Hopefully you are not on the edge of your seat waiting for the next Tomb Raider. Warning: even if you are an Olympic athlete, you should consider inhaling and exhaling a few times between now and the release of Mass Effect 3. Never mind their 2011 hype. They’re next year’s games. As we’ve done before,…
Valve Software chief Gabe Newell, a man who seems to always be ahead of the curve on everything happening in video games is speaking at New York University today. He’s keynoting the Games For Change festival’s Games For Learning Institute‘s keynote address. Newell could be keynoting a crochet festival and we’d still be able to…
Nintendo has never required users of the Nintendo 3DS to play their games with the system’s glasses-free 3D visuals activated. But 3D has been the machine’s selling point, one baked into the machine’s name. There are signs, however, that game creators, Nintendo included, are discovering that the 3DS’ 3D isn’t always a useful technological perk…
Last week, we ran through the details of the Animus Edition of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, an expensive GameStop-exclusive version of the game that runs 100 Euros and gets players a bunch of things, including a bonus Vlad the Impaler mission and an actual Assassin’s Creed encyclopedia. We wondered if Americans will get the same thing.…
At the price of just a few dollars L.A. Noire gamers can see what this spring’s gently-paced acclaimed detective adventure would have been like if it was more of an action game. A new downloadable arson case, Nicholson Electroplating, presents L.A. Noire at its action extreme. I played the case this weekend in advance of…
The handful of people making zombie survival horror game Project Zomboid have pulled their game from the Internet, not because they hate that their game is getting pirated. They expected that. They could even live with that, as they had been, quite merrily. They have pulled their £5 game because, despite their tolerance for piracy,…
I’m supposed to be telling you about a new video game called Defiance, but… I have to tell you something else: I saw one guy controlling the game on an Xbox 360. Another was playing in on a PlayStation 3 But they were playing the same game, on their two distinct consoles, with each other.…
They won’t tell us whether this fall’s 10-years-later remake, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will use the Kinect for voice control, gesture control or what, but Microsoft did tell us, today today, that the game’s Kinect suport won’t compromise the quality of the original game. Here’s their official statement: “It’s no surprise we’re exploring ways Kinect…
The buzz on the Nintendo 3DS hasn’t been good, I recently mentioned to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. I hear people complaining about a lack of must-play games and a lack of reasons to boot up the machine. The $250 handheld hardware, while impressive, is called too expensive. Nintendo even failed—by about 400,000 units—to…
A higher-priced version of this fall’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations called the Animus Edition, will ship with a short film, an encyclopedia and a host of other extras, including an intriguing extra mission that suggests a crossover with the legend of Dracula. The details for the GameStop-exclusive Animus Edition first popped up online during E3 week.…
Sega joins Bethesda, Codemasters and Sony among the gaming companies to suffer a hack. The personal info of users of its Sega Pass online service users was compromised, but payment data was not. Here’s the e-mai the publisher is sending to affected consumers: Dear ———-, As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has…
Head to Tor Books’ website to read an excerpt from author John Shirley’s “BioShock: Rapture,” a prequel novel set for release on July 19. [Tor Books]
One of your (favorite?) Kotaku editors is on College Humor‘s Nerd Alert show. The topics: Duke Nukem Forever not being very good. EA possibly imbalanacing Battlefield 3 through some downloadable content shenanigans…then we talked to a quadraplegic gamer who wants developers to make controls re-mappable so people like him can play them (which he does…
I recently rearranged my life so I could see two important video games: BioShock Infinite and Skyrim. They are two games for which you should rearrange your life—or at least your Thursday in early June. They were the games people were buzzing about last week’s E3, their titles the words people said when I asked…
We understand that many new video games ship with glitches. We (sometimes) forgive them. We also understand that some glitches are features or Easter eggs. We celebrate that, just as we celebrate this glitch from Duke Nukem Forever Duke Nukem Forever – Plane Glitch [YouTube]
Katsuya Eguchi, creator of Animal Crossing and producer of the next game in that series, mostly talked to me about Wii U at E3 last week. But surely he had some news about Animal Crossing’s forthcoming 3DS installment? He did! (Not much) “To those Animal Crossing fans,” he said, “I just would like them to…
“What is with Kotaku lately and all their crying foul about Facebook games not being like? They being payed these days to be mamby pambys?” – submitted by prospective Kotaku commenter CaptainQuenta beneath our story about the circus of E3
Rockstar has a new $4 case for L.A. Noire players to solve, and it’ll be out next week. Along with the official trailer, here’s the official summary: “Nicholson Electroplating” is a downloadable case from the Arson desk available for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. At 9.45 in the morning, a thunderous explosion rocks Los…
They call it E3, which isn’t that cool a name. Absurdly, you may have also heard, that E3 is Video Games, or what (some/most) of the big, rich companies in the gaming industry would have you believe is Video Games. That’s kind of right. Each June (sometimes July), the ESA does this E3 thing. The…
The rumors (and signs) are true. Call of Duty: Black Ops isn’t done yet. Treyarch will release a third map pack, on the Xbox 360 first, on June 28. It’s called Annihilation and will feature four maps: Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo and Hazard. “Players will also enjoy an all-new Zombies experience, Shangri-La,” Black Ops‘ studio…
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