Don’t Underestimate The Treasures Found In Dumpsters

Don’t Underestimate The Treasures Found In Dumpsters. Or a BLU soldier’s quest for murder.

Look Out, It’s A Kung-Fu Dragon Baby

Look Out, It’s a … Kung-Fu Dragon Baby?

Making An Open-Ended Game For A Linear Audience

The Hitman series has long been about choice-bald-headed 47 was set loose inside a semi-sandbox with a target or two, and players could come up with any of a number of ways to do away with them. That style of play is becoming increasingly uncommon, at least in mainstream AAA console games, at least in…

Hey, You Got Your Borderlands 2 in my Minecraft.

Someone went to the trouble of creating the full Borderlands 2 logo within Minecraft. Click the image to embiggen the picture.

Treasure Isle and FishVille Are the First Zynga Games to Die

Last month Zynga revealed that 13 of its lesser-performing Facebook games would be closed in order to make the social side of the company less of a massive disappointment. Yesterday players of FishVille and Treasure Isle were informed that those games would be closing up shop on December 5. What, there was a FishVille? Not…

The Faces of Grand Theft Auto Through The Years

Twelve years will have passed between the release of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001 and Grand Theft Auto V in 2013. Those 12 years have seen ten releases of major GTA games and DLC, each putting its own spin on the series’ classic vector art look. The 71 official images pulled from Rockstar’s website…

Assassin’s Creed? Halo? Screw’em, I’m Playing Persona

“Oh no!” you are almost certainly thinking. “Gawker Media is underwater, desperately clinging to Tumblr like that guy in that movie where the cruise ship sank. But it is Friday! It’s 3pm Kotaku Time! What will I do without my favorite weekly JRPG/sex-advice column Random Encounters?” You are too sweet. But don’t worry! I am…

Somehow, the New Army of Two Game Seems More Bro-Dacious than Ever

Nowadays, it seems like all sorts of beefed-up characters in shooter games can sling taunts and emotes. But back in 2008, Army of Two won a crucial bros’-rights battle when the two leads-whose names, c’mon, no one even remembers-were able to express their bro-love for each other in a series of team-based mechanics. With elements…

Hurricane Sandy’s Effects on the Gaming Scene: From Blacked-out Developers to a Guy Who Walked 3 Hours To Line-Wait for Wii U

Hurricane Sandy didn’t have an effect on the video game scene the way it would have if it had hit in a city like Montreal or San Francisco, where many of the most popular video games are made. But New York City and the surrounding region does have a vibrant indie gaming scene, millions of…

This Mass Effect Trilogy Trailer Combines All the Awesome of Three Games in One Place

The Mass Effect Trilogy-which bundles BioWare’s acclaimed sometimes controversial sci-fi series all in one place-comes out next week. (PS3 owners will be able to download the first game in December.) In case you need a refresher for Commander Shepard’s saga, watch the clip above.

Take a Look at MIT’s Slightly Trippy—and Oddly Spiritual—Game About the Speed of Light

The last thing I was expecting from a game built on relativistic physics principles was a gentle allegory about the afterlife. But that’s exactly how A Slower Speed of Light starts off. The little protagonist in this title from the MIT Game Lab actually dies right at the start of the game and has to…

The iPad Mini is out today! I wouldn’t drop it if I were you. [Android Authority]

There Are 489 People Playing Competitive Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now, Up From 145 Yesterday

There are 495 people playing Halo 4‘s multiplayer, if you count the cooperate Spartan Ops mode. That’s over three times more than the amount of people that were playing just yesterday, and the game still has four more days before its November 6 release. Maybe more people are logging on as the weekend nears? Power…

Watch Michael Moore’s Audition Tape To Direct Star Wars VII

If this was a real audition tape for Michael Moore to direct the recently announced resurgence of the Star Wars films, I imagine it’d go pretty much exactly like this. But it’s not real. It’s a Conan skit.

Wreck-It Ralph Isn’t Just a Movie, It’s Also a Game

Building on the free iOS App, the $.99 version of the official Wreck-It Ralph mobile game features three movie-themed games in one-Fix-It Felix Jr., Hero’s Duty and Candy Climber. It’s available on iTunes today, with an Android version coming soon.

There’s a Kickstarter to fund the “Tweedpunk” shooter entitled ‘Sir, You Are Being Hunted’ [kickstarter.com]

Here’s The Difference The Day One Patch Made to Assassin’s Creed III [UPDATE]

Assassin’s Creed III is a very good game but also a fairly buggy game. And like many modern video games before it, the console versions were patched before they were even officially released. This means that the version of ACIII that you might have on disc isn’t really what you should be playing. The game’s…

This Week’s iPad Charts: Spider — He is Our Hero

In what is hopefully the last graphic installment of our weekly mobile charts, the classic (if a platform that’s only a few years old can have a classic) Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor skitters to the top of the free charts, and a pair of big budget console game tie-ins make paid appearances. Need…

Angry Birds Star Wars’ Only Hope? Obi-Wing Kabirdy, Of Course

The crossover between an incredibly successful film franchise and the near-ubiquitous mobile game continues apace, with the latest character reveal of Bad Piggy and Angry Birds versions of Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi. A slice of Angry Birds Star Wars gameplay is shown, but other than pigs in Stormtrooper attire nothing looks terribly like Star…

Black Ops II offers ‘Nuketown 2025’ as a Pre-Order bonus

Nuketown 2025, a retro-style multiplayer map inspired by nuclear test sites such as the one seen in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, will be available for Call of Duty: Black Ops II at release for pre-order customers. The above video should give a good idea what the map will be like.…