I've been getting slightly, every so slightly, addicted to Dungeon Overlord.
It's a kinda fun, kinda interesting Facebook game that has enormous potential, which I worry won't be realized.
Uncharted 3 Has a Hard Target. Your Heart.
Nathan Drake is a klutz. That's why we care what happens to him. Back when Naughty Dog was first developing Uncharted they knew they wanted a character-driven game. More »
Ms. Splosion Man Creator Dreams of Miyamoto. Disturbing, Personal Dreams.
In Josh Bear's happy dream, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario, was sitting on a toilet. "I don't dream of hot girls," Bear told me as he recalled the dream last week at Game Developer's Conference, "I dream of Miyamoto taking a dump." In the dream, as Bear tells it, Miyamoto... More »
Why The Best Games Are Made By The Smallest Development Teams
Commenter Crusader1025 ponders why some of the best games are created by development teams that barely qualify as teams in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. Half Life was made by 2 people. More »
If Uncharted 3 Doesn't Make Me Want 3D Gaming, What Will?
Nathan Drake is surrounded by flame, it pops and sputters, licking out of the television toward me. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception should be the winning argument for gaming in 3D. More »
The Girl At The Video Game Store Might Be There To Rob It
Just because she's a female shopping by herself in at a major video game retailer doesn't mean she's shopping for her boyfriend. This is the 21st century. More »
A Reality In Which I'm a Terrorist
In a slightly different reality Japan is a vassal state to the Greater Republic of Korea, much of the United States has become the New Korean Federation of Occupied America and I'm the shadowy figurehead of a seditious and violent anti-Korean movement. This isn't the fiction of the Homefront video... More »
Can Video Games Keep Your Children Physically Fit?
Can exergaming really take the place of going for a brisk walk or doing a few laps in the pool? A study out of Brigham Young University finds that certain video games do count as legitimate exercise for kids More »
The Many Ways To Kill In The Darkness II
The Darkness II is a grisly video game. The bad guys nail the lead character's hands to a board. The good guy spikes people in the head with parking meters. More »
Blizzard's Next MMO Is ‘A Total Ball To Play', Follows Diablo III
There's this guy who says that Blizzard's next massively multiplayer game is "a total ball to play." He says the game, code-named Titan, is "the type of game that will have a very long life, much like World of Warcraft has." This guy is biased. More »
Shadows of the Damned Is A Kick To The Nuts Of Convention
It may be hard to take Shadows of the Damned's journey into the depths of Hell too seriously, when you have a disembodied ex-demon skull named Johnson-who can transform into a weapon dubbed the Boner-as your sidekick. More »
Tiger Blood Energy Potion Brings Out The Raving Lunatic Actor In You
Watching a celebrity dissolve before your very eyes is entertaining, but Charlie Sheen's reign as everybody's favorite frothing-at-the-mouth WINNER can only last so long. More »
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