Respected tech reporter Joshua Topolsky is putting it all out there over at The Verge, reporting that the chatter about Valve Software getting into the hardware business isn’t a tease. He says Valve is making a console and that we’re going to be finding out about it soon, maybe next week at the Game Developers…
Jake Kazdal did not go to work on Thursday expecting a water main to break over his head—or whatever it was that sent water cascading into his offices while his team was working on their video game. Video game development and floods don’t mix. Not very well. But lucky for Jake Kazdal, he and his…
Mass Effect 3 will be out next week, but launch trailers don’t wait for games to launch. Here’s the game’s launch trailer today. Enjoy. We’ll have plenty more about the game, including a review, next week.
There will be no Total Recall programming block on Kotaku today. We apologize to all of our fans of history and retro games. Sorry about the skip! Care to read the Total Recall archives? Think of it as re-runs.
You can role-play as a gay man in next week’s Mass Effect 3. Why? because the game’s creators believe in giving their players a choice of who they want to be. Gaming site CVG got a copy of the love scene between a male Commander Shepard and a male lover. They posted it to YouTube…
Before John Romero co-created Doom he was just a kid. A very smart kid. When he was a teenager, he wrote a letter to Jordan Mechner, a very smart man who made a game young John Romero liked very much. Romero had taste, because Mechner’s Karateka was awesome, as was his later invention, Prince of…
The PlayStation 4 will not use Sony’s Cell processor nor any possible successor to the vaunted chipset that was introduced to the world through the PlayStation 3, gaming industry sources tell Kotaku What we’re hearing from sources follow a Forbes rumor last week that chip-maker AMD would make the graphics chip for a PS4, a…
The Russian government will spend part of a $690 billion military improvement budget on introducing a new model of its Kalashnikov rifles, known more commonly as AK-47s and one of the most common weapons in the real world and video games. (See Call of Duty, among many others.) “We are planning deep modernization of the…
Famous foodstuffs frequently double-stuffed, Oreos tun 100 next month. The Pac-Man-inspired ad on the right of the image above is just part of the campaign for the very old cookies. Here’s the most startling fact about Oreos in today’s New York Times story about the upcoming March 6 birthday: Worldwide sales for Oreo rose to…
In the video game adventures of Commander Shepard, being a gay man was neither a matter of biology nor choice. It was a matter of programming. And the programming of Shepard’s first video game, 2007’s Mass Effect, made being gay impossible. And then things changed. The programming changed. You can play Shepard as if he…
It wasn’t a serious question, but I did ask it. And they answered. I was talking to BioWare co-founders, doctors Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka, about a lot of things during an interview earlier this month in Las Vegas. The query just popped into my head. Maybe it all crosses over. Here’s how the conversation…
During my recent interview with BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, we talked about the obvious things like Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic We also discussed Command & Conquer Why were we discussing Command & Conquer? More specifically, as I asked both men, why should we think of the upcoming Command…
The average player of the massively multiplayer game Star Wars: The Old Republic plays the game between four and six hours per session, according to one of the chief architects of the game. “When they play, their sessions are absurd,” Greg Zeschuk, head of BioWare Austin, the studio leading continued development of the game told…
When you write about video games for a living, you get so many e-mails about how great certain new video games are that they can’t possibly all be true. The people who send these e-mails are often being paid to tell me how awesome game x or y is. That’s what we call unreliable sourcing.…
In January, we debuted the Kotaku Power 40, our admittedly impossible-to-perfect list of the most powerful people involved in video games. We aim to assess these people’s current level of influence on… what we play, how we play, how we get our games and/or what we think of games. Today, we present our first revision…
Angry Birds Space will be coming out for iOS, Android, Mac and PC next on March 22, the game’s developers at Rovio, tell Kotaku They lobbed that news our way this morning along with this exclusive trailer that combines official NASA footage with, well… you’ll see. Consider this another tease of the Angry Birds’ off-world…
If you’re left-handed, I have a minor bit of bad news about the terrific, original game that Nintendo started selling on the 3DS eShop today. The game was made for people who are comfortable holding pens in their right hand. Righties, I think you’ll have a great time with this game. Dillon’s Rolling Western is…
I talked to a guy named Ray a couple of weeks ago. He was with his buddy Greg. Ray said he had played BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 end to end already. I believe him. He told me what it was like to play through the whole thing. Ray is, I should note, really into BioWare…
Would you like to play Borderlands 2? You can do it on September 18 this year, on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. (September 21 for international audiences, Gearbox tells us, meaning those of you not in North America.) You can even play it in splitscreen. Four-player co-op, too. With more guns and skills…
Giant video game publisher EA and its most popular video games are rich targets for hackers and scammers, but the company is determined to fight back and protect its users, EA’s number two executive tells Kotaku Gamers should also try hard to protect themselves, chief operating officer Peter Moore advised, especially in light of rampant…
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