A month ago, I said publicly that the Kotaku team would be expanding, which may have led some to think we were going to add on the expansion pack of a single, terrific new hire. Or maybe we’d add two people. No way. Today, I’m proud to tell you about four terrific new members of…
One of the first stories of infatuation that I heard about the iPad game Kingdom Rush involved a man and a woman who were in love with each other and in love with Kingdom Rush They had time to kill one day. I think it was because they were early for a movie. Or maybe…
Every three months, game publisher EA tells the public that one of its upcoming games, Mass Effect 3 will be coming out for consoles (of course!), PC (expected) and “handheld/mobile” (huh?). Mass Effect 3 will be out in less than five weeks, so here we are wondering what it’s about. It won’t be a 3DS…
EA’s Origin service for downloadable computer games now has 9.3 million registered users, the company said today. Rival service Steam is at 40 million registered users
The biggest contributor to Stephen Colbert’s political action committee, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, (who totally weren’t coordinating with Colbert’s joke Presidential run) was Alex Rigopulos, head of Rock Band/Dance Central studio Harmonix. $9600 given, notes the NY Times
Nano quadrotors fly in formation in this great video from the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. All we need is a spaceship that can shoot these things down and we’re good to go. A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors [YouTube]
Bowser Mario’s real boss, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, takes a bow on January 27 before presenting the company’s not-so-wonderful financial news. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) SoulCalibur V : The Kotaku Review Soul Calibur V, like almost all fighting games nowadays, finds itself having to serve multiple purposes for a broad and fragmented user base. Fighting games…
Last week, while game developers were howling that Zynga—creators of FarmVille—were the makers of a game called Dream Heights that maybe ripped off another hit game, Zynga didn’t want to talk about it. Not publicly. Not even after another group popped up to say that, hey, if Zynga ripped off Tiny Tower, Tiny Tower ripped…
Kit Connell may be 100, but she doesn’t feel a day over 80. And her brain age is around 64, according to one of her favorite Nintendo DS games. I’m not sure where this video came from or if it’s a Nintendo ad. I just know that Kit Connell is the kind of gamer I…
Goodbye, newspaper stories about video gamers who love to pretend to kill, kill, kill. Hello, Wall Street Journal investigation into video gamers who love to pretend to not kill at all. The Journal has discovered Felix the Peaceful Monk and other characters role-played by gamers who don’t like bloody the hands of thee characters they…
Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney tells the Express (or was it Zeit?) that he’s making music for an unnamed video game: “A new computer game sells so much better than a new CD these days. Young people will hear my music for the first time in a game.”
Jobbers | In pro wrestling terms, “doing the job” means losing in a scripted match. The wrestlers that lose all the time are jobbers. (Buy the T-shirt here.) Final Fantasy XIII-2: The Kotaku Review In an epic tale of time-traveling heroism, Square Enix travels two years into the future to rectify the mistakes it made…
We’ve changed the way we review video games here at Kotaku. That makes this a perfect time to explain our approach to reviews and how the new system will work. Two things will stand out to those who have read last week’s Resident Evil Revelations review and this week’s review of Final Fantasy XIII-2: They…
Resident Evil: Revelations is a wonderful surprise. It benefits both from the low expectations set by the previous, shallow Resident Evil on the Nintendo 3DS and from the fact that it is a very good Resident Evil It also benefits from being, perhaps, the game that makes the most of Nintendo’s year-old handheld. That a…
If someone can add zombies to Minesweeper (and do it well) then who am I to stop someone else from making a dice game out of firefighting? It has been done, and it’s good. There is surely a message being sent through the Android and iOS game Fire and Dice: A message about the randomness…
Microsoft will upgrade its disc technology for its next Xbox from DVDs to Blu-Ray discs, catching up to rival Sony, games industry sources tell Kotaku Sony’s PlayStation 3 currently supports Blu-Ray, which can contain 25 or 50GB of data compared to DVD’s 9GB. But that disc detail could be far less impactful to the next…
Check out this test run of Space Cruiser, a video game that will be played by some 200 people on Thursday evening at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. (Event details here. But it’s now sold out.) Video by Ida Benedetto.
We knew there would be nine months of downloadable content coming out for Modern Warfare 3. Now we can see which months will get maps, co-op missions and new modes. Right here. (So much for new campaign missions!)
Spotted | NBC News folks were in our offices today for a piece about Gawker Media (our parent company). The reporter said she’d only ever played Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, but I trumped her wacky fact by telling her that there are two Kotaku staffers with Masters in journalism. —Stephen (Image by Gizmodo editor Joe…
What are you doing on Thursday evening? If you’re in New York City or the surrounding area, consider going to Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade, an event at the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Earth and Space. To put it another way: Go play a 200-person video game inside a planetarium! Here’s…
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