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Most TNT Detonated In Creative Mode Of Minecraft

Most TNT Detonated In Creative Mode Of Minecraft | A world record, as seen on RecordSetter.com Get Ready to Play as a More Brutal—or More Stealthy—Agent 47 in Hitman: Absolution Forget everything you know about Agent 47, the bald-headed, bar-coded contract killer of IO Interactive’s Hitman franchise. He does not don disguises, creep in the…

Kotaku Cautiously, Optimistically Accepts Its Latest Accolade

We at Kotaku are proud to have just won The Cautious Optimism Award for Steps in the Right Direction from progressive gaming blog The Border House. Unfortunately, if we say anything nice about them in the future, it’ll look fishy.

Lawyers Thought Video Games Could Help Explain Why Man Murdered U.S. Airmen

On March 2, 2011, 21-year-old Arid Uka walked up to one U.S. airmen outside the airport in Frankfurt Germany and shot him in the head. Witnesses said he boarded a U.S. Air Force bus, shot a second airman to death and injured two more. Uka has already confessed to the shootings, and prosecutors are seeking…

You Cannot Top the New Pac-Man World Record

I am sure you have Pac-Man skills. We all do. I’m sure you’re good at turning the corners of getting Inky, Blinky & Clyde to trail you just as you’re approaching the power pellet. But I doubt you can break the new Pac-Man world record of one Dave Race of Ohio, who has cleared a…

With Great Power Comes a Great View

With Great Power Comes a Great View | Why, look, it’s new concept art for next summer’s Amazing Spider-Man video game! The 10 Most Bogus Entries in the Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember being awed at when the TV specials based on the Guinness Book…

Efforts Intensify to Save Game Developer Who Was Sentenced to Death in Iran

A day after news broke that U.S. citizen and former game developer Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death by the Iranian government, a glimmer of hope emerged that the 28-eight-year old’s life might be spared. “The news is not positive, but we try to reassure [his family] that it is not over,” Pierre Prosper a…

The Piazza Multiplayer Map

The Liberation Multiplayer Map

Modern Warfare 3‘s 9-Month Season of New Content is Ambitious, Surprising and Complicated

There will be at least 20 “drops” of new content for Modern Warfare 3, as a nine-month season of expansions to last year’s big game kicks off this month. The makers of the first-person shooter juggernaut are promising a season of new content, starting with the Xbox 360-first release on January 24 of the first…

Ghost Recon Future Soldier Slides Back to May, Beta in April

Ubisoft’s big revision to the Ghost Recon series, Ghost Recon Future Soldier has been delayed to May 22 in the U.S., May 24 in Europe. And, look at this, we’re getting an apology “We’re pretty much there,” the game’s development director, Adrien Lacey, said in a YouTube announcement of the delay. “We just want to…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome back to Kotaku‘s official forum. Please talk here about video games. It’s better if you do. Thanks to reader Dissolved for today’s image. Join in the fun and submit your own TAYpic. Please do your best—or your worst—and share your own riffs on our January image to our #TAYpics thread. Just remember to keep…

Supposed Video Game Developer ‘Spy’ Had Worked on Language-Learning Game for Department of Defense

The death sentence imposed on Amir Mirzaei Hekmati today by the Iranian government charges that the U.S. citizen and Marine was “waging war on God.” But his activities for a video game development company appear to be quite different than the nefarious CIA-funded actions his televised “confession” implied last December. In his so-called confession on…

PlayStation Vita’s AT&T Data Plan Comes in Two Flavors, No Contracts

The data plan for the 3G version of Sony’s hot new portable gaming system, the PlayStation Vita, will run you $15 for 250 MB or $25 for 2GB. There are no contracts, AT&T reps said during a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The 3G PlayStation Vita costs $300. The Wi-Fi only…

Used Game Sales Up, Console Sales Down at GameStop

GameStop, the biggest gaming-centric retail chain in the U.S. says its sale of gaming consoles was down 19.6% over the holidays, a sure sign of slowing sales (blame the Wii). Used game sales were up 3.5%. Blame… GameStop!

X-Com: Enemy Unknown Will ‘Re-imagine’ Classic X-Com. First Screens Prove It.

X-Com Enemy Unknown, the first shock gaming announcement of 2012 will be a “re-imagining” of the original X-Com game and will play as a mix of real-time and turn-based strategy, according to the first tantalizing details revealed by Game Informer magazine today. The upcoming fall 2012 console and computer game, which is being made by…

New Toshiba TV Promises Glasses-Free 3D for Nine* People

Toshiba’s got a $10,000 TV at the big Consumer Electronics Show that can display glasses-free 3D—a la the Nintendo 3DS—for up to nine people, though four’s optimal. Engadget says it’ll be out by the end of March.

Iran Sentences Alleged Video Game Developer ‘Spy’ to Death [UPDATE]

A U.S.-born man who appeared to confess on Iranian state television last month that he allegedly spied for America—actions that supposedly included doing work for a video game development studio purported to be a CIA front—has been sentenced to death by the Iranian government. Iran’s Revolutionary Court found Amir Mirzaei Hekmati to be “Corrupt on…

Time-Traveling Talk Amongst Yourselves

Today’s installment of Talk Amongst Yourselves went live at 10:20, like TAYs usually did. Right? You saw it then? You didn’t miss it, did you? We goofed today and missed running it then. Sorry, folks. But we’re back-publishing it to that time for those who look for it there. We apologize for our tardiness. Forgive…

New Alan Wake Headlines the Next Xbox House Party

The next Xbox 360 “House Party”—a promotional rush of a bunch of new downloadable games, probably released one a week—will be headlined by Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, according to a trailer that’s leaked through Xbox.com. Joystiq noticed it and we’ve watched it: It also includes the cool top-down body-hopping/barrel-possessing Warp, the disaster-survival game I Am…

Not Shigeru Miyamoto’s Tumblr

If Miyamoto Retired… And Had a Blog | “Hello My Name is Shigeru Miyamoto’s broken English is questionable, but the imaginary blog of a despairing/relieved creator of Super Mario deserves a look and a laugh. Microsoft Refunds Money Lost in Xbox Live Phishing Scam, Promises Better Customer Service Microsoft said it has intervened to restore…