‘Redbox Robber’ Looted Kiosks for Two Years Before Being Caught

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He’s in the Empire Business PHOENIX—It took a combined…

Borderlands 2 is giving away $100,000—$50K of which is prizes, $50K of which is a single cash grand prize. U.S. only because laws. Claptrap has the details in this trailer, there’s more on this page. Contest begins on Friday.

The Week in Games: Two Souls, Two Pokémons

This week’s big news is Beyond: Two Souls, the PS3 exclusive from Quantic Dream, on Tuesday, and Pokémon X and Pokémon Yon Saturday. Not interested in those? Some collections and GOTY editions—including Farming Simulator 2013 Titanium Edition!—round out the releases. Monday • Sparkling Amber (PC) Tuesday • Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition (360,…

The devil’s in even more details from Grand Theft Auto V: Last week, YouTube’s GermanScientistTV provided his first look at little things like rumble strips and flip flops in GTA V. But have you also noticed details like your mobile phone screen saying “Connected” once the call is answered?

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Meat Puppets

Government shutdown? Too political. Pokémon tombstone? Too sad, and even I am not that tasteless. Time to go to the Dayshot archive for this week’s exploitable. In this case, a big Mega Man made of tasty ground beef. That’s the work of Epic Grinds, whom we featured on Friday morning, along with a bunch of…

PlayStation 4 Controller is PC-Compatible ‘for Basic Functions’

The PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller will be compatible with PCs for “basic functions” without a driver, PlayStation’s president of worldwide studios said over Twitter. While “basic functions” weren’t further defined, that’s still better than the DualShock 3, which needs a whole lot of work to perform any functions. Shuhei Yoshida tweeted the news yesterday…

Sunday Comics: Extreme Makeover

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The comics enlarge by clicking on the icon in the upper-left corner. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published Oct. 2. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Sept. 30. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins…

20-Minute Titanfall Presentation Shows Off Xbox One’s Sleekest Game

There might not be any new footage in this recent presentation of Respawn’s Titanfall, but it’s a fun video nonetheless—20 minutes of concept art, gameplay, and discussion about the upcoming shooter, presented by Respawn community manager Abbie Heppe at the EB Games Expo in Australia this weekend. Titanfall, slated for release on Xbox One, Xbox…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: No-Stick: The Winners

Everything was fine with our ‘Shop Contest until the power grid was shut off by stickless here. Valve’s oddball controller flooded us with so many great ‘Shops that I waived the 20-finalist cap and just threw in everything that looked hilarious—along with overall No. 1 Snake56! One note, you may be wondering what’s so funny…

Rocksmith 2014 Edition will have a color-blind mode. If it adds a Talent-Blind mode, I’ll be able to play guitar.

Why Grand Theft Auto V Had Me Begging for Unforgiveness

Like many of the millions of Americans who got Grand Theft Auto V on or soon after its Sept. 17 release, I spent much of that first weekend in Los Santos, the game’s fictional mega-metropolis. Having bought, binged on, and beaten the game, I can mouth my own oohs and ahs. It’s bigger and better-looking…

Looks like that Half-Life 3 trademark filing that got everyone’s dander up earlier this week was bogus.It’s been removed from the Web site for the European Union’s trademarks office.

SNK Orders NeoGeo X Maker to End Production and Stop Selling It

The NeoGeo X, the handheld NeoGeo platform, is no more. SNK Playmore, the owner of the NeoGeo hardware, terminated its license with manufacturer and distributor Tommo Inc. effective Oct. 2, according to this notice on SNK’s web site. That means the end of the NeoGeo X Gold Limited Edition, and six volumes of games (NeoGeo…

We Didn’t Want to Kill NCAA Football, Say College Players’ Lawyers

When EA Sports shuttered its NCAA Football series about a week ago, it cited ongoing lawsuits brought by current and former college football players. Lawyers for those players say killing off NCAA Football was never a goal of their action, and they’re not opposed to the series returning. “We would be fine if they published…

Favoritism Charged as Select Few Get a $700 Spaceship in EVE [Update]

This is by far my favorite type of story to cover on weekends: The EVE Scandal! They’re fun because they tend to involve big-ass space ships or wads of in-game currency that convert to mind-boggling sums in real life. This latest allegation features both So, let’s introduce the players this time. (Incredibly, Goonswarm is not…

Konami Apologizes for Glitch Paralyzing PES 2014‘s Multiplayer on 360

Konami says it is still investigating why some Xbox 360 players of Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 are unable to connect to its online multiplayer services, but the problem is large enough that the company has apologized to users. The publisher still doesn’t know exactly why the problem is happening. Those affected are finding that they…

This Week in the Business: Doomed to Repeat History?

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Industry veterans will remember the crash of 1983 … Today, the industry runs a similar risk.”—Analyst report from Superdata, on the data indicating consumers are resistant to adding more hardware to their living rooms QUOTE | “I know at least a…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of September 30th

It’s been a bumpy, weird week what with Tom Clancy’s passing and all the craziness going on in the rest of the real world. The virtual world has been kind of shaky, too, considering GTA Online‘s struggles. Also I sprained my ankle, so there’s that. While all of that is going on, feel free to…

Watch The League of Legends World Championship Right Here

The League of Legends Season 3 world championship is going down tonight. You can watch the whole thing, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, right here. Korea’s SKT T1 will be facing off against China’s Royal club for the championship. The whole thing is streaming at Riot Games’ Twitch Channel, and is embedded…

GTA Online Update: Rockstar has shared more details about the fixes in the new title update for GTA Online. The title update is now live for PS3 and is coming to Xbox 360 soon; Rockstar estimates the Xbox update will be live sometime overnight.