Resident Evil 6 is currently being mauled by the critics. It’s getting scores so low, you’ll have to check whether the reviewer is using a five-point scale or a 10-point scale. How bad is this game? Not so bad that it doesn’t contain something awesome. The absolute best thing in RE6, from what those of…
There is a bakery in my SimCity city. It’s got a big cupcake on the roof. It’s been there, on the corner of some street and such-and-such avenue, for a long time (a few weeks!). It’s no Dunkin Donuts. Compared to Dunkin Donuts it actually is pathetic. I bet no one in my city likes…
If you’re in the United States, own a Nintendo 3DS and want Donkey Kong: Original Edition, all you have to do is… …purchase and download the brand-new 3DS game Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! or Crosswords Plus and register them before January 6. Perhaps that’s not the method you would have predicted. And just what…
Microsoft refuses to say how many people subscribe to Xbox Live Gold, and Sony still won’t say how many people use PlayStation Plus—the premium PS3 service I’ve said is far and away better than Gold Jack Buser, senior director of PlayStation Digital Platforms, declined to give that number during a brief phone chat with me…
A firmly-worded letter that made the rounds online a few days ago is not something that gaming giant EA sends to all its ex-employees and is certainly not part of standard operating procedure, a spokesperson for the company tells Kotaku. It was targeted at a specific ex-employee for a specific reason. The letter emerged on…
Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is in the rare position to be able to do just about whatever he wants and say whatever he feels. So the man whose game is tearing up the charts on Xbox Live Arcade (more than three million copies sold)… the man who has said publicly that he…
What’s the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen in a game? We’ll start. This is a great sunset in Minecraft—transformed into an animated GIF by our own Chris Person, ladled out of a stunning video called “Natural World” made by RxRexhonHD (all the modding details required are in the video’s official YouTube description). Readers, show…
The developers of Organ Trail, the zombified version of the educational classic Oregon Trail have hatched a new scheme to get their game to the top of the charts on Steam Greenlight. They’ll add more features to the game, if more people vote for it The game developers, knows as The Men Who Wear Many…
Valve is shrugging off a Korean report that Nexon or NC Soft want to buy them, telling us it’s “just another rumor.”
The female version of Mass Effect hero Commander Shepard finally made it onto the cover of a Mass Effect game this year—as long as you reversed the piece of cardboard in Mass Effect 3‘s box. She even finally starred in a Mass Effect trailer, a scant five years after hordes of players started playing as…
Some facts hide in plain sight. You don’t notice them until you move them around a bit. Then suddenly, like some unscrambled Scrabble letters, there’s clarity. Un-jumble the launch line-up for the Wii U and here’s the fact that emerges: This fall, the Wii U is actually going to be a good console for… downloadable…
Pigs might fly in the new game from the creators of Angry Birds. But only if you build them a helicopter, a plane or whatever you call a crate that’s tied to a balloon and propelled by a house fan. I’ve been playing Rovio’s new game on my iPad on and off for the past…
The fan-favorite co-op zombies mode is back in this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II and the first trailer for it makes it look… ambitious. First of all, there’s not a whiff of hint in this trailer that Blops II‘s Zombies mode has any connection to the sequel’s near-future-America-under-high-tech-attack story. Instead, it looks like,…
After a delay, 2001 PS2 classic Grand Theft Auto III is finally available for download on the PS3. File-size: 4.35GB!
We got one of the new 250 GB super-slim PlayStation 3s from Sony today and did what any rational person would do with it: we took it to the roof our New York City headquarters to compare it to all of the other consoles of this generation. Plus: We tried out its new disc tray!…
This is the new Splinter Cell, subtitled Blacklist. What’s the sale here in the new trailer for the 2013 console and PC game? The ability to play as an American agent who can do whatever the hell he wants. “Completely off the books, no prosecution,” the President promises. Our playable hero, Sam Fisher, is down.…
Tired of paying $60 for brand new video games? Would you rather pay $54? You’ll be able to do that on a PlayStation 3 this fall, Sony revealed today, if you’re shopping for NBA 2K13, Dishonored, and Need for Speed: Most Wanted But… Only if you buy them digitally to download to your PS3. And…
This shot of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria was snapped by Dutch Twitter user Nederob just two minutes after the game was unlocked in Europe. He says there’s been no server troubles. But Blizzard has also sent this out (26 minutes after the expansion went live), so… good luck! We’ll have impressions tomorrow.
Straight from the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria launch in Europe (the game went live 34 minutes ago), here’s the parade Blizzard put on just before that. It’s a themed parade. Notice?
Witness Kinect: Nat Geo TV, or at least witness a Kinect mini-game in Kinect: Nat Geo TV. It’s teaching our video editor Chris Person all about animals, as you can see in this clip.
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