We're The Staff Of Kotaku--Ask Us Anything [UPDATE: Over]
It’s been a wild 2019 in video game news so far, and what better to greet the new year than a Kotaku staff Q&A? We’ll…
Nintendo Answers (And Avoids) Our Switch Questions
The Switch won’t have Netflix or any other video apps at launch, but it will have a Mii Maker app. No video capture,…
Quality Assured: What It’s Really Like To Test Games For A Living
There’s an old commercial for Westwood College that’s become something of a running joke in the video game world. Two…
Answering Your Best Final Fantasy XV Questions
I have played 10 hours of Final Fantasy XV, a video game about how One Direction spends their days off, and I’m pleased…
Ask Kotaku's Staff Anything
It’s Thursday afternoon, fall is finally here, and we’re all getting ready for an exciting next few months of video…
Ask Kotaku's Staff Anything: Senior Week Edition
Next week, Kotaku’s parent company Gawker Media will have a new owner. We don’t expect very much to change around…
Ask Kotaku's Staff Anything [UPDATE: Q&A Over]
It’s Friday, it’s brutally hot, and we’re here for an hour or so to answer your questions. Ask whatever you’d like,…
Old Sega Training Video Was The 1990s
90-hour work weeks, free coffee, rad haircuts...working for Sega’s testing team in the mid-90s sure looked like shitty…
Kotaku Asks: An Anonymous Video Game Tester
Curious about what it’s like to play video games for a living? Want to know how grueling—or how satisfying—it can be to…
Q&A: The People Behind Helldivers Spill Some Secrets
I like Helldivers. It's one of my favorite PS4 games. But I had 11 questions about it. I posed them to one of the…
YouTube's Copyright Crackdown: Everything You Need To Know
We're in the second week of a YouTube copyright enforcement crackdown whose most visible effects have been on the video…
Gaming Contractors May Not Be Superstars, But We Don't Need To Strike
There was recently an article published on this very site, written by Nathan Peters. It was a description of his…
Born And Raised A Game Developer
You might know the name Victor Ireland—the outspoken ex-head of Working Designs was responsible for translating and…
We've Got Live Tech Support To Answer Questions on All Your New Gadgets
Did you get a bunch of new gear today? Got some questions about how to use it?
Getting the Bugs Out of QA Might Mean Better Video Games
When a video game ships with tons of bugs, one excuse that gets thrown out is that it wasn't tested throughly enough.…
Being a Video Game Tester is Just a Damn Job, Okay?
Earlier this week we posted a story article regarding the hardships of being a QA tester in the video game industry.…
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Travels Through Time to Fix Past Missteps
Was Final Fantasy XIII too linear for you? Square Enix has heard the complaints, and answers them with a mechanic…
Who Wants to Work for Sony's Testing Department, Round Three
Sony is gearing up for season three of its PlayStation Network reality show The Tester, asking gamers to submit a…