If Samuel L. Jackson Cameoed in Black Ops II, He’d Look Like This

Completing his cameo tour of the year’s biggest games, this is Samuel L. Jackson appearing in what he calls “The real motherf—-ing Black Ops.”

Halo 4‘s Multiplayer Soap Opera Continues on Jan. 21. 2013

The Spartan Ops episodic missions for Halo 4 have provided a whole other narrative experience for players of the Xbox 360 exclusive. The weekly UNSC vs Covenant drama will continue in January. Here’s a teaser of what’s coming. Skip ahead to 6:33 for the trailer: Halo 4: Spartan Ops: VGAs Trailer

Well how about that. Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead is the 2012 Video Game of the Year.

Half-Life 2 was selected “Game of the Decade” at the 2012 Video Game Awards.

Gears of War: Judgment Shows Us How the Fighting Started

The key takeaway to this prequel to Epic Games’ sci-fi shooter series is the idea that the humans of Sera thought they could win a fight against the Locust. You’ve got Delta Squad’s Baird and Cole front and center as the Slugs start to break through the surface. Giant subterranean lifeforms? Check. Cover combat. Check.…

This is All We Know About “Moby Dick Studio”, Alleged Makers of The Phantom Pain [Update]

The Phantom Pain was a world premiere trailer out of left field—not only is that a new series, it’s a new studio. Well, to most folks, anyway. Ever heard of Moby Dick Studio? Me either. [Update] It’s Kojima. [Update] Yeah, we hear you. “Joakim” is a rearranged spelling of “Kojima.” All sorts of things point…

And This is Mace Windu as an Angry Bird

Samuel L. Jackson, host of the 2012 Video Game Awards, is cameoing in some of the year’s most noteworthy games. Here he reprises his Jedi master role in Angry Birds: Star Wars

Here’s Samuel L. Jackson in Halo 4

Cortana, he’s not. The AI version of Samuel L. Jackson looks more like he should be holographically broadcast from an R2 droid. Master Chief probably won’t be making a poignant bond with this loudmouth.

Dark Souls II Debuts at the 2012 Video Game Awards

Dark Souls II just got a world premiere trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards. It’s coming for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. See for yourself. Looks… tough, and unforgiving. As usual. UPDATE: The game will star a new hero in a new world and will have a new director, as the series’ creator,…

Dark Souls II is Coming

Dark Souls II was just announced at the Video Game Awards. There’s a grab from the game’s trailer. The trailer presents a quest driven by some sort of romnace and graphics that look a great deal sharper than From Software’s previous Souls efforts.

The Last of Us Arrives in May

The Last of Us from Naughty Dog was a surprise reveal at last year’s Video Game Awards. This year it gets another trailer (above), and a release date—May 7, 2013.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Resurrects Dracula in the Modern Day

We knew some kind of sequel to the last Castlevania game was coming, and a new trailer shown during the VGAs offered up a ton more info. Narrated by the Belmonts’ sworn eternal enemy, the clip showed Dracula recalling past glories and vowing a return to power. The teaser seems to hint that you’ll be…

The Last of Us will release on May 7, 2013, per its trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards.

South Park: The Stick of Truth Gets a Hilarious Trailer, but No Release Date

As irreverent and ribald as you expect South Park to be, here is the trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth, which premiered at tonight’s Video Game Awards. It gives you a look at the game’s playable classes, plus all sorts of cameos from the show’s long run, and elsewhere. No release date, though…

Here’s How Samuel L. Jackson Looks in The Walking Dead

Tonight’s host of the Spike Video Game Awards will be appearing in some of the games being honored tonight. First up, The Walking Dead

Whatever It Is, The Phantom Pain Looks Very Intense

The first all-new game given a trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards is The Phantom Pain, and it seems almost deliberately confusing and vague. That’s fitting given its premise, in which a veteran awakens in a hospital after a long coma, with his left hand amputated. In come the troops hellbent on exterminating the…

Watch The 2012 Video Game Awards Live Right Here!

Alright, folks. The 2012 Video Game Awards on Spike TV ain’t just Sam Jackson handing out a bunch of monkeyfighting awards to some Monday-to-Friday games. In fact, one could argue that is the least interesting purpose of what is essentially an E3 keynote in December. Gears of War: Judgment will premiere a trailer showing us…

It Finally Happened. I Chose A Facebook Game Over A Triple-A Game.

You know how people ask where you were when something important happened? Usually it’s for really huge things—a big baseball game, an assassination, a presidential election. They tend to be generation-defining things, stuff that permeates our cultural consciousness. For games it might not be so much “where were you” but “what game were you playing?”…

Watch This Speed Run Take Down Dark Souls in 32 Minutes

From Software’s sequel will be remembered as one of the hardest games of this console generation. It took some people weeks—months, even—to make their way to the final battle of Dark Souls. This ruthless speedrun by Freddy ‘Thanatos’ Vasquez blows through it in about half an hour. There’s some skipping but it’s still a hypnotic…

The Xbox Fan-Voting Stuff for Tonight’s VGAs Is Actually Pretty Cool

Tonight’s Video Game Awards on Spike TV will also be streamed online (including here at Kotaku) as well as through the Xbox 360. It’s via the 360 that viewers will be able to cast votes to tweak the show and one of its exclusives. Spike’s/GTTV‘s Geoff Keighley just shot me a list of the things…