Take a Look at The Legend of Zelda Manga Inside The Hyrule Historia

We’ve already shown an exclusive sneak peek of the English translation of the Hyrule Historia, which is due out next year. Now, Kotaku gives you a full look at the 35-page manga that’s included in the Zelda hardcover. Drawn by Akira Himekawa—the collective nom de plume for artists A. Honda and S. Nagano—the story happens…

Horn Free is Much More Than a Demo of One of the Year’s Best Mobile Games

Phosphor Games’ Unreal Engine 3-powered Horn is one of my favorite games of 2012, but $6.99 a relatively hefty price tag. Horn Free gives iOS gamers a taste of the gorgeous adventure along with a brand-new endless Quest Mode that should thrill old and new players alike. While other mobile games are busy trying to…

Dishonored‘s first piece of DLC, “Dunwall City Trials,” is out today. The PlayStation Blog’s got more details

If Mario’s Story Was Grittier, It’d Look Like This War

The acting is a little cheesy, but it’s fun to watch what the Mushroom Kingdom would look like ravaged by a modern-day, yet still totally fictional war. We’ve seen the trailer, but here’s the full 11-minute first episode. The video starts off very Call of Duty, music and all. And there is a lot of…

Assassin’s Creed III‘s Final Chase Sequence Was The Worst Thing I Played All Year

As I leapt into the fire, dying for the 28th time, I didn’t feel anger or frustration; I felt resignation and a little bit of wonder. How, I asked aloud, to no one in particular. How on earth does something this awful wind up in a big-budget video game in the year 2012? I was…

FarmVille ‘Mistletoe Lane Chapter 6’ Goals: Everything You Need to Know

It’s another Monday in the holiday season, which means that another chapter of the Christmas-themed goals in FarmVille‘s Mistletoe Lane is now available. We’ve made it to Chapter 6, which contains six goals for us to complete over the next seven days. We’re here with a complete guide to finishing these quests, thanks to Zynga.…

Nintendo of America Says Wii U Online IDs Aren’t Locked To One Console Forever.

Since the Wii U was released last month, it’s been unclear whether Nintendo Network IDs—the online username and profile for any Wii U owner who plays, communicates and shops online on the system—is forever baked into the Wii U it is initially registered on. Users are not given any tools to transfer their Nintendo Network…

Ubisoft and Toys’R’Us Team for an Incredibly Complicated Way to Earn Coupons

Why spend hours maintaining a virtual business for no real reward when you can spend hours building a virtual Toys’R’Us and earn valuable coupons? Within 15 minutes of launching Ubisoft’s Toys’R’Us Towers on Facebook, I earned 15 percent off any single item in the store. Taking into account the massive markup the company pays to…

Samuel L. Jackson Says He Likes Assassin’s Creed Better Than Pong

Sometimes you see Samuel L. Jackson walking down the red carpet at the Spike VGAs. And sometimes you feel compelled to ask him random questions about video games. Even if you get the feeling he doesn’t actually play video games.

Here’s the New Trailer for Superman: The Man of Steel

The latest teaser for Zack Snyder’s update on the saga of the Last Son of Krypton looks incredibly moody. Christopher Nolan is producing on this film and hopes are high that it repeats the success of Nolan’s Batman movies.

The Smartest & Dumbest Things Sony Did in 2012

We’re currently taking a look back over 2012, not only at delivery foods we’ve ordered and personal mistakes we’ve made, but also what the major gaming companies have been up to. What have they pulled off? What did they bungle? We already ran down the list for Microsoft, and today it’s good ol’ Sony’s turn.…

Sometimes You Just Have to Hit a Guy With a Goat

I’ve been playing some rather complicated mobile games lately, deep titles requiring strategic planning and inventory management to navigate epic tales of adventure. I’ve been managing cities, maintaining farms and gathering massive armies to vanquish my foes. It’s nice to kick back with a game that only demands I tap the screen to jump. Something…

Thirteen Things You Should Know About Metro: Last Light

The first thing I thought, while checking out Metro: Last Light during a demo presentation in a Manhattan hotel a few weeks ago, was “Another grey shooter? Seriously?” The second thing I thought was “Gee, this actually looks kind of neat.” The third thing I thought was “Okay, now I want to play the first…

You Have Three Years to Prepare for the Angry Birds Movie

After what feels like years of rumblings about a motion picture based on the world’s most popular mobile game franchise, Finnish developer Rovio makes it official: Angry Birds the movie, in theaters summer 2016. Following Marvel Studios’ lead (David Maisel, former Chairman of Marvel Studios is executive producer of the film), Rovio is producing and…

Aliens: Colonial Marines Will Make You Jump at Every Freakin’ Shadow You See

The challenge Gearbox faces in making Aliens: Colonial Marines is twofold. First, since this is an authorized product, they need to make a game that seamlessly slides into Aliens continuity. Given the way that dev studio CEO Randy Pitchford can quote chapter and verse from the movie franchise timeline, this problem seems to be well…

Morning Star Enters the Race to Redefine the Mobile First-Person Shooter

It’s not enough for developer Industrial Toys to have secured the talents of science fiction author John Scalzi and comic artist Mike Choi for their upcoming futuristic mobile shooter; they also aim to change the expectations core gamers have for their mobile games. If you’re getting a bit of a Halo vibe from this teaser…

Flashback: This new Tetris game “lacks the guns…and mayhem that appeal to young connoisseurs of American entertainment software.”

A brief exchange on Twitter yesterday got me wondering how the media covered Tetris back in the day before that game’s release. I couldn’t find a lot of previews of Tetris from the late 80’s, but I did find a few. They’re terrific… and predominantly obsessed with the idea that Tetris, made in Russia, is…

Is There Really a Hidden Message in These Phantom Pain Screenshots?

Stare at these screenshots of The Phantom Pain, the new game announced at the Spike Video Game Awards that pretty much everyone knows is really Metal Gear Solid V Ah, but do you need more evidence that this is MGSV? Then keep staring. Keep staring, because what some people might see as, say, a water…

I Won A Japanese Crane Game For the First Time

A few weeks back when I was checking out Evangelion 3.0 for the second time in the theaters, I walked into the neighboring Sega arcade. Right inside the door they had a raffle set up and anyone with a movie ticket got a free draw. Even though I didn’t win anything special, the consolation prize…

Hack and slash game Dynasty Warriors 8 has over 70 characters. That’s a lot!