Game Changer or Needless Gadget? An In-Depth Analysis of Project Shield.

So Nvidia has a new gaming handheld on the way, powered by its latest mobile chip and capable of playing Android games and streaming PC games directly from your computer. Should we be excited? Worried? Should we even care? Let’s find out. What is Project Shield? Project Shield is a cool code name, chosen because…

Here’s How To Play Most of the Top Nominees From the Independent Games Festival Right Now

You know the Independent Games Festival, right? Happens every year during the Game Developers’ Conference and rounds up a slew of amazing games made by smaller entities? Usually winds up blowing your mind with how awesome the nominated games are? Yeah, that’s the one. The finalists for the 2013 IGF represent some of the most…

This Dude’s Penis Is Stuck In His Xbox And Other Amazing Xbox Support Trolls

Last week I wrote about a silly Twitter exchange between Xbox support and a prankster that pretended to have an issue with an Xbox when in fact he had a PS2. Someone suggested that I look at Xbox support’s favstar, which is a service that tracks a Twitter user’s ‘favorites’ with that account. Turns out,…

Firefly MMO Studio Push Back At Suspicions That Their Game Is a Hoax

The studio claiming to have the blessings of Fox Entertainment to proceed with a Firefly themed MMO have disputed our reporting over the weekend which suggested their project was a hoax. The suspicion was drawn from the logo and the presence of an endorsement purportedly from The Yes Men, an activist group that has impersonated…

Here’s A Detailed Look At Nvidia’s New Gaming Console In Action

Here’s the full walkthrough of Nvidia’s ridiculous-looking Shield, revealed at CES last night. (And streamed via Twitch.) The Shield, which Nvidia says will be available in the second quarter of this year (so April through June), is an Android-helmed gaming device with a Tegra 4 graphics chip and a 5″ touchscreen. You can use it…

ChefVille Cheats & Tips: Earn Tuna from the Moon Pond

As you work to complete the Healthy Eating quests and dishes in ChefVille, you might notice an interesting ingredient: Tuna. This is required for the Seared Tuna Salad dish within the Healthy Eating Station. You’ll need one Tuna for a single preparation of Seared Tuna Salad, but what if you don’t have any in your…

Miiverse Moments: The Many Faces of Alex Trebek

The line between weird homage and illiterate troll is a fine one, particularly in the Miiverse. With that in mind, today’s Miiverse Moment comes from the world of the JEOPARDY! boards, where the focus is on one man and one man only: Alex Trebek. Do they love him? Do they loathe him? Or are they…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is Kotaku‘s 2012 Game of the Year

The staff of Kotaku nominated nine games for 2012 Game of the Year. One game, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, blew the competition away. The PC and console turn-based strategy game from the masterminds behind Civilization was a dark horse in our staff voting. Last week, as we publicized our nominations, two other games—the dramatic five-part adventure…

DayZ Stand-Alone Release Rescheduled, ‘Closed Testing’ To Begin Soon

The folks behind DayZ say they want to rebuild the game’s whole engine before releasing a stand-alone version. Writing in a blog post published this morning, DayZ creator Dean Hall says he’s delayed a stand-alone release of the Arma 2 mod—which was originally slated to be turned into a stand-alone game by the end of…

This Shark Prefers To Dine On Angry Birds

If Gameloft ever wants to shed its reputation as a studio that copies other people’s ideas and repackages them, then they probably shouldn’t be releasing games like Shark Dash Not that it’s a bad game. It’s decent! But it’s as shameless a ripoff of Angry Birds as you could hope for, copying most of that…

Nvidia Just Built Its Own Gaming Supercomputer: The Grid

Nvidia wants to make a Netflix of gaming—perfectly smooth, perfectly simple, superbly rendered PC games steamed to your system as if you owned an expensive rig. And so, here’s a GPU tower that the company says just that, combining 700 Xbox 360s in one tall box. Each Grid rack contains 240 Nvidia GPUs that stream…

This Is Probably What Blur 2 Would Have Looked Like. Too Bad You’ll Never Play It.

Bizarre Creations—who made Project Gotham Racing and The Club—met an unfortunate end more than a year ago, after putting out combat-enhanced racer Blur. The Liverpool dev collective were working on another racing game when Activision pulled the plug on the studio. On his personal Tumblr, former art director Chris Davie (now at developer Lucid) shows…

Fahey’s Top Ten Games of 2012

Just when you thought that it had passed, I went and saved the best for last. Or I procrastinated. Either way, looking back on 2012 from my death bed four years from now, these are the ten games that could possibly briefly pull me out of my fevered demetia, bringing a spark of recognition to…

Wii U Sales Are ‘Not Bad,’ Nintendo Chief Says

Hey Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, how’s the Wii U selling? Good? Great? Awesome? Fantastic? “At the end of the Christmas season, it wasn’t as though stores in the U.S. had no Wii U left in stock, as it was when Wii was first sold in that popular boom,” Iwata told Reuters. “But sales are…

Take a Dramatic Look at the Assembly of Nvidia’s New Gaming Handheld

So far, the biggest gaming surprise of CES 2013 is the totally unheralded reveal of Project Shield, the new handheld from Nvidia. Some of the functionality was run down in last night’s reports but if you want to know what’s inside the thing, then you might get some clues from this very-impressed-with-itself reveal video. Look…

Get ready to wake up early, Pokémon fans. Pokémon news coming in a Nintendo Direct tomorrow at 6am ET

The MOGA Mobile Controller Gets Supersized

Now that Power A’s MOGA game controller for Android is picking up steam, it’s time to go big. Announced today in advance of CES 2013, the MOGA Pro is a full-sized gaming controller that pairs the convenience of a phone clip with a stand for your tablet. The list of supported games is growing, and…

Weapons of Mass Disruption #3: How and Why Consoles Will Die

Many people (me included) have been saying publicly that they think the ‘console’—dedicated hardware designed primarily for gaming—is on its way out. I used to keep a list of famous developers and executives who shared my view, but it got too big to maintain! Anyway, here’s just two whom you might care about: David Jaffe…

Mad Catz’s Mobile Hardware is Just as Pretty as Its PC Peripherals

As promised last week, Mad Catz has drawn back the curtain on its new line of mobile peripherals, each (well, not the headset) featuring its fancy GameSmart technology to ensure compatibility across a wide range of mobile devices. If it supports Bluetooth Smart (and it should), your mobile jam could be enhanced by a mouse…

Crackdown On Multiple Game Accounts Leaves Some Honest Gamers Locked Out

Ma Hong (a pseudonym) spent at least 10 hours every day over the last 5 years playing the same old MMORPG. She put a lot of care and effort into each of her characters, so much so that they were considered well equipped by many of the top gamers in the game. Late last week,…