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Mass Effect 3: Omega: The Kotaku Review

There was something missing, in Mass Effect 3. The game was filled with a hundred tiny details that paid homage to all the choices and deliberations I’d made in two previous games, and yet one thing sat unfinished. Aria T’Loak sat on the Citadel for all of Shepard’s last crusade, riding out the end of…

Before Or After: Which Fuse Box Cover Do You Like Better?

This is the new box art for Fuse, an upcoming shooter developed by Insomniac, the folks behind Ratchet & Clank and Resistance Here’s the full shot: This is what Fuse used to look like, back when it was called Overstrike (before they changed things up): So which do you prefer? Cartoony shades or gritty scowls?…

And Here’s Why Women In The Games Business Put Up With So Much Crap

Earlier today we showed you some of the many, many Tweets describing the sexism that women in the video game-making business put up with. These were all issued with the hashtag #1reasonwhy This morning, something else happened. Author Rhianna Pratchett decided to create #1reasontobe, a complementary tag that would collect reasons women have for working…

Watch Link Travel Through A Bunch Of Apple Products In This Pretty Short Film

The Legend of Zelda is a digital journey, but this particular journey transcends the digital. And it transcends the console, too. The paper effects you see off the computer (iPhone, iPad, etc) screens were rendered on Final Cut after the video was taken, but everything else is simply a matter of syncing up the individual…

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Number One: The Kotaku Comic Book Review

The first issue of a comic book based on an animated series is not normally cause for excitement. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is no regular animated series, and its comic book companion is much more than a throwaway cartoon tie-in. It’s incredibly easy to make a lazy cartoon-based comic book. Recycle some plot…

Buy Issue #7 of the Awesome Hawkeye Comic and Help Victims of Hurricane Sandy

Matt Fraction’s one of the best comics writers out there now. And the gesture he’s making with the upcoming Hawkeye #7 should just confirm that. The creator of Casanova and scribe behind Marvel’s late, lamented Defenders comic will be contributing his entire paycheck from the Avengers spin-off to relief efforts helping victims of last month’s…

Five Comics That Merge Science and Magic 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…

The Sonic/Mega Man Comics Crossover Might Be the Closest We Get a Sega vs. Capcom Throwdown

Let’s get real: Sonic doesn’t stand a chance. Sure, he’s fast. You see that energy build-up in the Mega Buster pictured below? That’s a recipe for roasted hedgehog, right there. But, wait, you say! Couldn’t Sonic disassemble Mega Man at super-speed before Capcom’s icon could even get a blast off? The answers to these questions…

Microsoft Sold 750,000 Xbox 360s Last Week

Turns out people like video games, and buying video games, and buying machines to play video games on. Microsoft sold a whopping 750,000 Xbox 360s in the United States between Sunday, November 18 and Friday, November 23 (Black Friday), according to spokesman Major Nelson. Not too shabby! For comparison, Nintendo sold 400,000 Wii U consoles…

The Weapons In Far Cry 3 Are Great, But The Weapon Descriptions Are Even Better

Far Cry 3 features a varied and highly enjoyable arsenal—you’ll use all the first-person shooter staples, from silenced sniper rifles to grenade launchers to my favorite, the silent Rambo bow. But as cool as these deadly tools are, the way the game describes them all is just as cool. Right off the bat, you get…

The Vita Is A Great System—Too Bad Sony Screwed It Up

Have you checked out that Vita game? You know—the one that’s a shoddy spinoff of a big-name series? Perhaps Call of Duty: Declassified, which currently has a whopping 32% on Metacritic? Or Uncharted: Golden Abyss, a game that our Kirk Hamilton called “a cut-rate version of the Uncharted games that most people have already played”?…

Play Dominion Online in Your Browser Right Now

Goko, the multiplatform headquarters for mature board and card games, has launched in open beta, giving strategy-minded players a chance to play all the Dominion Online, Forbidden City and All the King’s Men their devious little hearts’ desire. There are more than 150 games lined up for Goko, using HTML 5 as a universal gaming…

Spacetime Studios’ free massively multiplayer online fantasy RPG Arcane Legends is now available for iPhone and iPad

New Super Mario Bros. 2‘s New, Free* Levels Are Re-Makes Of Old Ones

The new Nintendo Direct Mini isn’t about the Wii Mini. It’s about new/old New Super Mario Bros. 2 levels that are temporarily free on the Nintendo 3DS. Not too confusing, right? Skip to 3:50 to see the levels. They may ring some bells. Nintendo Direct Mini — November 27, 2012 [YouTube. Thanks, Philip!]] UPDATE: So……

FarmVille Mistletoe Lane Chapter 4 Goals: Everything You Need to Know

It’s time for another chapter in FarmVille‘s Mistletoe Lane saga, and we’re ready for Chapter 4 in the tale of Nick and the elves from Winter Wonderland. This goal series sees Zang taking a trip from Winter Wonderland to help Nick restore the town’s Toy Factory, and we’re here with a guide to finishing them…

Ian Bogost’s appraisal of the Wii U looks at the new console and Nintendo’s long, twisting history in shifting contexts.

Little Inferno: The Kotaku Review

Here’s an odd one. One of my favorite games on Nintendo’s new console is an interactive fireplace. It’s an emotional, interactive fireplace. And it’s the first console game I’ve played through without ever turning on the TV. Little Inferno is a download-only game for Wii U and PC/Mac/Linux. It was mostly made by two friends…

The Tide of Battle Quickly Turns Once You Realize Your Enemy is Delicious

For years the peaceful-yet-pecking Hoggyens battled the relentless Gobblen hordes that rained down from the sky. Then one day the embattled hedgehog creatures discovered their demonic nemeses’ fatal flaw: they are delicious. This is why giant slingshots get built, people. Little Guy Games’ Super Snack Time is a bubble-popping game on a sugar high. Your…

The Saddest Video Game Character You Will Ever See

There’s a bit of Pinocchio in Mega Man’s story, what with the kindly father figure creating a “son” out of artificial materials. And, yeah, there’s some melancholy in there, too. Melancholy that digital artist Madec Brice captures in his beautiful portrait of the Blue Bomber. Over on DeviantArt, Brice also mines the loneliness that must…