This Week In The Business: That’s One Ugly Baby

QUOTE | “Everyone loves their baby, right? And you often have to tell them it’s kind of an ugly baby.” – Execution Labs’ Jason Della Rocca, talking about what it’s like to be evaluating games trying to be part of his company’s incubator program Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week ……

Christmas Comes Early To LEGO Land With Santa’s Workshop

With a mere one-third of the year remaining until Christmas, it’s time for all of the good LEGO-loving boys and girls to find out which Winter Village set Santa’s leaving under the tree this holiday season. We’re getting the full Santa’s Workshop, baby. Enough beating around the snow-covered bushes with vague scenes of holiday cheer…

Capcom Says They’re Fixing Ultra Street Fighter IV‘s PC Multiplayer

Widespread multiplayer connectivity issues in the Steam versions of Super andUltra Street Fighter IV have had players fuming for weeks, but apparently Capcom is working on a big fix—contrary to popular belief. First, a brief history lesson: recently Super Street Fighter IV, a relative elder statesman of the fighting game world, underwent some pretty major…

Your PC Must Be This Advanced To Run Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare [UPDATE}

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the first “pure next-gen” entry in the endlessly popular shooter series, but what does that mean for PC gamers? In short: nothing. Nothing whatsoever. UPDATE: Activision says these are the wrong specs. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare‘s specs are the same as Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ on PC. Exactly…

GTA Online Mods Let People “Rape” Other Players

Grand Theft Auto mods have the power to do really cool unintended things—like let players ride a UFO, or submerse the entire game underwater. They also have the power to make things rather unpleasant for other players. This NSFW post contains content that some readers may find uncomfortable. According to online reportsand forums, modders have…

Never Have Battlefield 4 Jet Skis Flown With Such Grace

People have been making jet skis rocket through the air in Battlefield 4 since the dawn of time, but this… this is just beautiful. Cinematic stunting, they call it. It’s strangely soothing to me, watching jet skis explode—metal screaming in agony as fire consumes all—while a camera pans languidly around. It doesn’t need to be…

Track: Numbers On The Boards | Artist: Pusha T | Album: My Name Is My Name Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

‘Gaming Is A Disease’

Got this message from my friend Jeremy this week. He’s a music critic at Pitchfork. But as you can tell from our text-versations, he cares a lot about games too: …maybe a little bit too much, now that I think about it…

One Backpack, Two Super Mario Levels

When you play video games as an adult, you have a lot of moments when you find yourself wishing you could be a kid again. Like this morning, when I came across a reversible Super Mario-themed backpack I would have worn until the straps fell off and my teacher asked me: “Shouldn’t you have graduated…

Total Cost of Publishing One Indie Game Last week Sixty Second Shooter developer Jamie Fristrom released the total cost for publishing on the Xbox One at $5,143. That figure may be daunting to some, but it’s also close to the absolute minimum to publish on a console. I spoke with Tyrone Rodriguez, a developer working…