pecking order

The Half-Life franchise contains some of the best and most beloved video games ever made. While the vast majority of…

Spider-Man, Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can! Has he had, lots of games? Yup and many, are the same. Watch…

Pokémon. It’s the biggest multimedia franchise on the planet. Everyone knows what a Pikachu is. The Pokéball, a…

Star Wars is a media franchise about people fighting in space, hence the name. So of course there are plenty of Star…

So here I am, doing everything I can, ranking Tony Hawk games and hoping I don’t anger fans.

For almost thirty years we’ve been driving like maniacs, questioning the meaning of fairness and ending friendships…

How do you separate greatness? You can only try. And remember that hexes > grids.

Few series are as dear to my heart as Creative Assembly’s Total War, with its mix of history, real-time tactics and…

It is now time to rank all the Zelda games.

In the 20+ years since the Fallout franchise was introduced to the world, all of the games have been met with…

With a new Star Wars movie out, the first in ten years, now is as good a time as any to see how all the films stack…

We’re ten years removed from the last time Star Trek was on TV, and, aside from free-floating rumors, we’re no…

The Fatal Frame series is one of the creepiest survival-horror game series out there and certainly my personal…

Happy birthday, Mario Kart! It's been 22 years since the first Mario Kart released on the SNES in Japan in 1992. How…

I published an innocent little story yesterday about an N64 controller that provoked an unexpected response. You…

We here at Kotaku have been having a lot of fun with rankings lately, from Halo to Grand Theft Auto to Final Fantasy…

We did it with Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and Final Fantasy, and now we're back at it again to rank the Pokémon series.

For the past two months, we've been running a feature called Pecking Order, in which we rank every game in a series,…

We did it with Halo, so let's do it with another of the world's biggest game series, Grand Theft Auto. And by "it",…

Let's say you're new to a series. Or are in a position where you're recommending a series to a friend who's never…