While it’s easy to find mainstream media attacking video games for no reason, it’s also undeniable that video games can be an addictive hobby, especially for young children. So it’s nice to find the website iCyberSafe.com giving out solid advice for parents who are afraid that their kids might succumb to video game’s more negative…
There’s this idea floating around. I’m sure you’ve heard it. It comes in many forms, most of them obnoxious. “Japanese role-playing games are archaic and obsolete.” “They’re driven by nostalgia, not innovation.” “They really suck nowadays.” “lol JRPGs.” It’s all crap. See, the common consensus among a great deal of gaming fans, critics, and scholars…
Video games are for having fun. They’re for escaping. They’re for pretending to be somebody you’re not, for machine-gunning through alien mines or hopping between cartoon chasms. They’re for zombie shooting and portal opening and cube collecting. But sometimes they’re something else. Sometimes, as ten-year-old Dylan Viale has already discovered, video games are for sharing…
Square Enix’s open-world crime game will hit U.S. shores this summer, the publisher said today. Best Buy, Amazon, and GameStop will each have its own set of pre-order bonuses. [Sleeping Dogs]
Remember that typo on the box art for Resident Evil: Revelations? The one even publisher Capcom admitted was “embarrassing“? Check out the series’ latest gaffe, spotted on the front page of GameFAQs by Twitter user @cvxfreak. Either they meant to say “mercenaries” or they’ve just straight up thrown subtlety out the window. Merchandising, merchandising!
Check out these awesome Mass Effect hoodies, designed by deviantART user lupodirosso earlier this week. Unlike a lot of gaming-centric clothing, these babies have style. You wouldn’t be ashamed to be seen in them. (Well, most of them.) lupodirosso says he sent an e-mail proposal to BioWare, asking them to consider officially commissioning the hoodies.…
Everything’s in first-person. Your silent hero is equipped with a high-tech gadget that can manipulate chunks of the environment. You progress through a series of rooms, each stuffed to the brim with quirky crate-and-button-based puzzles that need solving. And an omniscient voice is talking to you the whole time. Stop me if you’ve heard this…
The action-role-playing game Dark Souls will be available on August 24 for PC, publisher Namco Bandai said today at a Las Vegas event. It will feature new content and use the much-maligned Games for Window Live platform. Rumors have suggested that it will also have new bosses. As our lovely commenters point out, you can…
Okay, so The Curse of Nordic Cove kind of looks like a rejected Nintendo 64 game. And the hit detection seems a little off. But hey, at least this golf-simulator-slash-action-adventure title thinks outside the box. I saw it on the PAX East show floor last weekend and thought it was so bizarre, I had to…
The excellent old role-playing game The Legend of Dragoon will be out as a PS1 Classic for the PlayStation Network on May 1. Dragons! [PlayStation Blog]
And really, can you blame them? Lightsabers are terrifying. Still, this is the cutest thing I’ve seen today. Watch it! My Dog Maggie Hates Lightsabers [YouTube — thanks, Dino!]
The real-time strategy game’s official multiplayer mode is now up to season seven, Blizzard announced today. Rankings will be reset once again. So now’s your chance to prove to the world that you deserve better than Bronze. [Blizzard]
Your four Madden 13 cover vote finalists are Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis, and Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson. Who do you want cursed the most? [@AdamSchefter]
Here’s some video footage of Wreckateer, an upcoming Xbox Live game for Kinect that requires you to smash and destroy castles by moving around your body. I found the game at PAX East last weekend and thought it looked interesting enough to record. There’s just something about wanton destruction that tickles that section of my…
A composer behind movies like The Dark Knight and a former member of the triphop band Massive Attack will unite for the Halo 4 soundtrack, according to a report today. Edge reports that Neil Davidge, best known as a former producer of the experimental band Massive Attack, has signed on to compose the soundtrack for…
Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo sat down with Michael “Brainy Gamer” Abbott the other day to give out all of our trade secrets talk about the past, present, and future of the site you’re reading now. It’s a really interesting conversation that is worth a listen if you’re at all interested in games writing or the…
Here’s Gilgamesh, the newest piece of downloadable content for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII-2 You might recognize Gilgamesh from his appearances in Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VIII, among other games in the longrunning RPG series. You might also recognize his ridiculous, fourth-wall-breaking sense of humor. Gilgamesh is out now for 320 Microsoft Points…
I found this guy on the show floor at PAX East, dressed up like Altair from Assassin’s Creed and boasting his very own homemade hidden blade. I shot this video of the weapon in action, then ran away as quickly as possible. You never know at these conference things.
GameStop stores in California will now have to warn you when their used games come with one-time-use online passes or additional fees for downloadable content. For the next two years, GameStop will be forced to put up signs both online and in California retail stores to warn that customers who buy used versions of games…
Check out these new screenshots from DmC: Devil May Cry, the new action game developed by Ninja Theory and shown off at Capcom’s Captivate conference in Rome earlier this month. It looks bloody and action-packed, much like every other game in the gory, surreal series. Although this time protagonist Dante is apparently a terrorist. And…
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