With the latest Resident Evil movie behind us and the next game looming ahead, flick Resident Evil: Degeneration sounds like perfect filler. But at least one critic says it’s little more than a 96-minute cutscene. Not as much fun as the Milla Jovovich movies and not nearly as well-conceived or written as the games, “Degeneration”…
Many of you, hopefully most of you, sat down and watched our Very Special Kotaku Holiday Podcast. But how many of you caught the director’s uncut of each in-game podcast? Over the past week we’ve been running a new unedited in-game podcast each day. Because I know some of you don’t have the time or…
It’s the New Year, and that means it’s time for resolutions. You know, drop some weight, quit smoking, get organized – just like you resolve to do every year, right? It’s also a good time to reflect, maybe mull over some things you learned during the year and how you can apply those lessons in…
The Red Versus Blue folks over at Rooster Teeth got their hands on the full list of achievements for Halo Wars. As is often the case, the break down of earnable points for the Xbox 360 real-time strategy title gives us a glimpse of the game’s 15 missions as well as some of the things…
It’s been a pretty amazing year for the game’s industry. We’ve seen record sales, major layoffs, the disbarment of Jack Thompson and not a few smaller stories to mull over as well. I combed through the year’s worth of features and original stories that ran on our site this year to find the most read…
I went through yesterday’s list of nominations for our annual Game of the Year awards and tallied the games to come up with a short list of finalists for us to vote on. Three categories had ties, so I went back and polled Kotaku Tower to select which of those games should make the list.…
Famed Playstation developer David Jaffe may seem like an odd choice for guest developer for our in-game podcast about the Xbox 360’s Gears of War 2. We actually did invite Gears developer Cliff Bleszinski, but his handlers said he was too busy. But Jaffe certainly wasn’t some sort of alternate or sub, as the head…
To: Bash From: Crecente Re: What Are Your New Year’s Plans? I published our list of game of the year nominees today. The list seemed to have a fairly positive reception, though there was some griping about games that didn’t make this list or that. No one seemed too worked up about the fact that…
The BBC lined up a panel of gaming dignitaries to mull over the best of 2008 and expectations for 2009, they tapped into gaming culture with the help of Peter Molyneux, Will Wright, and… Fatal1ty? That’s right, Pro Gaming’s former top dog Johnathan Wendel, was among the short list of gaming experts when the BBC…
Gamecock does one thing really well: Promote video games. The thing is, their excellent cheer leading skills don’t always mean they publish good games. In fact, they haven’t really published many good games at all this year. And each time another dud passed across my desk and little part of me died, because I knew…
There are two ways to approach Game of the Year awards. Either you create awards meant to be used as a sort of buying guide, a consumer-centric list that tells people who own a certain console which games they absolutely must buy for that year. That’s what we did last year with our Goaties. This…
The Orlando Sentinel took at look at the now years-old tech of Blu-ray players, trying to determine whether it’s worth investing in a new player. Their conclusion: Yes and no. The articles author seems to think that the Blu-ray could eventually come into its own if you are able to use it for more than…
This is it, the last contest of the year for Kotaku. The lucky winner receives a sweet schwag pack, and guest editing privileges here on the site. What does that mean? They get to hang out in the tower, maybe write a few posts and appear in one of our podcasts. And now for the…
Jack Buser, director of Home, was kind enough to join us for this podcast. He let Fahey, Adam and I drop in to his surprisingly stark virtual home on the Playstation 3 were he talked about the future of the free virtual world and surprised all of us by saying there’s a good chance it…
To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Get A Present? Give A Present So we’re a little more than half way through publishing our in-game podcast interviews. I should be able to wrap them up by the end of the year. Tomorrow I’ll be running or nominations for Kotaku’s Game of the Year. I wonder how the…
With the year quickly wrapping up it’s time to start rolling out some lists, lists of popular things on Kotaku! First up: Our most popular videos of 2008. Leading the charge of original videos is Owen’s first-hand experience with Grand Theft Auto and a bottle of whiskey. Other popular original vids include Tristan checking out…
I’ve spent the past week or two methodically playing though a list of Independent Games Festival entries as a judge for the annual indie awards. The process, which puts both fantastic and less than appealing titles before the judges, is always entertaining. Through it, for instance, I discovered this fun little flash game. Over the…
No matter of operatic singing or Chun Li thigh is able to make this trailer seem anything but a preamble to a bad movie. But does that surprise anyone?
This is your last chance to vote for the person you think should be a Kotaku Editor for a day. I’ll be tallying the votes tomorrow morning to find the winner and get their massive pile of schwag shipped to them post-haste. Check out the finalists’ entries and then head on over to our handy-dandy…
Like many gamers and gadget junkies Wired’s annual Vaporware list has long been a must read for me. But this year, not so much. Even ignoring the fact that their list includes Home, a game that has already come out and will likely remain in permanent beta, according to SCEA; the writers of Wired seem…
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