Over at our terrific reader-run version of Kotaku, the wacky Asura’s Wrath gets a lot of love, an Xbox fan explains why they’ve cancelled their Xbox One pre-order, and one brave reader boldly tries food from New York City street vendors. Read all of that… or just go answer their Question of the Day
The experts at the major fighting game site EventHubs have crunched some numbers to figure out which characters their thousands of users prefer in major fighting games. Top-played Super Street Fighter IV character? Ryu. Any guesses on the top Super Smash Bros. Melee one? This guy: (On the other hand, Ike is tops for Brawl.)…
The creators of Grand Theft Auto have been lampooning the stupider parts of American society for years. With a new GTA around the corner, they’re taking some new shots at the worst aspects of American political tribalism. Above, a campaign video for the conservative would-be governor of GTA’s version of California. Below, the campaign video…
There were tons of personnel changes at Zynga, announced today by ex-Xbox boss and new Zynga boss Don Mattrick. The CTO, COO and Chief People Officer are out. Read through the changes and your head may spin. Big changes continue at the house of FarmVille
If you’re a powerful person at Microsoft, you may already have an Xbox One in your home. Such are the perks. What’s that like? Two of them talk about it. Of course they’re only saying nice things, but this is the best we have for now… These new (first?) impressions of home Xbox One ownership…
Indie dev Derek Yu saw one of his games praised and one criticized in a recent feminist critique of video games. Out of that emerged arefreshingly calm and open-minded exchange between developer and critic on Twitter. It’s well worth a read.
Reader Brady Goldsmith drew this rather grisly take on The Legend of Zelda. He writes: “This is my attempt at a realistic approach to Link—bloody, raw, gritty.” See more of his art at his Deviant Art page If you prefer a happier Link, there’s an upcoming Zelda game for you…
For more than two years, 105 people at Microsoft have been trying to improve the video game controller. The results go on sale this fall in the form of the Xbox One’s gamepad. The new controller sports changes big and small—but, thankfully, it won’t emit smells. Yes, they actually tried that. At a glance, the…
The ever-quotable David Goldfarb used to write poetry and now makes shooter games. For a long time, those shooters had the world Battlefield in the title. These days, he’s the game director for this week’s co-op bank-robbery shooter Payday 2. He’s got four answers for us…and one question for you. 1. There are a lot…
It’s not just the giant robot. It’s the old warplanes. It’s the rain. It’s the Weird War Tales-style oddness of it all. This is a real Call of Duty scene from an upcoming zombies-mode addition to Call of Duty: Black Ops II. But it’s just that. I’d go for a full game. Find out more…
God of War II game director and infrequent Twitter user Cory Barlog is back at Sony Santa Monica, according to a Tweet from the southern California PlayStation studio. Barlog had left Sony following the release of that PS2 game. We’re checking with PlayStation to see if he’s back on God of War. UPDATE: In an…
Here’s a little something to make you smile. It’s a video from 1993 featuring YouTube user Firesghts, proud winner, back in the day, of the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run. The Toy Run was a contest that the kid-oriented TV channel would run, giving one lucky winner a chance to run through a toy store grabbing…
The absurd string of major games on the once-sleepy 3DS continues next month, at least in Japan, where they’re getting the mammoth Monster Hunter 4 on September 14. A new trailer for the game came out today. Watch it above. Here in America, Monster Hunter‘s a niche thing. Those who are into it love it,…
Go to YouTube. Click on any video. Type: 1980. Voila! You’ll be playing Missile Command, protecting the video you’re watching from attack. …unless you’re using Chrome. Then it just doesn’t seem to work. It works in Safari and Firefox. UPDATE: ,,, and it also works in Chrome, after all. (It hadn’t been for some of…
We know that the PS4 will have a Share button that will enable PS4 gamers to capture, upload and share clips of their best gaming moments. But what if there wasn’t a Share button? What if there was a “Make GIF” button instead? The best thing ever? The worst? Just brainstorming the future of video…
Precinct, the unofficial successor to the classic adventure game series Police Quest, won’t be coming back through Kickstarter. But the project, which is led by Police Quest creator Jim Walls, will live on. The president of Walls’ development studio, Robert Lindsley, blamed gamer anxiety about Kickstarter: “Like other recent high-profile Kickstarters, we quickly saw that…
Watch this video from Nintendo Europe and you will see that, for 160 seconds or so, the Wii U suddenly seems like a burgeoning indie gaming paradise. What is happening here? Technically, you’re seeing Nintendo of Europe boss Satoru Shibata hype a bunch of download-only eShop Wii U games from European and Australian developers. (Hey,…
Apologies for being a bit Slowtaku on this one, but the good third-person-Battlefield-with-swords PC game War of the Roses is getting a sequel: War of the Vikings. Announced yesterday. Full details at the official site.
Legendary game programmer and Doom co-creator John Carmack is getting a new “full-time” job. He’s going to be working as the head of technology at Oculus VR, the company behind the upstart Rift virtual reality goggles. Is this the end of an era? Possibly, though the situation is a bit confusing. The word from the…
Pikmin 3 is good at many things. But it’s not so good at explaining the best parts of its control scheme or even how to have the most fun with Nintendo’s new game. Thank goodness we’re here to provide you some tips… Use The Wii Remote, Nunchuk and GamePad You can control Pikmin 3 purely…
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