You Can Bark Orders to Call of Duty‘s Happy Scrappy Hero Pup

Though he practically upstaged the Xbox One at its own reveal event, don’t expect Call of Duty Dog to slink off into a corner during E3 week. He’s not going to be eye candy or a prop in Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ singleplayer campaign. If anything, developer Infinity Ward is doubling down on the Dog.…

Daredevil Gets Emotional in My Favorite Comics Panel This Week

Daredevil: End of Days #8 Daredevil’s a superhero who’s constantly in thrall to his emotions It often seems like Matt Murdock’s passion is in control of him and not the other way around. In this issue of potst-mortem miniseries, we see the Devil’s emotions in a calmer, more poignant light. I recently started co-worker Tina…

The PlayStation 3 will get the free-to-play Tekken Revolution on June 11, according toGameSpot (at 19:30 of the video linked) Characters shown include Kazuya, Lars, Bryan and Paul [via EventHubs]

Infinity Ward, 3 Years Later: A Call of Duty Comeback With a Caveat

The trailer for the next Call of Duty, November’s Call of Duty: Ghosts, makes it all seem so pleasantly straightforward. New Call of Duty! From the people who made the one that made this series a phenomenon. Not quite. But not completely wrong, either. Infinity Ward, the studio founded in 2002 by Jason West and…

Assassin’s Creed‘s Creator Sues Ubisoft for Control of His Next Game

Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin’s Creed, is suing Ubisoft for about $400,000 and control of the game 1666, which he had been building for THQ until it went bankrupt and sold the project to his former employer. Last month, Désilets said he was fired from Ubisoft, the publisher for whom he had worked until…

State of Decay, which “did not have an ad budget” nor “a physical copy to load onto shelves,” sold 250,000 copies on Xbox Live in its first two days. Only Minecraft has been more successful.

Seven Years Later, Sony’s CEO Doesn’t Mind All the Memes

From five-hundred ninety-nine U.S. dollars and Riiiiiiidge Racer seven years ago to more flattering presentations today, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai has been one of the gaming industry’s most .gif-able and meme-able public figures. Hirai wants you to know he’s cool with that. Of course, Hirai might be sanguine because Microsoft is gettin’ toe up about…

No Retro Games in Future Animal Crossings—With One Possible Exception

The first Animal Crossing game released in the U.S. in 2001 let players add joy to their villager’s treasure-digging and furniture-arranging lives by collecting and playing emulated Nintendo Entertainment System games. There were Nintendo games within that Nintendo game. That’s not coming back, the series’ creator told Kotaku “Please consider it’s not happening ever again,”…

The Week in Games: At Least Someone’s Still Excited About Xbox

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Xbox is the only thing that has investors excited about Microsoft, so it makes little sense to divest.”—Analyst Asif Khan, talking about other analysts’ comments that Microsoft should sell its Xbox business QUOTE | “We could kill this industry if we…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week Of June 3rd

It’s almost E3! Kotaku Selects is going to be busy next weekend, but we have plenty of our best stuff to show you from the past week. Check it out over here. I’ll be in LA for next week’s round-up, but Fahey will keep you all comforted. See you guys on the flip side. As…

You Only Need To Vaguely Look Like Ryan Gosling To Reap The Benefits

Doug here is most certainly not Ryan Gosling. But add a hoodie and some sunglasses and most people wouldn’t be able to tell—as shown by this video by MojoInTheMorning Granted, Gosling was filming something in that city at the time, and that probably predisposed some folk to seeking Ryan Gosling out. Still—I can’t help but…

The Internet Response League wants to turn gaming’s popularity into a humanitarian effort. If we took a minute to sort through crisis information (like Tweets) during a disaster, we’d be a huge help. Right now, there’s nothing in place to bring this vision to reality—IRL is looking for collaborators.

The Xbox One Might Seem Like A Horror Show Now, But That Could Change

So far, much of what we’ve seen about the Xbox One hasn’t been good, and yesterday’s news about iffy policies around internet connections, used games, and loaning games isn’t reassuring. Here’s another quote from Microsoft that was lost in the shuffle yesterday—it’s worth keeping in mind. Hopefully, the internet’s backlash against some of what we’ve…

Well-known vocalist Peter Hollens has put together this very nice a cappella version of “The Rains of Castamere” from Game of Thrones You may recognize Hollens from such YouTube performances as “Game of Thrones theme with Lindsey Stirling,” “Skyrim theme with Lindsey Stirling,” and recently, “That one song from The Hobbit.”

Monday Is The Perfect Day For Apple To Reveal A Game Controller

Monday marks the beginning of Apple’s 2013 Worldwide Developer Conference, where the tech giant is expected to reveal some of the enhancements coming to the next iteration of iOS. What if one of those enhancements is support for external gamepads for its iDevices? Indeed, what if Apple, on the eve of the biggest game industry…

Six Reviewers Say The Last Of Us Thrives On Story And Character

Uncharted developer Naughty Dog’s upcoming PS3-exclusive The Last of Us is a grim, grim survival horror game. Critics, however, found that beneath its bleak, dark exterior, The Last of Us hides a deep, extremely rewarding experience. Apart from a few technical issues, like the AI being wonky in places, reviews talked at length about the…

Hopefully This Is A New Move In The Next Smash Bros (And Other GIFs)

E3 is in just a few days, but that doesn’t mean this week is devoid of weird and screwy GIFs the Internet likes to have fun with. Quite the contrary. So before we prepare Photoshop for undoubtedly silly GIFs from the big E3 conferences, let’s see what the Internet has been up to this week.…

How To Dress At The Zelda Symphony. Plus, Other Advice.

It’s a first for Ask Kotaku! I thought my column was getting a little unwieldy, what with how long it was getting, and figured it might be fun to do a video-formatted one for this week. But the gist is the same: you ask me questions, and I give you advice. We’ve got some life…

Luke Schneider of RadianGames makes great mobile games but they haven’t been available on Android. Until now. Schneider’s bringing his excellent Tetris-alike Slydristo Google Play, with other games like the very good Bombcats and Inferno+ to follow. He’ll be bringing some of the RadianGames catalog to Ouya, too.

A Game That Wants To Teach Women How To Masturbate

And here I thought people were joking when they said we’re slowly turning everything into a game. Nope. Gamification has a new target, and it’s female masturbation. Now, masturbation on the whole has a stigma. Hairy palms, what have you. But some would say it’s especially bad with women given societal pressures to maintain purity.…