The Worst In Video Game Marketing

Before we ever get to play most video games, we see ads for them. Usually they’ll get us excited about the next chapter in a favorite franchise, or even a brand new one. But sometimes they take things too far. We’ve seen loads of ads that are meaningless or, worse, in bad taste. Ill-advised. Offensive,…

Your Chances of Winning a Hearthstone Match if You Go First Who goes first in turn-based games has always been a point of contention, but Ars Technica crunched the numbers for professional Hearthstone matches. Their full analysis is pretty interesting overall, but they found that the first player won 110 out of 219 recorded matches.…

It’s Raining Cars, Hallelujah

Road Redemption, the Kickstarted spiritual successor to damn near legendary motorcycle racer Road Rash, has a mode where cars just continuously rain from the sky while you’re driving. Seriously. Truth be told, I’d sort of been steering clear of this one after its first footage looked a bit bland and uninspired, but this is the…

How EA Access Will Work, According To EA

Last week, Electronic Arts announced a new online gaming service called EA Access for the Xbox One. It sounded like a promising deal to many gamers: a Netflix-style subscription service that would give people access to a library of EA games for $5 a month, or $30 a year. But many important questions remained unanswered.…

Deals: Humble Heads to Japan, Xillia 2 Collector’s Edition, Destiny LE

Humble visits Japan in this week’s Weekly with Ys, Pixeljunk Shooter, and more. [ Humble Weekly Bundle Japan Edition] Tales of Xillia 2’s Collector’s Edition, which features plushies and watches and figures and DLC, is back in stock and up for preorder. [Xillia 2 CE] Sleeping Dogs, a great example of what open world games…

The 2013 Survey That Foretold The Future Of Assassin’s Creed

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…

‘CREATIVE BRUTALITY’

From Dying Light’s new trailer: This is right up there with “strategic dismemberment” as one of the most wonderfully obscene phrases in video game marketing.

Bayonetta 2 Is Looking Good, Adds Surfing

Familiarity is underrated in video games. Sometimes, I don’t want anything new or crazy. Sometimes, I just want to play Bayonetta again since the original game was already awesome. Thankfully, it looks like that’s what Bayonetta 2 is shaping up to be…plus some added surfing levels, which are always are a good thing, in my…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Q&tAy: TwinSky Games’ Adventure Time: Time Tangle • Ruminations of a Sci-Fi Lover • MainProtagonist’s 10 Favorite Anime Openings Ever. Of All Time. TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Turns out those rumors were partially true: a revamped version of Sleeping Dogs is coming to next-gen consoles and PC this October, Square Enix just confirmed. It’s called Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, and here are a few key details that the publisher clarified from the various rumors that have been swirling around: It includes all…

Some Dark Souls II Players Can Be Fooled Easily

Dressing up and taking an enemy’s place Dark Souls II‘s multiplayer is a fun thing to do to mess around with invaders. Some players perfected it, and some, like Zombieheadz, pushed it even further. What if he tries to hide as an NPC, but at the wrong place and in the wrong costume? He dressed…