Demon’s Souls will be downloadable on PS3 starting 1/8. Atlus will shift the game to pure white tendency through 1/14.
If you’re in New York City or nearby, there’s something you’ve got to do by the end of the weekend. Head over to the Park Avenue Armory on 68th street, plunk down $12 and spend an hour or so swinging on swings as you create art. The installation is called Ann Hamilton: The Event of…
I think I know what you’re thinking: Game of the Year 2013? Already? That’s crazy talk. You’re thinking that 2013 is only three days old. You’re thinking that a racing game fueled by the blood of its players could be 2013 game of the year right now, if said racing game was released some time…
Congrats to FIFA 13 for being AbleGamers‘ 2012 Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year! Noble work, rightly recognized.
Not that you can trust user reviews on iTunes, but one player of Anomaly: Korea recently praised the reverse-tower-defense game as being “one of a kind.” That’s false. Anomaly Korea is actually very, very much like 2011’s Anomaly: Warzone Earth, the reverse tower-defense game. You still command a slow-rolling column of tanks and transports through…
Congratulations to Journey for being Journey developer Jenova Chen’s Game of the Year! (According to an Edge round-up.)
On Monday, January 7, you will know what Kotaku‘s 2012 Game of the Year is. But before then, you’re going to see us try to figure it all out. Starting today and running over the course of the next three days, nine Kotaku writers will publish a total of nine essays nominating their favorite game…
Ubisoft has a plan to keep the Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell movies from sucking. Also: they want a Ghost Recon flick.
Happy new year. I’d like to start the year by helping you avoid a mistake I made in 2012. But let’s rewind one more year, first, ok? In 2011 I had the good fortune of playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on a machine that wasn’t the PlayStation 3. I played it on an Xbox…
I’m obsessed with video games. No news flash there. I can mark months of my life with the games I’ve played, the games I heard about, the new systems I got or the articles about video games that I wrote. For me, it’s games, games, games all the time, which is why, when I look…
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California State Senator Leland Yee, who took his fight against violent video games all the way to the Supreme Court a couple of years ago and lost, slammed the NRA’s odd, new attack on video games. It’s not that the former child psychologist suddenly loves violent video games. It’s that Yee, who wrote the failed…
Christmas Joust is still my favorite 2012 video game-related holiday card, but I’m giving this XCOM: Enemy Unknown one second place. Watch the video with the sound on and you’ll hear why.
It’s not easy to idle like this in Need for Speed: Most Wanted the excellent open-world racing game from EA’s Criterion Games. Even at high speeds—well, especially at high speeds—this game was great to look at. That earns Most Wanted a Cinemagraph (a subtly-animating-animated-GIF, if you don’t know) for our Year in Beauty series.
We published a lot of stories this year. You loved some. You hated others. Some were great. Some were arrows Our finest tech people have crunched the numbers and provided me with a list of our top traffic-getters. Below, you can see the 25 stories that drew the most new readers to our site, which,…
An open-minded mom is uneasy about giving her son shooter games for Christmas. A must-read about our culture of violence
Peter Molyneux’s marriage is safe. His team’s new game, Godus, just hit its Kickstarter goal. Commence terraforming!
If you have really good taste, this is how you’ll count down to the end of the world.
Notch and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban are each donating a quarter million dollars to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF says that the money from the maker of Minecraft will help fund efforts to reform patent law in the courts and in the court of public opinion. Here’s Notch explaining why he’s giving his…
You can now watch the first few minutes of March 2013’s BioShock Infinite online or read about the game’s first four hours in a preview we published a couple of weeks ago. But BioShock beginnings are not the kinds of things BioShock fans have precedent to fret over. BioShock endings? That’s another story. Ken Levine…
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