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After a botched debut, Marvel’s #1 promotion—which offers 700 free first issues from the comics publisher’s archives—is coming back this week. Registration ends tomorrow so hop to it, true believers.

Here’s What I Want from BioShock Infinite’s DLC

It’s already known that BioShock Infinite will have DLC packs at some point in the coming months. Irrational Games hasn’t said yet what the add-ons are going to be but, with no multiplayer component to Infinite, there’s a chance that these might be story-centric add-ons like the excellent Minerva’s Den DLC for BioShock 2 At…

Hideo Kojima Excluded David Hayter from the New Metal Gear To Freshen Things Up

Yesterday, news broke that David Hayter—the man who’s been the voice of Solid Snake in all the English language releases of the storied Metal Gear Solid games—wouldn’t be coming back to reprise the role. Worse still, Hayter said that he wasn’t even asked to return. Last night, during a televised interview on GameTrailers, Metal Gear…

Not Sure if Ridiculous Fishing Is the Best Fishing? Take a Look at This.

Vlambeer’s great mobile game about highly aggressive angling is one of the best iPhone games to come out this year. Maybe it’s because it realizes that real-world fishing can be hella boring. Cartoonist Zac Gorman homes in on that snooze-inducing reality and tweaks an old proverb to explain why Ridiculous Fishing deserves all the love.…

The Original Captain Kirk and an Old-School Gorn Fight Over the New Star Trek Game

The next installment in J.J. Abrams’ re-imagining of Star Trek is out in a couple of weeks, promising all kinds of gut-wrenching tragedy and hard-won vengeance. The tie-in game acts as a prequel for Into Darkness and is a co-op experience where Kirk and Spock team up to battle the Gorn. So who better to…

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The X-Men Are in Good Hands. The Massive Might Not Be Deep Enough. Let Panel Discussion Tell You Why.

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” Hence, this recurring feature in Kotaku‘s slice of comics programming, where comics critics,…

Mind Control That Ain’t Working Is My Favorite Panel From This Week’s Comics. What’s Yours?

Get it right, people: the women who’ve worn the mantle of the Femme Fatale in Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip’s excellent noir Fatale series don’t have a superpower. They have a curse, one that they’ve occasionally been able to turn to their advantage. But the ability to make any man do what they want has…

A PS2, Xbox 360 and a Significant Weapons Stash Found in the Home of Newtown Shooter Adam Lanza

“Video gamer.” It was the earliest and most persistent label media outlets placed on Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, after he ruthlessly murdered 20 kids and six adults last December. But that assertion seemed to be based mostly on interviews with people who knew his family, and not hard evidence. After months of speculation, an FBI…

Next Week, Some of You Will Get into the Company of Heroes 2 Closed Beta

If you pre-ordered Company of Heroes 2, then you’ll be able to take part in a closed beta that starts on Tuesday April 2nd. Those who get in will have access to six competitive multiplayer maps and will be able to play against the AI solo or with teammates. Don’t worry, the second phase of…

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At long last, rhythm-action game HarmoKnight will be showing up for download on the 3DS. There’s also a new update for the stereoscopic handheld. Check out all the coming week’s digital Nintendo offerings right here

A Game Where You’re A Hole In The Ground

It started as a joke. Ben Esposito’s Kachina began development as part of the MolyJam, an event where developers made games based off of ideas from the Twitter account that parodies Fable creator Peter Molyneux. In the video above, Esposito—who also worked on The Unfinshed Swan—shows the unusual game to Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez and explains…

Beloved Solid Snake Voice Actor Says He Wasn’t Asked to Be in Metal Gear Solid V

We don’t hear from much from Snake in the Metal Gear Solid V videos shown today. But what we have heard from the main character of Hideo Kojima’s fan-favorite series sounded different. There may be a reason for that. It appears that actor/screenwriter David Hayter, who’s done the English language voice for Solid Snake in…

Minority Media’s Papo & Yo—the semi-autobiographical magical realist platformer that was my favorite game of last year—will be available on Steam on April 18th. If you wanted to play Quico and Monster’s story but don’t have a PS3, you can finally experience what’s so charming about the game.

Watch Cliff Bleszinski Talk About How Video Games Changed His Life

The man best known for helping create Gears of War had a spotlight talk at PAX East this past weekend and he talked about his relationship with video games. It’s a poignant monologue where Bleszinski talks about getting teased for his love of Nintendo as a kid, how games helped him cope with rough moments…

Who among you went out and picked up Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel? What do you think so far? Go join the voices talking about video games and life in Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog.

New GTA V Screens Show Off Sunsets, Scuba Diving and Stormy Skies

A bunch of new images for Grand Theft Auto V popped up on Rockstar’s official site. What do you think is going on in these scenes?

Tips for Playing BioShock Infinite

Columbia—the airborne, ultra-nationalist city where BioShock Infinite happens—holds lots of beauty. But it holds a lot of danger, too. Swarms of normal human assailants will attack Booker DeWitt as he tries to get Elizabeth out of the gorgeous sky-town and they’ll be joined by augmented Handymen, pyrokinetic Firemen and dudes that can turn flocks of…