Evan Narcisse

Oh Lord, I Must Own All of Peanuts’ Sunday Strips

Thing you probably don’t know about me: I can’t look at Peanuts without tears welling up in my eyes, especially the older stuff. Sure, everybody knows Snoopy now. But, it’s really the entire mix of characters—Charlie Brown, Lucy, Peppermint Patty et al—and their mix of adult prickliness and childlike naiveté that made Charles Schulz’s iconic…

The Tomb Raider Prequel Comic Puts Lara Croft on a TV Show

The upcoming Tomb Raider reboot is an origin story, one that has Lara Croft wind up shipwrecked on a mysterious island. What was she doing on that ship, anyway? A new comic series from Dark Horse Comics answers that question. Tomb Raider: The Beginning is being written by Rhianna Pratchett, who’s also the main writer…

Just-hired director Duncan Jones might have figured out how to do a Warcraft movie two years ago.

A Hot JRPG Sets the 3DS on Fire In This Week’s Nintendo Download

Fire Emblem: Awakening seems like one of those games that’s been on the horizon and out of reach forever. But it’s finally out for the 3DS next week, promising a funny take on fantasy & strategy tropes. Aside from that bit of portable JRPG goodness, this week’s downloadable offerings include fluid physics puzzler Puddle, RPG/platformer…

Everyone’s Going to Play as the Bad Guys in Aliens: Colonial Marines Multiplayer, Aren’t They?

Ok, yes: the Marines in Gearbox’s officially sanctioned Aliens shooter have some cool guns. But, honestly, if you’re going to pick up this game, do you really want to play as another sci-fi soldier? No, you’re not. You’re going to want to impale humans on your deadly tail, slash them to bits and spit acid…

Lordy, The Last of Us Art Book Is Scary Beautiful

The Last of Us comes out on May 7th and there’s still lots of mystery surrounding the post-apocalyptic world of Naughty Dog’s upcoming PS3 game. A few glimpses of The Last of Us‘ ruined world have surfaced but you’ll get a chance to get a deep look at the making of the game’s ravaged world,…

Let the launch trailer for psychedelic first-person adventure Antichamber mess with your mind.

In-game broadcasting from Call of Duty: Black Ops II comes to Twitch today

Five Comics Where Humans Help Each Other This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

The Injustice Comic Prequel Explains Why Superman and Batman Are Fighting (Again)

It’s become a recurring trope that the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight beat each other up when things go terribly wrong in the DC Universe. The big difference in each of these brawls is the catalyst for the conflicts. As shown in a comic-book prequel releasing tomorrow, the reason for the World’s Finest…

This New Super Street Fighter Graphic Novel from Udon Delivers a Greasy Battle Royale

If you’ve seen an incredibly cool piece of Street Fighter art, chances are it originated from one of the talents at Udon Entertainment. The Canadian artist collective cranks out illustrated works for some of nerddom’s most beloved characters and has been making sharp, stylized interpretations of Capcom’s premier fighting franchise for more than a decade…

With Video Game Writing, the Devil Lives in the Details

In DmC, the new reboot of Capcom’s Devil May Cry series, hero character Dante is the offspring of an angel mother and demon father. He looks human but is of another breed altogether, a species of celestial rarity called nephilim who are incredibly powerful. They’re wild cards, nephilim are, and their bloodlines gives them the…

Your Favorite Zelda Game Could Have Looked Like THIS

Flipping through the Hyrule Historia book (which you can finally get in English) makes you realize that Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series isn’t just a bunch of games. It’s a mythology, one filled with personas that change their shapes, personalities and abilities in each new telling. Anyone who’s been a die-hard Zelda fan has had…

The Best Games for Your iPhone and iPad

We’ve promised that Kotaku‘s Bests lists—compliations of the best games for various platforms—will be changing, dynamic entities. So here’s another update where new titles jump onto the rolls for two Apple mobile devices. Curious as to what they are? Click through and see if you guessed what we think are great iPad and iPhone games.…

Here’s Your First Look Inside The Glorious Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia Collector’s Edition

For the last year or so, the Hyrule Historia seemed like a piece of the powerful and legendary TriForce. Fans of Nintendo’s mega-popular series knew the Japan-only book existed. But English-speaking Zelda acolytes had to go through out-of-the-way means—like maybe-not-legal scans and fan translations—to get at its knowledge. Not anymore. Technically, the English version of…

PS3 or Xbox 360: Compare Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance‘s Looks on Two Consoles

Yes, Raiden’s return to a starring role in a Metal Gear game features a seemingly unkillable cat. But which console will all that hacking and slashing look best on? CVG offers up the same in-game sequence as played on both the PS3 and Xbox 360. If you’ve got both the Microsoft and Sony game machines…

Here Are the 2012 Games That Developers Want to Give Awards to

Of all the video game events that happen every year, the Game Developers Choice Awards might be the ones that resonate most with game-makers. That’s because they’re determined by the masses of folks who make video games vote to nominate the best examples of the form from the preceding months. For this year’s GDC Awards,…

Joe Biden On Video Game Violence: ‘We Shouldn’t Be Afraid of the Facts’

As part of an initiative to address gun violence in America after the Newtown school shootings, the Vice President of the United States answered questions today in a Google Hangout. The subject of video games—and the medium’s possible correlation to violent behavior—came up and the video above capture Biden’s comments on why more research is…

Folks who get God of War: Ascension will get first crack at an as-yet-undated demo for The Last of Us

Assassin’s Creed III’s Evil George Washington DLC Comes Out on Feb. 19

Priced at $10 for the first episode, the long-teased “Tyranny of George Washington” DLC comes to Assassin’s Creed III next month. The alternate reality add-on comes out a day after the U.S.’ President’s Day holiday and shows a Ratonhnhaké:ton who never joined the Assassin’s Order. Titled “The Infamy,” the first episode will be followed by…