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Features

Maybe The Greatest Of All Time, But Not In Its Time

4:00AM Owen Good | Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honours. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year’s winners are not. More »
News

Golden Crecentes, Perhaps the Last GOTY for Rocky Mountain News

5:40AM Brian Crecente | Even though I left the Rocky Mountain News to run Kotaku fulltime awhile back, I still write for the newspaper. Mostly because I like the idea of being able to expose a very mainstream audience to gaming. More »

Have Video Games Gotten More Violent?

10:00AM AJ Glasser | This article on GamesRadar has me wondering if violence in video games has gotten more intense – or is it just more vivid as a result of technology making blood brighter and guts more realistic.

Kotaku’s 2008 Games of the Year Awards

6:00AM Kotaku US Edition | This year we decided to try something different with our Game of the Year awards: The GOTYS. We came up with categories that exemplify the areas of gaming that we think should be highlighted.

Kotaku’s Game of the Year Finalists

1:00AM Brian Crecente | I went through yesterday’s list of nominations for our annual Game of the Year awards and tallied the games to come up with a short list of finalists for us to vote on. More »

Kotaku’s Game of the Year Nominations

6:00AM Brian Crecente | There are two ways to approach Game of the Year awards. More »