Jon is an enthusiastic Nintendo fan. He buys all of Nintendo’s systems. He buys many, many Nintendo games. But he’s gotten himself into a jam that he says has cost him access to more than $400 worth of downloadable games he’s purchased from Nintendo over the several years. How does one lose access to $400…
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In 2010, professor and game designer Jesse Schell gave an amazing talk at the DICE gaming summit that went viral. His topic: the gamification—the adding of points and play systems—to everything imaginable. He imagined a crazy future where we got points for everything from brushing teeth to giving each other high fives. Three years later,…
Warren Spector, one of the most respected game designers out there and the lead creator of the revered Deus Ex, did something unusual for a game designer today. At a talk at the DICE convention in Las Vegas, he named a name… or at least he let one of his slides name the name of…
Legendary game designer Warren Spector was talking at the DICE convention in Las Vegas today, but didn’t want to talk about his departure from Disney and the shuttering of his studio. He wanted to talk about the “graying of gaming” or at least about his journey though gaming. But the elephant is in the room,…
Tim Schafer throwback Kickstarter-funded game, Double Fine Adventure, is coming to multiple platforms, but only to one console, the CEO of the upcoming Android mini-console said today during a talk at DICE. It’s coming to hers, the Ouya. Schafer’s game is one of 450 games planned for the system, Ouya boss Julie Uhrman said. She…
At the DICE convention in Las Vegas, Ubisoft’s Xavier Poix illustrates his talk about Ubisoft’s creation of launch games for new platforms using the Rayman Origins UbiArt game engine to essentially make an interactive slide-show. It’s a side-scroller as Powerpoint, steered with an Xbox 360 controller. And, yes, Media Molecule did this through LittleBigPlanet at…
“These are exciting times for the gaming industry,” game designer David Cage of Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls) said as he began a talk here in Las Vegas that seemed set to criticize the modern state of gaming. After all, the talk was called: “The Peter Pan Syndrome: The Industry That Refused to…
If you buy the new Sly Cooper for PS3, you supposedly get the Vita version for free. It’s not working now. Sony’s on it.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is a pleasant PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita game that feels like it has been plucked out of a time warp. It arrives on the eve of the expected February 20 announcement of the make-or-break PlayStation 4 and yet it calls back to an era of easy dominance by the…
There’s a new graphics engine… the Skylanders can now jump… and there’s even a new, fancier Portal of Power, but none of those things are the biggest change in the 2013 edition of Activision’s toys-meets-games series. No, the big change in this fall’s Skylanders Swap Force video game is that players will be able to…
Shawn McGrath, creator of psychedelic racing game Dyad, did not expect to announce today that his game is coming to Steam. But folks on the Internet figured it out. What’s a man to do? Whine? Complain? Go radio silent? Not Shawn McGrath. He busted out the webcam and some Windex and crafted the most honest…
If you have a 3DS, you should play Fire Emblem: Awakening. If you don’t have a 3DS, you should get one to play this game. It’s that good But once you have the game, how can you make the most of it? I’ve had to impart some Fire Emblem tips to some friends and colleagues…
id co-founder Tom Hall just launched a $400K Kickstarter for Worlds of Wander, which would let anyone make a platformer
IGN is no longer part of Rupert Murdoch’s empire. They’re part of Ziff Davis. We, however, still answer to Nick Denton.
There are people on both sides of the gun debate who make good points. And then there are people who have absolutely no clue. In that latter camp we might include Senator Lamar Alexander, who thinks that, when it comes to people getting shot to death, “video games are a bigger problem than guns.” We…
A reader named Ryan writes: “I’ve got a question that I hoped could be posed to the readers of Kotaku. I’m curious if World of Warcraft is a series to even bother getting back involved with, after I’d spent some time on it (this is prior to the Lich King and Cataclysm releases/updates/mandatory you-must-buy releases).…
There are games that I like. And then there are games that I like that I become obsessed with. Fire Emblem: Awakening falls into the second category. What follows, therefore, isn’t just a review. It’s a warning. Play the new Fire Emblem on Nintendo’s 3DS, and all of this could happen to you… Some basics…
Right now, instead of reading this, you could be playing Leap Day. If you have the Unity plug-in in your browser and your teacher/professor/boss isn’t looking, go do it. Or at least load this up (and then scroll to the amazingness lurking in the upper right of your screen. What you’ll see there is a…
“[EA]’s ‘Fewer, Bigger, Better’ strategy for its key packaged goods releases will not work if the games are, in fact, not ‘Better.'” -Analyst Michael Pachter lamenting the oddly low quality and poor sales of Medal of Honor: Warfighter and praising the delay of Fuse. (“Packaged goods” are games sold in stores, not the ever-growing number…
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