As news goes, the Video Game Awards are more about the future games they will tease than the existing ones they…
This Wednesday edition of Kotaku's The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can't wait…
This has got to be agonizing. DreamQuest games wasn't looking for an insane amount of money when they put their…
The first week after Thanksgiving is typically when MLB The Show's publicity machine rolls out the first screenshots…
Like the original Dead Island, the sequel, Dead Island: Riptide won't have a German release, because that country is…
Know how I can tell this picture of a father and son buying a Wii U on Black Friday is staged? There are no police…

Two weeks ago Valve opened voting on the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2…
More than a year ago, Abe Stein of the Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reached out to me about…
2K Games revealed the box art for BioShock Infinite this morning and the verdict on it was swift and disapproving.

Last night NCsoft shut down City of Heroes, a landmark game that eight years ago brought the thrills of super powers…
The end of the major publishing calendar comes right after Black Friday, making this one of the quieter times for…
Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week's best content.
More than eight years old, City of Heroes says goodbye tonight. In five hours—at 3 a.m. EST Saturday—NCsoft will…
If you didn't already hate LucasArts enough for needlessly canceling Star Wars: Battlefront III, wait until you hear…
Welcome back to "Backhanded Box Quotes," a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of…
I'm quite interested in Crimson Shroud, a downloadable 3DS game that was just announced for release on December 13.
Hey, remember Ouya? You know, that newfangled gaming console that raised almost $8.6 million on Kickstarter a few…
The only baseball you're getting a console, anyway. These are the first screenshots released for MLB 13 The Show,…
Unicorns are the stuff of, I dunno, unicorns. They're fantasy! This isn't the 1600s, and we know better. But in…
On a long drive back yesterday evening I heard over the radio that President Obama, using the White House bully…