He Made That Sweet Assassin’s Creed III Hoodie, And This Is His Story

Enzo Volante had been designing characters and costumes since he was in the second grade, but it wasn’t until he graduated college that he learned how to design patterns and make clothes. It was a necessity: he had no job and he needed something to wear. Just because it was a necessity didn’t mean he…

Nintendo’s Clarification About The 8GB Wii U Doesn’t Clarify Much

Nintendo is pushing back a tad against the notion, reported by Kotaku yesterday, that 8GB Wii U Basic’s demise is imminent. Yesterday we reported that GameStop has issued a “recall” of the $300 white version of the Wii U. Today, Nintendo says that they are simply doing a “rebalance” of the supply of white 8GB…

Do you still fantasize that Apple will make a game console? Read this in-depth feature on The Gameological Society about the Pippin and the last time that the iPhone makers tried cracking the home video game market.

Holy Hell, This Guy Re-Created All Of Baldur’s Gate In 3D

It took him seven years, but yesterday, game designer Drew Rechner finally released Baldur’s Gate: Reloaded, a ridiculous mod that puts the entirety of BioWare’s classic RPG—including the expansion, Tales of the Sword Coast—into Neverwinter Nights 2 To play the mod, you’ll need a copy of Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansions Mask of the…

Brian Eno, Of All People, Explains The True Beauty Of Retro Games

The appeal of 8-bit music, retro graphics and other art forms defined by their limits, beautifully explained by prolific musical artist and producer Brian Eno in his 1996 diary “A Year With Swollen Appendices.” Originally posted on volume xii, via Business Insider

The Moneysaver: Mass Effect Trilogy $20, Battlefield 4, Arkham Origins

Ladies and gentlemen, there will be deals. And we’re off. Pre-order discounts available on Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4, while Mass Effect Trilogy is down to $20 on PC. Console owners can get Mass Effect 3 for $8 as well. Don’t miss our first deal on the Haswell i7-4770K, or the sweet price on the…

Their $5 Gaming Chair Turned Out To Be A $150,000 Antique

A Colorado couple found out that the chair that they’d been gaming on was a vintage Eames chair. According to Fox Philadelphia the chair, an antique Eames LCW manufactured by Herman Miller and designed by Charles and Ray Eames, is estimated to be worth 150,000 dollars. The couple had bought it for five bucks, used…

Don’t you wish you had someone to give you advice when you feel like you can’t help but run into walls? Well, now you do. It’s called me and it’s run by Ask Kotaku. Or…wait, yeah. Something. Clearly I am qualified. So email me questions! Tina at Kotaku dot com. Oh, and if you’re running…

Hopefully The Xbox One Is Nothing Like Hal 9000

The Xbox One will always be watching, waiting—and GrittyReboots rolls with that premise with this video, where the new Kinect is terrifyingly like Hal 9000. Of course, while this take on the Xbox One is funny, the Xbone experience will be nothing like this….hopefully! Xbox One: A Space Odyssey [GrittyReboots]

Check out this week’s episode of Spike’s All Access Weekly, where our own Tina “Needs a Clever Nickname” Amini discusses the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and what to expect when you’re expecting the most exciting E3 in ages.

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2012 Promises?

E3 is just around the corner and, for the fifth year in a row, we’re taking a look back at the big three’s big E3 promises. What came true, and what didn’t? After looking at both Sony and Nintendo, it’s finally time to examine Microsoft. While Microsoft talked about a lot of games at their…

Someday Our Xbox 360s Will Be Retro. And This is How We’ll Feel.

One of my new favorite YouTubers, LaserFrog, knows that the Xbox 360 will someday be a retro console. He imagines this beautiful but somewhat sad future. “Ah, remember the 360? Crazy to think it used a disc drive. Don’t know how we ever got past those dark ages!” So good. I’ll cherish my 360, and…

The awesome remastered version of Spelunky—which was an Xbox 360 exclusive last year—is coming to PC, PS3 and Vita this summer, according to developer Mossmouth

Now You Have No Excuse For Not Playing Final Fantasy Tactics

Way before Game of Thrones became the hottest thing on television, some of fiction’s best politicking and betrayal could be found in Final Fantasy Tactics, a strategy-RPG originally released for the PS1, then PSP, then iOS and Android (in Japan). It’s one of the best games out there. And I guess there’s a team at…

It’s The Wizard Of Oz Meets Pokemon? That Actually Makes Sense.

Coming June 19 to iOS from Little Box Apps, Monsters Invade: Oz gives Dorothy a little something to keep her occupied as she eases on down the road — collecting, battling and evolving monsters. I suppose in a way The Wizard of Oz is a lot like Pokemon. Dorothy travels the yellow brick road, picking…

As compensation for its “longest downtime in quite a while,” EVE Online is giving active accounts 50,000 unallocated skill points. Trial accounts got an extra week. “If you hear of someone doing or planning something bad, even if it’s your friend, we do have the PLEX for snitches program,” publisher CCP said.

This Infamous: Second Son video shows off how motion capture is evolving for the PS4. That is a whole lot more dots than we used to see, no?

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The Next Deus Ex Is A Mobile Game

Teased earlier this week, Square Enix has lifted the veil on Deus Ex: The Fall, a first-person shooter for iPhone and iPad that picks up where James Swallow’s novel The Icarus Effect left off. From the YouTube video description: We are back in 2027 — a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but…

After Getting Laid Off From Zynga, These Guys… Partied?

A year ago, sketch-centric guessing game Draw Something became an inescapable phenomenon, pulling in millions of people each day. That success led to a surprising $210 million acquisition of dev studio OMGPOP by Zynga. On Monday, many of those creators were victim of a harsh 520-person culling as Zynga desperately tries to re-structure.But, were those…