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“Sometimes I’m tempted to just, like, lie,” laughs a colleague across a table from me.

The only people who ever lose a console war are people who make games. The people who actually play games usually…

About two years after The End came a memorable day: Mark unearthed an incredible stash. Coarse-knuckled and…

I did a lot of crying at GDC this year.

Having Mad Skills is a huge part of the video game culture mythos. Do you remember the future promised to us in the…

Okay. You need one original idea that no one has ever had before. Try this: Everything we do is a game.

Many people who went to film school will tell you that film school made them hate watching films. In a similar…

Hey, Kotaku readers! I'm currently wrapping up development on our Summer of Arcade game Hybrid as we speak! If all…

Hey Kotaku readers it's almost E3 time! I'm super busy preparing for E3 right now and it's madness over at the…

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

Hey Kotaku readers, I'm back at it again this month. Apparently things went well enough last month that Kotaku…

Hey, Kotaku readers! Welcome to my very first column. I'm now officially a game journalist as well as a game…

Japanese RPGs used to be a lot more controversial. Or maybe it was just because I was a teenager during the genre's…

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

You're playing a game like Battlefield 3 or Call of Duty, shooting and grenading left and right. And you're…

The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone, and still no smell-o-vision inventor has stepped forward to…

The last thing I want to do is start another debate about video game storytelling. That sounds almost as fun to read…

2011 was yet another good year for video games, but on its face it was a little predictable.

I recently was given a part in The Game Station's 6-episode miniseries called "The Street Fighter," and I didn't…

Anyone who knows me knows that my second-favorite hobby (after making sure my fingernails have no white parts) is…