Police Blotter: Sorry I Slashed Your Throat, Bro

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. The Most Gears Apology, Ever GLASGOW, Scotland—The teenager accused…

The Week in Games: It’s Clobberin’ Time

Gazillion’s Diablo-esque Marvel Heroes MMO highlights this week’s typically quiet run-up to E3, accompanied by the all-new, dystopian Remember Me on consoles and PC, and a retail edition of Minecraft for the Xbox 360. Tuesday • Remember Me (360, PS3, PC) • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition (360, PS3, PC) • Crysis 3:…

Steam Sends Indies Who Got Publishing Offer Back to Greenlight

Shortly after opening their Steam Greenlight campaign for the game Paranautical Activity, the two-man studio Code Avarice got a phone call that would have made any indie’s day: It was Adult Swim, offering to publish their game on Steam. Yeah, well, not so fast. As Code Avarice’s Mike Maulbeck and Travis Pfenning explain in that…

The Future has Arrived: Print Your Own Mechwarrior Toys

You can’t buy this six-inch tall, posable Atlas battlemech from any toy or collectible maker, and it isn’t a Comic-Con exclusive. It’s exclusively from the 3D printer of a Mechwarrior fan. The Atlas has (by my count, anyway) 11 points of articulation, and creator Valcrow says that from the torso up, just two parts were…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Rolling Wonder

Maybe I was a little hard on the “X-Box,” a cozy, if insane, contraption being sold for $2,500 in Youngstown, Ohio. It does come with an A/C unit, though I’d be glad to ditch that for a wet bar (and just open the fridge if it got too hot.) Anyway, I know how I can…

Sunday Comics: Can’t Touch This

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published May 27. Read more of Corpse Run Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Dog Duty: The Winners

Without a doubt, Call of Duty Dog stole the show at Microsoft’s big Xbox One reveal, and not for all the right reasons. The law of unintended consequences dictates that one of them is appearance in the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Who’s a good ‘Shopper? Who’s a good ‘Shopper? Yes you are, Sciteach! Yes you ARE!…

Dark Souls II Coming March 2014, Says E3 Sign

This big billboard going up over the L.A. Convention Center, as spied by reader Norm the Alligator, pegs Dark Souls II for an early spring 2014 release. Does this mean it’s coming to PS4/Xbox One? To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @owengood

MIT’s OpenRelativity engine, designed to model Einstein’s special theory of relativity in a video game, now is being released as an open-source toolset. It is available for download here.

Oh Man, You Are Not Gonna Believe What You Can Do in Watch_Dogs

We may be coming to the twilight of the current console generation but these old dogs can still learn some new tricks, as this making-of video for Watch_Dogs shows. That’s right, hero Aiden Pearce will be able to walk with his hands in his pockets. This is actual gameplay, folks, NOT PRE-RENDER. Skip ahead to…

Intel Haswell Makes Its Debut: Core i7-4770K Review

Regular TechSpot readers will have no doubt spotted several mentions of Haswell on our front page this year. In the past few months we have covered everything from model names to performance and battery life claims. A key focus has been Haswell’s graphics, with rumors suggesting its performance is set to be 2 to 3…

Trivialize an Anti-Gay Riot With This Bizarre Facebook Game

Two weeks ago, priests in Georgia (the former Russian state independent republic, not the US state) led a mob that attacked about 50 gay rights demonstrators, hurling rocks and, ifthis YouTube video is an indication, swinging furniture. Someone’s cooked up a nearly unplayable side-scroller lampooning the chaos. This is Call of Taburetka, the latter word…

Joining last year’s miracle Half-Life 3 onion ring, @joshpav just found this Borderlands logo/Vault symbol in his meal. (As retweeted by Gearbox Software president and CEO Randy Pitchford.)

Someone’s Going to Dig Up Atari’s Infamous New Mexico Landfill

Alamogordo’s city council has granted an excavation permit for the infamous landfill said to hold thousands of copies of E.T. and Pac-Man for the Atari 2600—two titles blamed for the mid-1980s crash of console gaming—and yes, the permit-holder is digging out the site specifically to find those games’ remains. The story is well known to…

Tales of Symphonia is Coming to the PS3

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Tales of Symphonia is getting re-released on the PlayStation 3. Titled Tales of Symphonia Unisonant Pack, the game will include both Tales of Symphonia and its sequel, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Tales producer Hideo Baba made the announcement today to a cheering crowd of 12,000…

This Week in the Business: A Billion-Dollar Underestimate

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “I think, candidly, people are way, way under-indexing how hard we’re punching.”—Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft’s Entertainment Division, talking about how Microsoft is ready to invest $1 billion in exclusive Xbox One titles QUOTE | “The optimistic part of me is…

The Best Of Kotaku, The Week Of May 27

Welcome to the weekend, Kotaku. Which means I’ve got a round-up of all our best content on Kotaku Selects. While Microsoft and Sony still aren’t talking about the online and other details for their newest consoles, others are talking. So while we wait for news from E3 in roughly a week (oh god one more…

Oculus Rift Developer Killed, Was A Bystander During a Police Chase

Andrew Scott Reisse, an accomplished developer at Oculus VR, the company behind the virtual-reality Oculus Rift headset, was killed in Santa Ana, California on Thursday. He was an innocent victim of a police chase gone horribly wrong. Reisse was apparently out for a walk when an alleged gang member, fleeing the police in a Dodge…

So, These Are The People Who Post On NeoGAF!

A teaser video for the upcoming GameTrailers.com documentary about the popular gaming message board NeoGAF finally puts some faces to the screen-names. These people don’t look anything like their avatars! I quite like the GIF-generating, news-aggregating, secret-finding, incessant-games-journalism-analyzing NeoGAF. I even post there from time to time. But I’ve not met many other people who…

More Game of Thrones Characters As Bad 90’s Stereotypes

Last time around, we showed you what some Game of Thrones stars would look like in stereotypical 90’s fashion. The artist, Mike Wrobel, has returned with some more characters in this style. Excellent. Of course I would think this is excellent, since this batch includes two of my favorite characters. But, c’mon, Brienne as a…