A Japanese bar launched a "drunk shaming" public service announcement. It seems fake, but what the video is promoting could get people in trouble. » 5/30/14 5:00am 5/30/14 5:00am

A PR stunt for Ubisoft's new Watch Dogs game has backfired, with a Police bomb squad called to the offices of an Australian news station. » 5/28/14 2:16am 5/28/14 2:16am

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Know for its scenic mountain vistas and sheep farms with an economy based on fishing, tourism and whiskey-distilling, Scotland's Isle of Skye is now the first real-world location officially twinned with a video game setting. One of the prettiest places on the planet, now a Skylanders: Swap Force marketing tool. » 10/16/13 9:00am 10/16/13 9:00am

An Activision PR manager who stole nearly $30,000 from the launch budget for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's UK release and used it to finance her engagement party avoided active jail time in a sentencing hearing today, reports The Daily Mail. » 4/22/13 3:28pm 4/22/13 3:28pm

Who benefits from Blizzard's controversial decision to use players' real names in forum posts? War Rock publisher GamersFirst hopes it will, issuing an official press release to let gamers know it's all still anonymous there. » 7/09/10 11:20am 7/09/10 11:20am

Gamers get tons of swag, and we post just about all of it here on Kotaku. But there's one thing we've never shown off. » 4/07/10 2:00pm 4/07/10 2:00pm

This is what greeted me when I arrived at the Sheraton down the street from PAX to meet with Klei Entertainment CEO Jamie Cheng regarding the company's latest game, Shank. » 9/05/09 8:00pm 9/05/09 8:00pm

I know, I know — just one more thing about Batman: Arkham Asylum and I swear I'll shut up. But there's actually an Arkham Care website setup for the game. » 8/26/09 9:40pm 8/26/09 9:40pm

Once was a time Sonic games were just as good as Mario games. Some may even say better. That time, however, was back in the 1990's. And it's been a while since the 1990's. » 7/30/09 12:30am 7/30/09 12:30am

Earlier, The RAM Raider accused Eidos of trying to fix review scores for Batman: Arkham Asylum, a claim Eidos categorically denied. Now one magazine's exclusive review fits all the conditions said to have been made. » 7/25/09 3:00pm 7/25/09 3:00pm

Longtime silent champion/nitpicker of the British gaming press, The RAM Raider, has a post on their blog highlighting Eidos' latest alleged public relations faux pas, this time involving review scores and cover placement for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum. » 7/10/09 10:14am 7/10/09 10:14am

Poor Europe. Americans have long been spoiled with up-to-the-minute PlayStation info straight from the horse's mouth, in the form of the PlayStation.Blog, while Europeans got...Three Speech. Yuck. Today, that changes! » 5/28/09 8:30am 5/28/09 8:30am

This morning, Frank PR - the company handling the game's PR in the UK - announced boldly that Tony Hawk: Ride would be a 360 exclusive in the UK. Which, uh, is not true. » 5/20/09 9:00pm 5/20/09 9:00pm

There is no "i" in team. There is one in your new Nintendo handheld. (There's two in "Wii", but I digress.) GoNintendo asked Ninty straight up what's with the I, and got an answer. » 2/22/09 11:00am 2/22/09 11:00am

Stupid PR stunts are nothing new to this industry. We've had goats blood, we've had free, but troublesome gas. And now, we have a misguided attempt to have people name kids after a "game" character. » 2/16/09 11:30pm 2/16/09 11:30pm

Oh look. It's Eidos. In another PR cock-up. Which we're posting not for the magnitude of it – it's just a magazine reader poll – but for the ineptitude of it. » 1/05/09 10:30pm 1/05/09 10:30pm

Don't think you guys realise just how many press releases get crammed in our cramholes on a daily basis. And just how many of those press releases are batshit crazy. So let's take a look! » 12/22/08 7:00am 12/22/08 7:00am