New Unofficial Call of Duty Elite Slogan is Just an Activision Joke [UPDATE]

February 10, 2012 – Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg jokingly announced a new slogan for Call of Duty: Elite today: Call of Duty Elite: It's not a douche move. That's as of some time in September when a guy who was rallying people back in the spring to boycott the world's first subscription service for Call of Duty... More »

And Now For Our Biggest Changes Yet: The Kotaku… Network

February 10, 2012 – One month ago, we promised you change. We promised you the kind of change that wouldn't betray our roots as a site built on a passion for writing and reporting about video games. More »

Your Guide to the New Kotaku Network

February 10, 2012 – Starting on the evening of February 12, Kotaku will begin to offer scheduled programming. Your listings are above. What does this mean? We're changing. More »

Arkham City Makers Aren’t Making a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game

February 9, 2012 – A rumor swirling around a few weeks ago pegged Rocksteady Games as the developers on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. Rocksteady chief Sefton Hill told Kotaku that, while the rumor was amusing, they're doing no such thing.

To My Fellow "Almost-Offline" Gamers: We Are the 20%.

February 9, 2012 – It's okay if you don't want to play video games online with tons of people. I'm with you. And so are lots of other people. Lots of other people. On Tuesday, I was bantering with Peter Moore, the second-in-command at the massive game publisher EA, about Battlefield 3. More »

EA’s Next Battle Plan: More Battlefield 3, More Military Shooters, Guns, Guns, Guns

February 9, 2012 – There is plenty of room in our gaming lives for more Battlefield 3, more Bad Company and many more military first-person shooters from EA, the giant game publisher's number two boss told Kotaku this week. "I think the genre is big enough, and they're different experiences," chief operating officer... More »

I May Stink At Wind-Up Knight, But You Should Play It

February 9, 2012 – I'd like to recommend a game I am bad at. I think you'd be better at it than I am. Plus it's pretty and, did I mention that on Android it's free? The game is called Wind-Up Knight, and I'm having trouble timing my wind-up knight's jumps. The game is a runner, one of the common genres of mobile... More »

This Is All The Free Stuff You Get If You Attend the DICE Gaming Summit

February 8, 2012 – People pay thousands of dollars to hobnob with their fellow captains of the video game industry here at the DICE Summit just outside of Las Vegas. Or they call themselves a gaming journalist (that's editor-in-chief to you!) and attend for free. And when you register, they give you a bag of stuff. More »

Sign #589 That the Wii Is On The Wane

February 8, 2012 – There will be no Wii version of EA's Tiger Woods series this year. There could be a Wii U version, but EA confirmed to Kotaku that the Wii is out. A couple of years ago, the Wii was the series' flagship platform.

No, Wait. This Is a Video Game for Grown-Ups

February 7, 2012 – Have you ever made a video game character fear you? Have you ever imagined you could do that? Don't think about the ghosts in Pac-Man dashing away from you because you ate the power pellet. Think about a realistic-looking game set in a quake-broken but realistic-looking city. More »

These Guys Are Paid To See The Slightly Scary Future of Video Gaming

February 7, 2012 – N'Gai Croal and Andre Vrignaud have seen the future of video games. They don't want you to be scared even though things are about to be very different. The former Newsweek reporter and the former Xbox platform strategist and PC gaming strategy director for Intel are now video game consultants,... More »

You May Punch Heavily-Armed Buddhas and Giant Elephants in Asura’s Wrath, And You Might Like It

February 6, 2012 – How appropriate that a game as bonkers as Asura's Wrath was mailed to me on a disc that only contained some chapters from its middle. Who cares how this game begins? More »

Warning: Playing The Next Resident Evil Alone Might Bum You Out

February 6, 2012 – It might be as fair to write about playing Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City solo as it would be to rate a fish's ability to haul itself across dry land. More »

A Nintendo Game Worth… Watching

February 3, 2012 – Here's something small that could mean something big. It's the back of the box for the new Wii game Rhythm Heaven Fever. Nintendo is selling the idea that the game isn't just fun to play, but that it's fun to watch. More »

Check Out This Ex-Game Developer’s Terrific Photos of Cops

February 3, 2012 – Antonio Bolfo was an animator at Harmonix, working on video games such as Guitar Hero. Then, with the legacy of September 11 on his mind, he joined the New York Police Department. More »

Battlefield 3 Is Much More Interesting When Giants Join the Fight

February 3, 2012 – YouTube user LiquidMyPhone found a very large soldier on the battlefield of Battlefield 3. We have no idea how to replicate this, but we would if we could. Battlefield 3: More »

The Video Game Industry’s Lobbyists Spent $1,000,000 Pushing for SOPA and Other Issues Last Fall

February 2, 2012 – Remember last month when many people were mad about the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act? Remember the war between politicians who said these bills would repel online piracy and opponents who said it might break the internet and/or kill free speech online? Gamers' biggest target for... More »

Meet The Newest Members of the Kotaku Team

February 2, 2012 – A month ago, I said publicly that the Kotaku team would be expanding, which may have led some to think we were going to add on the expansion pack of a single, terrific new hire. More »

Kingdom Rush Is the Tower Defense Game Everyone Is Rightfully Raving About

February 2, 2012 – One of the first stories of infatuation that I heard about the iPad game Kingdom Rush involved a man and a woman who were in love with each other and in love with Kingdom Rush. More »

Kingdom Rush Is the Tower Defense Game Everyone Is Rightfully Raving About

(Kotaku.com ) February 2, 2012 – One of the first stories of infatuation that I heard about the iPad game Kingdom Rush involved a man and a woman who were in love with each other and in love with Kingdom Rush. [Gizmodo]

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