Odds are strong that the cover of MLB 13 The Show will be graced by a National League hitter, as six of seven candidates in this fan-voted contest are batters, and five of them are from the senior circuit. The field was complet...

Robot Combat League is starting in February on Syfy. Twelve fighting machines, one champion. Presumably, no Hugh Jackman father-son bonding to distract us from the issue at hand. I mean, really, don’t you hate when people...

When you have over 12 million people playing your game every single day, a lot of data is getting moved around. How much? In League of Legends’ case, over 4 terabytes worth. In a 24-hour period, the game’s servers h...

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...

Proving that professional gamers can be no different to the casual players of the same game, League of Legends pro Christian Rivera has been banned from the game for “persistent toxic behavior”. While the game’...

The IGN Pro League has announced a partnership with Tecmo Koei. Through the exclusive arrangement, IPL will host pro gaming tournaments for Dead or Alive 5 in 2013, offering significant prize pools and making the fighting game ...

By now you’ve probably heard about the IGN Pro League, IGN’s own eSports league. It’s pretty awesome and really huge – you can check it out everyday on the IPL home page. But this week, something special...

When I was about 15, about the time you should begin to read serious books and challenge the accepted wisdom of your forebears, I got a copy of Total Baseball, an enormous, flaccid, yellow paperback about the size of the Manhat...

Melbourne-based Big Ant doesn’t have an easy job. It needs to take a fast, highly kinetic sport like rugby league and turn it into a video game for the same sort of budget the developers of the FIFA series presumably allocate t...