Welcome to the last, first episode of Talking Them Down from the Ledge, or TTDftL for short. Our newest show is a structured debate where one person makes an assertion, and the other two have to talk them down from the ledge. T...

As news goes, the Video Game Awards are more about the future games they will tease than the existing ones they honor. Kotaku will be in Los Angeles on Friday covering the gala. Here is an internal chatroom discussion among Ste...

• George R. R. Martin considers who would win in a battle between his literary creations and J.R.R. Tolkien’s, in what I like to call “Battle of the R.R.s.” NOW GET BACK TO THAT WRITING DESK, GEORGE.• Is Disne...

• Someone dug up this 1983 interview with Mark Hamill about the plot of Episode VII, during one of the intermittent times George Lucas said he was going to make three trilogies. Interestingly, we know exactly as much now as Ham...

Holy shit. Marvel obviously saw my post on the reveal of Arrow’s Huntress — because that’s totally a thing they would care about and because there’s no other way they would have received that information...

Huntress doesn’t show up on (the surprisingly decent and impressively fast-moving) Arrow until November 28th, but you can see her now if you look about two inches directly about this sentence. Given Oliver Queen’s d...

Was it just me, or was the Arrow premiere pretty goddamn good? It set everything up quickly and efficiently, had solid performances and dialogue, and some good action scenes and enough of an overarching mystery to keep viewers ...

• DC Comics just announced the collectibles that they will be unveiling during their New York Comic Con panel tomorrow. Along with the latest assortment of Batman: Arkham City action figures you see above, they’ll also be...

After the featurette we all enjoyed so much this morning, in which we learned that Arrow is a superhero story EXCEPT IT’S TOTALLY REAL and has comic book origins TO A VERY SMALL, ALMOST NON-EXISTENT DEGREE, The CW has rel...