Questionable Tweets. Claims of legal threats. Edited resumes. An article that named names one day and didn’t the next. Mock reviews. Free drinks. Extravagant swag. Elaborate junkets. These are the ingredients that are helping bring to a boil familiar suspicions about the gaming press, the work they—we—do, and whose side they’re really on. Welcome to…
We’re up to 4,294 people playing Halo 4 online right now-at least. We can’t co-op, but we do have the breakdowns for competitive multiplayer and the story based Spartan Ops. Yesterday, there were at least 495 people playing the game online. This is a nine-fold increase. Halo 4 will be officially released on November 6.…
Twelve years will have passed between the release of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001 and Grand Theft Auto V in 2013. Those 12 years have seen ten releases of major GTA games and DLC, each putting its own spin on the series’ classic vector art look. The 71 official images pulled from Rockstar’s website…
Hurricane Sandy didn’t have an effect on the video game scene the way it would have if it had hit in a city like Montreal or San Francisco, where many of the most popular video games are made. But New York City and the surrounding region does have a vibrant indie gaming scene, millions of…
Assassin’s Creed III is a very good game but also a fairly buggy game. And like many modern video games before it, the console versions were patched before they were even officially released. This means that the version of ACIII that you might have on disc isn’t really what you should be playing. The game’s…
From the newest edition of the Rockstar Newswire, the official online newsletter for the makers of Grand Theft Auto: “We are working on a second trailer – unfortunately Hurricane Sandy has derailed our plans somewhat but we will have something to show soon. Its hard to be precise as we have no power whatsoever in…
We love all of our readers and thank you for following us to our Emergency Broadcast Tumblr, but I want to offer a special thank you to Pavol Buday. He is a loyal reader from Slovakia, and he answered my call last night for screencaps of any readers that were so dedicated to Kotaku that…
“We have two things to do,” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently said to what may have been the 1,000th person to ask him about the house of Super Mario is going to cope with that fact that people really, really love their cellphones and that that might hurt their ability to love Nintendo machines. The…
Read the World’s Most Delicious Review of Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled By Mountain Dew
As good as the the single player portion of Assassin’s Creed III is, the designers of the game’s multiplayer deserve credit for crafting one of the year’s best gaming jokes-and for maybe getting the last laugh. They’ve taken some of the most obnoxious things about modern gaming, and they’ve twisted them. In fact, they’ve damn…
For the past week, there has been intensifying interest in the ethics of games journalism. This was prompted by a screencap that made the rounds featuring GTTV host Geoff Keighley giving interviews while flanked by Pepsi and Mountain Dew as well as by a column on Eurogamer by comedian and critic Robert Florence that critiqued…
Deadspin.com Updates: Greg Merson Is WSOP Main Event Champion After 12-Hour Marathon Session
Borderlands Legends, the iOS spin-off to Gearbox’s popular shooter, is now on the iTunes store for you to buy, if you’re an Apple person. Annoyingly, it’s not universal, so you’ll have to decide whether you want the $5 iPhone version or the $7 iPad version. Check the links for compatibility, but both work with recent…
Remember video games on discs? Forget ‘em. These slides come from mega-publisher EA (Madden, The Sims, Battlefield, Need for Speed) and if you dig into them you’ll see that EA is making a LOT of money off of what they call “digital”. That’s selling games for download, selling DLC, subscriptions, microtransactions. You name it. It…
It is one of the best video games of the year, one of the most daring developed by a major studio this generation, and one of the most beautiful to ever run on any machine. It stumbles from some awkward glitches and some game design over-reach, but it is superb in a surprising number of…
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We’ll be posting here until our site is back online. Kotaku and the rest of Gawker Media’s sites were knocked offline yesterday as our main data center lost power due to flooding. We’re awaiting word on when it will be up and running again, but with so many people out of power in Manhattan and…
How good is the Xbox 360’s impersonation of the Wii U? If you have Forza Horizon, a Windows Tablet, an Xbox 360 and-oh yeah, power in your home and Internet (not guaranteed in times like these!)-you can find out. The game’s SmartGlass support just went live. Full press release below. And note how this works:…
The “Spring 2013” posters for Grand Theft Auto V that leaked this weekend were definitely real, as the European retailer GAME went and Tweeted images of the same thing. IGN screencapped a Tweet sent by the retailer. The Tweet has since been taken offline. Platforms for the game are Xbox 360 and PS3. No sign…
Among other things, today is the day that the new Assassin’s Creeds are out (III and Liberation) as well as the new Need For Speed. We have reviews in the works for all of them and will share at least some of the review material here. There will be some news stories spinning out of…
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