Stephen Totilo

PayPal is causing crowdfunded game developers all kinds of woes, Giant Bomb‘s Patrick Klepek reports. Read the whole story. An excerpt: “I had pulled out like $700,000 and dumped it into our bank,” said Lab Zero founder Peter Bartholow. “I get a call from a [PayPal] guy who’s like ‘yeah, I can’t believe they let…

Why Rockstar Released GTA V For Current-Gen Consoles

Can’t do this with a next gen-only game in 2013 (probably not in 2014, either), because there just won’t be enough next-gen consoles out there for quite some time… Grand Theft Auto V® Worldwide Sales Surpass $1 Billion In First Three Days Fastest entertainment property in history to reach significant milestone* NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sep. 20,…

Most confusing Infinity Blade III user review. But, hey, we think the new iOS game’s pretty good!

Gran Turismo Creator Crashed His First Car At 24, Now Dreams of Peace

The man who makes the most popular racing game series of the past 15 years fell in love with cars at age three. At 24, he crashed the first car he ever had. He was driving perhaps a bit too fast that day. These days, he’s wrapping up development of December’s Gran Turismo 6 and…

Grand Theft Auto V and Women

If you’re driving north, up the west coast of Grand Theft Auto V, as I did in the 40th hour I was playing the game, you might spot a crashed car smoldering in the long ditch between the northbound and southbound lanes. The car doesn’t appear there every time. The man who was in the…

Angry Birds Gloms Some Of Today’s GTA Hype With One Terrific Drawing

This was tweeted today by the people behind Angry Birds. Their new game comes out on Thursday. The Tweet followed an attempt by the folks behind Saints Row to bottle some of today’s GTA V buzz for themselves. And here’s a new promo for Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs, the new contender in the open-world genre that…

Tips for Playing GTA V

Grand Theft Auto V is a very good game. It’s also really large and complex. Tons of things to do. Many sights to see. Lots of options. Think of it as a vacation. Can we give you some advice? Here are some tips for getting the most of out of GTA V. No spoilers, just…

Gran Turismo Fans’ Best Ideas For New Tracks

Readers of our car-crazy sister site Jalopnik have answered the call and hand-crafted some tracks that they’d love to see in a future Gran Turismo. Take a look. Full-disclosure, Jalopnik ran the contest to help promote their upcoming film festival, which is presented by Gran Turismo 6. Still, cool tracks!

Speeding Coast To Coast Through GTA V Takes About Six Minutes

Grand Theft Auto V is very large. But after the game’s map leaked last week, I noticed some people speculating that, no, it’s not that big. How about if we hop in a car and drive from end to end? Up top, you can see a drive from the southern tip of the game’s massive…

Grand Theft Auto V: The Kotaku Review

Rockstar Games has scaled a mountain with Grand Theft Auto V, creating the best-looking, best-sounding and, most importantly, best-playing version of gaming’s most notorious franchise. Scaling one peak, however, reveals another—their cloud-piercing ambition to create a great ensemble video game drama, an epic of intersecting, interactive lives. Rockstar doesn’t summit that new peak as impressively…

Our Grand Theft Auto V review will run on Monday at 10am ET. Sorry, we can’t tell you more about the game right now, but the review, as they say, is in progress. GTA V will be released the following day, on September 17, for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Next-Gen Can Wait. Feast Your Eyes On Today’s Gorgeous PS3 Exclusive

Kotaku video-capture artist Steve Marinconz and I are worried. We’re worried that people don’t know about Puppeteer. Have you heard of it? It’s beautiful, fun, made by Sony’s Japan Studio, full of fresh ideas and it’s out today(!). How about if we showed you some of it? Check out 17 minutes of us playing the…

Yikes! Sales Chart Predicts Gaming Doom For Sony And Nintendo.

Hi, gamers! Were you having a good day today? If so, I apologize for bumming you out, but here’s a chart from a statistical analysis of the sales of Nintendo and Sony console and hardware sales. The chart is one of a batch crafted by Asymco researcher and former Nokia analyst Horace Dediu, who, sadly,…

We live in a world where the newest Nintendo 3DS doesn’t have 3D and one of the newest PlayStation Vitas doesn’t have any screen at all (other than your TV). What could possibly be next? Just asking…

Nintendo’s Official Wii U Facebook Page Gets A Weird Name Change

Here’s an odd e-mail that those of us who “like” Nintendo’s official Wii U Facebook page received today. Are you thinking what I first thought when I got that? They couldn’t be thinking about…they wouldn’t change the name… no way, right? Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku just a couple of weeks ago…

Leaked Image Listing Two More Assassin’s Creeds, EndWar Return Is Real

The leaked image above, featuring game titles for a slew of upcoming download-only Ubisoft games, is real. All of these games are coming, including an HD version of last year’s Vita game Assassin’s Creed: Liberation and a new editions of Ubi’s Rayman and EndWar series. Plus: Assassin’s Creed: Pirates, not to be confused with this…

The Truth Is Last Year’s Games Had Problems. This Year’s Are…Better?

Usually, if someone wants to convince you that the video game they’re making is going to be great, they tell you what they’re putting in it. But what if they made nearly the same game a year ago? They have to take a different approach. This is the plight of the people who make big-time…

Welcome To The Pro StarCraft II Scene

Heard about eSports and not sure what the fuss is? The people at Red Bull have recruited pro gamer Walshy to give us all a primer on competitive StarCraft II. Hey, it helps! This is just the first episode of Red Bull’s first season of a show they’re calling “This is eSports.” For some gamers,…

Canadian Pikmin Stunt Looks Like a Nintendo Fever Dream Come To Life

Nintendo’s Canadian branch recently outfitted some people in Pikmin garb and jumped a pink Pikmin vehicle off a ramp, at the risk of giving children and adults nightmares. Surely I’m not the only one who feels like I’m having a fever dream while watching this? Or is this how the world looks if you do…

The “invasion” levels that are missing from the Vita version of Rayman Legends will be”added via a free patch, at a later date” the company decided to reveal on its official blog today rather than, say, on the back of the Vita game’s box or in ads for the game.