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You might like Japan. But if you are Tommy Lee Jones, you totally *heart* it. Who loves Japan? Why Tommy Lee Jones,…

When I first came to Japan in 2001, Halloween was not a thing. At all. Well, it was if you were foreigner, but…

The first and sometimes the only thing people say about Dark Souls is that it’s hard. Really hard, migraine hard,…

For his work on novels like War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau, British author HG Wells is rightly…

Today, Bethesda is releasing their excellent role-playing adventure Skyrim for Nintendo Switch and VR. It’s a…

Forget RPGs, action games or even a broken if decent adventure series. The perfect Game of Thrones video game is a…

On July 15, 1983, the Famicom was released in Japan. The console, later rebranded in the West as the Nintendo…

In the past, there was a tradition in the U.S. military to paint pin-ups on aircrafts. Today, that tradition lives…

Those black suits. Those weapons. Martial arts. The image of the ninja is rooted more in fiction than fact.…

I run the Fine Art feature on Kotaku because it’s an aspect of the creative process that I have a big interest in,…

With The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers posting record performances at cinemaplexes, it can be easy to forget…

My Neighbor Totoro is a family favorite. Kids and adults alike love the story of two sisters in the idyllic Japanese…

There was a Zelda animated series, and it was terrible. Let’s not dwell on it. But if you ever wondered what would…

You can keep Street Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters and Dead or Alive. My favourite fighting game pre-dates every…

Picture a world-beating gamer. Take your time. Done? Whatever you pictured, you probably did not picture Mr. Awesome.

The remastered editions of the two main Homeworld games are out today, introducing a whole new generation to one…

Persona 3 is perhaps best described as "Basically, Buffy The Vampire Slayer at a super fashionable Japanese high…

For the eighth consecutive year, I've counted the number of games I finished in the last 12 months. The number has…

The collapse of 38 Studios—the game development company founded by all-star pitcher Curt Schilling—became one of the…

This article was originally published on April 3, 2012. We're bumping it up for Mass Effect week. For a different…