My mother used to tell me not to play with my food, but the rule never applied to Oreos. It's almost as if the…
If you think the internet is a place where information can be shared freely, a place where things like copyright law…
Chopsticks are a mainstay of dinner tables in Japan and throughout Asia. Japanese people have been using them since…
This is the story of how Mary Cusumano and her three sons continued one man's legacy. Against all reasonable odds.
Toy builder Jon English has come up with these incredible custom He-Man figures, some of the heavily modified…
It can sometimes be rough trying to find enough quality cosplay to feature in this weekly roundup. Not this week.
While everyone gets excited over Firaxis' very-promising XCOM remake, it's easy to forget that there was once anothe…
Mike Sass worked at BioWare for twelve years. That's an astonishing amount of time for an artist to stay put at the…
It's at least a five-day drive from Burnaby, British Columbia to Maitland, Fla.—if you're using Google Maps, that…
Say this for Performance Designed Products, makers of the Afterglow Wireless Headset, a slick, luminous gaming…
If you are a company who rakes in millions making social games for Facebook, I have good news for you. Researchers…
Despite feedback from Tecmo's overseas offices to "tone down the sexuality" of Dead or Alive 5's female fighters,…

If you got in on this summer's bar argument over which U.S. Olympic basketball team was better, and were convinced…
For those with their eyes on Assassin's Creed 3—well, its console release anyway—NewEgg has a discount on its…
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week's best content.
Piploop became Piplup because Piploop sounds too much like poop. Another Pokémon was almost called Doncrowleone,…
You probably don't know Elizabeth Tobey. She didn't voice an outrageous character or design an outlandish weapon in…
Or outrage, or scorn. Video games are just one pushcart in the vast marketplace of ideas, where everyone shouts down…
Why is the PlayStation Vita floundering? One reason is that people just weren't interested in developing games for…

Unfortunately, this is not one of those App of the Day writeups where the selection is meritorious and the title is…