Microsoft Blog Says Battlefield 4 Will Be Out On October 29

When Battlefield 4 was officially unveiled last week, the only release timeframe given was “Fall”. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 blog is being a lot more specific. It says that “Battlefield 4 will arrive on the Xbox 360 on October 29, 2013″, which while far from a guarantee – there’s a lot of time between now and…

Game Of F**ks Is All The Swearing From Game Of Thrones, Together In One Video [NSFW]

Just in time for the beginning of season three tonight, here’s your highbrow Sunday evening content: a supercut of every nasty curse word whispered, spoken and screamed in the first two seasons of Game of Thrones. There’s a certain poetry to it, all seen together like this. Makes you really miss ol’ Robert. And also…

This Fully-Playable 16-Bit Wonderland is Guild Wars 2‘s Idea of a Joke

Originally planned as a fake 8-bit update to celebrate April Fools’ Day, Super Adventure Box grew into an expansive three-level homage to the golden age of gaming available to Guild Wars 2 players the length of April, because ArenaNet. Where other developers might have stopped at mocking up a few screens or maybe filming an…

A New Deus Ex “Game” Is Being Unveiled Tomorrow

The official Deus Ex Facebook page has posted the above image, promising that the “World’s first look at Deus Ex: Human Defiance” will come “TOMORROW!” (their caps, not mine). I know, I know, tomorrow is April 1. While the page is official, it could just mean this is an official joke. Assuming it’s not a…

Pilots, you are required to maneuver straight down this Death Star trench, constructed within Minecraft, and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide.

Play Halo‘s Atari 2600 ‘Port’ With This Cartridge Now On Sale

Almost three years ago, Ed Fries—a Microsoft executive instrumental in acquiring Bungie and making Halo the definitive Xbox series—created Halo 2600, a flash game demake that imagined the game on an old Atari VCS. Now, AtariAge.com is putting the game’s ROM on a proper cartridge, with period box and label art and an instruction manual.…

Winners Always Quit, and Quitters Always Win—If It’s in a Video Game

After he carded a seven, then got the dreaded snowman on a par 5, then a six and a double-bogey on a par 3, I half expected to see Rory McIlroy slink off the green, feigning tooth pain. He’d come into this final round atop the leaderboard at 10-under par, and now saw all of…

StarCraft Turns 15 Today, and Blizzard Wants You to Celebrate

March 31, 1998. StarCraft launched, soon becoming a landmark of the real-time strategy genre and a bulwark of the modern eSports scene. The game turns 15 today, and its publisher, Blizzard, is offering a few goodies to help fans celebrate the anniversary. Beginning today and lasting until April 17, fans need only to play one…

The Week in Games: Inna Gaiden a Vida, Baby …

Tuesdays after holidays typically don’t see much in the way of new releases in North America. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge, which was the Wii U port of Ninja Gaiden 3, now gets ported back to the PS3 and Xbox 360. There’s DLC for Borderlands 2 and some oldies but goodies on PSN, plus an…

New Mural Could Reveal Grand Theft Auto V Box Art

Looks like Rockstar is building a big ol’ Grand Theft Auto V mural in downtown Manhattan. It could hint at box art for the upcoming open world game — Rockstar built a similar mural to show off GTAIV‘s box art back in 2007, and that “RP” on the bottom left sure looks like the ESRB’s…

Chris Hecker Rants at GDC Without Saying a Word

It’s revealing that at first I didn’t get the point of this, which is Chris Hecker’s rant at Game Developers Conference 2013. So much of the nonstop big budget press conference bullshit you hear in this business all sounds alike, forcing me into a kind of weird active listening where I’m trying to decode pabulum…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Table Talk

Everyone had so much fun annotating little Samael Henkel’s Arma II table yesterday that I figured it had to be good for our latest ‘Shop Contest. Look, I know it’s just a table, but this is where you guys come in. If you can make that funny, you can make anything funny. And I have…

Is It OK to Take a Free Game When the Company Selling It Makes a Mistake?

As I was packing up for some time off about 10 days ago, someone sent an email to me and others who had review copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 that all of the game’s downloadable courses were already on Xbox Live, and none of them had a price. It was $67 worth of…

Sunday Comics: The Day the Music Died

Welcome to the all new, Kinja-fied version of Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics. The features will enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner of each image. Another Videogame Webcomic by Phil Chan and Joe Dunn. Published March 29. Read more of Another Videogame Webcomic Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

The Stunning Debut Trailer For Hardware, A Game By Some Guys Who Made PC Classic Homeworld

First revealed all the way back in 2011, it’s only today that we’re getting our first (barely) moving look at Hardware, a new game from a studio made up of a number of former Relic developers, including Rob Cunningham, Homeworld’s art director. So if you think the teaser trailer above looks (and sounds) familiar, that’s…

Xbox 360 golfers, the Stick Jockey Country Club is now accepting membership applications in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 and we’ve waived the initiation fee and credit history check. Search for “Stick Jockey” among the game’s country clubs and use the password jockey317stick to join. Please remember that Stick Jockey CC is a very exclusive…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Habemas Pope Francish

So, here we go, the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest debuts under the site’s third design in the four-year history of the feature. Thanks for your patience while I was away last week; today, we round up a look at the latest leader of the Ecclesiastical Church of St. Games, Francis, the lisping, PC-gaming ragemonger who had…

Forza Horizon‘s latest batch of new cars—the Top Gear Car Pack—arrives on Tuesday. It offers six more rides for $5.

‘Warzone’ Multiplayer is on Gears of War: Judgment Disc Thanks to Stray Code

Earlier this week Gears fans figured out how to trigger Warzone—it has to be done from a private Team Deathmatch, while hitting the A and B buttons simultaneously in the match’s parameters menu. Warzone’s exclusion and mysterious reappearance led to rumors the mode was going to be included later as paid DLC, but an Epic…

Yetizen, co-host of a party featuring scantily clad dancers at the Game Developers Conference, has released a statement on the controversy. YetiZen’s CEO says the IGDA’s director approved the dancers’ costumes.