When I look back at the seventh console generation (PS3, Xbox 360, etc.), I can't help but feel that the creation of…
We're wrapping up our second week of Last-Gen Heroes, our series looking back at the last eight years of console…
In 2013, the PC is arguably one of the strongest gaming platforms on the planet, blessed with a massive variety of…
You spend time or energy, you gotta get something out of it. Self-improvement. Money, maybe. Experience, at least.…

The video game trailer is an interesting phenomenon. It is, at its core, a marketing device—a series of sounds and…

Oh Microsoft. What were you thinking?
This console generation saw only a few Final Fantasy games during its time in the sun but luckily two of them were…
Every time I bring home a new video game I have this ritual: I take a fish boning knife and slide it under a fold in…
We've been having fun with the first week of our month-long Last-Gen Heroes series, in which Kotaku's staff has been…
These days, guns and action games go together like spoons and Nutella. And yet when it comes right down to it, there…

It was an idea so good that it vaulted Nintendo into first place last-gen with a console using last-last-gen…

It's been three years since, up to our eyeballs in snow, bullet casings and blood, we were reminded to "shoot the…
PlayStation 3. Xbox 360. Wii. Over the past eight years, electronic boxes wearing one of those three brands came to…