February 16, 2012 – President and CEO of Activision Bobby Kotick joins the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company today, applying his business talents to the makers of the most popular carbonated beverage in the world.
Mortal Kombat Vita Trailer Has Me Craving Augmented Fatalities
February 16, 2012 – In an attempt to demonstrate how Mortal Kombat on the PS Vita can be played anywhere, anytime, Warner Bros. and NetherRealm Studios get augmented reality fans all excited for nothing. Unfortunately we won't be recreating the epic battle between Sub-Zero and Scorpion on our city streets any time... More »
Rob Riggle Tours the Dizzying Heights of Modern Warfare 3’s Overwatch Map
February 15, 2012 – Former Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle wriggles his way into Modern Warfare 3's upcoming Overwatch map, giving us a guided tour of the hoary heights of New York City skyscrapers. You've seen the screens, now catch live scenes from the upcoming downloadable map, coming February 21 to Call of... More »
Love is a Fresh New Etna Tattoo
February 15, 2012 – In what is quickly becoming a Valentine's Day tradition for my family, last night I hit up Psycho Tattoo in Sandy Springs, Georgia to add another role-playing icon to my growing (and until yesterday Final Fantasy-centric) party. More »
Death Comes Calling in Darksiders II June 26
February 14, 2012 – The June release date for Darksiders II has been narrowed down to a specific day via the game's official Twitter. Expect Death and the pale horse he rode in on June 26.
Skullgirls Picked Just the Right Day to Reveal the Deadly Nurse Valentine
February 14, 2012 – You just know the team at Reverge Games have been giggling to themselves for the past week in anticipation of today's reveal of Nurse Valentine, the Skullgirls fighter with a prescription for pain. Body bags, scalpels, and other implements of clinical destruction mark the repertoire of Nurse... More »
Oh sure, easy as pie! It's just like having half a baby!
Talk Amongst Yourselves
February 13, 2012 – Let's take a break from the fire-scarred fields of battle, put our differences aside, and focus on talking about video games in the official Kotaku forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves. Today's TAYpic from Jimmy_Jazz serves the dual purpose of reminding us which website we are writing or reading while... More »
Nintendo Gets Its Very Own Video Codec Provider
February 13, 2012 – Mobiclip, the Paris, France-based company responsible for the codec that allows Nintendo handhelds to run high-quality video with little power consumption, quietly became Nintendo's property last October.
Vita Game Vid Gallery
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Just When You Thought You Couldn’t Care Less About Binary Domain, a Multiplayer Trailer Arrives
February 13, 2012 – I've not played any of Sega's upcoming sci-fi shooter Binary Domain, so it could be the best game ever created by human humans for all I know. I'm having an incredibly difficult time mustering any excitement at all for the title, and this new multiplayer trailer isn't helping at all. I blame... More »
My favorite part of this story was getting to geek out about Transformers with you people.
Stunticons didn't have a cycle. Maybe you're thinking Technobots?
This is an article about Fall of Cybertron! You're soaking in it!
There was also that tree girl in Beast Machines. Botanica, Rattrap's girlfriend "What can I say, I'm a tree hugger?"
NIGHTBIRD.
