Grant Crime Auto: Ice City Now Available on the Amazon App Store. Wait, What?

I refuse to believe for a single second that any of the reviews under Amazon’s Grant Crime Auto: Ice City listing actually paid $3.99 for such an obvious fake. I cannot afford to have my faith in human intelligence damaged any further. Pointed out by Kotaku reader rh_underhill, Grant Crime Auto: Ice City‘s description on…

This new trailer for SimCity takes you on a spline-reticulating whirlwind tour. Nifty.

Prepare Yourselves For Our Next Live Q&A With Dave Fennoy, The Guy Who Voices Lee In The Walking Dead

Let Dave Fennoy, Lee’s voice actor in The Walking Dead and Gabriel Tosh’s voice actor in StarCraft II, excite you for our next live Q&A. It’s happening tomorrow at 1pm Eastern time.

What Can We Expect from MLB 2K13? Not Much, Probably.

2K Sports isn’t saying anything more today about the surprise resurrection of its MLB 2K series. When asked for an interview, a representative told me today’s news release is all we’re getting for now. So it’s time to speculate on what this game may deliver, and my gut feeling is if we see anything more…

The Fate of the Breakaway Metroid Prime Studio, A Mysterious Square-Enix Adventure and More Gaming Secrets.

Editor’s Note: The mysterious person known as Superannuation shows up every two weeks like a new paycheck, if you had a job that paid you in gaming rumors and secrets, all sourced to publicly available information. This time, he/she/it has info on the people who oversaw some Metroid Primes, the people who made Dark Void,…

FarmVille Enchanted Glen Stone Trolls: Everything You Need to Know

As with all new farms in FarmVille, Enchanted Glen comes with a series of immovable “treasures” that can only be opened and removed after collecting a variety of materials from friends. In this case, however, these treasures are moving, apparently living creatures called Stone Trolls. They like to stomp in place and shake their arms,…

The Planned Firefly-Inspired MMO Is Real. It’s Some Fans’ Labor of Love.

There are few things harder to do in gaming than gather a bunch of like-minded friends from around the world and try to make a video game out something you love that happens to be owned by a big corporation that you’re not a part of. For a couple of years, Canadian indie game developer…

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The plan to collect and destroy violent video games in Southington, Conn has been cancelled

The Moon Sneezes Its Way into Your Heart in This Little-Kid Version of the Universe

My two-year-old daughter doesn’t think of stars as huge bodies of flaming gas millions of miles away. She thinks of them as little five-pointed symbols that live inside books and on top of Christmas trees. In similar fashion, she knows that there’s a moon in the sky but also thinks the glowing circles formed by…

You Can Buy This Fully-Functional Mega Man-Themed Operation Game

KodyKoala’s Guts Man design has been out in the wild for a while now, and so has the Gutsman Operation game based on those designs. But now you can actually buy the thing, for $225. It comes with fake money and tiny “ailment” pieces for your surgery needs. Custom Gutsman Operation Game [Etsy via Neatorama]

I’m Addicted to the iTunes Game Store

The moment my iPad or iPad Touch’s screen illuminates my finger hones in on the blue icon with the pencil, ruler and paintbrush formed into a stylized ‘A’, no matter what my previous plans for the device might have been. I know the shop lurking behind the icon is only updated at certain times, but…

Those Two New Legendary Pokémon Have Names, You Know

Spied at the end of the announcement trailer yesterday, two new Pokémon in the upcoming Pokémon X and Y have been confirmed as the game’s Legendary Pokémon and named. The Pokémon company has included a handy pronunciation guide. The one at left above is Xerneas. Say its name like this: “ZURR-nee-us.” The one at right?…

Tera Goes Free-to-Play, Says It Won’t Be “Some Watered-Down Trial Version”

Guess it was only a matter of time, huh, Tera? En Masse Entertainment’s online fantasy game joins Star Wars: The Old Republic and DC Universe Online on the roster of big-deal MMO titles that are ditching subscriptions. Starting in February, subscriptions will no longer be required to play Tera New players who join after the…

Xbox Support Staff Say They Were Fired After Posting About Their Jobs On Kotaku

If you do customer support for Microsoft, don’t post about it on this website. You’ll probably lose your job. Over the past week, I’ve been in touch with two former Xbox support staff. Both people, who asked that we not use their names, say they were fired for writing comments about their jobs on Kotaku.…

I Didn’t Know I Wanted a Trampoline Game on My iPad Until I Saw This

“Finally a beautiful, fun, frustratingly rewarding trampoline game for the iOS!” began the email from developer Joel Blanco Berg, at which point I stopped and thought about how the use of finally suggests someone was desperately waiting for a trampoline game to come out. Then I watched the trailer for Bouncy!, and realized that maybe…

The Biggest, And Most Badass Video Game Toy Of All Time Is Finished

If it feels like we’ve been writing about ThreeA’s Metal Gear Rex figure for years, that’s because we have been Over three years later and the thing is finally shipping to customers who paid around $500 for the pleasure. It’s also shown up on toy site Rad Toy Review, whose pictures make it look like…

There Will Be Baseball on the Xbox 360; Major League Baseball 2K13 Returns

2K Sports surprised everyone with its announcement this morning that MLB 2K13 will release this year on Xbox 360. Pitcher David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays is the cover star. The game will be on shelves March 5. 2K Sports’ MLB 2K series, long a money-loser and critical underperformer, was widely expected to be…

Sony honcho Kaz Hirai tells The Verge (via CVG) that the console business is “not going away any time soon”.

Japan’s Most Wanted Criminal Trolls Cops with a Cat

In what must be one of Japan’s most unusual investigations ever, the alleged culprit behind a series of online threats continues to slip past Japanese police. This time, there’s a cat involved. Yes, a cat. Last summer, a Japanese animator was taken into police custody after remote-controlled threats of a killing spree were sent from…