Chainmail Bikini is a new anthology of comics "by and about female gamers." Some 40 cartoonists have contributed their own perspectives on everything from video games to card games to role-playing games, and the results are pretty hilarious.

1987 was the year I discovered video games. Before then there were no video games. Before then video games didn't exist.

Before then it was kicking a football against a garage door. Before then it was going to my friend's dad's caravan and learning swear words. Before then it was finding pornography stuck in a hedge and being truly, viscerally terrified of vaginas.

Ever bought a game that ties into one of your favourite fantasy, scifi, or comic book tales, only to play it and find out it is total crap? Unfortunately, licensed games are historically bad, leaving a lot of fans in this same situation. You probably already know about 1982's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and 1999's Superman 64, so these two stinkers are omitted. Here are eight more of the absolute worst ones.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling: it can bring back happy memories, but it can also make us overlook some pretty egregious flaws in the things we have loved. Case in point: Here are eight games that were fairly lousy — but people insist on loving them anyway.

Market researchers Newzoo early this morning released an update into their annual analysis of the video game industry, and their results aren't really that surprising.

Games make a metric shit load of money.

Some of our most memorable times with video games have little to do with the game itself, and everything to do with who we were, who we were with and what we were doing at the time. Here are some Kotaku reader's tales of triumph, despair, friendships lost, puking, battles with cancer, broken saves...

When you ask most people what the first video game is, chances are they'll mention Pong. Some people might mention Spacewar. And others might even go as far as to mention the Brown Box from the late 1960's, a prototype of a multi-program, multiplayer video game system.

But the first patent for a video game system, with the earliest inkling of a game, was filed decades earlier — in 1947.

So here's something we were all aware of: digital sales of video games is a massive growth market. Retail sales? Not so much.

Here's something new: in 2015, for the very first time, Australians spent more money on digital games than they did at traditional retail. We all knew this day would come.

For 20 years, Pokémon has had the reputation of a cheery kid's franchise. But under the veneer of Ash and co.'s adventures, there lies one of the most sinister dystopias around. To celebrate Pokémon's 20th birthday (and its newest games), here's a few reasons as to why the Pokénation is much more terrifying than you realised.

If you're playing The Division's beta this weekend, you may come across this dog. The dog can die, if you happen to shoot it. So...maybe don't?

Last week, I got an email from a reader with a simple yet challenging question: Which video game console should they buy?

Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It's important that I do this when it's still spongy and damp from the shower. Wait too long and my hair gets drier and less cooperative, making it harder to pull the comb through my natural. (Pro tip: A natural is something black folks sometimes call hair that hasn't been altered or straightened by heat or chemicals.)

Most of the chatter from Canberra has been around a new $101 million package to tackle domestic violence and the publication of new statistics about attitudes towards domestic violence. But in a radio interview with 2GB's Ben Fordham, Australia's Federal Minister for Women, Michaelia Cash, indicated that video games could also have a role to part in negative attitudes towards domestic violence.

What's it like when a video game totally flops, selling less than 150 total copies? Read this interesting Gamasutra blog by Aussie Airscape designer Daniel West if you want a glimpse at how tough it is to get games noticed these days. "It's no longer enough to make a good game."

Here, via veteran game designer Ron Gilbert, is a detailed look at the budget for the upcoming point-n-click adventure Thimbleweed Park.

Last night I turned the TV off. I looked at the time. 1am. Bollocks. I have to wake up in five hours. How the hell did this happen?

Oh, yeah. I forgot. Video games.

If you're happy to risk being roasted on cable TV to get some additional investment for your video game, then this new show is for you.

Guess what was discovered on a bookshelf at Osama bin Laden's compound during the US raid from 2011? A strategy guide for Delta Force: Xtreme 2 and "video game guide" by GameSpot.

Video games have a blackness problem. This has been a known thing for a while, and we do talk about it from time to time. But I'd like to keep talking about it.