Today marks the final “This Week In Video Game Comics” here at Kotaku and the birth of “This Week In Comics.” Video game comics first, then some others I think are worth highlighting, all in U.S. shops this week. The Legend of Zelda, Vol 9: A Link To The Past Written and drawn by Akira…
What makes a good video game sidequest? The optional diversions in big games like Mass Effect 2 don’t always delight players. Sometimes, they even tick them off. The New York Times, reviewing ME2, seems conflicted: Most of the game is spent on a series of side missions in which you build and strengthen your team…
In our continued efforts to see both sides of the argument in Australia and elsewhere about the extreme content of some games we find this letter to the editor that says that many violent game defenders are being disingenuous. The context is the ongoing debate in Australia about whether the country should finally allow video…
Welcome to a month of declines. Every month we at Kotaku show which Wii games have racked up the most playing time, per player, since launch. And this month, all but two of the 10 declined or were flat. (Click the chart to enlarge) Rune Factory Frontier and Lego Star Wars were the only games…
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We know all about people who sit at home, hooked on a game they don’t want to stop playing. We know some of these folks well. But what if the game you’re hooked on can travel with you? The iPhone game Drop 7 has its hooks on Ariane Sherine, author of The Atheist’s Guide To…
There won’t be any gaming for me tonight, because Lost returns at 9pm ET. I’ve got a batch of questions that I hope they’ll resolve this final, sixth season. Unrepentant season 1-5 spoiling in this post. I approach each season of ABC’s narratively labyrinthine Lost with nagging questions. I was sure I’d have fewer coming…
After a first Brothers in Arms on iPhone that turned the World War II series into a third-person shooter, series creators Gearbox Software and publisher Gameloft are issuing a bigger first-person sequel any day now. I tried a preview build of Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front on an iPod Touch yesterday at Kotaku’s New…
This week’s launch of Star Trek Online gives video games another chance to make the fantasy of Star Trek seem a little more real. But the rest of the world has also been up to the task, as year by year, our surroundings become a little more Star Trek, something for which video games are…
In late February, more than three months after its last Wii release, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Nintendo will finally launch its next, Endless Ocean: Blue World. This sequel has a twist: It’s more of a game than its predecessor. The first Endless Ocean was a January 2008 oddity here in America, a scuba-diving simulator…
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Here are screengrabs from a Capcom’s earnings report, in beautiful black-and-white chart form. A report of sales since April 1, 2009, which may have helped the company make a profit: A list of hoped-for sales: And, in a list of upcoming titles, a probably typo I’ve e-mailed Capcom about. Note there was no listing for…
The trick with checking out a new iPhone game from Gameloft, the makers of many hits on the platform, is to look for a clue of resemblance to some other game you’ve heard of. Cars? “GT Racing”? A ha! Later this week or early next, Gameloft will release GT Racing: Motor Academy on the iPhone…
Well, fun was never a given in a game made by Suda 51 anyway. What do you want from a video game? Fun? What if it makes you laugh? And smile? What if it can surprise you? What if it’s a sequel that removes the bad parts from its predecessor and replaces them with…. wait…
The LocoRoco edition of the PlayStation Portable becomes yet another gaming product to take advantage of the great crossover between fans of video games and fans of string cheese, as seen in a circular from this past weekend.
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We got together this week and reviewed a bunch of games for you. And one computer. One large computer. Serious Sam HD Review: This Time It’s Really Serious In which Brian Ashcraft audaciously calls for modernized gameplay. Alienware Area-51 m15x Laptop Review: It Ain’t Heavy, It’s My Laptop In which Brian Crecente determines the specific…
I’m looking for breakdowns of how you spent money on video games in January, including digital purchases, trade-ins, eBay sales and so on. If you have all the specifics, e-mail me with the subject line “My January Gaming Dollars.” This is for a future Kotaku project. I will not make the information public without your…
I can be happy in second place, happier in third. At least if I’m playing Disney and Black Rock’s upcoming racing game Split Second. Having seen the trailers and read our earlier impressions of Split Second I was excited to finally try the other one of 2010’s action racing games (Blur’s the other). We’ve gone…
The people who showed me the upcoming Xbox 360 port of role-playing game Risen this week told me their game could be sped through in 30 hours, savored in 90. But to check it out early, I only had one. One can assess the potential of a game you have just an hour to see…
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