Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out! More »
Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out! More »
Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out! More »
Happy Halloween, everybody. Remember not to eat poisoned candy and not to drive drunk. Also, if you live in the Bay Area, the Bay Bridge is still out! More »
We’ve featured her on Kotaku before, but years ago. So to reintroduce her, Old Grandma Hardcore lives in Cleveland (there’s just no way she could live anywhere else) and she loves playing games. More »
Eidos just released a new trailer for Just Cause 2, which blends cinematic action with some impressive gameplay. More »
Multiplayer spoiler alert, I guess. Should you be awesome enough to rack up 25 straight kills in Modern Warfare 2, the game gives you a superweapon from which there is no escape. Not even for the guy who uses it. More »
Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain.
Above 49: Instancing Emotion Nels Anderson acknowleges the emotional pull that fosters camaraderie in Left 4 Dead and ensures its co-operative play works.
Gamasutra: Kill Polygon, Kill: Violence, Psychology, and Video Games Michael Thomsen examines why we enjoy video game violence and the abstraction of war.
Groping The Elephant: The fallacy of choice Justin Keverne asserts that the lack of player choice in Uncharted 2 is one of its chief strengths.
Magical Wasteland: The Way to a Man’s Heart Matthew Burns chews upon the many ways in which food appears in games, as mechanic, metaphor and collectible.
RedKingsDream: IKEA, and the logic of videogame design Daniel Golding discovers the link between furniture showroom layout and level design flow.
