Big Layoffs At Thief Developer Eidos Montreal

UPDATE (4:15pm): Thief developer Eidos Montreal laid off 27 employees today. Here’s the full statement from their parent company, Square Enix: Yes it is true we’ve let 27 people go today, unfortunately it’s something that every major studio has to do sometimes in order to ensure you have the right set up for current and…

The Nerdiest Video Game Ever Made? Almost.

Calculords for iOS is incredibly nerdy — and wonderfully so. It’s a lane-based strategy game. It’s a collectible card game. It makes the player actively participate in math. There are few ways it could be nerdier — I have compiled a list. For one, it could be crafted by the deft hands of Sean “Seanbaby”…

New Humble Bundle, GTAV, Wii U, Sonic’s Back Catalog [Deals]

Humble Mobile Bundle 4 is here and features 6 Android games including Catan and Badland. Dig in. It’s a [slightly less] good day to buy a Wii U. Wii U Deluxe with Super Mario U and Super Luigi U | $260 Wii U Basic with Skylanders Swap Force | $210 If you or someone you…

One Of South Park: The Stick of Truth‘s Greatest Surprises

South Park: The Stick of Truth is full of hilarious surprises, but there’s one that really stood out to me: Canada, the most delightful section in the game. If you plan on playing Stick of Truth, you might want to wait until you see this in game, because the surprise is wonderful. But if you’re…

Maybe the hot, sweaty memories of Titanfall beta have evaporated from your brain and you’re trying to remember what it all felt like. Watch this gameplay trailer to whet your appetite for Respawn’s wall-run/jetpack/giant mech extravaganza.

What If Cthulhu Was Also Secretly Raising A Family?

Octodad is an octopus in a suit, and he pretended to be a human dad just fine. Cthulhu has an octopus-like head, so why couldn’t he get away with it too? Cthulhudad [YouTube]

It’s Finally Time To Take Down Guild Wars 2‘s Most Notorious Villain

This is Scarlet Briar, posing here next to her massive drill ship, currently tearing a gigantic hole in the harbor outside of one of Guild Wars 2‘s most important cities. Somebody should probably put a stop to that. This is it, Guild Wars fans. For months and months, ArenaNet’s major living world storyline has kicked…

Here’s The First Trailer For Batman: Arkham Knight

Via the PlayStation Blog, here’s the first trailer for the newly-announced Batman: Arkham Knight, to be released later this year for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. Driveable Batmobile!

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Diablo 3 – The Power of Patching• Dr. Wily; Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved Mega Man • Dark Souls: The Smell and the Mystery TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Project Spark goes into beta today and a select group of folks can start using their Xbox Ones to make games. The creation suite has already been in beta on PC for Windows 8.1 users, letting do things like recreate Minecraft inside Project Spark. If you’re already in the Windows beta, you’ll also get access…

HBO Go finally hits PS3 today! Wonderful news for those of us who want to watch HBO on a console without shelling out for Xbox Live Gold. Let the True Detective marathons begin.

Peggle 2 launches on Xbox 360 on May 7, Popcap said this morning. This version of the game will add a multiplayer Duel Mode.

If Twitch Played League of Legends

Would it be a complete disaster if hundreds or thousands of Twitch.tv users controlled a single champion in a League of Legends, similarly to ‘Twitch plays Pokémon‘? YouTuber shocknickfilms’ parody shows us that yes, it would be pretty catastrophic. And how do you control the mouse? You can always type “LEFT CLICK” or “RIGHT CLICK”…

The Unlikely Future Of Ordering At Pizza Hut

The first thing this concept video for a fully interactive tabletop Pizza Hut touch ordering system gets wrong is imagining a future where people still dine in at Pizza Hut. I have not sat down at a Pizza Hut in more than a decade, back when I worked out of an office in Alpharetta, Georgia,…