A grab bag full of silly exploitables from the 2012 Video Game Awards, from Snoop Lion to Cliff Bleszinski to our own Stephen Totilo and, of course, Samuel L. Jackson, supplied the grist for this week’s edition of the Kot...

Assassin’s Creed III was one of 2012’s most divisive games, but can we agree to enjoy a forest vista for a second? Look at that bird. Look at all those trees to climb. And, best of all… there’s no one to...

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...

The Wii U firmware update that just went live and will be mandatory for any of the system’s online features has enabled me to start adding friends to my system. The system is pretty easy. You press the Home menu on the Ga...

At the 2:47 mark of a song called The Gauntlet, the rapper Acrobatic makes a reference to… Gauntlet. That fits, but it’s just one of many, many video game references in rap songs. Which are you favorites? Which are ...

Retro City Rampage will be out tomorrow for PlayStation Vita, PS3, Steam and GoG. We already told you that. But what we can’t possibly do on our own is identify every gaming in-joke packed into this amazing launch trailer...

YouTube gaming personality KSIOlajidebt said on Twitter today that he “apologise[s] to the people I may have offended with my ‘awkward eurogamer’ video. My intent was never to sexual harass.” Full story ...

More weird riffs on classic video games from the New York City gaming collective Babycastles and Katamari Damacy dreamer Keita Takahashi. We showed you their unusual takes on Ms. Pac-Man and an old-school shmup. Here’s Ma...

What if there was a book that had no words in it? What if this book that required a camera, a TV and a video game console in order for you to “read” it? Would you call this progress? Would you call it science fictio...