Internet Rallies Against Kickstarter for Nine-Year-Old Girl

When Susan Wilson of Stevensville, Maryland launched a Kickstarter campaign for $829 to send her nine-year-old daughter Kenzie to role-playing game design camp last Thursday, she never expected donations to surpass $20,000. She also didn’t expect to be branded and scammer, a manipulator and a child abuser. The threats of violence were also a big…

Tomb Raider has sold 3.4 million copies in a month, is amazing, and yet still managed to miss Square Enix’s internal sales projections, reports Eurogamer. Oh video game publishers.

A Brilliant Poster For The New Star Wars Movie, Starring The Original Cast’s Old Faces

So, the next Star Wars movie will most likely feature appearances by many of the original cast members from the 1977-1983 trilogy. That’s…kinda good news, on paper, but remember, 1983 was a loooong time ago. These guys don’t quite look the way they used to. As this awesome mock-up poster by artist Adam Schickling shows…

Catch All The References In This Cool Marvel Tribute

Marvel has given us so many awesome superheroes over the years—that’s worth celebrating, right? Here’s a cool animated homage to Marvel by Vimeo user Blackmeal that does just that. Since the characters are so iconic, I trust it wont be difficult to know what’s being referenced when. (Via Laughing Squid)

Tips for Playing BioShock Infinite

Columbia—the airborne, ultra-nationalist city where BioShock Infinite happens—holds lots of beauty. But it holds a lot of danger, too. Swarms of normal human assailants will attack Booker DeWitt as he tries to get Elizabeth out of the gorgeous sky-town and they’ll be joined by augmented Handymen, pyrokinetic Firemen and dudes that can turn flocks of…

We’ve seen a lot of love for BioShock Infinite. Now we’re also seeing a fair amount of praise for this critical review of Infinite. It’s a smart, skeptical read from the Gameological Society‘s John Teti, who calls the game “primarily a disappointment in light of its pedigree.” (Or, if you just want to read a…

A Game About Life, Death, And Eating Your Elders

It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. Or, you know, a baby-eat-grandpa world. At least, that’s the world envisioned by Tasty, Tasty Grandpa, an in-development iOS game from Grapple Gun Games The setup is simple—you move forward on the treadmill of life, and can eat anyone who’s older than you. But as you eat, you grow,…

Yesterday, we showed you that you can annotate images on Kotaku. Today, let’s go a step further. On this post, you’ll see a press release for a video game that came out today. Care to annotate it? If you’re reading this on a computer, click on the image above and add commentary. You could make…

I Had BioShock Infinite Spoiled For Me. Here’s Why That Didn’t Matter At All.

There they were. Two sentences that purportedly said how BioShock Infinite ended. Two sentences that I’d worked hard to avoid seeing for the better part of last week, after hearing that spoilers were popping up on message boards everywhere. That really, really sucked. Don’t worry: there are no spoilers in this post. Spoilers are an…

Uh, Pac-Man? Pac-Man, Are You Ok?

Yeesh, that was probably traumatizing. Can you imagine living life as one of the ghosts from Pac-Man? I always imagined them as villainous characters, but maybe they’re just misunderstood (and a little prone to temper tantrums) like Ricepirates visualizes them in this video.

From the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Touch Arcade has got a goofy demo video of the in-development Turbo Dismount, Secret Exit’s follow-up to their falling-down-the-stairs game Stair Dismount. Things have gotten… significantly more involved.

You Should Add the Word “Luftrausers” to Your Vocabulary

“Luftrausers” is a made-up word. Sounds German. But it’s not. “Luft” means “air,” but “rausers”? It’s nonsense.* Oh, but Luftrausers does mean one thing: “simple, stylish game about being an ace fighter pilot that is coming to PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PC, Mac and Linux by the end of spring.” We shot a video of…

This New Watch Dogs Trailer Shows What Happens When You Hack a City

In Ubisoft’s upcoming techno-action game, hacker Aiden Pearce will be able to access information systems all over the city of Chicago. What does he do with that info? Have a look at the new promo clip and see. Great job, Aiden, now all those people are going to be late for work. You call that…

Scrolls—the next game from Minecraft studio Mojang—will be releasing in beta next month, according to Polygon

Delver’s Drop Promises Endless, Zelda-Style Action

If you were to describe a game to me using the words Secret of Mana, Rogue and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, you would immediately pique my interest. That’s exactly what happened last weekend at PAX East when I saw Delver’s Drop – a recently Kickstarted, Indie, Action RPG from small…

Fetch Could Have Been an Animated Feature. Instead It’s an Utterly Charming iPad Game.

You could search the iTunes app store for days and not come close to finding a game with the charm and polish of Big FishGames’ Fetch. It’s an animated movie come to life, an adventure riddled with arcade action wrapped around a warm beating heart. It’s the story of a boy and his dog. While…

Six Critics Are Enthralled with the Mysteries of BioShock Infinite’s Columbia

With BioShock Infinite, Irrational Games’ franchise has finally made the leap from sea to sky — skipping land on the way. It’s quite the leap to make and, as these people seem to think, the results are quite spectacular. Columbia, Infinite’s floating city is not only the world’s greatest cultist hotspot; it’s also a place…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14: The Kotaku Review

The Mashie. The Brassie. The Cleek. Why, oh why, did golf abandon these delightful club names for bland old 5 iron, No. 2 wood, and 2 iron, or, worse, driver names like that sound like energy drinks. When I whipped out my baffing spoon and eagled No. 4 on Augusta National’s 1934 layout, I could…

Smitten as we are here at Kotaku with the amazing iOS game Ridiculous Fishing, we had to get some tips from the people who made the game. They know how to ridiculously fish. A hearty thank you to Rami Ismail of the game’s superb development studio Vlambeer. He provided these tips while I played his…