There is no doubt I’m at the Hasbro showcase for all of its new Transformers, Marvel, GI Joe and other toys here in New York City. The truck gives it away. We’ll have more on the new Transformers video game and other stuff as the day progresses.
If you are going to use portable speakers, sparing your ears of headphones, you may have a few demands. These speakers need to be easy to transport, a cinch to connect, sound good and… that’s it? What if they emit sound in 360 degrees? The Razer Ferox are a pair of portable speakers that meet…
We’re in awards season, a time of year when the likes of Mass Effect 2 and Read Dead Redemption are praised for being the best the gaming industry had to offer. Of course, the gaming industry also gave their worst last year. The “first annual” game publisher round-up over at Metacritic makes it easy to…
The next big thing in action figures is “interaction figures.” That’s the pitch we heard today during a showcase event in New York City for a revival of the video game hero Spyro the Dragon as part of a band of toys that interact with video games. Spyro will be one of at least 30…
Most Kinect hacks don’t serve a societal good, right? Who needs the Xbox 360’s wonder sensor to detect your breasts or make beautiful art? But a Kinect hack that lets us control a robot arm brings us closer to a Kinect version of R.O.B., the ridiculous robot that was sold with the original Nintendo Entertainment…
Glow Artisan was a downloadable game for DS, but that might as well mean it was black ops. One of the better-kept-secrets on Nintendo’s machine is now out for iPhone and iPad. It’s painting mixed with puzzles. As always, it’s easier to show then tell how a good video game works. Watch the clip as…
Gather ’round and talk about video games here in Kotaku’s official forum. Thanks to Yankton for today’s image. Submit your images to #TAYpics We could use some new images, aspiring TAY artists. Work off the base image, the wave, which you can find in a nice 640×360 size here. And then submit your work to…
The Wii Remote is so versatile. It controls games. It smashes TV sets. It is also being used in this clip by filmmaker Michael Haas as some sort of sci-fi movie prop. I don’t know what this is for, but I want to see more! wii remote turned into spaceship [Vimeo]
A couple of days ago, psychiatrist Carole Lieberman gave a quote to Fox News about the violent upcoming game Bulletstorm. Dr. Lieberman isn’t a fan of such games. She thinks the worst of them cause people to do bad things. Two days later, she’s been through a storm. Dr. Lieberman is no accidental enemy of…
Tetris The Card Game. It exists. I plan to see it this weekend. I plan to see lots of great (and maybe) silly toys, because I’ll be at Toy Fair a multi-day expo in New York City. The biggest video-game-related toy coming out of the event may be whatever mystery toy/game/who-knows that Activision boss Bobby…
The Verizon iPhone is out, and you just might be getting one. If you are, you’ll need some games. We know games, and we have recommendations. The Best Dozen Plants Vs. Zombies, Infinity Blade, Words With Friends and 9 others (Free – $10) There are many good iPhone games, most of them very cheap and…
Welcome to another day dedicated to video games. Talk about them in the comments section here. Thanks to ShinLord for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics, by sharing a link for your image in that forum.
A segment on British TV shows Microsoft’s vision for the home of the future. That vision of a Microsoft Home, as demonstrated by a Microsoft official for England’s Channel 4, included an image of a TV displaying an icon for Halo 5. That’s what we call a joke and inevitably, but clearly not announcement of…
PlayStation Move Heroes, a game we played last year, is the first PlayStation game to bring lots of characters from Sony games together. Nintendo does this kind of thing all the time with Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart and various Mario sports games. Sony usually keeps its icons separate. They’re crossing their franchise lines with…
We’ve got an video clip from FX legend Steve Johnson’s archives featuring the angelic underwater alien puppets of James Cameron’s The Abyss. Watch the footage now. [io9]
The first map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, dubbed First Strike, will be released for the PlayStation 3 and PC on March 3. It hit the Xbox 360 on February 1 and includes four maps, one zombie level. [CORRECTION: There’s no PC date yet, only a confirmation that it’ll be on that platform…
What is Beachhead? It’s the name of a new game studio we just heard about today. Bobby Kotick, the man in charge of Call of Duty publisher Activision dropped it during a phone call today. All we know about Beachhead is that Kotick promises that the team is making an “innovative new digital platform” and…
My weekly round-up of comics returns for the new-look Kotaku. There are new comics every Wednesday in American shops and — legally! — for download. Some are about video games. Some are good. (That’s a joke, sort of.) Comics You Should Consider Buying Suicide Squad Vol 1: Trial By Fire: Don’t you want to read…
One week ago, we brought you the contentious tale of two games called Lugaru that Apple was selling on its Mac store. Today there is only one game called Lugaru in that shop. The game’s original creators at Wolfire Games had been frustrated that Apple had not spotted what they deemed to be a copycat…
Fans of Detective Comics, Batman, Batman & Robin, Gotham City Sirens, Streets of Gotham, Batman Inc., Batman: Dark Knight, and Superman/Batman can soon celebrate the launch of another Batman comic: Batman: Arkham City. This one’s based on the video game. The new comic also has downloadable content. How weird is that? Batman: Arkham City (the…
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