True, true. Why not both?

Skylanders has a rock-solid gameplay identity. It’s the rebirth of the character-based 3D platformers of old, and they’re really the only ones doing those on a major scale these days. A lot of people say the series ruined Spyro—I think Spyro was ruined far before Skylanders came along—but in truth the series keeps the…

Minecraft Legend of Zelda confirmed!

First thing I thought of was the skit from Robot Chicken.

(Also: http://kotaku.com/castlevania-su… and http://kotaku.com/thanks-to-73-0…)

Or maybe most of us prefer to save our praise for games that are actually real? Kotaku writers have raved about Pillars of Eternity, FTL, Broken Age, Shovel Knight, and many other Kickstarters that were successful not because they raised a lot of money but because they led to phenomenal games. I imagine we’ll save our…

This rainbow is God’s promise that he’ll never kill Satoru Iwata again. Thanks, God!

I’m calling it right now.

It's not a bad game at all. Just a game I've played before, but shinier and with excellent music.

Batman, The Dark Knight, and Detective Comics are very violent comics so this isn't really pushing boundaries. I remember when Batman shot his grappling hook through the Scarecrows jaw and out his mouth, got out of the hole he was thrown into, then ripped his hook out of the Scarecrows mouth thus ripping half of his…

The treatment of these tiny studios underneath major publishers is abhorrent. Workers being given crazy hours and no overtime pay, bonuses being withheld, and studios being shut down even after successful products are shipped. The entire industry seems highly Unethical. If ONLY there existed a group whose main…