We’ve always been big fans of Steam, Valve’s game delivering and online game hosting service, but now we have one more reason to love it: Kotaku is an official news provider for the system. Now you never have to leave Steam, even to get the latest and greatest coverage of all things video gaming. To…
What if famed game designer Tōru Iwatani and famed children’s book author and illustrator Roger Hargreaves were pals? This is what! Movie Mr Men [Thanks Steven Anderson]
Street Fighter IV you should be ashamed! How did you allow Justin Bieber on this list? Here’s the full list of games: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our iPhone game reviews. Position Title Price Weeks Last Week 1 Monopoly (EA) $4.99 14 2 2 Call of Duty:…
I just got an arcade in my basement. It’s two floors of rooms, some themed to my favorite game makers, others made to look like a dungeon castle, a westen theme and even a room straight out of the 80s. The best part? It all fits neatly on my Xbox 360. The Game Room launched…
It’s easy to misjudge Nintendo’s often fanciful video game system redesigns. When the Japanese game maker first unveiled the Game Boy Advance SP, a fancy iteration of the Game Boy Advance that folded in half, people loved the concept. And their initial impressions proved dead on, with the SP selling nearly 44 million units in…
To: Owen From: Crecente Yesterday Tristan tells me that he wants to go away for a week this summer to a Science Summer Camp, a place where they will teach him to take care of animals, play with forensics and all sorts of other cool things. I’m sure he will love it, but man, he’s…
With the DSi XL hitting this weekend, smack dab between last year’s DSi and next year’s 3DS, is there a reason you should bother picking up this over-sized portable? Plenty of them, the head of Nintendo of America tells Kotaku. While Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is an obvious supporter of his company’s products,…
Set to hit the Xbox 360 next week, the downloadable Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack brings with it five new maps and a just a touch more controversy to a studio recently embroiled in discord. The founders of Activision owned Infinity Ward recently were firedamid allegations of royalties being withheld by the publisher and the…
We’ve all thought about it, setting aside an entire weekend to recharge the recently rocky relationship with have with our console of choice… right? Or is that just me and this guy? It’s going to be really nice,” the 33-year-old structural engineer said of the upcoming weekend. “No phone calls, no e-mails, no distractions whatsoever.…
Monday Night Combat kind of looks like a first-person shooter version of Heroes of Newerth or League of Legends to me… and that’s a good thing. This video, showing off the gameplay that will be on hand at Penny Arcade Expo East this weekend, gives us a good taste of how the Xbox Live Arcade…
After seeing tremendous success with mixed martial arts game UFC Undisputed 2009, THQ is back this year to show of a game sporting more fighters, more combat nuance and robust online support. At an event last night, the publisher unveiled UFC Undisputed 2010 to an international gathering of gaming press. The upcoming game will include…
The DSi XL is a large portable gaming device, with a bigger screen and graphics, but is the design too large? My dad has a theory, and it’s a pretty good theory too. When I told him about the iPad he said that anything too big to fit in a pocket might as well be…
Excerpts from the book The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition. Reprinted with express permission of the author and publisher. Publisher’s Note: Chronicling the misadventures of two obsessed video gamers, Penny Arcade is hilarious, irreverent, and rich with the arcana of geek life. Fans treat the strip’s biting, intelligent commentary on…
Starting April 6 Xbox 360 owners will be able to use USB flash drives to store profiles, game saves, demos and “more”, Microsoft confirmed this morning. Posting on his blog, Xbox Live’s Larry Hryb said that the company has been testing the feature for a few weeks and that he thinks it’s is “great.” A…
Imagine playing Frogger on your hand just by tapping your palm with a finger, or whipping through menus projected onto your arm. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon devised a new bit of tech magic that listed for the acoustic signals scattered through your arm when you tap it or your hand with a finger. The tech…
Don’t worry, the party is still on, but due to some unforseen events we’ve had to move to a much cooler venue. Apparently the old location couldn’t handle how kick-ass the Kotaku party was going to be, so we’ve moved it to the appropriately named Rattlesnake Bar and Grill While I can’t verify if any…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: Cornell And Suicides Tomorrow morning Mike Fahey and Stephen Totilo head out to Boston for the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo East that kicks off tomorrow night. The two will be filing stories all day and through the weekend. They’ll also be partying at our official party… a party with some…
We’ve seen all of the elements of the upcoming Wii blockbuster before, but never combined and with the official “this is the box art” seal from Nintendo. Note the extra little stars. The lack of secret homo-erotic star writing, the glee with which Yoshi is carrying Mario through the sky.
It looks like a slew of new games bound for the iPad include the letters HD after their names, including Plants Vs. Zombies HD, Flight Control HD and Worms HD. The listings for the not-yet-available games were uncovered by the folks at Pad Gadget while they were digging through the web version of the iTunes…
Have you heard? Video games aren’t just for 13-year-old boys anymore! This shocking revelation comes to us via the crack team of pop culture anthropologists over at the Today Show during a piece they did this morning on the “Big Fish Babes” a group of 60-something-year-old women who happen to have bonded over casual games.…
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