Four out of every ten Xbox Live users who are registered to vote don’t know whether they plan to pick Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the next presidential election, a Microsoft survey says. That’s quite the percentage. According to recent Gallup polls, only 8% of the country’s voters are undecided. If you’re counting at…
I’m partial to the Zelda triforce logo, but that Fallout Nuka-Cola wallpaper is pretty damn cool too. These were all designed by talented Kotaku reader Keena Venegas. Any of them catch your eye? Or your desktop? Wallpapers Video Games [DeviantArt]
Pickings are slim for JRPG fans this fall. Xenoblade and The Last Story have both come and gone, and while our handhelds are getting some Persona and Paper Mario action soon, there aren’t a lot of big console JRPGs on the horizon in the near future. Until January. That’s when America will finally be able…
Well now here’s a trailer for VOTE!!!, a game made by the people who made Infinity Blade, that beautiful brawling game for iPad. This one is a bit more political. You’ll get to play as either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney as they brawl one another with ridiculous weapons like ice cream cones, hot dogs,…
It seems like Black Isle, the game studio behind RPG classics like Fallout and Planescape: Torment, is making some sort of comeback. An official website for the new Black Isle popped up today, as did Facebook and Twitter pages (as spotted by the folks on NeoGAF). The website appears to have been registered by Interplay,…
This is SunFlowers, a casual game that will be out for PlayStation Vita this fall. A casual super cute game that will be out for PlayStation Vita this fall. Sure, it looks like the type of title suited more for your phone or tablet than dedicated gaming hardware, but it also looks creative and fun.…
These new screenshots for Grand Theft Auto V, which Rockstar will release at some point to be announced on some consoles to be announced, are absolutely stunning Parachuting (pictured below) isn’t new to the series; The Ballad of Gay Tony downloadable content added it to Grand Theft Auto IV. [And San Andreas had it too,…
Yesterday I wrote about how Rock Band creator Harmonix is working on a totally new game with combat and stuff. I also threw in some hypothetical game names that probably won’t happen, since it’s a new IP and all. This wasn’t enough for Harmonix’s John Drake, who insisted that I write more. So without further…
Original design plans for Diablo III involved an MMORPG-like chatroom that would replace the menu-based Battle.net interface, says Diablo co-creator David Brevik. Instead of just scrolling through chatrooms, you’d cross through towns and interact with players by trading and selling items. Speaking to Eurogamer, Brevik outlined the idea: One of things we originally designed for…
Musical combat? Combat musical? Rock Band: Combat? Combat: The Beatles? Harmonix, the company behind games like Dance Central and the upcoming Rock Band Blitz, is looking for a Combat Designer “to create real-time, single-player combat experiences for a brand new IP on next-generation hardware,” according to a job ad posted on Gamasutra last week. “This…
I guess we probably should’ve figured this out ourselves. He has way too much facial hair. He wears a creepy top hat. He spends most of his time taking pictures of children. Fuzzy pickles! For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com
Here, I’ll let Green Day handle this one: I want to be the minority I don’t need your authority Down with the moral majority ‘Cause I want to be the minority Thanks, Green Day! Enjoy your partnership with Angry Birds
Diablo III‘s endgame is about to change in a big way: characters in Blizzard’s action-RPG will soon be able to gain 100 more levels. The next Diablo III patch will implement what’s called the “Paragon” system, a mechanic that will reward players with stat bonuses and extra Magic Find, a stat that makes enemies drop…
This bizarre PS3 game will be out on September 25 for $15, Sony said today Here’s the concept: there are no humans left in Tokyo, just animals. You get to play as them. You have to survive. The game comes packaged with stealth, hunting, and, of course, pomeranians. Sony’s description: Tokyo Jungle puts you in…
Perhaps you remember Planescape: Torment, a wonderful role-playing game that set a new bar for video game narrative when it was released back in the late 90s. Even today, very few games weave stories as intricate and fascinating as Black Isle’s masterpiece. So when I read designer Chris Avellone say he was “very tempted” to…
Here are new screenshots from Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V, the hotly anticipated open-world game that still has no release date or even platform info. In a stunning move for the series, it appears that you will be able to drive vehicles this time. Transport [Rockstar] Click here to visit our Grand Theft Auto V…
Now here’s the story of a guy named Mario. It’s an old story. You’ve probably heard it before. Princess is lounging around, minding her own business. Giant turtle jumps out of the sky. Drags her away. Sticks her in a cage and waits for Mario to follow. The specifics might change every now and then—a…
Here’s to the world map. Here’s to those goofy, disproportionate, inelegant pieces of virtual parchment that we’ve been exploring for the past three decades. Let’s bring’em back. A world map, for those of you who might not be familiar with the concept, is the video game term for the strangely-scaled pieces of geography that string…
By now you must have seen this great footage for Remember Me, an awesome-looking open-world game that Capcom showed off this week at Gamescom. Believe it or not, this great-looking game is for current-gen consoles: Capcom has it slated for May 2013 release on Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3. This is unusual. We should…
I’ve been playing The Last Story, as you know. While researching (read: aimlessly Googling) the game earlier this week, I happened upon this old Iwata Asks interview from 2010. In it, The Last Story designer (and Final Fantasy creator) Hironobu Sakaguchi sits down with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. They…
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