On March 10, 2012, James Donmoyer stopped breathing. His parents started to freak out. They pulled over. They called 911. When they got to the hospital, the doctors said they were trying to revive the boy, but it was too late: James had passed away. He was three months old. James suffered from a birth…
$800 million. That’s the first-day sell-through number for Grand Theft Auto V—the highest in GTA history, the corporate overlords at Take-Two say. $800 million. In 24 hours. Via Take-Two: “All of us at Take-Two are thrilled with the initial response to Grand Theft Auto V. Once again, the team at Rockstar Games have outdone themselves,…
The Onion kills it with this silly article about GTA V. At press time, Mitchell was remarking on the game’s “stunningly inventive storycraft” while repeatedly kicking a Los Santos resident until blood pooled around their lifeless body.
One of the only Final Fantasy games to never make it to North America could actually be headed our way. Final Fantasy Type-0, released for PSP in Japan way back in 2011, came at the worst possible time for American RPG fans. Thanks to Square Enix’s financial issues and the PSP’s lifecycle coming to an…
Meet EA’s new CEO: Andrew Wilson, former boss of EA Sports, is now in charge of the whole company.
Talk show host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, speaking on Fox & Friends following the horrific shooting in Washington, D.C. yesterday, suggested that people who play video games should be monitored. “What about frequency testing?” she asked. (Video above.) “How often has this game been played? I’m not one to get in there and monitor everything, but if…
Diablo III‘s most despised feature will soon be no more. Blizzard has just announced that they’re stripping the game’s controversial auction houses, effective on March 18, 2014. This is a surprising move for the folks behind the third Diablo, which has dealt with heavy criticism since it first launched last summer. The real-money auction house,…
Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies is out this October: Capcom just announced that the fifth Ace Attorney game will come to the 3DS eShop on October 24 in both Europe and North America. It’ll cost $30.
The very funny folks at College Humor have put together what might be the best Grand Theft Auto V review to date. Watch and enjoy. Warning: video may not actually include footage from Grand Theft Auto V
You can’t get GTA V on Steam today, but you can get GATV, a pack of downloadable content for Saints Row 4 that seems to have been created just to troll Rockstar. The developers at Volition have always had a cheeky sense of humor, and this is pretty much the perfect prank: unbeatable promotion for…
NBA Live is actually coming back: EA’s troubled basketball series will return on November 19, launching on both Xbox One and PS4
Will we find out more about the elusive Steam Box next week? Valve boss Gabe Newell teased his company’s second-most-anticipated announcement while speaking at LinuxCon today, as reported by Ars Technica “Next week we’re going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for…
Review scores: they’re not just arbitrary and meaningless, they’re toxic to discussion, too. Grand Theft Auto V reviews came out today, and with them came a whole host of poisonous Internet comments not about the content of those reviews, but about the numbers attached to them. Arguments raged hard: is this game worth a 10?…
Is Grand Theft Auto V the best game ever or just the best game ever? Can Nintendo save the Wii U? What does “next-gen” actually mean? A few months ago, right after E3, Kirk and I put together an impromptu podcast. Kotaku readers seemed to like it, so we’re bringing it back. Starting today, we’re…
It happened last week, and it’s happening again today: the NFL Sunday Ticket, which is supposed to let you watch any NFL game on your computer or mobile device, is failing for some customers across the country. What a mess. Included with copies of Madden 25 for $100, the NFL Sunday Ticket package promised to…
The Wonderful 101 is a frustrating game, a confusing maelstrom of aliens and superheroes that seems to punish players for all the wrong reasons. The controls make no sense, the action is disorienting, and the camera is a mess. And then… Then… Somewhere during the first two hours, something clicks. Everything changes. Control schemes that…
I have two immediate reactions to this video. 1) Really? REALLY? 2) What are these parents thinking? Apparently a store in France started surreptitiously selling copies of Rockstar’s highly-anticipated blockbuster a few days early. And apparently parents need to pay more attention to rating labels. Kids who can’t even look at Grand Theft Auto V‘s…
Next-gen is almost here: via Microsoft’s Major Nelson, here’s the first Xbox One console to come off the assembly line. Just two months until we get our hands on both next-gen systems.
“Please write that I laughed,” Zelda bossman Eiji Aonuma told IGN during a recent interview when asked whether Nintendo plans to remake The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. “Don’t make it sound like I laughed because I was troubled or inconvenienced or put out. I don’t want them to read anything into it. But if…
Did you really expect the Harry Potter movies to end at eight? JK Rowling has just announced that she’s launching another franchise in the world of Harry Potter, and although it won’t feature the scarred wizard, it will be transmedia: films, video games, the works. The new series is called Fantastic Beasts And Where To…
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