This Week in the Business: Dealing With Change

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “If you’re not scared, then you didn’t push yourself enough.” – Jordan Weisman of Harebrained Schemes, talking about their new Kickstarter for tabletop/video game hybrid Golem Arcana QUOTE | “We wanted everything that we did to be just crazy. We wanted…

Why World War I Usually Gets the Shaft in Gaming (Until Now)

In the last thirty years, there have been (by my count) 59 games, mods, or betas featuring a setting from World War I, otherwise called The Great War. World War II, otherwise called the Second World War, boasts something like 257 of the same. Ubisoft Montpellier announced last week that it would be doing its…

Watch Lightning Cosplay As Other Final Fantasy Characters

Not since Final Fantasy X-2 have there been this many wardrobe changes in one Final Fantasy game. And Lightning has taken the opportunity to show her fandom for the series that preceded her in the latest trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. It looks like she loves Final Fantasy VII almost as much as…

Shield Your Eyes: Stallone and De Niro Brawl in Video Game Mo-Cap Suits

I’ve seen De Niro beat up meat-heads in all kinds of suits, most of them tailored, some of them even pressed. His newest combat garb is… less flattering. As older actors are wont to do, Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro are teaming up to make a movie about keeping in the fight despite their…

The Hot Toys Event in Japan Was a Geekgasm of Iron Man

I’ve made no secret for my love of the Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece line of collectible figurines in the past. So, when I discovered that they were having an exhibition event in Tokyo, I immediately set about finding some way to go. Well, it turned out that while the exhibition itself would be from Saturday,…

Fable: Legends Is Sounding Like An Xbox One MMO

In an interview on Games Industry International posted yesterday, Lionhead studio head John Needham outlined the developer’s big-picture plans for Fable: Legends, its upcoming Xbox One exclusive title. According to Needham: “This is the next big Fable game that is going to be out for five to ten years so it needs to be big,…

World’s Largest Star Wars Collection Includes a Working Cantina

Rancho Obi-Wan, a Star Wars museum in Northern California, holds 300,000 unique Star Wars-related pieces, earning it the Guinness World Record for the “Largest Collection of Star Wars Memorabilia.” Steve Sansweet, former LucasFilm employee and curator of Rancho Obi-Wan, says that when Star Wars came out, he was “hooked from the very beginning.” His passion…

First Images from Need for Speed Movie Forgot Cars, Yo

Disney released the first stills from the upcoming Need for Speed movie to remind audiences that it will, as promised, have actors; actors like Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad and Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi). I can’t help but feel like there’s something missing, though. Something like cars. If you saw EA’s E3 2013 press conference,…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of September 9

By the time you read this I’ll be on an ATV somewhere driving through the woods. So while you have that image in your mind, feel free to peruse Kotaku Selects for our best coverage over this week. And prepare for full on Grand Theft Auto V coverage assault from Stephen and crew next week.…

Hey Kotaku, I’m Your Weekend Editor

Top o’ the weekend to you, Kotaku! I’m Dan Crabtree, and I’ll be filling in for Owen for the next two days as your weekend editor. While I may not be able to promise you that Half Life 3 will ever be announced, I can promise that I’ll dish up a healthy helping of gaming…

Justin Bieber Posted A Batman Vs Superman Script. Trolling…Right?

As our lovely reader Nerdgazm pointed out to us, pop star Justin Bieber Instagrammed something most unsettling today: a script that suggests he may be auditioning for the role of Robin in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Batman vs Superman movie. …yeah. While I have no strong feelings about this, I imagine that if that’s a real…

In Case You Needed A Reminder: The Human Body Is Amazing

Here’s someone that will probably make some of us feel bad about our own workouts: a calisthenics bodyweight expert called Frank Medrano. He’s pretty good at showing us some of the awesome things the human body is capable of. It’s kind of absurd, the things he can do—as Chris put it to me, the dude…

The Clown Prince Of Crime Is Positively Petrifying In Plastic

I don’t know what’s worse. Having this Sideshow Collectibles Sixth-Scale Joker figure standing on my desk, or knowing he’s on a shelf or in a closet in his box, biding his time, chuckling under his breath. Give me the Batman: The Animated Series Joker any day. At least I know my demise will be quick…

Teamwork: It’s the key to fighting monsters. Of course, “teamwork” online usually means yelling “Oh shit!” at one another over and over. But the guys in this video (via PC Gamer) demonstrating Phosphor Studios’ in-development PC MMO Nether are much more communicative. For more about Nether check out this interview at Gamespot

Next-gen is almost here: via Microsoft’s Major Nelson, here’s the first Xbox One console to come off the assembly line. Just two months until we get our hands on both next-gen systems.

Hey, look: this seems like a Super Hexagon nod in Adventure Time! Cool. Makes sense that things Finn can’t deal with are locked with this, yeah?

Even The Glitches Are Scary In The New Amnesia Game

Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is a great horror sequel filled with tons of NOPE moments. Even its glitches are freakin’ scary. Let’s take a deep breath and crawl through some of the most glitchy and funny GIFs that surfaced this week: This has to be the most stylish Battlefield 3 entrance ever. Staying on…

I Thought This Game Was Supposed To Be Realistic. Oh Well!

One of ArmA III’s biggest selling points is its realism—it’s a modern combat simulation that gives players a sandbox to play out scenarios not possible in most other games. So I was certainly surprised to see this footage by Moerderhoschi785, where a player rides a drone like he was the Green Goblin or something. Mind,…

Finally, The Avengers I Always Needed

Mighty Avengers just became my favorite mainstream comic, because it’s giving me something that I’ve been wishing for forever. Brown superheroes, broke superheroes, jerk superheroes, all of them barely getting along but having to save the world any damn way. Used to be that the idea of a Black/Urban/Not Just White Folks Avengers team got…

Final Fantasy XIV MMO Log Two: A Few Cents Short Of A Dragoon

I really wanted this week’s video MMO log for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn to show you my ascension from Lancer to Dragoon at level 30, but I fell short. That I’m bummed about it says a lot about how I feel about the game. First off, let me just thank all of the…