Who are these people we follow on Twitter? I’m not referring to the celebrities or the joke accounts. We don’t care about those people that much, right? But who are these people who have the names of our friends? I don’t recognize many of them. One of these people seems funnier than the friend with…
Here’s a clip of today’s newly-released Asura vs. Ryu, Asura’s Wrath-meets-Street Fighter downloadable content for Asura’s Wrath It might even be the hold thing… we’re not sure. But, hey, it looks really fun. I might pony up for this. The DLC is called “Lost Episode 1.” It costs $2 to download on Xbox 360 and…
Meet Dragon’s Dogma‘s Ur-Dragon. He’s sort of like a video game kickstarter, except that he doesn’t need tons of gamers to fund him. He needs tons of gamers to kill him. The Ur-Dragon, like some of the epic bosses in Infinity Blade II and other online-connected games, is an enemy that is designed to be…
The “related” function on Xbox Live helpfully suggests some other video games that are just exactly almost identically akin to the new Xbox 360 version of Minecraft which came out today. As seen on my TV; apologies for the blurriness. At least that’s not Microsoft’s fault.
This fall’s much-anticipated BioShock Infinite will now be released on February 26, 2013, publisher Take Two announced this morning. The game had been planned for an October release. Updated with lengthy note from Ken Levine. “When we announced the release date of BioShock Infinite in March, we felt pretty good about the timing. Since then,…
Video game social network Playfire wants you to vote on who won the current generation of video games. It’s hard to shake the feeling that they’re missing something…there was this white box…it had a blue light in it, maybe?
You are probably one of three people. 1) You might be a fan of NBA Jam and NFL Blitz fun, over-the-top arcade games masterminded by a guy named Mark Turmell. If you had to guess what his first game for his new bosses at FarmVille juggernaut Zynga would be about, you’d probably guess “something about…
Tatyana Zinovieva lives in Kursk, Russia. She’s 59 now, younger in the photo here. She only started playing video games three years ago, after getting treated for leukemia. She’d been depressed. TV didn’t help. Video games did. “My husband was playing King’s Bounty: The Legend then,” she said, through a translator in an e-mail I…
It’s time to solve a mystery, or at least come up with a viable theory. Yesterday, executives at mega-publisher Electronic Arts announce a bunch of financial numbers. They also say that they’ve delayed a “key game” from fiscal year 13 to fiscal year 14, which, for those who prefer to speak English, means they’ve delayed…
Earlier today, we got to see just a portion of a new Assassin’s Creed III trailer. Just a glimpse! Like this series on Facebook and you can see the whole thing! Or so we thought… I liked Assassin’s Creed on Facebook and I was led to the image you see here, an image that manages…
Collect your winnings, people, on one of the safest bets in video games. There will be a new Need for Speed this fall, a fact EA believes it already told us (they did?). They’ve got it listed in a new slide that shows all their “announced” games for the rest of their financial year (ending…
Over at Yahoo (or maybe The Week), some unnamed editor has rounded up the opinions of four other writers to alchemize a theory or four about why Nintendo lost more than $400 million last year, the company’s first annual loss I’m not sure how they missed the theory that I dare say is the right…
Some called me a sympathizer when I championed the rights of some video game fans who disliked a game’s ending to have it changed. They said I didn’t like the ending, and that’s why I concocted a theory in March about video games as a malleable art that is justifiably tweaked by player and game…
There is a Kinect-powered video game in the Columbus Circle subway station in New York City. It’s being used to sell dog food. Because Kotaku never rests, and because we can’t let Game Informer and television’s Geoff Keighley hog all the big video game world exclusive announcements, your editor-in-chief had to stop and shoot a…
No, no, no, Ben Franklin won’t be an inventor who gives you gadgets in Assassin’s Creed III He will, however, somehow express his not-well-publicized “love of women,” according to ACIII creative director Alex Hutchinson, as detailed in a new story in the Penny Arcade Report Franklin didn’t just establish the post office and spend much…
Bullet time! The supernatural act of slowing down time as you either shoot a gun or dodge the bullets of someone shooting at you! It was in Max Payne. It was in The Matrix How in world do you make bullet time work in a multiplayer shooter like Max Payne 3? It makes sense when…
The much-hyped Ridley Scott movie Prometheus isn’t the only big Aliens-related project that might change the way we think of one of sci-fi’s best series. The next Aliens video game counts. It’s canon. And the people who are making it think it might finally solve some key mysteries in the film—and even make the films…
People often ask if PC gaming is dead. This is not a very sensible question. But I, a Mac owner, wonder daily if Mac gaming is alive. Look, I can play Adventure World on my Mac. And Solitaire. But, my goodness, Mac gaming sucks. And so it was with shock and glee that I, owner…
If this month’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was a toddler and not a video game, I’d pat it on the head and compliment its Call of Duty costume. It’s doing a good job of dressing like its more popular playground rival, but—wouldn’t you know it?—its own personality still sneaks through. I’ve played a few levels…
Yesterday, Al Lowe told me a dirty joke. “What do you call a redneck with a pig under one arm and a sheep under the other arm? “Bisexual.” Al Lowe likes telling jokes, many of them dirty. Back in 1987 he created Leisure Suit Larry, an adventure game about a loser who tries to score…
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