Wikipedia would tell you that GamerGate is something to do with ants. Wikipedia, this week, is wrong. GamerGate, the latest name for an ongoing saga in and around the gaming community, is about a bunch of other things. Let’s discuss, shall we? The current drama goes back, however directly or indirectly, to an ex-boyfriend and…
Comic book recommendation: You can set your expectations low for many toy tie-in comics but Tom Scioli and John Barber’s Transformers vs. G.I. Joe ongoing comic series from IDW is shockingly impressive. The writing is wonderfully arch, but the main draw is the paradoxically sophisticated-yet-primitive style of Scioli. Take a look: Or, better, justgo to…
Game recommendation…. The Nightmare Cooperative is a stylish, simple-to-control, difficult game that has you moving up to four heroes in unison through randomized dungeons, collecting loot, fighting monsters, dying plenty. Five minutes of video impressions for you below… You can get the game on Steam (PC/Mac/Linux) for $6 but I recommend going for the mobile…
Argghhhh. I want to be able to transfer my Diablo III save from Xbox One to PS4 and back but can’t. So frustrating, given all the other transfers Blizzard allows.
With the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. just two weeks out from its release in Japan, Nintendo is holding little back. Today, they’ve tossed up five minutes of mostly in-game footage for us to look at. If you have any nostalgia for Nintendo, you’ll enjoy this. The extended trailer is all in Japanese, but…
Gone Home to Wii U? At around 6:55 of this video, Nintendo of America’s Damon Baker says that last year’scritically-acclaimed first-person adventure is coming to Nintendo’s console. We knew it was coming to some consoles. No confirmation yet from publisher Midnight City. We’ll keep you posted.
Surprise! The people who made Rock Band are making a musical side-scrolling shmup. It’s called A City Sleeps and will be out on PC and Mac in October. Lots of details on its Steam page and at IGN
The above video will not help you in real, three-dimensional life. But it should help you understand how you’d be able to move if you could sidestep your way into a fourth spatial dimension—sort of like what might happen if a character in a 2D cartoon leapt into our 3D world. This fourth-dimension stuff will…
Our Numbers blog is usually about the stats of gaming. Today, however, here’s something more personal…
A brief note about the continued discussion about Kotaku‘s approach to reporting. We’ve long been wary of the potential undue influence of corporate gaming on games reporting, and we’ve taken many actions to guard against it. The last week has been, if nothing else, a good warning to all of us about the pitfalls of…
In recent days I’ve been asked several times about a possible breach of ethics involving one of our reporters. While I believe no such breach occurred, I feel it is important for Kotaku readers who have questions to get clear answers. The questions involve Nathan Grayson, who began writing for us part-time in March and…
How many people are banned on Steam for cheating? What are your odds of being an eSports athlete? What are your chances of winning in Hearthstone if you go first? How many seconds can you survive in space without a spacesuit? Our newest Kotaku blog, numbers.kotaku.com, has the numerical answers. Kotaku number-cruncher Dan Starkey will…
Our parent company, Gawker Media, is taking several actions to deal with the troll attacks on our comments sections. Please read through this post, which is from our sister site Jezebel and explains what’s happened and what happens next. Notably, we will be bringing back the concept of “pending” comments, primarily for new readers. We…
A note to all readers: We are disabling image uploads on all replies as a short-term way to deal with a troll’s decision to attack all Gawker Media sites by posting offensive or NSFW GIFs in our comments sections. We are manually deleting images that got through. If you see any we missed, email [email protected].…
You might think it’s cool that you can dress Lara Croft and her next game’s three co-stars as if they were actually starring in a Hitman game. You might think it’s cool that you can dress them up as if they were in a Deus Ex game. Well, bad news. On December 9, the day…
Late last year, Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft sent a survey to me and other players of their long-running top franchise. They were asking for our reactions to Assassin’s Creed IV and oh, uh, just wondering what we might want to see in future games. Well. They weren’t really just wondering. I wrote about the survey…
Hey, that’s a pretty cool ex-pro wrestler and a YouTuber that I like. I never expected to see them hanging out together. DDP, who has been promoting his yoga routine and trying to make people’s lives better, visited Boogie for good reasons. The full interview below explains what was up. Very cool.
Xbox One launch game Ryse is coming to PC this fall, according to the folks behind the game, though not via the game’s original publisher Microsoft. There’s a little bit of a curious pattern developing here with Xbox One launch titles. A third-person action game set in ancient Rome, Ryse was developed by Crytek and…
Streak about to be broken? Nintendo has released a new handheld—or iteration of an existing handheld—in North America in each of the past five years. Nothing announced for this fall, which means 2014 might break the streak. Unless… anyone want a 2DS XL to be announced by December? A 3D XL Lite? Game Boy 2?…
Yes, it’s named after the Robert Frost poem. No, it’s not clear why. The lovely new game from development studio Spry Fox is full of mysteries, most of them with gameplay consequences. It’s basically a game about a person who lives in a village, makes friends and then heads out into the wilderness year after…
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