It’s been popular for far too long to complain about Star Wars. I’m sick of it, because it all sounds to me like a bunch of old people complaining about kids these days. Sorry, haters, but you are living in an era of wonderful Star Wars, and your childhood isn’t being ruined. And I’m not…
If you know how to use the Internet, you will have little trouble finding people who will tell you that Kinect Star Wars is a bad video game. These people are correct. The combination of one popular thing (Star Wars!) with another popular thing (the magical hands-free Xbox 360 Kinect sensor!) has resulted in one…
Who cares about the ending of Mass Effect 3? The creators of the “young and sassy” Mass Effect: The High School Years know that the part of BioWare’s big sci-fi gaming series that most urgently needs work is the beginning. With this trailer, they’ve fixed it. Except… my Shepard would have been a girl in…
We told you that former Halo developer Christian Allen wanted to collect $200,000 to start making an old-school tactical shooter. Then Christian confessed he botched the Kickstarter; tried to revive it. At the last minute, he’s hit his goal!
If Assassin’s Creed really was made to be played entirely with crazy gestures via the Xbox Kinect, it would be a) horrible, b) amazing or c) the cause for many, many injuries. Probably all of the above. Good work, fake Assassin’s Creed trailer-makers! This one made me laugh out loud. Assassin’s Creed for Kinect Announced!…
The special edition Star Wars version of the Xbox 360, which our pals at Gizmodo ogled last summer, looks like R2D2. Fittingly, it packs a secret message from Princess Leia, as you can see from this video that we shot of the unit. We haven’t found any other surprises. And we’re sure there are no…
Here’s a look at one of the new free levels coming to Angry Birds Space. It was Tweeted by the game’s creators. We should have seen this coming, given their obvious love for Seattle’s Space Needle.
YouTube user KSIOlajidebt doesn’t know how to pronounce my name, but he figured out my Twitter handle and has convinced dozens and dozens of his fans to send me a video. KSIOlajidebt, I’ve learned, has a problem. He’s a hotshot video producer for Machinima, the online juggernaut that has partnered with some 4,000 other video-creators…
I recently rattled off 50 details about Assassin’s Creed III, details I learned when I sat through an hour-long demo of the October 2012 game with the lead creators on the project. There’s a 51st detail I’ve been waiting to tell you about (and a 52nd). As a longtime player of the series and, yes,…
If you’ve logged into your commenting account today with your username and password, you may have been prompted to convert your account to third-party authentication, using either Twitter, Facebook, or Google. It might seem like a pain, but it’s really quite easy and will hopefully make your Kotaku experience just a wee bit better, since…
We know that Twitter is a forum rife with negativity, just as surely as we know that Xbox Live contains the same. But it’s still sobering to look at the kind of venom that was spewed in the direction of Robert Bowling, who recently resigned as the public face and “creative strategist” of lead Call…
I’ve heard about three lines from Connor Ratohnhaké:ton, the hero of Assasssin’s Creed III and I don’t know what to make of him. The hero of Ubisoft’s massive October video game is no Ezio Auditore or even an Altair. He’s not a beloved rogue or a noble assassin. He’s not the star of multiple games.…
Barack Obama has triumphed over both ignorance and the Republican primary field, in an unofficial and moderately alarming poll of players of the cartoony multiplayer online video game MapleStory We will not pass judgment about 47.79% of respondents saying that Obama is the candidate who has left the most favorable impression of them. We will…
The casual observer of the Xbox 360’s Gears of War 3 may notice the grunting warriors, the characters shooting each other to bloody bits or chainsawing each other in half. Refined eyes will spot beauty. They will see a triumph of modern landscape art, hiding in the background of a big action blockbuster. Watch these…
Assassin’s Creed games can be set in any place at any moment of history. For a time, fans thought the clues in the early games ensured that Assassin’s Creed II or maybe Assassin’s Creed III would be set in Japan, the player’s assassin taking on the role of a ninja or other great martial artist.…
My father knew a guy who knew Bert Sugar. That’s how I wound up working for Bert, as a high school intern and then in my first job as a professional reporter. He was my first editor, my first mentor, my first journalism role model. He passed away yesterday at age 75 Back when I…
Maybe video games are stupid. Maybe they’re junk or trash or action movies, at best. Perhaps they are not at all making the world a better place. And maybe it’s not an old person—some out of touch politician who once bumped into a Pong machine—who will declare this. Maybe it will be someone young, someone…
You can assassinate a bear in Assassin’s Creed III. You can run around the battle of Bunker Hill, flanking the British to surprise them in their camp. You can go to the frontier and relax in a tree. You can help found a nation. You will be able to do so many excellent things in…
Some people have questioned the outreach strategy of hip-hop upstart Kadillak Kaz, who spent an hour or so last week Tweeting a plea to any vaguely video-game related Twitter feed he could find, imploring them to put any of his music in their games. Question Kadillak’s technique no longer. Indie game developer Michael Frauenhofer is…
This is a painting of Doom, one of the greatest games of all times. And surely this must be one of the coolest video game paintings of all time. It hangs in the home of Doom co-creator John Romero, who kindly took several high-res photos of the artwork for us and sent them along. Romero…
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