A new Edge report suggests that Microsoft’s next Xbox gaming console, code-named Durango, will require an Internet connection to use. It also won’t be able to play used games, Edge says. We have not been able to confirm the veracity of this new report, which claims that Durango discs will ship with one-time-use activation codes…
What’s more adorable than Ni no Kuni? Homemade Ni no Kuni arts and crafts. Kotaku reader Thezombiemessia sent in photos of this fantastic Mr. Drippy plushie, which his wife made after buying the new PS3 role-playing game. I love it. I want one. Update: Want to make your own? Here are directions More photos, including…
Once upon a time there was a video game publisher named Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts was a very big video game publisher with lots of money and friends. Every year, they would release lots and lots of video games, which they would sell for lots and lots more money and friends. One day, Electronic Arts…
Revealed on The Witcher‘s Facebook page today, this is the 50-second teaser trailer for The Witcher 3, the next-gen open world RPG that was officially announced last night in Game Informer There’s no gameplay footage for the third Witcher game just yet, but hey, at least the music is cool. Developers CD Projekt Red also…
If I had a time machine, the second thing I’d do would be go back to last century and tell 12-year-old Jason that in 2013, I will own an ultra-powerful portable gaming device that can play just about any Final Fantasy game, including, for some reason, a bunch of fighting games with weird names and…
We’ve received several e-mails and comments today from people who couldn’t find Fire Emblem: Awakening in stores. Quite a few retailers have yet to receive the new (excellent) strategy-RPG, which came out today for 3DS. Game Informer says they called a few Best Buys and GameStops and heard that there’s a shipping delay on the…
Sony has cut ties with PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale creator SuperBot Entertainment, just days after the development studio laid off a number of its staff. All of the game’s future content will be handled by Sony’s internal studios. “Sony Computer Entertainment can confirm that the working agreement with developer SuperBot Entertainment has amicably ended,” a…
Hey New Yorkers, Kotaku will be at the NY Game Critics award show tomorrow, and you can be too. Tickets are free!
If you go to school for game design, you might be stoked to hear that the Entertainment Software Association, also known as the ESA, also known as the shadowy masterminds that secretly control the video game industry the people who run E3, just announced a contest for college students in the United States. Around 400…
Talk Amongst Yourselves is where games and life get discussed. Where were all the Super Bowl video game commercials?
Via GoNintendo, here are two new commercials for the Nintendo 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII, out in Japan this week. As expected, it looks great. GoNintendo’s also got a nice summary of the changes brought to this remake of the PlayStation 1 role-playing game—from the sounds of it, DQVII 3DS will be easier, less…
The folks over at Evo, a video game tournament organization dedicated to fighting-games like Marvel vs. Capcom and Tekken, raised a whopping $225,744 for breast cancer research last month. The money came from a competition designed to decide which fighting game would win a coveted spot in Evo’s annual Las Vegas tournament. The people at…
Today, possibly to coincide with the release of my Ni no Kuni review, but probably not, the folks at publisher Namco Bandai made two announcements. 1) There’s a new trailer, which you can watch above. It’s lovely! 2) Ni no Kuni will get free downloadable content on February 12. If you head to the PlayStation…
“Here in video games,” game designer Matt Burns tweeted last week, “we invented a new word, ‘permadeath,’ to describe what in real life is called ‘death.'” Hilarious, right? We assume that if we die in a game, all we have to do is hit the continue button to come back to life, so we’ve come…
In the wake of news that Sony will announce the next PlayStation on February 20, rumors and reports are starting to circulate as journalists report everything they’ve learned about the PlayStation 4, code-named Orbis. Here’s an interesting report from Edge, who say they’ve learned the PS4 will be out later this year for the U.S.…
Skyrim DLC is coming to PS3: Dragonborn on February 12, Hearthfire on February 19, and Dawnguard on February 26.
It would be easy, while reviewing Ni no Kuni, to sit at my desk and fling adjectives on the page like a fantasy novelist. I’d call the game whimsical, charming, beautiful, fascinating, smart, pleasant, challenging, slow-paced, grand, surreal, and aggressively colorful. And yes, those are all fitting words for the new RPG, which came out…
Fans of Secret of Monkey Island, the 1990 point-n-click adventure game, will undoubtedly remember the infamous “three trials” scene, in which protagonist Guybrush Threepwood proclaims to Mêlée Island’s pirate leaders that he, too, would like to be a pirate. Here’s the iconic scene, Team Fortress 2 style. And it’s extremely well done. Enjoy. [SFM] I…
Sony just posted this video on the PlayStation blog. Looks like a teaser for the next PlayStation (code-named Orbis), don’t you think? It ends with a date: February 20, 2013. Will Sony announce their next console then? We’ve heard bits and pieces about the next PlayStation for quite some time now, and rumors have been…
Go read this fascinating Simon Parkin piece about the relationships between shooting games and gun manufacturers.
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