For the past year, I’ve been reporting and writing a book full of stories about how video games were made. Today,…
Gary Gygax, biological determinist and creator of Dungeons & Dragons, once told a reporter for Icon magazine that…
We here at Kotaku are big fans of the High School death game/courtroom drama of Danganronpa. But the two games out…
As summer blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow hits theaters in Europe this week and America next week, now is the perfect…
Here is the cover to The Earth Transformed, a novel by Mike Stackpole and Nathan Long, available this week as a…
Last year we took a look at the third arc of the light novel series Sword Art Online (which is getting an anime…
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Just in time for next month's San Diego Comic-Con, UDON presents Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Works, 192…
Last fall, a series of photos featuring girls licking doorknobs took the internet by storm. This year, the…

As a kid, I'd often snap LEGO bricks together and make crude pistols. They didn't shoot anything, so for added…
Leave it to Japan to explain correct weapon use in manga form. A new book, Drawing! Gun and Knife Combat Pose Style…

In 1985 Jordan Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first…
In a world flooded with video game novelizations, only one man has the background to develop the back-story of RU…
Inspired by ancient self-operating machines and driven by clever computer animation, the opening credits for HBO's…
Del Rey and Bethesda Softworks have teamed up to publish a novel based on id's upcoming Rage game. Penned by Matt…

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THE FORERUNNER STORY-the history of my people-has been told many times, with greater and greater idealization,…
Author Greg Bear isn't just a one-time Kotaku guest columnist and a prize-winning science fiction author. He's also…