Mass Effect Edition of Risk Arrives This Fall

Yep, I’m as surprised as you. This showed up on the official Mass Effect Facebook page yesterday, and obviously coincides with Toy Fair in New York this week. But Hasbro has said nothing about the “Galaxy at War” edition of Risk. BioWare says the game is on shelves in the fall.

Man Arrested For Trying To Walk Out Of Kmart With 19 Video Games In His Pants

I don’t know how you fit 19 video games in your pants, but at least one guy does. (Allegedly.) Police have charged 34-year-old William Gooden with a felony for trying to walk out of a Kmart without paying for the 19 games that were stuffed in his pants, according to a report by St. Louis’s…

What People Used To Say About The First Xbox

We don’t know every last thing about the new Xbox. Some leaked details, for the most part, sprinkled with a liberal helping of rumors. While we wait for new bits and pieces to be revealed, why not reminisce a bit? Let’s have a look at how the very first Xbox, turning 12 years old this…

New Consoles ‘Most Likely’ Won’t Be Backwards Compatible, EA Exec Says

The next generation of consoles are unlikely to accommodate older games with backwards compatibility, Electronic Arts’ chief financial officer told an audience of investors in San Francisco today. Blake Jorgensen, addressing how EA will manage when new consoles arrive later this year, as is widely expected, pointed to the company’s sports catalog and particularly their…

Neon Alley, VIZ Media’s 24-hour anime channel, now gives Xbox 360 owners all the Naruto they can eat for $6.99 a month.

Six Comics That Channel Some Sort of Love This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Why Deadpool is the Best Character in Avengers Alliance

I’ve been playing far too much of Marvel’s Avengers Alliance on Facebook lately, or maybe I’ve been playing the right amount, as I had just enough command points to recruit the fourth wall-breaking Merc with a Mouth into my party. Now it’s really a party. Deadpool, previously a PVP unlock in the turn-based superhero role-playing…

The Joker is Broken. Young Avengers Aren’t. Let Panel Discussion Tell You Why.

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” Hence, this recurring feature in Kotaku‘s slice of comics programming, where comics critics,…

The Secret Ingredient Needed to Make Anything a ‘Real Game’

There’s been some heated discussion as to whether Proteus—Ed Key and David Tanaga’s award-winning lo-fi ambient exploration game—can be called a game. All the back-and-forth boils down to just so much fooferaw. But, if you want to nail Proteus down to a more restrictive, AAA-centric definition of what a game is, then cartoonist Zac Gorman…

If Sin City Was Set In Sim City

Worth watching: this UGO-created trailer that shows what it would be like if the Robert Rodriguez-directed action movie Sin City was actually Sim City. It’s pretty funny. Definitely not fake. Definitely. Sim City: A Game to Kill For – NOT FAKE TRAILER [HD] [YouTube]

Bungie promises the official reveal of its next game, Destiny, will come Feb. 17.

Would Breaking Bad make for a good video game? Maybe not, argues video-game writer Susan O’Connor.

You Could Win $200,000 for Playing The Most Annoying Facebook Game Ever Made

How would you like to win a $200,000 mortgage pay off or $100,000 cash? That’s the grand prize in Race 4 My Place, a new social city building game that trades real-money microtransactions for an even more annoying revenue model—mandatory advertising. PopRox Entertainment’s Race 4 My Place seems like a wonderful idea. It’s a Facebook…

Two Major Features Every Retro Game Service Needs

If you like old games, life is good in 2013. We have digital access to a wide library of retro titles ranging from NES classics to random Japanese imports like Makeruna Makendo 2. Services like the Virtual Console and PlayStation Network allow us to re-play old games without rummaging through our closets for the Super…

The Aliens In Colonial Marines Are So Stupid, You Don’t Even Need To Shoot Them

Last night, my review briefly touched on the disappointing enemy AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines—often, Xenos would run straight at you. According to this video by PCGamesN, it gets worse. You can straight up run through the aliens, who forget about you once you’re far enough (and by “far enough” I mean “once you’re behind…

FarmVille 2 Turkish Delights Kitchen Recipes: Everything You Need to Know

Now that you’ve had a complete look at the Turkish Delights theme in FarmVille 2, it’s time to dive deeper with a look at the three themed recipes that are available to cook in the game’s Crafting Kitchens. We’re here with a complete guide to these dishes, their ingredients, and their rewards. The first dish…

Avengers, Angry Birds and Star Trek Enterprises: Toy Fair 2013, Day 3

Hasbro transforms and rolls out to the beat of its own drummer. The giant company held court at its own preview space during Toy Fair 2013, blocks away from the trade show’s epicenter. On display were Star Trek and Transformers-centric updates to the Kreo building blocks, toys tied into this year’s Thor: the Dark World…

EA tells RPS Medal of Honor games are on hold in favor of Battlefields b/c MoH lacked the best production leadership.

The Mother-and-Alien-Child Reunion is a Couple of Motions Away in Stick To It

Whenever I feel like the physics puzzle format is completely played out, Fahey slides me another download code, and the thing turns out to be pretty good. Stick To It, ahem, adheres to the basic principles of the genre, but shows there are still clever ways to challenge players to finish a puzzle with an…

Now There’s an Official App for Watching Pokemon Cartoons

I had no idea I wanted an app that featured a weekly rotation of 50 episodes of the Pokemon cartoon sorted by game region until just now. The free Pokemon TV App is here, and it wants to show you its Pokemons. Not only does the free app, available today on iTunes and Google Play,…