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Here’s a new trailer for BioShock Infinite. The game’s release is 54 days away.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 31, 2013 -
Anita Sarkeesian’s First ‘Tropes vs. Women in Games’ Video May Come Out Next Month, But Her Tumblr’s Live Now
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 30, 2013 -
Nintendo Sells Three Million Wii U Systems, But Expects To Take A Hit
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 30, 2013 -
Death Comes Suddenly in This Spectacular Day Z Live-Action Fan Film
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 29, 2013 -
Some guy from Kotaku just reviewed DmC for the New York Times. The review is mostly about the game’s villains.
By Stephen Totilo Published January 28, 2013 -
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a Pokémon quiz of sorts. They’re branching out! Test your knowledge
By Stephen Totilo Published January 28, 2013 -
Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Here. Got Any Questions? [Update: No More Questions!]
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2013 -
The Makers of Bayonetta Would Love to Buy The Suddenly-Endangered Darksiders Series
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 23, 2013 -
I Think I Found The Best Way To Play Temple Run 2.
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 22, 2013 -
Try These New Comic Books This Week
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.…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 22, 2013 -
New Gears of War Deal Reminds Us That The Price of Games No Longer Makes Sense
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 22, 2013 -
You Can Pretend Dead Space 3 Is a Mass Effect Game With This Special Unlock [UPDATE]
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 21, 2013 -
Maybe The People Who Criticize Violent Games Should Play Them. Maybe The People Who Make Them Should Say Something.
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 18, 2013
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