Forget The Candy Crush Clones, This Match Game Is Like No Other

With a glut of Candy Crush Saga clones flooding iTunes, it was beginning to look like there was no more room in the match puzzle genre for innovation. Then came ZEZ, rocket-punching that idea in the head. Every 60 second round of ZEZ begins with a cat punching a robot with a rocket glove. In…

Cliff Bleszinski, the creator of Gears of War, has some things to say about the sale of the series to Microsoft. No, he’s not coming back to work on it. Will it ever go to PlayStation, though? “Safe to say that’s not likely to happen.”

Even Angry Birds Can Spy On You, According To NSA Leak

Your phone, your e-mail, your Skype calls… just about everything you use is leaking information these days. Including Angry Birds, according to a new report by ProPublica andThe New York Times This info comes from a close look at the much-discussed Edward Snowden documents, which reportedly reveal that spy agencies are snagging all sorts of…

Xbox LIVE and Xbox One Discounts, Liberation, Revengeance [Deals]

If you’re going to pick up a One anytime soon, you may as well save 20 bucks. Newegg’s eBay storefront has the new console for $480- one of the first deals available on Microsoft’s latest. You can also pick up the One bundled with 12 months of Gold at Best Buy for $520, or pick…

About anonymous sources and Kotaku… Two stories on Kotaku last week triggered some reader questions about how we use anonymous sources, how reliable they are, what it means when you see an anonymously-sourced story on Kotaku and, frankly, whether we’re practicing what we’re preaching. I’d like to address that here. As both editor-in-chief of Kotaku…

I Can’t Dance. But These Video Games Make Me Feel Like I Can.

OlliOlli joins the rare rank of video games that make me feel like I have any kind of rhythm at all. Dancing is in my genes. My twin brother used to sneak out to clubs in the 1990s to get his dance on. My sister does capoeira—the Brazilian martial art based on dance moves— nowadays…

Broncos Win The Super Bowl, According To Madden

Degenerate gamblers, Madden NFL 25 says you should get your money down on the Broncos. The game predicts two Super Bowl firsts: snow, and overtime—and a 31-28 victory for Denver. Snow at Super Bowl XLVIII, played on Sunday in New Jersey, seems to be forced by the game’s career modes. In Madden NFL 25 I…

League of Legends Has 27 Million Daily Players, Riot Says

Today in the department of Holy Shit That’s A Lot Of People, Riot Games brings us news that League of Legends now has 27 million daily players. 27 million. Twenty-seven million. Every single day. If League of Legends were a country, it would be the 45th-biggest in the world (out of 244). League of Legends…

Candy Crush Makers: We Should Never Have Published ‘Cloned’ Game

The makers of Candy Crush Saga have issued a lengthy defense of their actions, with regard to a couple of notorious trademark applications and allegations it deliberately cloned a game whose makers reached a deal with another publisher. “Our policy is to protect our IP and also respect the IP of others,” writes Riccardo Zacconi,…

Infamous: Second Son has a new trailer. It’s a look at how Seattle was developed and rendered in the PS4 game, due for release on March 21.

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You Can Now Vote On Which Indie Games Square Enix Will Support

The first part of Square Enix’s new indie Collective program is live today, and you can already start voting on the games you’d like brought to life. You can check out the website right here. There are three games in the first batch: an adventure game called Moon Hunters (Kitfox Games), an action-RPG called World…

Epic Says They’re Still Making Video Games

With the sale this morning of its iconic Gears of War franchise, Epic Games felt compelled to say it still is in the business of making video games, not just the technology that drives them. “For people saying Epic isn’t making games anymore, we currently have multiple games in development, including [Fortnite],” Wes Phillips, an…

Microsoft Snags Gears of War

It looks like Gears of War isn’t going to the PlayStation any time soon. Microsoft said this morning it had bought the series from Epic Games, assuring that the only console Gears will call home will continue to be Xbox. Development of the series will continue at Black Tusk Studios of Vancouver, B.C. Additionally, Rod…

Gamers Walk Over a Thousand Miles with Their Online Friends’ Help

The year of the Snake is winding down and the year of the Horse is dawning upon us. In China, this means the beginning of the annual “Spring Festival Rush” known as “Chun Yun,” where millions upon millions of Chinese travel home to celebrate the lunar new year with their families. While the rest of…

Video Asks: What Makes Star Fox So Brilliant?

It’s all about adventure—specifically, about a game’s ability to put players in an adventure, making them feel like they’re influencing a whole fictional world with their actions. Which is something that wasn’t particularly common in shoot-em-ups from the early nineties In his newest video, Really Freakin’ Clever argues that Star Fox for the SNES achieves…