There are signs of conflict in the next major video game from FarmVille and CityVille juggernaut Zynga, signs that might look to some long-time gamers of a bit of classic strategy games like Nintendo’s Advance Wars being absorbed into a game Zynga might as well have called CombatVille. Or WarVille, if you will. Starting on…
Prediction! There will be a lot of shooters (first-person and third-person) at E3 next week. Yes, indeed. As crazy as it sounds, games that involve the rapid transferral of bullets (or lasers) from gun barrel to bad guy’s head will be as ubiquitous at next week’s E3 showcase of upcoming video games as shirtless people…
Today’s Talk Amongst Yourselves will be the best Talk Amongst Yourselves of all time. After all, anything that includes the subtitle Majora’s Mask is the best of its kind. Celebrate the excellence of today’s TAY by commenting here about video games. Side-quest: Go to #TAYpics and post suggestions of which public-domain painting we should use…
The Nintendo DS Lite, rumored to be discontinued, is getting a price drop, down to $99.99 effective June 5, according to a Nintendo press release that went out this morning. That’s a $30 drop for history’s first non-ugly DS, a model that’s been supplanted by the DSi, the DSi XL and the $250 brand-new 3DS.
The people who make Call of Duty keep promising that they won’t charge you extra to play their hit game against other people. They shoot down any fears that they’re going to turn CoD multiplayer into a pay-per-month subscription service, a la World of Warcraft or HBO. But starting this fall, series publisher Activision will…
For each of the last two years I’ve checked the E3 promises of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. Sure, they make June/July tradition of telling us exciting things that will surely, definitely happen with the PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, 3DS, PSP and Wii. But do their E3 promises of one year turn out to…
A couple of years ago, I saw an amazing demonstration of a real-time strategy game that involved time travel. But there’s no time to talk about that now. The deadline to join a beta tournament for the game expires at 5pm ET. So just go sign up for it, then jump back in time and…
LeBron James, first you upset the people of Cleveland by abandoning their basketball team. Now you’ve helped the Miami Heat beat the Chicago Bulls in five games, closing the series out last night with an 83-80 victory. That means there’s no sixth game of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals happening this Saturday. And that means……
“Obviously, I can’t bring people back to life,” Jon Jacobs recently told me. Obviously. It was morning when he told me that. He was on his way to work in Los Angeles, chatting with me on his cell phone. His wife, a singer named Cheri, was driving him to work that day. He and I…
David O. Russell, the acclaimed director of The Fighter and Three Kings whose visions of the Uncharted video game series riled up fans of the PlayStation 3 franchise, is no longer attached to an Uncharted movie, Variety reports. The Hollywood trade publication states that Russell left the film over “creative differences” and that Sony’s Columbia…
This doll head arrived in the mail today. Sender’s name on the box that contained it is Rebecca Jorden. This is the back of the head. Figure it out? Rebecca Jorden = “Newt” from the movie Aliens. In the classic 1986 James Cameron action flick, she carries a plastic doll head called Casey. Looks like…
New comics come out in comics shops and on some of your favorite portable devices each Wednesday. Not all of them are worth your time and money, but some are. Some are even about video games (others are about Wolverine). As I do each week, I’ve got some recommendations: Comics You Should Consider Buying (from…
In real, modern combat, in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers have cameras attached to their helmets. The videos make it to YouTube (and on Kotaku, too), giving the rest of the world a first-person view of real combat. This week, The New York Times presents a simultaneously stunning and mundane video of…
A reader who was tired of my stories about L.A. Noire recently wondered why I hadn’t written about Universe Sandbox. What’s that? A simulation of the universe I can run on a Windows computer? And here I am at work on a Mac? At least I can watch the trailer of this marvelous-looking creation. You…
BioShock Infinite isn’t coming out until next year. That’s a pity, because the people who are making BioShock Infinite keep telling us interesting things about the game. They keep showing us interesting things about the game. Now they’re sharing these new pieces of artwork—ads and propaganda from within the 1912 world of the game. And…
There will be a new DeathSpank game this summer and it will involve a quest for the Fires of Bacon. It will also be a greatly improved follow-up to last year’s downloadable DeathSpank adventures, two comedic riffs on Diablo Like Hothead Games’ previous DeathSpank third-person action games, the new one will put players in charge…
Every couple of weeks we deliver a list of our favorite (mostly) new Xbox Live Indie games to officials involved with the Xbox 360. We pick our favorite indie games; they list them in a corner of the Xbox Live Games Marketplace called Kotaku’s Favorites (it’s in the Indie channel). They don’t give us any…
L.A. Noire just came out and no one behind the game has made any official announcements about an L.A. Noire sequel, but this is what Strauss Zelnick, head of Take Two, had to say about L.A. Noire on a call with investors today: “We have every reason to believe that L.A. Noire is another strong…
The best trailer for the video game L.A. Noire that its creators never made would have featured a man’s face. The face would have been that of an unremarkable owner of a liquor store in 1947 Los Angeles, a hard-working type. His face would be creased, just a little, from the effects of encroaching middle…
Reporter Clive Thompson recently chatted with “babygurl01475”, an Instant Messenger persona developed by someone out there to get people like Thompson horny enough to part with his credit card number. Because Clive is supposed to think that babygurl01475 is a real person who wants him badly. Babygurl failed. Thompson wasn’t fooled. But he did manage…
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