Your Complete Guide To The SimCity Disaster

Misinformation. Server errors. Fan backlash. Since EA launched SimCity two weeks ago, the online city-builder has been nothing short of a catastrophe for everyone involved. Much has changed since the game’s rocky launch on March 5. Things have gotten better. But all still isn’t well, even as EA takes its latest step to make amends…

BREAKING: Girls Play Video Games, Local News Discovers

Girls? Playing VIDEO games? YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE IT. With the type of breathless astonishment usually reserved for miracles and alien sightings, local news channels across the country decided to report on the Major League Gaming tournaments in Dallas last weekend with the best angle possible: HOLY SHIT DID YOU KNOW THAT GIRLS PLAY VIDEO GAMES…

She’s Sexy. Now Kill Her?

I like God of War: Ascension. It’s a violent video game. I’ve got nothing against that. I like a lot of violent video games. I “get” where a lot of in-game violence comes from: games need to feel interactive; letting me control one character and eliminate another from the screen is still the most easily-comprehended—and…

EA reports that SimCity has sold more than 1.1 million copies since its launch two weeks ago.

A Hilarious Dramatic Reading Of Bioshock Infinite‘s YouTube Comments

The next title from Ken Levine and Irrational Games finally comes out next week. But the hype cycle for the next BioShock game has been spinning for a long while and people have been spouting out opinions every since the very first glimpse of BioShock Infinite. This video animates a bunch of vulgar, misinformed and…

Hooray, Tomb Raider‘s PC Version Is Now Way Less Crash-tastic

Tomb Raider‘s PC version is generally strong, offering a better-looking, higher resolution, smoother tomb-raiding experience than its console counterpart. That said, if you’re using an Nvidia graphics card, the game could be pretty unstable, though that instability is usually fixed by turning tessellation off. Good news: A beta driver released by Nvidia on Friday clears…

This Minecraft Trailer Has Convinced Me. Assassin’s Creed Needs More Gladiator In It.

YouTuber/animator avemagnadude mashed together a few concepts from Assassin’s Creed III trailers, but there’s a distinct Gladiator feel here, too. Did you pick up on it? Those references, combined with dramatic, slow-motion throws of Connor’s tomahawk and a fantastic track (I need to have that track) make me want to see a Gladiator-styled Assassin’s Creed…

Old-school-styled puzzle-platformer Fez will hit Steam on May 1

Why The Next Portable Nintendo Game Wouldn’t Work on an iPhone

Nintendo executives have many reasons to keep their games off of iPhones and Androids and to only let them play on Nintendo hardware. But what about the creators of a new Nintendo video game? They’ve got reasons, too. Last week, I asked some of the Japanese and Canadian creators at Nintendo and Next Level Games…

SimCity Buyers Get Free Copy Of Battlefield 3, Mass Effect 3, Or One Of Six Other PC Games

If you register a copy of SimCity by March 25, you get a free copy of one of eight PC games from EA’s catalog, including Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3 This is EA’s way of saying sorry for the server issues that rendered the city-building game unplayable for almost a week after it launched…

35 Gruesome Ways Lara Croft Dies In Tomb Raider

Monday mornings are for morbid death compilation videos, right? Director of the video above, BenBuja, says that it’s every possible death scenario in the game. But if you catch a missing one, feel free to share it below. Otherwise, enjoy your morbid morning. And you’re welcome.

Tons of Games Are Coming Out This Month So You Want This $150

March is shaping up to be one of the biggest months in gaming in recent memory. Bioshock Infinite? Check. Tomb Raider? Check. Even more Walking Dead? You get it. Now you just have to, you know, buy the games and shut yourself up in your room until April. At least it’ll be warm when you…

New Game Of Thrones Trailer Is Here: ‘Seven Kingdoms United In Fear Of Tywin Lannister’

The next season of Game of Thrones starts on March 31, and the trailers are starting to get better and better. Seriously, every line in this new teaser is immediately quotable. EVERYONE IS MINE TO TORMENT.

Madden‘s Fake Twitter Feed Will Add a Fashion Critic

Madden NFL‘s delightful ersatz Twitter feed, which debuted with Skip Bayless haranguing your created pro, in perfect character, will return to the game’s career mode next year. We know that because of a most unusual addition to the roll-up: Paul Lukas, the aesthete of athletes who operates the Uni Watch blog and writes for ESPN.…

An Even Wilder Theory: Is This the Real Joakim Mogren?

This is Ludvig Forssell. He might look more familiar when he’s covered with bandages and pretending to be a Swedish game designer named Joakim Mogren. Or maybe we’ve just been staring at his picture too long. We’re tossing this one to you readers to decide. Why might Ludvig Forssell be the bandaged, supposedly-Swedish developer “Joakim…

Report: Police Consider Sandy Hook Shooter a ‘Deranged Gamer’ Who Tried to Outscore Other Killers

Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza maintained a spreadsheet filled with information from mass killings from the past and further alleges that it’s a major sign of how video games influenced the mindset and planning of Lanza’s terrible act of lethal violence, according to a front page story in today’s New York Daily News A law…

After His Battle With Cancer, a Fan Gets a Memorial in Total War

Shortly after his visit to get a very early preview of Total War: Rome 2 last year, a 24-year-old gamer named James died, taken by liver cancer in the prime of his life. Eurogamer reports that Total War studio Creative Assembly was so touched by the short time it spent with James that his image…

Gears of War: Judgment: The Kotaku Review

Our Gears of War: Judgment review has been updated with a multiplayer segment as well as an overall verdict on the game (finally). To sum: you might have a better time picking up Gears of War 3 instead. A good soldier doesn’t always follow orders—not if he or she wants to get the job done.…

Korean Pro Gamer Flash Has Some Deep Rituals When It Comes To StarCraft II

Among other Korean pros, legendary Brood War player Flash—already switched over to and having great success in StarCraft II—attended MLG Winter last weekend. He is usually considered to be playing the game on a wholly different level—and this video, showing him measuring the placement of the keyboard in his booth, with a ruler no less,…

Little Kid Spends All of his Dad’s WoW Gold On Pets

One of the new phrases this year in China is that property is hard to protect. Well, it seems that goes for virtual property, too. Last week, a gamer in China posted on the World of Warcraft forums about how he almost lost all of his hard-earned WoW gold in the blink of an eye.…