Podcast: The Best (And Worst) Of E3

E3 has come and gone. As we head into the weekend, ready to digest all the glitz, glamour, and awful convention center food, Kirk and I have recorded a podcast for your ear-listening pleasure. You can listen below or right on SoundCloud: (Half-time music written by Kirk Hamilton himself.) Articles mentioned: Gameological Society: Who Do…

Microsoft Can’t Tell Us If The Xbox One Is Region-Free Or Not

Microsoft has this week released some confusing statements and policies regarding how the Xbox One will work around the world. We’ve tried to get to the bottom of them, with no avail. Earlier in the week, a guide on pre-ordering the Xbox One was published by Microsoft. Saying that the console is only launching in…

DuckTales Has Changed. Here’s How.

For many, DuckTales is a beloved game—and I imagine that the mere idea of messing with it isn’t an appealing one. But after a chat at E3 with Matt Bozon, dreative director at WayForward, and Austin Ivansmith, director, it seems that many of the changes in the remastered version of DuckTales are things that fans…

Batman in the Sunshine Is My Favorite Panel from This Week’s Comics

Batman #21: The last thing comics readers need is more material looking at the years before Bruce Wayne put on a Batsuit or his first year as the Dark Knight. It’s territory that’s well-trod by some of the best creators to ever handle the character. Yet, it’s also the most tantalizing time period for someone…

The PS3 Had 12 Games At Launch. Here’s What They Looked Like.

We finally saw the actual PlayStation 4 during Sony’s E3 press conference on Monday, and we got sneak peaks at the console’s upcoming games, some of which will be launch titles. But how do those games compare with the PS3’s launch titles? Let’s take a look. Time to do a flashback and see what the…

Xbox One’s Reputation System Sounds Crazy But It Just Might Work

Placing the responsibility for policing a community into the hands of the members of said community is a lovely idea that rarely works as expected. The new Xbox Live reputation system launching with the Xbox One gives players the power to promote the polite over the pestiferous, with (hopefully) enough safeguards in place to prevent…

Microsoft To Sell Next-Gen Games for $60, Price of Gaming May Not Rise

Every new console generation brings new anxieties that the price of gaming going up. Right now, many of the big players won’t officially say what their next-gen games will cost. Microsoft will, at least. A company spokesperson confirmed to Kotaku that Microsoft’s own first-party Xbox One games will cost $59,99, the same price top Xbox…

Tips For Playing The Last of Us

Naughty Dog’s much-anticipated (andexcellent) action/horror game The Last of Us is fairly straightforward: Keep moving and try not to die. But between the various upgrade trees, the open-ended combat and the crafting system, we thought it would be helpful to offer some tips. So, here are some tips for playing The Last of Us. These…

Conan O’Brien Plays Injustice, Finally Kicks Ass in a Video Game

The Clueless Gamer segments featuring everyone’s ginger-haired late night talk show host have generally showed him flustered and confused when holding a video game controller. This time is different. This time, Conan O’Brien whups somebody’s ass, both virtually and in the real world. In addition to the usual hilarity, you’ll get to see a good…

The (Fake) Official Trailer For a Movie About Addiction To Candy Crush

Everyone’s got that one mobile game they’re addicted to, at least for a time. For me, it was Jumping Finn. For a lot of people, it’s Candy Crush Saga. This trailer for a totally fake movie about addiction to Candy Crush and games like it is a hilarious reminder of how crazy we can get…

The Rejuvenation Of Final Fantasy

In the back of the Los Angeles Convention Center this week, on a massive screen that seemed more suited for a movie theater than an E3 show floor, Square Enix was running a loop of video footage from their biggest games. Every ten minutes we’d see their newest and most impressive announcement: Final Fantasy XV…

The Hottest Booth Cars Of E3 2013

Sure, E3 is a place where you can check out the latest video games and video-game hardware. But we know what all those randy young convention-goers really want to see: The sexy, curvalicious eye-candy spicing up the booths on the expo floor. Fear not, readers! We’ve got you covered with our gallery of The Hottest…

The Moneysaver: Splinter Cell Blacklist, Pokemon X And Y, Breaking Bad

Gotta catch ’em all, and save money in the process. Methamphetamine, espionage, Pokemon, the Moneysaver has it all. Hit up the Tech section for a sweet soundbar to better your living room, and don’t miss out on some Haswell goodness in Rigged. It seems that the Day One Edition of the Xbox One is back…

An Easy Fix For The Last of Us’ Annoying Save Game Glitch

A number of threads, posts and tweets around the web indicate that some players are having trouble saving in Naughty Dog’s latest game, The Last of Us. If the glitch kicks in, then the game tries to autosave but can never complete the task, resulting in lost progress. While not everyone experiences the glitch (no…

The World of A Link To The Past Has Changed in the New 3DS Zelda

The upcoming 3DS Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds, shares much of the same terrain with the classic Super Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. But the game’s lead creator tells Kotaku that there are key map changes in this sequel. The new 3DS game is set at least a…

Streamlined Triforce Quest, No New Dungeons For Wind Waker Remake

Nintendo’s longtime chief of all things Zelda, Eiji Aonuma says the development team on the Wii U remake of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker will not be adding content to their remake of the open-ocean 2002 GameCube classic. But you will be making some. “My main goal in making Wind Waker HD was…

Danger Close—the studio that made EA’s two modern-day Medal of Honor games—has been dissolved. A report on Develop seems to hint that at least some members of the former studio are being absorbed elsewhere within EA.

A Video To Show You What Playing The Last Of Us Is All About

Sure, I’ve written a lot of words about the terrific new PS3 game The Last of Us But I haven’t really gotten to show you the game. That’s largely because, doubtless in a fit of spoiler-phobia, Sony put draconian restrictions on the amount of pre-release video footage they allowed the press to show. Those restrictions…

This League of Legends Pro Has His Whole High School Cheering For Him

League of Legends pro player ZionSpartan has just graduated high school and is ready to jump to the LoL scene full-time. Five years ago his teachers, schoolmates and parents would have laughed at the idea. Today they treat him like a champion. This video, part of the LoLChampSeries, demonstrates how eSports like League of Legends…

You Thought You Were Excited About Mirror’s Edge 2? Listen to This Guy.

Shockwaves rippled all over the video game internet when EA closed out their E3 press conference with a reveal of Mirror’s Edge 2. And, after careful investigation, scientists believe they may have located the epicenter of the fanquake. We can’t see this young man’s eyes but I’ll bet money that they were wet. May we…