This Boss Boss-Music Spins Sexy NiGHTS Into Saxy Dreams

Here’s a quick story. I was in New York last weekend, hanging out at Kotaku friend and columnist Leigh Alexander’s apartment. We were going through her PS3 library looking for random stuff to play, and we dug into the PSN re-release of the Saturn game NiGHTS into Dreams. Okay, cool, I know a bit about…

Check Out The Marvelous Soundtrack For The Adventure Time Game

You may have heard that the 3DS game Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage? is a lot of fun. The soundtrack is a lot of fun, too, and the game’s publishers have posted the entire thing to Soundcloud. You can check it out there, or listen right here: The music was…

The Year In Music At Kotaku

Nietzsche once said, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Imaginary philosopher Richard Riemenschneider once said, “People who begin articles with Nietzsche quotes are the worst.” Let’s agree to meet somewhere in the middle. And with that, let’s look back at the best of Kotaku Melodic this year. The idea of doing discrete Kotaku “Programming…

Remember to charge your phones and tablets and stock up on chargers before midnight Mayan time, in case you survive.

Don’t Bet On Seeing a Pitcher on MLB 13 The Show‘s Cover

Odds are strong that the cover of MLB 13 The Show will be graced by a National League hitter, as six of seven candidates in this fan-voted contest are batters, and five of them are from the senior circuit. The field was completed yesterday, leaving the Yankees’ C.C. Sabathia as the lone hurler and Detroit’s…

The Ceasefire For Online Shooters—a demonstration in memory of Sandy Hook—starts tonight. Midnight to midnight EST.

Team Fortress 2’s Mecha Update, and new online store, are now live

Watch Us Play One Of The Silliest Party Games On iOS

This is Spaceteam, a new iOS game created by ex-Bioware developer Henry Smith. On one hand, it’s super fun. On the other hand, it crashed most of the times we tried to play it. Smith told me last week that there’s a patch planned, but for now, be warned that it might not work properly.…

There’s More Than a Little Sonic the Hedgehog in Major Magnet

Check out this screenshot for Major Magnet, an iOS platformer hitting iTunes on January 10. What does it remind you of? Can you imagine a blue hedgehog with red shoes running around on it? The similarities between Major Magnet and Sonic the Hedgehog are not coincidence. The team at PagodaWest Games working on the new…

The Smartest & Dumbest Things Take-Two Interactive Did In 2012

Sometimes you just have to buckle down and put out good games. Take-Two Interactive—and their branches, 2K and Rockstar—did a minimum of futzing around this year, instead releasing a relatively slim, high quality roster. Almost all of Take-Two’s sequels improved upon their predecessors. Rockstar brought back Max Payne, fatter and drunker than ever, and his…

Bill O’Reilly Talks About Video Games and Violence and Ends Up Being Somewhat Reasonable About It All

Bill O’Reilly has made a great living as Fox News Channel’s national scold for the past 15 years, with video games among many targets in his campaign of cultural warfare. So at the beginning of this segment on his program last night, when he smugly diagnoses Adam Lanza, the Newtown, Conn. shooter, as a violent…

Atlus’s Next Game Is A Co-Op Shooter

It’s called God Mode, and it’s a cooperative shooter developed by a New Jersey-based team called Old School Games (a branch of Saber Interactive). It’s also published by Atlus, the Japanese company behind Persona and Catherine God Mode will be out in early 2013 as a digital release for PC and consoles. It’ll cost $10,…

Report: Disney’s Infinity Project Will Combine Toy Story, The Incredibles and Wreck-It Ralph in One Massive, Cross-Platform Gameworld

Disney’s ambitious video game project looks like it will be rolling out on a broad, multi-platform experience that will let users create, share and play games based on popular properties like Pirates of the Caribbean or Monsters, Inc, according to details leaked to Polygon Images and video sent to Polygon reveal that aspects of familiar…

Create Star Wars Sequels and Spy on Mitt Romney in These Great Games Based on the Year 2012

It’s great to see Dishonored getting appreciation on so many end-of-year lists, isn’t it? And it’s also nice to see the love being showered on The Walking Dead for delivering an emotionally affecting experience. But a lot more than a few good game releases happened this year. Debates! Elections! NFL referee idiocy! Star Wars sequels…

Goodbye iPhone, The Samsung Galaxy Note II is My New Gaming Phone

Up until recently I’d been counting the days until my December mobile phone upgrade eligibility, the day I could extend my contract for another two years in exchange for a discounted iPhone 5. There’d been a gnawing anxiety deep in my gut, growing stronger each day my friends possessed Apple’s latest gadget and I did…

Listen To The Surprisingly Chatty XCOM: Enemy Unknown Holiday Card

Christmas Joust is still my favorite 2012 video game-related holiday card, but I’m giving this XCOM: Enemy Unknown one second place. Watch the video with the sound on and you’ll hear why.

The Biggest Disappointments Of 2012

2012 was a hell of a year for video games. We got a ton of fantastic games to play, surprises of all shapes, sizes, and colors. It was also a year of upheaval, when things often didn’t go according to plan, and when many a game failed to live up to expectations. It’s not that…

What The Hell Is Going On With Warhammer: 40,000: Dark Millenium?

It’s a strange thing, the video game industry. The people who publish big games will sometimes cancel, move, or overhaul them entirely. Nothing wrong with any of that, but one big problem is that along the way, some of those publishers will clam up. They’ll refuse to give straight answers or talk about their plans.…

First My Little Pony Update Brings Bowling Pony, Who Doesn’t Roll on Shabbos

It’s Hearth Warming’s Eve in Ponyville, and Gameloft is celebrating with the first major update for the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic app. The town is covered with snow, there are festive decorations to buy, and John Goodman’s finest work is immortalized forever in digital pony form. Along with the requisite bug fixes, the…

The Wonderful World Of Dog Cosplay

Cats get all the internet fame, but they’re not the only pets participating in cosplay. Dog cosplay is also a ‘thing,’ and a cute, amazing thing at that. Can’t help but wonder though: which is easier to do, cat cosplay or dog cosplay? As much as I love cats, they’re not so great at playing…