Avengers Initiative Now Available on Android With Extra Tegra 3 Sexiness

Marvel’s Infinity Blade take on the Avengers finally smashes its way onto Google Play, but not every Android device is created equal. Is yours on the list? If you’re on a Tegra 3-powered device then you’re more than good. The game has been optimized for the powerful platform, with exclusive battle effects that accurately model…

Mirror’s Edge 2 Is Being Made Right Now, According to Ex-EA Developer

Few recent games have had as many requests for a follow-up as Mirror’s Edge. If you go by the amount of love professed for it on the internet, the first-person freerunner charmed the vast majority of people who played it. But the 2008 release didn’t sell well enough to merit a sequel and it seemed…

Soccer Seems Much More Entertaining When It’s a Strategy RPG Puzzle Game

Coming December 1 to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Soccer Puzzle League combines everything I love with soccer. I feel this is something that should be done with everything I’m not normally excited about.

Steam’s Autumn Sale Has Begun

Happy Thanksgiving! Time to stuff your turkey with cheap PC games. The Steam Autumn Sale begins right now. Looks like you can get Darksiders II for $16.99, X-COM for $33.49, and The Walking Dead for $12.49. And then there are the daily flash sales, and the indie sales (Torchlight II for $15! Mark of the…

FarmVille 2 Feast Table: Everything You Need to Know

While FarmVille 2 players are already encouraged to purchase a variety of Thanksgiving themed items in the game’s store, along with helping a poor little turkey to call your farm home, there’s also a need to plan a large Thanksgiving Dinner (since you can’t have Thanksgiving without a ton of food). The Feast Table is…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Gift Can You Get For $26-$100?

The holiday gift guides continue! What gift ideas do you have that range from $26-$100? As opposed to the more cost effective suggestions we shared yesterday, these might be for a closer friend. We’ll be sharing down in the discussions below, but feel free to drop your own suggestions. Anything is welcome. Even a somewhat…

Far Cry 3: The Kotaku Review

Here’s what happened: I was soaring above a gorgeous tropical island in a hang-glider when I heard gunfire below. Waaaay down on the road below, a gang of friendly islanders was going toe-to-toe with a band of ruthless pirates. I banked around and dropped in low, landing just inside the treeline. I pulled out my…

Conquering The World, One Awesome Roller Coaster At A Time

It was only a matter of time until iOS devices got their very own roller coaster management game. There may not yet be an iOS version of Roller Coaster Tycoon, but now we’ve got the next best thing: Coaster Crazy, a new free iOS game from Frontier Developments, the studio behind RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Coaster…

We Have Successfully Convinced Harmonix To Add Call Me Maybe To Rock Band

Call Me Maybe. Rock Band. Next Tuesday. $1.99 Thank you for your support, Kotaku. Today is not just a historical day for Rock Band, or for Carly Rae Jepsen, or for indecisive phonecallers. It’s a historical day for all of us.

The Best Grand Theft Auto Comes to iOS and Android December 6

With the mobile version of Grand Theft Auto III still tearing up the Android and iOS charts, Rockstar readies a second helping of mobile free-roaming mayhem with the December 6 release of the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition More than any other installment in the series, this is my Grand Theft Auto.…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The 3DS Gamer?

If your friend is a handheld fiend, they may just own a Nintendo 3DS, DS, or Xl version of either. What would you get them? The circle pad pro? A new game? A cool new stylus? Drop your suggestions down below, where you’ll see our official gift guide from the Kotaku editors.

Why We Like To Shoot

A few days after the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the first-person shooter game’s publisher, Activision, released their annual braggadocious press release about the success of their most successful video game series. “Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Star…

This Week’s Android Charts: All Hail the Mighty Fruit Ninja

As Angry Birds Star Wars fever beings to calm and we move into the Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., our thoughts turn to food, more specifically how badly we want to slice it with a katana. Fruit Ninja isn’t at the top of the Android charts this week, but it’s on both of them,…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The PlayStation Gamer?

Does your gaming friend or relative have a PlayStation 3? Maybe you want to buy them one. But even if they already do own Sony’s home console, your friend, relative or puppy (don’t judge) might need some new games. So what will it be? Drop your suggestions down below, while our editors do the same.…

The Best Things We’ve Found In the Wii U’s Miiverse

If you’d asked me a week ago what I thought the best feature of the Wii U was, I wouldn’t have thought ‘Miiverse’. But now that we’ve all had a chance to see it in action, my opinion is quickly changing. Sure there are terrible stick figures, but there are also some great and sometimes…

It’s Gameloft’s $.99 Thanksgiving Saletacular

Starting today and running through the Thanksgiving weekend, Gameloft is discounting a bunch of its $6.99 titles on Android, iOS and Kindle Fire to $.99, giving us something to do while camping out for Black Friday sales. As of this writing the Kindle Fire titles are already discounted. Still waiting for the Google Play and…

World of Warcraft’s 8th Birthday Video Spectacluar

World of Warcraft is 8 this year, so Blizzard put this video together highlighting… well, lots of gameplay. You could joke that the reason there’s no “then and now” shots is because the game has barely changed in that time, but seeing as it still attracts millions of players a month that’s probably more of…

Japan’s most often delayed console game, Daisenryaku Perfect, has gotten its seventh release date: Spring 2013

These Japanese Commercials Will Delight and Amuse You

The Wii U is out in North America, but Japan will have to wait until December to get the new Nintendo console. To build hype, Nintendo is now running commercials for the hardware. But that’s not the only game in town. There are entire channels filled to the brim with wonderful Japanese commercials. Some of…

The new Call of Duty: Black Ops II update fixes the Theater Mode error and the Scorestreak snafus.