Deadline reports that plans to re-release more Star Wars films in 3D have been scrapped. Phew.

Your Favorite Zelda Game Could Have Looked Like THIS

Flipping through the Hyrule Historia book (which you can finally get in English) makes you realize that Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series isn’t just a bunch of games. It’s a mythology, one filled with personas that change their shapes, personalities and abilities in each new telling. Anyone who’s been a die-hard Zelda fan has had…

Snacktaku Special Report: Five Snacks I Must Eat in 2013

The majority of snacks I’ve reviewed over the past couple of years for Snacktaku have been happy accidents. I wasn’t planning on putting them in my mouth and writing about them—it just happened. This year I am changing things up. This year I have an eating agenda—there are five foods that shall not escape my…

Crytek has snapped up several members of the now-defunct Vigil Games for a new Austin-based Crytek studio.

Your Future Video Games May Be Built Like This

The Atomontage Engine got a brief shout-out from Minecraft creator Markus Persson back in 2011, but 2011 was a long time ago. So it’s nice to see an update on the project in 2013, and things are looking very interesting. Unlike most engines, Atomontage is based not on polygons but voxels. So, think Minecraft, only…

Did you know we have our own official YouTube page? Chris makes tons of neat things over there.

Wii U Virtual Console Games Won’t Work With Older Save Files

You won’t be able to transfer save games from your Wii’s Virtual Console to your Wii U’s Virtual Console, Nintendo has confirmed to Kotaku Last week, Nintendo detailed how the Wii U’s Virtual Console will work when it officially launches this spring. It will be an entirely separate entity from the Wii’s Virtual Console—which you…

Surgeon-Simulator 2013 Is The Most Realistic Heart Surgery Game I’ve Played All Day

If you’re like me, you’ve played enough Trauma Center to know that open heart surgery is super duper easy. I mean, I’m practically a doctor over here! Which is why I’m loving the ultra realistic Global Game Jam game Surgeon-Simulator 2013 by Bossa Studios. In the video above, I’ll walk you through the basics of…

This is Not Pinball. This is PinWar.

Pinball translates quite well to the iPad, but it’s generally a single-player experience, pass-and-play at best. Prank Entertainment’s PinWar, coming to iOS on February 7, presents a novel way to get a pair of pinball wizards playing at once, at least until the iPad is thrown across the room. I’d start practicing your grip now.

Here is a fascinating article on Kill Screen about in-game photography—like that of Dead End Thrills. Worth a read!

Let’s Guess What These New Mass Effect 3 Screenshots Tease

Today, both Casey Hudson and Michael Gamble—producers on the Mass Effect Team—tweeted pictures. Mass Effect pictures, of course—presumably, of DLC. But beyond that? Your guess is as good as mine as to what these pictures depict. Above is a city, obviously. The Citadel, maybe? Probably not, but who knows? And below, a Krogan that you…

In Emotional Video, Chris Taylor Says He’s ‘Fearful’ About Wildman Kickstarter’s Outcome

Just last week we learned that Chris Taylor, the developer behind Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander, was forced to lay off a significant number of people from his company Gas Powered Games after the Kickstarter campaign for their game Wildman was met with underwhelming funding rates. Yesterday, in an hour long interview posted on YouTube…

Neverwinter Beta Weekends Dated, and For $200 You Can Pretend You’re Drizzt

Perfect World Entertainment is prepared to open a portal to the Forgotten Realms next month with the first of three beta weekend events for its upcoming Dungeons & Dragons MMORPG, Neverwinter, and there’s one sure way to get in—spending $49.99 or $199.99 on a Neverwinter Founder’s Pack. Set in one of the most popular Dungeons…

A Beginner’s Guide To Making Your First Video Game

Game development has exploded over the last few years, and now it seems like everyone is making a video game. You’ve got big studios full of hundreds of people. You’ve got small teams making incredible games. There are more people in independent game development than ever. This is an amazing thing, because everyone brings their…

This Game Awards You Points For Smashing Real World Cameras

Gamification—the use of game mechanics in the real world—remains largely a joke, often relegated to a bullet point in a marketing strategy or manifested as an ineffective experiment. Some might even call it bullshit. Sometimes, though, you see something noteworthy and interesting—and in this case, gamification has found an unlikely outlet: protesting in Germany (or…

And You Thought Platformers Had Run Out Of New Ideas

Take a look at this video of indie platformer Oliver and Spike in action. As it starts, you’re probably thinking that it looks pretty nice, a comfortable modern take on 3D jumping. Then you hit the point where he looks like he’s going to fall short of a jump, and everything changes. I know that…

ChefVille ‘Rock Climbs Rocks’ Catering Order: Everything You Need to Know

The brand new chapter of catering orders in ChefVille continues to expand this week. Players that complete the “Yoga with Pippa!” order can now tackle “Rock Climbs Rocks.” This order is slightly more difficult than the first in this chapter, but neither of these healthy eating catering orders are as difficult as the birthday party…

Final Fantasy Blamed for Brutal Murder

A grisly killing in Munich left a 31 year-old woman dead. Katrin M. (last name withheld) was stabbed 18 times with a katana, and now some members of the German press are pointing the finger at Final Fantasy German press, like Munich tabloid TZ, is running photos of the alleged killer, 18 (or 19, depending…

Gyro Controls? Yes, I Need Gyro Controls to Destroy Castles

For the record, I hate the iPhone’s gyro controls. Hate, hate, hate. Make that, hated, hated, hated. As iOS game Catapolt has made me aware, sometimes times, gyro controls are the way to go. The only way. Catapolt is one of many (many) catapult-based iOS games. As the developer told Kotaku, the game is a…

Ever Seen A PS3 Controller Sticking Out Of Someone’s Eye Socket? Now You Have.

Seriously, I hope you were prepared for OxBloodrayne1989xO’s gross (in a good way) makeup skills. This is certainly rage quitting at its worst. Violent Gaming [deviantART via Obvious Winner]