A recent study has shown that gamers who wage battle against human-looking characters are more likely to experience aggressive thoughts and words than those facing monstrous nonhuman targets.

No, this isn't a screenshot from the latest incarnation of BioShock —it's DeviantArt user LaynesLionRedCat cosplaying as quantum physicist Rosalind Lutece. Wow.

We've waited four long years for our next installment in J.J. Abrams' movie series, and Star Trek Into Darkness is almost here. But meanwhile, you can catch up with the rebooted Trek with Star Trek: The Video Game, which comes out today. We've got tons of concept art, and an exclusive interview with Paramount's Brian…

As if we didn't already have enough reasons to be excited about the Oculus Rift VR headset, a company called Virtuix has shown what gamers can do when you add an omnidirectional treadmill to the mix.

Ted Kosmatka's Prophet of Bones takes place in a world where absolutely everybody knows that Darwin was wrong, and the world is only 5,800 years old. Until one researcher happens on an archeological miracle: an early hominid who used tools, and clearly diverged from humans longer ago. And then people start turning up…

With his first novel, Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman brought dark, neurotic humor to the superhero genre. With YOU, a semi-realistic novel about a young videogame designer, he does something more profound. His characters' identities are forged during gameplay, so they can only come to terms with the past…

One of the great tantalizing things in the Mass Effect universe is the story of Wrex's greatest fight, a brawl that destroyed a space station — against an Asari who turned out to be Aria. And now, two amazing cosplayers have brought that fight to life.

If you're weary of the same manga pretty boys and girls who inhabit most dating simulation games, then take a toothy stab at Jurassic Heart. This brief dating sim lets you go on a date with a truly unusual beau: a ukelele-loving Tyrannosaurus Rex.

By Kyle Hill. The craziest part of BioShock Infinite isn’t the idea of combining a first-person shooter with jingoism, religious purity, and intense xenophobia. It’s the idea of floating an entire city.

Between the floating city of Columbia, the steampunk aesthetic and the evil robot George Washington Terminator, I imagine there's a lot of io9 readers interested in the new video game Bioshock Infinite. But playing video games is Kotaku's things, not ours. What to do? Well, how about we just watch the game's footage…