During my first 25 years playing video games I had no theory about what makes a video game good. I knew the good ones when I played them. I just felt it. Last year, however, I was forced to come up with a theory—a theory about what makes a video game good. I’ve been testing…
People who have save files for the first Borderlands on PC, PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 will get the stuff in the image here, according to an official posting by Borderlands folks at the official Gearbox community site.
To those who are infatuated with motion controls—their fingers swiping across iPad, their hands waving in front of Kinects—I’d like to point out that the controller is still an excellent and precise (!) way to play video games. That is the point of a new piece about the benefits of the unheralded video game controller…
The next Xbox might be called Xbox 8. Or Microsoft recently grabbed that web address for some other purpose (possibly holding it for the release of the eighth Xbox in the year 2060). But if not “Xbox 8”, what should the makers of the next Xbox call this thing? Let’s help them. Names they’ve considered…
Graham Henry was 16 years old when he was diagnosed with cancer. Today, at age 18, he’s cancer-free and testing games for Epic. He tells his story at the website for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a group working to help kids with cancers. We’re all smiling for you, Graham!
My favorite things about Far Cry 2 won’t be in Far Cry 3 I’m really looking forward to Far Cry 3 How’d I get from there to there? First, pretend you’re me. You’re at a Ubisoft showcase. You’ve just played Far Cry 3, single-player and co-op. You sit down with the game’s producer, Dan Hay.…
Our week-long experiment continues. One of your Kotaku staffers (me, today, obviously) drops in some odds and ends in the discussions below, stuff that may turn into stories or might just be for your own amusement here. See below….
Occasionally we in the world of games journalism are asked by people in the world of public relations what we thought of a game we just saw. Surely, anything I could say to them, I could say to you, reader of Kotaku. And I should, right? Otherwise I’m just doing free consultation. In answer to…
Here, for some reason known only to Nintendo and some publicists, is a QR code that will generate the official Mii of actress Denise Richards. This is probably not a collection of data you were expecting to get today. But now you’ve got it. If you have a Nintendo 3DS, can load up a Mii-making…
Leaks are springing, and word is out that a new mystery home video game console called Ouya is in development. This is a real thing. Ouya is a $99 box running on the Android platform, with a focus on free gaming, according to details spotted in a listing on a site for tech start-ups spotted…
Two of the most talented and fiercely independent video game creators I’ve ever met are joining us today, right below these words I’m writing, to answer your best questions. We’ve got Jonathan Blow, the man who brought us Braid and is leading development on the lovely island-exploration puzzle game The Witness. And we’ve got Chris…
The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy them or even what games are like. We’ve often wondered who the most powerful person is in video games. And we’ve wondered who the second is, the third…
Anita Sarkeesian wanted to make a web series about how women are portrayed in video games. She asked the world for $6,000. Some of the people who thought that was interesting and worth doing have given her just shy of $159,000. Some of the people who thought it was not worth doing, have defaced her…
For reasons that I’m sure are my fault but may also have to do with their placement in an unlit corner of the PlayStation Network’s digital store, I’ve not been able to recommend a PlayStation Mini to you. These little games are playable on PS3’s, PSPs and Vitas. They’re little, like the iPhone games I…
We can always count on the people at PlayStation for planting crazy ideas about the future of gaming in our heads. These are the people who advertised the PlayStation 2 with a commercial for the PlayStation 9, who told us that their PS2 games would look like Pixar movies and who, at one time, were…
Last Thursday, we introduced our new discussion system on Kotaku. We call it Kinja. It takes the place of our previous commenting system. Since Thursday, I’ve heard from many readers about the new system. My team has heard from readers on the site. We’ve heard from folks though e-mail and on Twitter. We’ve heard some…
The latest trailer for the non-jingoistic Assassin’s Creed III celebrates the war for American independence, which is commemorated annually by the good, old 4th of July. There’s a lot of fighting in this Independence Day clip… plus a reminder of that hallmark of true independence: retailer-specific pre-order incentives. If GameStop was selling the Declaration of…
Welcome. There’s a good chance you arrived at this link from The New York Times‘ Arts Section, which now features condensed, edited versions of games we have reviewed on Kotaku To the right, you’ll find links to reviews or impressions of all of the games that we’ve featured in the Times. We hope that these…
The amazing individual known as Kooberz, who brought us the brilliant stop-motion Lego take on Ghost Recon this past spring is—sorry, Ghost Recon—doing something cooler for his next project: stop-motion Lego Portal. The short film will be released in two or three parts, with the first one scheduled for release later this year. For now,…
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