http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/mystery http://kotaku.com/tag/mystery

They're making a portable Silent Hill game for Sony's Vita (you know...Sony's next handheld... the PSP2, the NGP). And it's a multiplayer game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5810140&view=rss&microfeed=true

Today's Activision Blizzard first quarter 2011 financial results call came and went without specific mention of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, but talk surrounding Beachheads buzzword-powered online digital platform indicates it will play a strong role in the next Call of Duty game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5800161&view=rss&microfeed=true

With more than 50 million copies of Rovio's bird-slinging casual game downloaded, Angry Birds is one of the most popular games of all time, but why? Usability engineering consultant Charles Mauro tears down the surprising secrets to Angry Birds' success. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5780222&view=rss&microfeed=true

A trademark application filed last week by Capcom for Mega Man Universe could indicate big things in store for everyone's favorite blue bomber. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5525753&view=rss&microfeed=true

Maybe you'll eat a turkey sandwich. Perhaps, you'll drink a glass of carrot juice. You may even read watch television. The future is endless. The reveal for this countdown teaser is not. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5490865&view=rss&microfeed=true

Mysterious LEGO pods are appearing around the globe, piloted by minifig pilots that may hold the key to a parallel universe. Only you and The Bradford Rant Institute of Cosmic Kinesis can solve this riddle. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5403220&view=rss&microfeed=true

Yes, yes we have. Reader Bo (thanks Bo!) alerted us to this image on page 17 of the Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, wondering if it was a hint for GTA 5's location. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5393241&view=rss&microfeed=true

Tired of arriving late to the Amazon deals party? Well now you've got two days to prepare for Amazon's next all video games Gold Box event. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5345970&view=rss&microfeed=true

An amazing 9-minute long film on YouTube has Half-Life fans shouting viral teaser. Is "What's In The Box" teasing something new from Valve, or is it just a damn fine homage? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5175355&view=rss&microfeed=true

Nintendo sends us word of a mysterious special event that will take place on the morning of September 18th, promising "A luminous spectacle that onlookers from coast to coast will be talking about." The only clue we have as to what the special event is about it the locations it's taking place at. Kirby Middle School, Kirby Historical Mill, Kirby Park, and Kirby Gate Shopping Center. I feel the names mean something, but what? Damn you Nintendo for being so mysterious! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5050478&view=rss&microfeed=true

Looks like that image you folks were pouring into our tips email all day was indeed a fan-made fake! This is the latest Blizzard splash page, ice5andahalf.jpg, indicating that ice6.jpg is on its way, more than likely to coincide with this morning's opening ceremonies of the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris. The runes are all aglow now in their pentagram-like configuration, and the eyes more intense than ever before. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5020474&view=rss&microfeed=true

Once again Blizzard completely screws with my sleep schedule! After a day of cursing under my breath at all of the people sending in photoshatted pictures of the damned Diablo II box art superimposed over yesterday's splash, the latest splash image gives me the satisfaction of knowing all of it was in vain. This, my friends, is not the Diablo II box art. Between the eyes and the small bit between them, it is one of two things. A Protoss from Starcraft, or the Death Knight from Wrath of the Lich King. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5020164&view=rss&microfeed=true

Great, now you folks have me wide awake at 3 in the morning my time, hunting for clues like an over-the-hill Encyclopedia Brown. The Blizzard splash page has updated once again, revealing what certainly look like a pair of glowing eyes peering through the broken ice. Is it Diablo? Arthas? Or is it Hurley? The reason I ask is because the latest secret image has appeared in the CSS of the page, bearing the number 16. That makes the sequence so far 4, 15, 23, 16. Fans of the television show Lost know those numbers, along with the numbers 8 and 42, as the numbers that keep popping up throughout the show on lottery tickets, prescription bottles, etc. Will the next two numbers follow suit, or is Blizzard throwing us another curve? If it is the Lost numbers, what does it mean? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019791&view=rss&microfeed=true

Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun SPLASH! *boom* Ah-ah! He'll save every one of us! It's day three of staring at Blizzard's slowly evolving splash page and fighting over whether or not they're going to announce Diablo III, and while it certainly could still be the return of old shard-head, several popular theories have now been blown out of the ice water. The new rune there on the bottom? That's the Protosss symbol from StarCraft, leading me to believe that they are going a similiar route to last year's showcasing of the various properties over the years before revealing the new one, which would mean all the speculation based on the symbols means absolutely nothing now. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019490&view=rss&microfeed=true

