Minecraft developer Mojang will design a new game this weekend and live stream the entire process. All of the proceeds will go to charity. Fans can vote on the game’s genre on Mojang’s website, where real-time strategy is currently winning
You can subscribe to Hulu Plus on your Wii for $8/month right now, Nintendo said today. The television and movie streaming service will come to the 3DS handheld system later this year.
Ed Beach talks rapid-fire when he’s dishing details on Gods & Kings, the Civilization V expansion pack that Firaxis announced this morning. I can’t blame him. He’s got a lot to say. Beach, the lead designer on the game and a longtime game developer who has been involved with numerous strategy games, had only thirty…
Developer Firaxis will release an expansion pack for Civilization V this spring, it said today. Civilization V: Gods & Kings will mark the return of religion and espionage, two Civilization IV features that were absent in the fifth installment of the popular turn-based strategy series. It will also “reinvent the diplomatic system” and add a…
The PlayStation Vita has been out for two months in Japan. So how is a PSP game topping the charts? Andriasang reports that Konami’s Genso Suikoden Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki, released last week for the Vita’s predecessor, was the number one game sold in Japan between February 6 and February 12, at 61,784 copies. The…
Ubisoft won’t even wait a full year to release the next Assassin’s Creed, because the next one, Assassin’s Creed III, will be out on October 13 30. The company announced that today during a call with investors, bumping the AC series up from its traditional November release. Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot says the game will…
Tomonobu Itagaki, the mind behind Dead or Alive and two of the recent Ninja Gaiden games, went through a few rough patches during his long career as a game designer. The former Tecmo employee delivered a heartfelt speech at this year’s Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (D.I.C.E.) Summit, which you can see above thanks to GameSpot’s…
Penny Arcade’s annual convention has committed to a new contract with the Massachusetts city that keeps it in Red Sox land through 2023. Unless it decides to bail and sign with the Yankees.
I am quite enjoying Tales of the Abyss 3D, which publisher Namco Bandai released today for 3DS. It’s an anime-styled Japanese role-playing game with action-ish combat and a world map packed with towns and dungeons. In other words, it’s a Tales game. I got the game yesterday, so I’ve only played around an hour or…
With every new day comes a new excuse for nasty people to crucify video games. This time it’s a study by researchers at Brigham Young University, as reported by U.S. News in a story today titled “Spouses Being Pushed Aside For Video Games” that claims gaming is ruining marriages The study surveys 349 couples, each…
Ratchet might not want to harass anybody when he uses Clank as a helicopter, but sometimes it just can’t be avoided. In this video, which we shot at the New York Toy Fair on Sunday, you can watch the anthropomorphic feline ride around like an out-of-control… well, helicopter. [Music: Flight of the Bumblebee]
Here’s Sony’s first video advertisement for the powerful PlayStation Vita, an ad that the publisher says will be plastered on Fox, Comedy Central, and ESPN (among other networks) in the near future. The tagline? “Never Stop Playing.” You probably should stop playing at some point, though. To eat. And sleep. And read Kotaku
Strategy buffs should get a kick out of this trailer for Fray, which French developer Brain Candy officially announced for pre-order today. I saw this simultaneous turn-based strategy game last year at an event in New York and thought it looked pretty damn neat, so it’s good to see that things are progressing nicely.
We continue to hear from people who have taken issue with the strange Taco Bell contest that claims to be giving a PlayStation Vita to customers every 15 minutes. More than 15 contestants have told Kotaku that after seeing on the Taco Bell website that they had won Vitas, they were later informed that their…
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a very good game. It’s also a very silly game. Following in the fine tradition of countless fantasy worlds before it, Amalur is stuffed to the brim with Weird Names and Proper Nouns You Can’t Pronounce. In order to highlight the ridiculousness at play here, we’ve drawn up a pop…
How was the Amalur quiz? Near-impossible? We thought so Here are the answers. Remember, the names marked “REAL” are actual names from the actual game 1. Haxhi (REAL) 2. Spaladastria (FAKE) 3. Lord Akagrafik’ll (FAKE) 4. Glendara (REAL) 5. Klurikon (REAL) 6. Figglehorn (FAKE) 7. Frat Lorenze (FAKE) 8. Meyetyre (REAL) 9. Tala-Rane (REAL) 10.…
Part collectible card set, part strategic board game, the upcoming iOS app Monsterology could be another cool addition to the growing sector of the gaming industry that combines physical media with virtual interactivity The concept is neat; you take one of the cards created by developer Nukotoys, flick it against your iPad, and watch it…
Publisher Blizzard is partnering with Hasbro’s USAopoly to release World of Warcraft Monopoly and StarCraft Risk, it said today. So now you can take breaks from your World of Warcraft and StarCraft sessions to play World of Warcraft and StarCraft The new version of Monopoly will feature cities and zones from the popular fantasy MMORPG,…
Team Fortress 2 figures and one hell of a Portal gun help round out this video we shot at the NECA booth during New York Toy Fair this week. You might have seen our teaser screenshots last night, but the video is much cooler, if only because you get to see real-life footage of Assassin’s…
We saw a lot of Lego sets at the New York Toy Fair on Sunday. Sadly, Minecraft Legos did not make an appearance, but we did get to play around with figures from Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Lord of the Rings, and a whole bunch of superhero franchises. Two Lego sets based on…
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