Six Comics to Be Thankful For This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Here’s The Trailer For The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia

I didn’t know books had trailers now, but hey. At least there’s no dubstep. The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is a hardcover tome chock full o’ concept art, Zelda history, and the OFFICIAL ZELDA TIMELINE. It looks pretty damn cool. For more on Hyrule Historia—created as part of a partnership between Nintendo and Dark…

The Best Comics To Give This Holiday Season

Hooray: The notoriously difficult, hypnotic smartphone game Super Hexagon is coming to Steam next week

Take A Glimpse At Your Likely Video Game Future

Evan’s Note: Stumbles aside, the newly-released Wii U is already pointing towards one possible future for console video games. And, when it hits next year, the Ouya box might have the power to shift games development and delivery in a yet another direction. It all sounds great, doesn’t it? There’s just one catch… How’re you…

The very last thing the world needs is a $3.99 Disney app that sings “It’s a Small World”.

Here’s A Stunning Minecraft Re-Creation Of Final Fantasy VII‘s Midgar

Earlier this year we showed off someone’s great Minecraft re-creation of Final Fantasy VII‘s iconic city Midgar This one might be better. Kotaku reader Jason sends in these pics from the Minecraft FF7 map he’s been working on (which you can find over at Aegis Gaming). Behold, enjoy, and shake your head at just how…

Halo 4‘s Multiplayer Is At Its Best When Players Break the Rules

Now that Halo 4 has been out in the wild for over a week, it’s proper timing to accurately assess its multiplayer prowess. I had a lot of fun messing around with the various modes during my review event, but how does being in a room full of gamers compare to lounging on my bed…

Mobile Gaming’s World of Warcraft Gets a Battle Arena Spin Off Tomorrow

Gameloft’s Order & Chaos Online was mobile gaming’s answer to World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for tablets and smartphones. Tomorrow the brand expands with Heroes of Order & Chaos, a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game shades of League of Legends This is actually a rather interesting reversal of the origin…

Protect Your Desk With This Adorable USB Portal Turret

Well, file this USB Portal turret under “Things you can get me for Christmas that I’ll only use once but will still totally love.” You can buy one for the Portal fan in your life (or for yourself) for $40 at Thinkgeek (Via John Davison)

You Might Be Able To Download the Wii U’s Firmware Update in the Background

You might be able to download the Wii U’s large, slow-downloading day-one firmware update while playing games, according to online reports from Wii U owners on Reddit and GoNintendo. It seems that there’s a secret background-downloading option. Good to know! We can’t test it on our already-updated Wii Us, but those of you who are…

The Last Story Sold Super Well, And Now It’s Only $30

Remember how Nintendo wasn’t going to release The Last Story in the United States, even though it’s an awesome role-playing game and the Wii was barren for two whole years? Remember how XSEED came in and scored a publishing deal just by asking for the game late last year? Well it looks like XSEED made…

Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!: The Kotaku Review

There are plenty of shows that apparently only certain groups of people can appreciate. Adventure Time? Scoff! That’s a kid’s show! Definitely heard that one before. Adventure Time—created by the lovable and witty Pen Ward—is a cartoon show on Cartoon Network. It features two adventurers, Jake and Finn, who are the best of friends. They…

FarmVille ‘Mistletoe Lane Chapter 3’ Goals: Everything You Need to Know

Today marks the free launch of Mistletoe Lane in FarmVille for those players that didn’t pay Farm Cash to get to the game’s newest Christmas farm early. Waiting for all players when they arrive is a new chapter of goals to complete in the game’s storyline, with the six new Chapter 3 goals being available…

The Final Episode of The Walking Dead Asks You To Make The Hardest Decisions Yet

[The Walking Dead is a difficult series to write about. I want you to experience the game for yourself. After all, your game will likely play out entirely different from mine, given how dependent on player choice it is. But I still want to give you an idea of what it was like to experience…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Person Who Doesn’t Game?

Just cause someone doesn’t play games as regularly as you do doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be up for a friendly introduction. So what do you get that one friend, cousin, sibling, aunt? Watch out for our editors chiming in down below, but share your ideas with everyone, too! We’re open to ideas that run the…

Steam’s Autumn Sale Starts Tomorrow, According To One Developer

Get your wallets ready. There’s a Steam sale starting tomorrow and running until November 27, according to Tamás Bakó, CEO of the team behind Secret of the Magic Crystals The winter sale, Bakó says, will run from December 20 to January 4. Just in case you don’t spend enough money on holiday gifts and Steam…

The Sweetest Game of Tetris You’ll Ever Un-Play

For decades now the world has been obsessed with the stacking of tetrominos, passionately rotating and placing odd geometric shapes in a never-ending quest for the perfectly-packed screen. We have to learn to let go. Dream of Pixels can help. Dawn of Play’s Dream of Pixels is an ingenious take on the classic Tetris formula.…

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale: The Kotaku Review

If you think about every major video game publisher whose games you ever played, certain staple characters may come to mind. Recalling those characters might even bring a smile to your face, and remind you of the fond memories you had playing as each of them. So let’s take all those memories and all those…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Battle of the Facebook Ports

In an odd bit of unintentional coordination last week, Zynga and King.com both launched mobile versions of their hit Facebook games on iOS on the very same day. This gives us a chance to answer a question with this week’s charts: Who’s players are more into mobile, Ruby Blast‘s or Candy Crush‘s? Judging by the…