Today is the last day when the Legend of Zelda will be free through a special offer on Nintendo’s 3DS It shouldn’t be. If Nintendo is serious about picking up its stumbling 3DS and battling back the insurgent iPhone, The Legend of Zelda should be free forever. Nintendo started selling The Legend of Zelda in…
There are new comics out every week, but this week doesn’t just have a strong batch of new books that are hitting store shelves. It’s also got an unusually strong amount of legitimate digital downloadable comics, including a re-issuing of a few issues of the Detroit-era Justice League of America. You know, the worst incarnation…
The two guys on the left showed up at Valve Software recently, hoping the guy on the right would hear (or read) their plea. I’m a little confused, though. Is the guy all the way on the left saying that Canada wants Half-Life 3 to be released? Or is he offering to trade Canada for…
There’s some sort of writing on the European PlayStation blog about the Dazzle Eye dynamic theme for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. Artists’ project, platform for creativity, etc., etc…. something about the pattern for Dazzle Eye originating in a World War I design that was intended “to bewilder the enemy.” Press play on the video…
Jonathan Blow is a video game developer whose critics call pretentious and grouchy. He once had the audacity to wonder aloud why more people don’t make video games for adults who like reading books. That was some time after he had the temerity to criticize the game-making of the geniuses at Nintendo. That was also…
In a sign that either the PlayStation 3 version of Assassin’s Creed Revelations needs more public beta testing than the Xbox 360 version or that Sony and AC publisher Ubisoft are—gasp—using a beta as a marketing stunt, the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations multiplayer beta will launch next month only on PS3, initially to a subset of…
I’ve only needed to play 14 levels of Amazing Breaker to tell you it is worth your 99 cents. I’ve only needed to use the game’s slingshot to launch helicopter bombs onto a massive glass mug of beer to know that playing this game is a proper way to use an iPhone. Amazing Breaker, recommended…
Jennifer Hale, celebrated voice actor for the female version of Mass Effect lead Commander Shepard doesn’t play video games. Writer Tom Bissell, who profiled Hale in this week’s New Yorker magazine does and cajoled her to play Mass Effect 2 with him, just for a bit. She decided to play “middle-of-the-road Shepard,” as she defines…
I know that this fall’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword won’t be the final video game for the Wii, but it is likely to be remembered as the last big game for Nintendo’s mighty system. That’s cool, I guess, but I believe that Jerry Rice & Nitus Dog Football—announced today as shipping on August…
I expected the official PlayStation Blog to quiz BioShock mastermind Ken Levine on PlayStation topics like 3D and the Move. I expected him to drop intriguing comments like one about how sniper rifles will “become very meaningful” in the expanse of BioShock Infinite I didn’t expect the PlayStation blog to ask if next year’s BioShock…
Stop doing what you’re doing. Start talking here about video games. Thanks to reader kyosen for today’s TAYpic. To quote our interns: “We could always use some new TAYpics, so if you think you’ve got what it takes, here’s what to do: submit your images to #TAYpics, and please keep submitting until you’re out of…
Because they don’t count the CDi Zelda games, and because they count the repeatedly re-released Ocarina of Time twice, Nintendo promotes a worldview in which 17 [1] Zelda games have been released in the past 25 years. I’m fine with that. But I didn’t notice until I was looking at Nintendo’s new Zelda history chart…
The last time I’d been to the island, it didn’t make sense to me. I had exited a building that had birthed my presence into the island’s sun splashed terrain. I’d confronted some blue panels in the manner a driver confronts a stop sign. The panels were signs I didn’t know how to read. They…
What if Wikipedia cost $3 to read, wasn’t updated, wasn’t complete and was rated 3/3 on some scale that registers sexual content? Sold? What if it was on the Xbox 360? Perhaps you should watch my video impressions of such a beast, called Wiki Read, before you answer these questions. If you’ve lost your mind,…
Recent Game Informer cover game Dishonored is a first-person stealth game set in a mysterious, malleable world that is bent by player choice. That’s about all I know. Our own Joel Johnson is currently in Texas today and has played the game there, at QuakeCon 2011. He knows more and will tell us what the…
One game is called Scrolls. One game is called Skyrim, though, more formally, you’d call it The Elder Scrolls V. Confusing? Those names are too close, according to lawyers from Bethesda Softworks, the company behind Skyrim and authors of 15-page letter to Minecraft maker Markus “Notch” Persson and his studio Mojang, complaining that Scrolls is…
There’s a war going on in Paris, and despite the lessons we’ve learned from video games that war never changes, this is the first war I’m aware of that is being waged with Post-It Notes. On one side is Ubisoft’s Paris HQ. And the other is French bank called BNP, each trying to one-up the…
Video game creator David Jaffe says that his baby, the new Twisted Metal for PlayStation 3, is slipping to early 2012, missing its planned October release date. The vehicular combat game simply needs more time to be incredible, he explained on a post on the PlayStation blog today. “If we shipped Twisted Metal tomorrow-–going off…
Earlier today we showed you the one-hour documentary celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bungie Studios. It ended with a curiosity. You want to go the the 53:30 mark in the documentary to see these some powerlines and a windmill set up in a desert near some mountains. Signs of the new mystery franchise/universe/game that Bungie…
We here at Kotaku are waiting, hoping, wondering if there will be Doom 4 news during the QuakeCon 2011 keynote that is occurring as I type this. We got a new Rage trailer already. We got some iOS id games going on sale. And now…. These Rage avatars are now available for download on the…
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