The Next Rainbow Six Game “Wasn’t Working”, So It’s Been Remade

In case you couldn’t tell between the departuresand delays, Ubisoft’s next Rainbow Six game has been in the development doghouse for years now. Something Ubisoft is only just getting around to publicly acknowledging. During an interview with IGN, Ubisoft’s Laurent Detoc has admitted that the game as first planned “wasn’t working”, and that the team…

PlayStation U.S. Boss Says He Gave Up His PS4 So Someone Could Buy One

When PlayStation’s U.S. chief says Sony isn’t rigging an artificial PS4 shortage, I give him the benefit of the doubt. When he says 12,000 PS4s sold out in half an hour on Amazon, that’s not an incredible thing to say. When he says he has no PS4 yet, telling the company to sell it instead,…

Tea Party Facebook Group Posts BioShock Image Satirizing Tea Party

The National Liberty Foundation is a Florida-based group of radical conservatives associated with the right-wing group that calls themselves the Tea Party. They use their Facebook to post lots of right-wing meme images and racist links Yesterday, they posted the above image, which looks a whole lot like an anti-immigrant cartoon. Well, it is an…

Four Have Reached Level 100 on PlayStation Network

Hakoom, one of the more prolific and visible trophy hunters in the PlayStation Network, just broke through to level 100—a rank that requires a user to win some 30,000 trophies. Three others have also breached the 99 barrier, thought to be the limit when PSN instituted trophy support back in mid-2008. Hakoom gets the publicity…

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 are being removed from Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network stores—both their digital versions and their DLC. Tuesday is the last day PSN subscribers in North America can get DLC for the game; Thursday is the last day in Europe. Dec. 26 is the deadline,…

The Week in Games: The Walking Dead Begins a New Season

Retail console releases may be done for this year but there still are marquee names waiting for their closeup as we finish off 2013. Chief among them is the next season of The Walking Dead, which arrives Tuesday along with Terraria on the PS Vita. Here’s the week in games. Tuesday, Dec. 17 The Walking…

Here’s Stan Bush Rebooting His Iconic Transformers Anthem, ‘The Touch’

Fahey wasn’t too fond of the remixed “The Touch” thatplayed during the credits for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron last year, the credits only offered an excerpt. Today, Stan Bush released the entire thing. Does the additional context make it better? I’m kinda still with Fahey on this. Bush’s title track from the 1986 film is…

3DS XL Back Down To $150 Black Friday Pricing

Target has the 3DS XL in 4 different colors for $150. You can grab the Limited Edition Mario and Luigi 3DS XL for the same price, but that one is in-store only. [Target] This post is brought to you by the Commerce Team, a dedicated group of deal hunters and product enthusiasts. We operate independently…

Steam Machine Beta User Trying to Find All 300 of His Lucky Brethren

Just 300 people in the U.S. were selected to participate in the Steam Machines beta, which shipped boxes to folks beginning on Friday. They know which number they are in the beta by looking at the row of 300 ventilation holes on the top of the unit and finding the position of the single countersunk…

Sunday Comics: World of Spycraft

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics in video gaming. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published Dec. 11. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Picture Worth $735: The Winners

Our subject this week was the guy who bought a picture of an Xbox One off eBay for $735, and it will close out 2013 as one of the year’s most-entered ‘Shop Contests. I waived the usual 20-finalist limit just to get all the good ones in—and there are 37, including overall No. 1 Docherty…

Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features

Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…

EA Sports UFC Offers the First Glimpses Inside the Game

Fight Night: Round Three was a no-doubt-about-it success when it arrived a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360. With the’ Fight Night team in charge, many are looking to EA Sports UFC to deliver the same impact for the new console generation this spring. The studio released the first two in-game screenshots…

The first season of Niantic Labs’ ambitious augmented reality game Ingress draws to a close today with competing events in San Francisco and Buenos Aires. If you’re not in those cities, you can watch a livestream (4:00pm ET-8:30pm ET) at the official Ingress page Ingress comes out of beta today, so anyone can start playing…