What Dark Souls Is Really All About
The first and sometimes the only thing people say about Dark Souls is that it’s hard. Really hard, migraine hard,…
HG Wells Practically Invented Modern Tabletop Wargaming
For his work on novels like War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau, British author HG Wells is rightly…
Tips for Playing Skyrim
Today, Bethesda is releasing their excellent role-playing adventure Skyrim for Nintendo Switch and VR. It’s a massive…
The Perfect Game Of Thrones Game Is A PC Mod
Forget RPGs, action games or even a broken if decent adventure series. The perfect Game of Thrones video game is a mod…
The Story of Sega's First Console, Which Was Not The Master System
On July 15, 1983, the Famicom was released in Japan. The console, later rebranded in the West as the Nintendo…
How Halloween Became a Thing in Japan
When I first came to Japan in 2001, Halloween was not a thing. At all. Well, it was if you were foreigner, but Japanese…
The Japanese Military Recruits With Anime Girls
In the past, there was a tradition in the U.S. military to paint pin-ups on aircrafts. Today, that tradition lives on…
All You Know About Ninja Is Probably "Wrong"
Those black suits. Those weapons. Martial arts. The image of the ninja is rooted more in fiction than fact. Everything…
In Memory of Ralph McQuarrie, the Artist who Designed Darth Vader & R2-D2
I run the Fine Art feature on Kotaku because it’s an aspect of the creative process that I have a big interest in, and…
How To Get Into Comics
With The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers posting record performances at cinemaplexes, it can be easy to forget that…
The Scary Theory That Totoro Is The God of Death
My Neighbor Totoro is a family favorite. Kids and adults alike love the story of two sisters in the idyllic Japanese…
Zelda Was A Badass In This Classic Nintendo Comic
There was a Zelda animated series, and it was terrible. Let’s not dwell on it. But if you ever wondered what would…
Awesome Fighting Game Let You Cut Other Player's Heads Off
You can keep Street Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters and Dead or Alive. My favourite fighting game pre-dates every…
Mr. Awesome: Champion Gamer, Playgirl Model
Picture a world-beating gamer. Take your time. Done? Whatever you pictured, you probably did not picture Mr. Awesome.
The Art of Homeworld. Enjoy.
The remastered editions of the two main Homeworld games are out today, introducing a whole new generation to one of…
Persona 3 Really Is Buffy, Down To The Smallest Characters
Persona 3 is perhaps best described as "Basically, Buffy The Vampire Slayer at a super fashionable Japanese high…
I Finished These 31 Video Games in 2013
For the eighth consecutive year, I've counted the number of games I finished in the last 12 months. The number has gone…
Curt Schilling Says Amalur Could Still Be a 'Billion Dollar Franchise'
The collapse of 38 Studios—the game development company founded by all-star pitcher Curt Schilling—became one of the…
Mass Effect 3's Ending Disrespects Its Most Invested Players
This article was originally published on April 3, 2012. We're bumping it up for Mass Effect week. For a different view…
Mass Effect's Hilarious, Unintended Subtitles
This article was originally published on June 6, 2012. We're bumping it up for Mass Effect week.