It's Friday night and I'm gathering supplies for Girls Night over at my friends' house. Fashion magazines? Check.…
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World of Warcraft was launched five years ago today, and Kotaku is celebrating all week long, starting with a look…
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I sat in a blue room on Monday, surrounded by what some hardcore gamers might call artifacts of absurdity.
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It wasn't my idea to start a clothing line. It took some convincing, gentle arm-twisting from a friend who often…
I've been roasted by a dragon, used as a pincushion for ghoul spears, and hacked to death by an axe knight,…
Whether it was the local arcades or the family living room, there have been players — not all — who have thrown down…
Nights in New York City's upscale Soho neighborhood always offers something at which to Gawk.
In Richmond, Va., a 43-year-old father of three lines up a camera at his TV to film himself playing Marvel:…
"I hated level 40," she said with a sigh. It was the first time we'd spoken in eight years, and she had never…

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How can a video game be scary? Unlike horror movies where you're stuck watching some hapless victim succumb to scary…