This video from Maxis’ Guillaume Pierre demonstrates the in-progress fixes for the game’s traffic congestion problems

Tomb Raider vs. Uncharted: The Comparison We Had To Make

It can be a bit difficult to talk about the new Tomb Raider without also talking about Uncharted. Naughty Dog’s PS3 series has always had a lot of Tomb Raider in its DNA, and Crystal Dynamics’ new Lara Croft adventure has clearly been taking notes from Uncharted The two games are as interesting in their…

What the characters of Game of Thrones would look like if they were cats.

Raiden’s Totally Normal, Not-Weird-At-All Morning Routine Proves He’s Just Like Us

Except for, you know, when he slices people in half. That part may be different. Maybe. I dunno you that well. Metal Gear Sunrising [YouTube]

The final beta for the upcoming online shooter Defiance begins next week on consoles and PC. You can sign up here

SimCity Creators Say They’re Fixing The Game’s Road Traffic Weirdness

SimCity lead designer Stone Librande acknowledged some of the problems his team’s game has with roads and traffic today and promised that some tuning fixes are on the way. From a new blog post on the game’s website: We understand that when cars always take the shortest route between point A and point B there…

The Most Hilarious ArmA III Alpha Glitches, Now In Motion

ArmA III, the next entry in the sandbox tactical shooter series, is expected to be released later this year. But the alpha is already up and running, waiting for people to join. And when something is still in development, you can expect a great deal of glitches and bugs, which fortunately won’t do much harm.…

Ridiculous Fishing Is As Fun As Shooting Fish In A Barrel. With An Uzi.

The game isn’t called Ordinary Fishing, after all. It isn’t called By-The-Books Fishing, either. No, it’s called Ridiculous Fishing. So it stands to reason that if you download this game, you will be expecting to do some fishing, and for it to be ridiculous. Good news: That’s exactly what you’ll get. Ridiculous Fishing: A Tale…

Are Rocket Jumps Or Double Jumps Actually Possible?

We do a lot of amazing, if not unrealistic things in video games. Take rocket jumps and double jumps, for example. Your immediate reaction might be “no, of course we can’t rocket jump or double jump in real life”—because really, how would we be able to propel ourselves with a rocket like in games? How…

The Best Lego Nintendo Easter Egg We’ve Found So Far

The delightful new Wii U game Lego City Undercover has a bunch of Nintendo Easter eggs. I found a few of them during the 22 hours and counting that I’ve played the game. The one in the video here is my current favorite. If there are better Nintendo easter eggs hiding in the game—where does…

This Man Claims To Be Behind The Phantom Pain. He’s Not Kojima.

When The Phantom Pain was announced, one thought was on everyone’s mind: it’s gotta be Metal Gear related, and “Joakim Mogren,” the CEO at Moby Dick studios, is really just Kojima. Evidence seemed to point that way, anyway. So who is this dude? The picture comes from a tweet from Geoff Keighley. Here is the…

Creator of Assassin’s Creed Patrice Desilets, who left Ubisoft in 2011 to join THQ, is back at Ubisoft

So, Yeah, Superman Is an Incredible Jerk in The Injustice Comics

A couple of weeks ago, you might’ve seen Superman kill the Joker in cold blood in the prequel comics that build the backstory for upcoming fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us. You could argue that Batman’s archenemy had it coming since he’s a psychopathic mass murderer. But as the series has continued, The Man of…

Batman’s Crying Butler Is My Favorite Scene from This Week’s Comics. What’s Yours?

I love Alfred Pennyworth. And, man, it sucks to see him weeping in Batman and Robin #18. Ninety percent of the time that we see Bruce Wayne’s closest confidante, he’s usually keeping a stiff upper lip, in spite of whatever horrible string of events is currently making Batman’s life hell. But Robin is dead and…

Forget About Humanity. Robots Rule The Land In This Steampunk Game.

Where are the pesky humans? Funny story, that. They blew themselves up. Now steam-powered robots have taken over the world in Steamworld Dig, while what’s left of the “degenerate race of drunken, dynamite-wielding troglodytes” hide in caves beneath the surface. Steamworld Dig is a 3DS hardcore platform mining adventure game. You play as a “steambot”…

Look At How *Advanced* These SimCity Citizens Are

Oh, so this is what they meant when they said you could follow a Sim throughout their entire day. Either this is some awful AI, or the Sims are really just that effing boring. I lean toward the former. Thanks, manlytearsv, for the tip and the upload.

StarCraft II‘s North American servers are currently not working. Blizzard says they’re working on a fix. [Now fixed.]

The Conduit Was an Average Wii Game. Now It’s an Excellent Mobile FPS.

Released in 2009 for the Nintendo Wii, The Conduit was a “bland, but enjoyable” sci-fi first-person shooter with an interesting puzzle-solving twist. I wasn’t a big fan — I only made it through the first two levels before becoming frustrated with the Wii motion controls and giving up. Now the game is out for Tegra-powered…

Finally, A HarmoKnight demo drops into the eShop! Check out the week’s other upcoming Nintendo downloadables here.

Lego City Undercover: The Kotaku Review

It’s an excellent, brand-new year-one Wii U game. It’s simultaneously safe for kids and yet more or less Lego Grand Theft Auto—with you as a cop rather than a crook. It’s the best Lego game of the 10 I’ve played, though it’s not going to win any awards for progressive game design. And it’s got…