Monaco, the top-down perspective, co-op heist game that’s gotten raveson the PC, was held back from Xbox Live at the last minute because of a “minor but important bug” causing multiplayer disconnects. No release date is promised, but the game’s creator says he hopes to submit another fix this week.

Beyond: Two Souls Wants You to Know It’s a Film with Exclusive DLC

Beyond: Two Souls, the PS3 exclusive game coming from Quantic Dream was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival this weekend, and presented this, its official trailer. It’s a big deal for a video game to get that kind of serious treatment, so the trailer goes all out in presenting itself as a serious…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Pot-Man

Yep. This guy was a lead-pipe lock for the ‘Shop Contest from the day we published his story—the story of a man getting busted with 55 pounds of doobage jammed in a Pac-Man arcade cabinet. Mugshots have a fine tradition here at the ‘Shop Contest so let’s add to it with Luis Tyler, who in…

Moneysaver PSA: Three Sales At Once and $40 Injustice: Gods Among Us

Sunday is a good day to save money. Bonus: Grab Injustice: Gods Among Us for $35 from Toys R’ Us. That’s a full $25 less than anyone else is selling it for, and the deal applies to the PS3 and 360 versions as well as the Wii U version. $5 shipping. Here’s the Kotaku review…

The Zillion-Dollar Suit Over Who Made Today’s Madden Will Go to a Jury

Unless they settle beforehand, on June 10 a federal jury will hear some of the claims brought by one of the developers on the first John Madden Football, a lawsuit that alleges Electronic Arts owes him millions in unpaid royalties. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Robin Antonick’s claim for unpaid royalties could go…

Sunday Comics: Path of Least Resistance

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published April 26. Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ding: The Winners

Pop culture crossovers are always a fertile field for the ‘Shop Contest, and bad mute mofo Héctor Salamanca of Breaking Bad supplied a full 20-finalist week for our venerable parody. Overall No. 1 ithius made a timely reference to BioShock, whose punchline you’ll have to see inside. Last chance to look at me, Hector ……

Coming Soon to the Small Screen: EVE: The TV Show

EVE Online is getting a television series, thanks to a partnership between the MMO’s publisher and an Icelandic filmmaker, and it will take its inspiration from the stories EVE players left on a website honoring the game’s first decade. Baltasar Kormákur, the director, was behind 2012’s Contraband and is currently working on 2 Guns, which…

Lobo Gives Batman the Finger in Injustice

We’ve known for a week that Lobo, the superviolent, self-regarding antihero biker, would be the first DLC character for Injustice: Gods Among Us. (Rumors have it that Barbara Gordon Batgirl, Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, and General Zod, who just read an amazing letter for Funny or Die, are the others). Here he is in action…

EVE Online‘s Second Decade Collector’s Box Might Get Me To Play Again

It’s hard to believe that EVE Online has been running for a decade. Even more impressively, the game’s been growing steadily over the past ten years, picking up refugees from stale fantasy worlds and showing them what the universe has to offer. I’ve been struggling to find a hopping on point for years. Perhaps September’s…

EVE Online‘s free-to-play PlayStation 3 persistent-world multiplayer shooter counterpart, DUST 514, is officially launching on — wait for it — May 14. Clever, CCP.

Minor league baseball’s Toledo Mud Hens—the favored team of cross-dressing jeep-eater Cpl. Maxwell Klinger—will take the field on May 4 (of course) in these Chewbacca-inspired jerseys, part of a “Star Wars Weekend” promotion. They’ll be auctioned off at the games.

Flash-Game Hit Super Mario Bros. Crossover Resurrects an Obscure Port

Super Mario Bros. Crossover, the flash game in which you play through the levels of Super Mario Bros. as Samus, Link, Ryu Hayabusa and other heroes from the Nintendo Entertainment System’s glory days, is readying a 3.0 update with even more obscure nostalgia and retro goodness. The centerpiece of 3.0 will be playing through Super…

Might David Hayter, the longtime voice of Solid Snake said to be excluded from Metal Gear Solid 5, still make an appearance? Reader and longtime MGS fan Di Viexi pieces together a recent Tweet and a YouTube video to say … maybe … Check back on June 11.

Activision’s Boss Got an 800% Raise, and a Watchdog Doesn’t Like It

Activision has a lot of money. Bobby Kotick has fat stacks, too. The publisher’s CEO saw his total cash-and-prizes compensation jump from $8.1 million in 2011 to $64.9 million in 2012, reports Bloomberg, a figure that would make him the second-highest paid CEO among publicly traded U.S. companies. Kotick is due for another $16 million…

Moneysaver One-Shot: The Art Of Shaving Cheaply

Shave your face, not your wallet. Welcome to a special weekend Moneysaver. Don’t worry, your regularly scheduled programming has not been interrupted- yesterday’s Moneysaver roundup is still going strong, and we’ll be back on Monday at 2:15pm EST with another new installment. Some things in life are unavoidable, and worse, they drain you of time…

2K Games Bails on E3, Too

Earlier this week Nintendo said it wouldn’t do a pre-conference keynote event at E3, though it’ll still have a booth there. 2K Games isn’t even doing that. A post on the publisher’s blog says they won’t be on E3’s floor. “While 2K will not have a booth on the show floor at this year’s E3…

This Week in the Business: ‘The Public Isn’t Aware the Wii U Exists.”

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “The fact is that the general public is not really aware the Wii U even exists …”—David Cole, analyst with DFC Intelligence, talking along with other analysts about Nintendo’s recent disappointing fiscal report and how Nintendo botched its marketing for Wii…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of April 22nd

Another week, another Next Xbox rumor. Or, wait, that’s not right. This week Microsoft finally announced that they will be announcing the next generation console. Mark your calendar: May 21st. That’s soon! We will, of course, be reporting live to bring you all the details of the next boxy device you may or may not…

Supervillains Don’t Make For Very Good Speed Dates

But they sure make amusing speed dates according to this video by worldofheroes. Aww, now I feel mean. Even supervillains need love, people! Not that superheroes are much better… In any case, here we are. It’s the end of the week. Have a good one? Got any plans for the weekend? Feel free to talk…