Here’s a new trailer for BioShock Infinite. The game’s release is 54 days away.
Anita Sarkeesian, the controversial feminist critic whose plans to produce a crowdfunded video series about female tropes in video games led to someone creating a video game all about punching her in the face, is almost ready to show her work. Sarkeesian quietly launched a Tumblr called “Bits of Tropes Vs. Women in Games” this…
Nintendo sold just over three million Wii U systems worldwide from the system’s November launch through to the end of December, with over 1.3 million of them selling in America. Both Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U have sold over two million copies. The sales don’t offset some bad news from Nintendo—bad news…
Major League Gaming will “one day” make their own ideal eSports shooter, the PA Report reports. Makes a lot of sense!
The popular Arma mod DayZ lets us struggle to survive in a barren world, where silence is inevitably interrupted by the bizarre and the deadly. Would that make for a good movie? Sure would! The talented gaming movie-makers at Corridor Digital prove it in the 9 1/2 minute movie “After DayZ”. Watch it above. These…
Some guy from Kotaku just reviewed DmC for the New York Times. The review is mostly about the game’s villains.
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a Pokémon quiz of sorts. They’re branching out! Test your knowledge
Some GTA fans think they’ve spotted new, official Grand Theft Auto V art. Have a look. UPDATE: Rockstar says it’s real.
Hey, Kotaku readers. It’s been about a year since I took the reins of Kotaku and just about a year since we brought in a lot of fresh faces. Much has changed. Much has not. I figure now is as good a time as any to hear from you fine readers about what you’re liking…
The official Kotaku t-shirts are on sale right now. Barbarian lady? $18. Snazzy K logo? $18. Both? $29. Go, Meatbun!
The publisher of L.A. Noire is disputing a director’s claims of a legal threat over his planned L.A. Noir TV show.
One of the sad and somewhat odd outcomes of today’s big auction of top games and studios from game publisher THQ is that no one—not EA, not Activision, not Take Two, not Bethesda, not Ubisoft… no one—made a bid for the action-game series Darksiders and Vigil, the studio that made those games. Look, even here…
My defenses have crumbled. I can no longer resist Temple Run. Now I just need to make sure it doesn’t destroy my hands. The release of Temple Run 2 has brought me in line with the millions of other people who love playing Imangi Studios’ endless runner. This game is becoming my podcast game—the game…
One day in the near future (read: tomorrow), our top comics expert, Evan Narcisse, will return. For now, you’re stuck getting your new comics recommendations from me, the guy with 40GB of comics, mostly unread, on his ComiXology app on his iPad. I need to make some time to read more of what I’m buying.…
Former Pres. cand. Ralph Nader: parents should protect kids from “electronic child molesters.” (AKA violent games & TV.)
The first wave of “launch” copies of March 19th’s $60 Gears of War: Judgment will come bundled with a bonus $19.99 “value”, according to a Microsoft press release e-mailed this morning. That “value”? A download code for the original Gears of War, which the company says “more than half” of the players of the last…
The Dead Space sci-fi horror games have nothing to do with the Mass Effect sci-fi shooter/adventure games, other than that they’re published by the same giant corporation, EA. But now they’re ever-so-slightly crossing over. EA is letting people who have a Mass Effect 3 save file unlock special Mass Effect N7 armor in next month’s…
Love games? Fancy the idea of telling Kotaku readers about bargains? Apply for a job in our company’s Commerce Dept.!
Tech experts Digital Foundry say they know how powerful the PS4 (Orbis) will be. Tons of details, anonymously sourced.
IGN editor-in-chief Casey Lynch works on weekends and asked me last Saturday to chime in on the topic of violent video games. He hit up some other folks, too. So if you’d like to know what Adam Sessler, Ben Kuchera, Ben Silverman, Brian Crecente, Dan Hsu, Dan Stapleton, Francesca Reyes, Harold Goldberg, Ian Bogost, Jeff…
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