazing to gaming.

Oh look. Somebody is voting for Skyrim as Game of the Year. How shocking.

What was the best game of the year, according to those of us here at Kotaku?

Some of us think that 2011 was a good year for video games because Arkham City, Skyrim and the new Zelda weren't…