Besides that frosty teaser teasing we-don't-know-yet, a couple pieces of art have been fished out of the directory of the Blizzard splash screen. The JPGs are titled "04" and "15." Want to hear how kurazy theories are getting about these? Tipster zzino202 writes: "if u go with the 232309 theory... then 04 and 15 are the letters D and O... people are hoping it spells out diablo eventually lol." Laugh out loud, indeed! But hey, we dunno, you dunno, but those reading way too much into things like JPG titles want to know. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong and just getting way too excited about Wrath of the Lich King. WHO KNOWS! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019074&view=rss&microfeed=true

Yesterday the truth was finally revealed behind the mysterious cell phone received in the mail a few weeks back. I was still pretty unsure of exactly what was going to go down yesterday, so I sent a final text message through the phone asking what was going on. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=377763&view=rss&microfeed=true

You may have read last week about a mysterious cell phone that was sent my way with no return address. A series of text messages informed me that I would hear word on the 24th on my "assignment." I checked in on the phone yesterday evening and sure enough there was another text message, this one slightly more ominous than the first... More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=371679&view=rss&microfeed=true

While I was lazing about the house working hard yesterday I received a Fed-Ex delivery. Not that this is anything unusual, I get Fed-Ex packages fairly regularly but upon looking at the slip I noticed that there was nothing filled in in the senders area. But it clearly said To: Flynn De Marco - Kotaku so I figured it was some kind of game thing. After getting over my initial fear that it might be the head of Gwyneth Paltrow, I opened it to discover a small Nokia phone. No note, no press release, none of the things that usually accompany such things. So I figured I'd go ahead and plugged it in and left the house for the day. Upon my return I heard an unfamiliar jangling and realized it was the phone informing me that I had a text message. I checked it to discover the following missive. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=369501&view=rss&microfeed=true

Gamasutra has yet another interesting installment of their "game design essentials" series up - this one on game mechanics shrouded in a cloak of mystery. Everything from Bubble Bobble to Street Fighter makes the list, with explanations of why the game made the (not ranked in any particular order) list and what it says about game design more broadly. Why does this stuff matter, anyways? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=346870&view=rss&microfeed=true

It seems that EA is putting out a new Simpsons game in what I can only assume will be a tie in with the upcoming movie. Going to this page on EA's website, we are presented with a classic Simpson's yellow screen featuring the title "XXII" done in a mock GTA IV style. Underneath is a counter using the now famous Matt Groening font that is counting down the time, which at the writing of this article was down to exactly four days. So, by Wednesday afternoon we should be treated to some kind of announcement having to do with this mysterious game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=257992&view=rss&microfeed=true

GamePolitics has been following the story of Jacob Pribyl since Tuesday. Pribyl is a 20 year-old MMORPG player form Minnesota who went missing last week from his parents home. A typically obsessed MMO player, his parents believed the game had something to do with his disappearance. Florida lawyer JT Pompnstuff was quickly brought in to help solve the mystery of the missing man-child, and on Wednesday sent GamePolitics the following message: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=229601&view=rss&microfeed=true

GameStop is holding a Guitar Hero 2 contest on February 3, 2007 at select GameStop stores. This appeared as a feature in one of their newsletters, but oddly, very little information is available at the moment. There's no mention of what the prizes are, but they certainly have no problem with advertising how much the game is. I would venture to guess that a copy of the game will be one of the prizes, although, if you're good enough to compete in a contest, one would assume you already own a copy. Gibson is listed as one of the sponsors, so let's hope that a REAL guitar will be included as well. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=220520&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember when we posted that art of the Wii box showing that it was going to come with a startup disc? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=215897&view=rss&microfeed=true In this vaguely unsettling clip from G4, Attack of the Show host Kevin Pereira exorcises his desperate frustrations at being constantly mocked by the entirety of the gaming establishment by beating the everloving snot out of a defenseless DS Lite. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=190180&view=rss&microfeed=true After some embarassing guesses like Beat Takeshi and Takeshi Miike, it appears the mysterious Leopard Print Man has been identified and he is, apparently, Itou Ashura Benimaru, another Nintendo musician with a flairish penchant for pulling off improbable fashion statements. According to Mobygames, he appears to have done the soundtracks for Super Smash Bros. and Earthbound. And we even have a 2 hour video clip of him hosting Mario & Zelda Live for you guys to enjoy. Embarassingly, we've posted this video before, but didn't recognize him despite all that. Thanks to Chris S. for his sleuthing! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=173397&view=rss&microfeed=true

Kotaku reader Daniel K. sent us in this mysterious photograph of a flamboyant man dressed entirely in gaudy leopard print duds hanging out with Koji Kondo at E3. Do you recognize him? Who is he? One of our on-site editors probably knows, but they are all sucking their thumbs whilst embryonically nuzzled in a booth babe's tequila-filled womb right now. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=173335&view=rss&microfeed=true