How A Poster Of A Sexy Dude Helped One Game Developer Make A Point

An employee at Hawken developer Meteor Entertainment had only one real gripe about her job: Their office featured a poster of a scantily-clad lady mechanic, and it bugged her to death. She says her boss, Meteor CEO Mark Long, loved the poster. She did not. So what did she do? As she describes in a…

Six Critics Are Pleasantly Spooked By Metro: Last Light

Metro: Last Light is a survivor. Not only did it suffer multiple delays, but it also managed to get through its publisher’s unfortunate closure unscathed. The result is an excellent, albeit slightly troubled, first-person horror shooter. While some reviews note a few performance- and technical polish-related shortcomings, they agree that Last Light’s universe, story and…

After getting booted from his team Evil Geniuses last week, pro StarCraft player Greg “IdrA” Fields went on Real Talk with host JP McDaniel to discuss his plans for the future. Sounds like he’s moving away from professional playing and getting into commentating. (Via PC Gamer)

Now We Can All Be Kitty Girls And Boys In The Old Republic

In case you just hopped on the MMO bandwagon with the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, it’s not a massively multiplayer party until the anthropomorphic animals arrive. The original EverQuest had the Vah Shir, World of Warcraft has Worgen and now Pandas, and The Old Republic has the Cathar, a race of intergalactic…

The Most Complicated (Imaginary) Board Game Ever

If you’ve ever held a Board Game Night, you know that every group of board game players has…let’s call it a “limit.” There are games that are just too advanced for some, and the key to having fun is picking a game that’s complicated enough to be satisfying for veterans but simple enough for newcomers…

Police Blotter: Man Avoids Prison, but Is All Out of Bubblegum

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, but potentially 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. Put On These Glasses, or Start Eating That…

Ever Wonder Just How Big League of Legends Is? Let This Video Show You

Seventeen League of Legends champions die for every baby that is born, and many other crazy facts put just how big a game this online multiplayer is into perspective. League of Legends certainly has a huge presence online, with a robust and enthusiastic competitive community, too. But I bet you never thought one livestreamed competition…

You Have This Guy to Thank for a Game About Jetpacks and Lancing

Of all the games that I played at New York University’s No Quarter exhibition, the one I most wanted to take home and play with a friend was There Shall Be Lancing. Granted, Killer Queen and Bennet Foddy’s Speed Chess are a little too unwieldy to play in my small New York City apartment, But,…

The Quiet Moments In Metro: Last Light’s Apocalypse

Mood is such an important thing in a nuclear apocalypse; a detail that is so easy to forget. That’s something that’s painfully palpable in the first hour of Metro: Last Light Yes there are telepathic, radioactive creatures. Yes, there is shooting and stabbing. But what really sticks to my ribs more than anything are those…

The Moneysaver: Battlefield, Ghosts, Last Light, PC Parts, Snow Cones

Now you’ve saved, and saving is half the battle. Hey everyone it’s Tuesday, and you’re listening to the Giant- I mean, Moneysaver. We’ve really blown out the Tech and PC parts sections today, so be sure to dig in. Console owners get some sweet pre-order discounts, while the PC master race can take advantage of…

Lonely Hearts, Empty Wallets and Next-Gen Console Questions Answered

Welcome to the first official Ask Kotaku column, where I will provide weekly answers to the questions you send me. There were lots of questions for this first event. They ranged from love and life troubles to job woes, Kotaku, help with specific games and help with organizing them. I tried to answer as many…

Pac-Man Returns This Fall In Another Pac-Man Game That’s Not Pac-Man

If you, like me, are the sort of person that instantly begins to worry when the first image you see of a new Pac-Man game is not a dot-filled maze, then… yeah. Coming this fall from Namco Bandai, it’s Pac-Man and Ghostly Adventures. Based theanimated series of the same name, in which Pac-Man is a…

New Wolfenstein Screens Show That Life is Hell When Nazis Run Things

This batch of screens and artwork is the first real sight we’re getting of the newly reimagined world of the Wolfenstein franchise. So what’s going in them? Oh, just a sassy septuagenarian officer, Nazi robot dogs and hints that the Third Reich wants to conquer space. You also get a good look at B.J. Blazkowicz’s…

Call of Duty‘s Nuketown Map Recreated in Real Life for Paintball

If you camped in the top floors of the Nuketown houses long enough that you wanted to change its hideous government-issue curtains and carpet, then this video is for you. An Illinois paintball field and (paintball) arms supplier Tippmann Sport recreated the map in real life this past weekend. The nuclear clock tower, the school…

A Major Challenge To the Clumsy Way Video Games Handle Right and Wrong

The creators of the huge new video game Watch Dogs reject the black and white choices video games often give you when they want to give you a moral dilemma and make you feel something. They’re striving to go beyond that, to color their new game about hacking, driving, shooting and being an urban vigilante…

Did You Know There Are Multiple Video Games Based On The Great Gatsby?

Everyone’s talking about Gatsby: the newest cinematic take on Fitzgerald’s classic drama made big bucks last weekend at the box office despite disappointing reviews So this seems like a good week to remind you that there have been a couple of different Great Gatsby video games over the past few years. In 2010, there was…

Trion Worlds’ fantasy MMO Rift goes free-to-play on June 12, giving new players access to the entire game for free, limited only by character slots and inventory size, while subscribers will get extra goodies. Check it out here.

We’re Getting Another Adventure Time Game, And Not Just On The 3DS

Oh, joy joy joy! WayForward and D3Publishers are teaming up with Adventure Time writer Pen Ward again for a second Adventure Time game, the companies announced today in a press release. That image here of Finn? That pretty much explains how I feel about this. (Minus the punchiness.) I quite enjoyed the first 3DS/DS Adventure…

Some wild quantum powers, including the ability to “blink” or teleport out of harm’s way, arrive today with Origin Crisis, the seventh DLC extension for DC Universe Online. Operations, raids and time travels explore such possibilities as evil Batman and good Luthor. This post explains how it all fits together.

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