There’s a Nintendo Direct coming this morning at 10am Eastern. You can watch it right here, or keep up with Kotaku for live coverage of 3DS/Wii U news as it happens.
$2,019,002. That’s the current prize pool for 2013’s Dota 2 International tournament, which will be held this August in Seattle. It’s a massive payout—the biggest single-event prize pool in the history of competitive gaming—and it’s only possible because of crowdfunding. See, Valve is sellingInteractive Compendiums for their big event; for $10 you get an interactive…
The Starship Damrey is a video game. It’s for 3DS. It’s out today. It’s called The Starship Damrey That’s about all we know about this new Level-5 product, and the creators want to keep it that way: the point, they say, is to keep us on our toes, like back in the NES days when…
Add Deus Ex and Epic Mickey creator Warren Spector to the list of people who think the video game industry should stop caring so much about Metacritic. In his column for GamesIndustry.biz this week, Spector goes after Metacritic, a website that aggregates review scores for movies and video games and ranks them with a single…
Ahh, the video game industry, where people come up with names by smashing random words together. Today’s entry: Dawngate It looks like EA didn’t mean to announce Dawngate just yet, as they haven’t, well, announced it, but Kotaku columnist Superannuation discovered that the Dawngate website is up and running nonetheless. Dawngate is a MOBA—that is…
New Nintendo Direct. Friday, May 17. 10am Eastern. “Updates on Wii U and 3DS games launching this summer.” Right here
The launch trailer for Fuse is sufficiently shooty and explodey. Insomniac’s new co-op shooter will be out May 28 for Xbox 360 and PS3.
An article floating around the web yesterday claimed that Nintendo had sent them a press release calling Zelda: Wind Waker‘s tutorials “annoying” and sailing “a bit of a chore,” but the Zelda makers tell Kotaku that’s not true. Yesterday, the website Operation Rainfall—a blog originally formed as a fan campaign to petition that Nintendo bring…
Everyone’s talking about Gatsby: the newest cinematic take on Fitzgerald’s classic drama made big bucks last weekend at the box office despite disappointing reviews So this seems like a good week to remind you that there have been a couple of different Great Gatsby video games over the past few years. In 2010, there was…
This is The Novelist, an upcoming indie game by veteran designer Kent Hudson. It looks kind of amazing. I’ll let Hudson explain the concept, via his website: The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to…
People who gamed on PCs during the ancient 90s may remember The Incredible Machine, a wonderful series in which you could construct all sorts of strange Rube Goldberg contraptions out of springs and ramps and balls. It’s back! Sort of. Contraption Maker, a spiritual successor created by some of the people behind the TIM games…
Ace Attorney 5 will get the ridiculous title Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies for the West, and it’ll be out on 3DS as a digital release this fall. That’s right, a digital release. Hope you’ve got a big SD card: Phoenix Wright’s new adventure ain’t coming on a cartridge, according to Capcom’s announcement…
Maybe you’ve seen the name “Xbox Infinity” floating around on the Internet this week. Maybe you’ve been wondering just what people are talking about. Don’t worry: we’re here to help. Let’s address some Frequently Asked Questions. Is that the real logo for the next Xbox? Nope. It’s a Photoshop by a Redditor named C-Ron So…
Have you ever wanted to make Rydia beat herself up? No? Well you might enjoy this anyway. Last year on Random Encounters, we learned how to break Final Fantasy VI. Today, I’m going to show you how to take apart one of its Super Nintendo predecessors, Final Fantasy IV (the one with Cecil and Golbez).…
Greg “IdrA” Fields, a professional StarCraft player well-known in the community for getting way too angry when he loses games, was booted from his team Evil Geniuses yesterday. Evil Geniuses, one of the biggest and most successful groups in the world of competitive video gaming, gave IdrA the boot for a comment he made on…
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Want to own what could be the last physical PSP game released in the United States? The folks at Gaijinworks are taking pre-orders for Class of Heroes 2, and that’s the only way to get a physical copy. (Although if you want the game and don’t care about holding the disc, a digital copy will…
I’ve always thought Final Fantasy X-2 was rather underrated by the Internet At Large. Square’s FFX sequel always got a bad rap because of the whole “pop group” thing, but the class-based combat system was actually kind of brilliant, and I dug revisiting the minigame-filled world of Spira to see how things had changed. Of…
TimeGate, best known for developing Section 8 and Aliens: Colonial Marines, may be no more. Kotaku has learned from two sources that the troubled studio laid off its staff today. Everyone was sent home early, according to one source. TimeGate had been facing financial issues for quite some time now. The company filed for bankruptcy…
Super Mario World, which is a game about a plumber riding a dinosaur, is filled with rules that make absolutely no sense. For example, if you—and by “you” I mean the character you inhabit, Mario the plumber—jump on something dangerous, it will kill you, unless you are big, or wearing a costume, or riding a…
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