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The Most Messed-Up Archie Comic Ever Comes Out Today

Sharing milkshakes. Fun little love triangles. Bumbling high-school principals. This week, that’s all done. Zombies are going eat the brains out of Reggie, Mr. Weatherbee and those polar-opposite Archie-lovers Betty and Veronica. Sound cheesy? It’s not. It’s actually damn creepy. For decades, the Archie comics universe has stood for all that wholesome and humorous about…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Nightshift Nurse goes back and remembers the games that made buying new gaming hardware a must. Pink_Zapper_Helmet wants us to reconsider the kinds of games that make it onto greatest-games-of-all-time lists. And Stefan Terry thinks about the role of randomness in game design. And you…

Next-Gen Thief Is Looking Pretty Great, Hesitations Aside

Folks aren’t sure if the new Thief game is going to recapture the past glories of the old-school larceny franchise or burn down any affection associated with the series’ name. Well, now you can look at this gameplay footage and decide for yourself.

Somebody, Call Wedge! Star Wars MMO Finally Adds PvP Space Battles

Sure, running around with a lightsaber or blaster pistol is a cool and integral part of the Star Wars experience. But, for the longest time, Star Wars: The Old Republic has been lacking one of the best things from the mythology: big honking space battles. Yes, yes, there have been crappy on-rails single-player dogfights in…

You’re An Escaped Slave In Assassin’s Creed IV’s Freedom’s Cry DLC

A while back, Ubisoft said that Assassin’s Creed IV would have an add-on campaign focused on Adewale, the former slave who serves as first mate on Edward Kenway’s the Jackdaw. The trailer above offers the first glimpse at the Freedom’s Cry expansion and, as you can see, it’s going to be markedly different than the…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective gives his opinion on the newly re-mastered The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. And Voltaire Crescent negotiates a surrender of sorts in his latest Crystal’s Call diary entry about his FFXIV adventures And you can always go join the voices talking about video games…

Playing Video Games Forever is Hell for This Ninja

If you’re already a bad-ass ninja that kills demons, then getting transported into a ninja video game where you need to kill an endless stream of demons would be a piece of cake, right? Nope. Turns out it would suck. A lot. This stylish animated comic from artist Chad Sell shows us that ninjas do…

Lost Planet 3 Needed More Crazy “Capcom-Style” Moments, Says Developer

Lost Planet 3 wasn’t perfect. But, despite being an overly familiar shooter, the story it told and the main character that players controlled manage to feel more meaningful than most other action-centric games out there. It felt like the cast’s relationships to each other and their own feelings were at stake. It also felt like…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: PyramidHeadcrab pinpoints the place where last-gen gaming went wrong for him. Spacegar wonders what we look for in a game. And JJTheTexan offers up some thoughts on the Best Video Game Weapon of All Time And you can always go join the voices talking about…

Get ready to go back to Hong Kong. United Front Games—the dev studio behind last year’s Sleeping Dogs—has announced Triad Wars, another game set in the universe of the open-world undercover cop drama. All right, who wants to lay odds that it’s a mobile tie-in or a free-to-play multiplayer title?

Xbox One DVR Can Record Gameplay When Achievements Unlock [UPDATE]

Something terrible. Something cool. The saga of the Xbox One has swung from one extreme to the other over the last few months. So, after the unsettling news about what Microsoft may be trying to sell to advertisers, there’s a slightly better feature of the Xbox One that’s come to light. When you hit an…

New Comics With Time-Stopping Orgasms and Superheroes for Hipsters

Sex that gives you superpowers sounds awesome, right? But, in one new comic-book series that came out last week, it’s also kind of sad. And, Kotaku bossman Stephen Totilo is still annoyed by hipsters, even when they’re world-saving superheroes. In this week’s Panel Discussion video, Stephen and I talk about what Sex Criminals #1 and…

GTA Online, Log #1: We’re Connected But a Little Lost

The road to Rockstar’s nihilistic online paradise has been full of potholes. But, with enough prayers to Kraff, it is in fact possible to connect to the online version of Los Santos. When you get there, you’ll want to find your friends and do stuff together. Figuring out how to do that is damn trickier…

Let’s see if this makes things better. Rockstar says that the latest title update for GTA V is live for PS3. This is the update that’s supposed to fix some of the issues currently hobbling the Grand Theft Auto Online experience. The publisher says that they’re working to have the same update available for Xbox…

GTA Online Day Three: Still Not Really Working [UPDATE]

Two days have passed since the online version of Los Santos opened up for millions of players all over the world. It’s not been smooth sailing for the debut of Grand Theft Auto Online, as it’s been plagued with technical issues and server problems. But there are signs that some things are getting better. And…

“When I saw the rise of Zynga and tried out some of their games on Facebook, I noticed some of the same design patterns that we use in slot machines.” Kotaku reader SpiffyPirate works with slot machines and talks about the similarities he sees between design ideas in that industry and in Zynga’s games

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: What exactly should we be calling a hardcore game? Voltaire Crescent talks about getting drunk (kind of) in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. DrZaius shares a video of filmmaker/critic Rob Ager taking on the first-person shooter genre. And Stormborn gets back to his Smash…

Kinect 2.0 Sees Your Face, Muscles and Soul. Maybe Not That Last One.

At-home motion capture. Heart rate detection. Compatibility with smaller spaces. Microsoft has been promising impressive things about the new iteration of Kinect, which they kind of have to do seeing as how they’ve made it a mandatory part of buying an Xbox One. Now they’re trying to show you how the motion-sensing sensor will be…

Grand Theft Auto Online Launch Woes Put Microtransactions On Hold

The makers of Grand Theft Auto V warned that the game’s online component would probably have a rocky launch. And that turned out to be true. But they’re letting folks know what some of the issues are. And, until things get better, players won’t be able to spend real-world money in the game. An excerpt…

Zynga Boss Proves He’s Totally Out Of Touch With Games

“Right now, I’m pretty bored with all games.” That’s Mark Pincus, founder of Farmville company Zynga, as he spoke with an assemblage of tech entrepreneurs in Israel last night. Bored? More like not paying attention. It’s an incredibly exciting time in game development now, Mr. Pincus. All you need to do to see that is…