Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The Gamer That Has Everything?

You know the friend. The one that has bought and seemingly played every game before you can even launch Steam to purchase that new title. You know the one. That exciting new one. But there are certainly some untouched surfaces of the gaming realm to explore for the perfect gift for this person in your…

Here’s Microsoft’s Black Friday sales list for Xbox Live. Yes, Games on Demand games are still too damn expensive.

Kick Criminal Butt With These Custom Arkham City Sneaks

There aren’t many custom Converse Chuck Taylors I’d wear, but if I were going to, I’d consider putting on these ones. The folks over at Comics Alliance hopped onto the Converse Design Your Own DC Comics Chuck Taylors and came up with their own custom Arkham City kicks. So, if you want to design your…

Survey: Kids Want Wii U More Than iPhones

Kids! They are crazy. We all know this. But what do they want for Christmas? Children are asking their parents for computers, iPads, and the Wii U, according to a new survey conducted by the folks at Nielsen Check out the charts: Possible conclusions we can draw here: 1. Kids want the Wii U more…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Buy The Xbox Gamer?

We’ve shared some PC gift suggestions—from keyboards to games—and gifts that will cost you under $25. But today we want to suggest games and accessories to match an Xbox 360. Our editors are chiming in below, but feel free to post suggestions. Pretty controllers are totally acceptable! And hey, don’t knock the battery charging station.…

Grab A Ton Of Great Video Game Music For Almost No Money

It’s almost Thanksgiving break, which means that a lot of you will be doing some traveling. And what better time to listen to delightful music than when on a plane or in the car? The game music bundle has got you covered, with a typically great collection of soundtracks all available for as little as…

Steelseries Free Mobile Controller: The Kotaku Review

Nothing this small should work as well as the SteelSeries Free Mobile Controller does. Years of development have resulted in a tiny, pocket-sized controller that had me overlooking its small stature the moment I started playing a compatible game. Finding a compatible game? Not nearly as enjoyable. My experience with the SteelSeries Free controller at…

Forget Two Screens. Listen to the Wii U’s Dual Audio Trick.

We’ve got something for you to listen to. So grab some headphones. Ready? OK. Listen to the first clip. Watch it as you listen. Then let me explain: One of the weirdest innovations of the Nintendo Wii was the inclusion of a speaker in the system’s controller. It could crudely play sound effects or even…

The Brooklyn Nets’ Brook Lopez talks about his love for Sega Genesis games and Sonic the Hedgehog

Blizzard Black Friday Begins Now: StarCraft II For $20; Diablo III For $40

Here’s Blizzard’s Black Friday sale, which starts not on Black Friday, but RIGHT NOW. StarCraft II for $20, Diablo III for $40. (With the amount of content in StarCraft II, by the way, that first one is pretty much a steal—I’ve probably sent several hundred hours playing SC2 online over the past two years.) If…

The Nasty Jokes Hitman: Absolution Didn’t Have To Make

Hitman: Absolution is a game that requires a lot of sneaking around, and like most sneaking games, you’ll find yourself regularly incapacitating guards and stashing their bodies. Every time you stash a guard in closet, his body will slump standing up over to the left side of the enclosure. Every closet can hold two bodies,…

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…