Your Original iPhone Will Soon Be Officially Obsolete

If for some reason you still have an original iPhone lying around, know that the revolutionary 2007 device is about to be declared obsolete. Not by your friends. By Apple. While it’s long stopped receiving software updates, and barely any games will run on the thing, it’s technically still been seen as an active device…

Even The Megacities Of The Future Are Crawling With Zombies

Just when you think you’ve seen every kind of zombie story the world can throw at you, it throws you one more. Past Away is a hybrid comic/adventure game being developed by Christopher Middleton, where you play as a futuristic pizza delivery pilot who has to survive the zombie apocalypse. Being essentially an interactive motion…

Wow, Sid Meier Just Made A New Video Game

Legendary game designer and Civilization co-creator Sid Meier is a bit like Tom Clancy these days. His name’s on a whole bunch of stuff, but the level of involvement he actually has with each project, even Civilization games, varies. There appears to be little doubt how much of a hand he’s had in this latest…

If You Wanted More GAME From Minecraft, This Might Be For You

There’s no doubting Minecraft’s phenomenal success, but I’ve often wondered how much of that is down to the actual game. You know, the part that begins that first day you have to scramble to survive, and ends the time you see/build your first giant dick, when it’s become more of a giant LEGO kit than…

This Is The Best/Worst Video Game Tutorial I Have Ever Had To Play

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon does a lot of things right, but few are righter than the game’s tutorial. Which is terrible. On purpose.

Another Big Third-Party Game Skips The Wii U

For the first time since 1991, a Madden game will not be released on Nintendo’s primary/current home console. A statement sent by EA to Nintendo World Report says: We will not be releasing a Wii U version of Madden NFL in 2013. However, we have a strong partnership with Nintendo and will continue to evaluate…

Kotaku Takes The Oculus Rift For A Spin

Years from now the Oculus Rift I hold in my hand will gather dust in your attic. You’ll stumble across it like your very first mobile phone. I can’t believe how big this thing was, you’ll say. How the hell did I walk around with this thing strapped to my head? You’ll say these things…

Star Command Is A Great Game, But Also A Kickstarter Warning

For the last few days, I’ve been playing Star Command, a mobile game that’s had people excited for a very long time now. Beginning life as a Kickstarter project, it’s gone through several major delays, and arrives this week on the App Store an example not just of excellent portable strategy, but of the realities…

The Latest Team Fortress 2 Update Improves Nearly Everything

There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the next time you launch Team Fortress 2, you’ll automatically start upgrading to “Steampipe,” a new content delivery system which “improves the way content is downloaded, updated and stored” according to Valve. It means faster downloads, quicker boot times and map loads, and better…

Peter Molyneux tells Wired that the Curiosity cube should be done soon. And the reward revealed to the last person to chip away at Molyneux’s experiment? It’ll “change that person’s life forever,” he says.

He Unplugged From The Internet For A Year. This Is What He Learned.

The Internet makes us stupid. The Internet makes us lonely. The Internet makes us less productive. The Internet makes us unhappy. Surely you’ve heard any one of these claims? Last year, tech writer Paul Miller felt burned-out on being constantly connected, on being overloaded with information. Maybe there was something else out there? Something people…

NCAA Football 14 will include a longtime player request—new playing camera angles, including the “all-22” view of an offensive or a defensive coordinator. The cameras will be available in all modes, including the “Road to Glory” career mode.

There’s A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Easter Egg In Blood Dragon

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon not only has strong words about violent video games, it also features our favorite pizza-lovin’ turtles. If you’d like to see them yourself, GameFrontwalks us through how to access this easter egg in the video above. Unlike ‘scientifically accurate Ninja Turtles’, the Ninja Turtles in Blood Dragon seem rather cute.…

Space Raccoon Game Changes Its Unfortunate Eyebrow-Raising Name

The, uh, not-so-great name a Dutch development team chose for their upcoming browser-based platformer has been cast off in favor of one less cringe-inducing, unintentionally or not. Everyone, say hi to Curio’s Starquest Formerly, this was known as Starcoon and if, like me, some of your best friends are black, you can recognize how that…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: The Kotaku Review

There is joy in stupidity. In an age where the search for deeper meaning in our interactive entertainment pursuits begins after the first trailer — where more thought goes into post-game critical analysis than development — a game that bears its shallow soul for all to see is a blessing. “The game is stupid,” Far…

Too Many People Working on This Game Were the Victims of Bullying

There’s no gameplay in this video for The Silent Enemy, the new project being made by the creators of Papo & Yo. But, as you watch the various staffers of Minority Media face the camera or talk about their roles in the game, you realize that there’s a good reason that gameplay takes a backseat.…

The Film Industry Sure Sounds A Lot Like The Game Industry

What do films and video games have in common? Nobody really knows what they’re doing. A long lecture by film director Steven Soderberg has been making the rounds over the past 24 hours. It’s an interesting read with some good thoughts on the film studio system, the idea of “cinema,” and the role of independent…

A Survival Sim That (Mostly) Takes Place On A Single Screen

This scenery? That’s the bulk of what you’ll see while trying to survive in Gods Will Be Watching. The premise is simple: you’ve got 40 days until you can be rescued. You have a crew, which you have to feed and keep sane. You have a radio, which you’ll want to fix. Naturally, as you…

‘LEGO Breaking Bad’ is Good Enough to be Worth a Hellacious Spoiler

If you’re not current through Season Four of Breaking Bad, it kills me to give you a spoiler alert, because this thing is fan–tastic. I’m dillydallying around with LEGO City Undercover right now, but if made, I would 100 percent this mofo tomorrow. The work of one Brian Anderson on YouTube, it memorializes what was,…

E-Sports League Mined Bitcoins with Subscribers’ Computers [UPDATE]

ESEA League, one of the largest PC gaming leagues, has admitted to putting code into the league’s client software to “mine” bitcoins, the open-source Internet currency now exchanging for around $130 per. The league is offering free memberships as some members complain the code damaged their video cards. Eric Thunberg, a league administrator (who goes…