The fifth and final episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead game comes out next week. There will likely be emotions.

What’s Going on With NBA 2K13‘s Roster Update?

The state of NBA 2K13‘s roster update has been uncommonly bad to date. In the most recent episode of the Press Row Podcast, Operation Sports’ normally placid Steve Noah needed bleeping when discussing the slowness and inaccuracy of the update. “There’s been three players added in the latest update,” Steve said, in a podcast recorded…

This Company Will Make Real-Life Miniatures Out Of Your Minecraft World

If you’ve played Minecraft, chances are you’ve built something so cool that you wish you could immortalize it and put it on your mantle. Thankfully, there’s Figureprints, a company who in the past have recreated your Xbox 360 avatars and World of Warcraft characters. Now, you can export you favorite Minecraft creations and they’ll make…

Lucasfilm Wants to Make “Two or Three” Movies a Year. That’s a Lot of Star Wars.

The next Star Wars movie, Episode VII, is just the tip of a money-coloured iceberg Disney plans to harvest in the wake of its takeover of the franchise from George Lucas. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Lucas’ anointed successor, Kathleen Kennedy, says that the company wants to produce “two or three films a year”, which aside…

Metacritic Refuses To Pull Negative Review That GameSpot Admits Was Factually Inaccurate

If you head on over to the Metacritic page for Natural Selection 2, you might notice something strange. Of the seven reviews listed, only one is scored below an 80. Also, it doesn’t actually exist. Last week, GameSpot reviews editor Kevin VanOrd pulled his site’s review of Natural Selection 2. The review, scored 60/100 and…

Valve Blocks ‘Slenderman’ Game From Steam Due To Copyright Concerns

See here, the official teaser for Faceless, a game previously known as Slender: Source. It’s got a complicated lineage: inspired by another game which was in turn inspired by an internet meme Despite popularity on Valve’s new Steam “Greenlight” crowdsourced game initiative, Faceless can’t get itself onto Steam. Joystiq takes a look in a new…

Midweek Moneysaver: Call of Duty, Maybe

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Software • Yesterday’s release Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (360, PS3) is $44.99 with $4.99 shipping from Daily Steals. Toys ‘R’ Us is also $50,…

Real Names in Games Mean More Money for the NCAA, Executive Argued

Five years ago, an NCAA executive said EA Sports should be allowed to use actual names of its amateur athletes—commanding a higher licensing fee as a result—because players’ likenesses were “rigged into the games now by illegal means.” Permitting their use would clear up the matter and bring more money to the NCAA, he said.…

EA says it has “no reason to believe there has been any intrusion into our Origin database.”

Splinter Cell Movie Is Happening, Tom Hardy Starring as Sam Fisher

Assassin’s Creed isn’t the only movie that Ubisoft wants to get to the silver screen as soon as possible. Rumors from earlier this year that Ubisoft was looking at making a Splinter Cell movie appear to have been well-founded, according to Variety. And what’s more, the movie’s got a star. British actor Tom Hardy is…

Judge GTA IV‘s Graphics Against GTA V’s With These Incredibly Accurate Screenshot Comparisons

Who would go through such a painstaking process to recreate the poses and action of some of Grand Theft Auto V‘s screenshots, courtesy of Game Informer? RomanBOY123 would, apparently. He put GTA IV on max settings on his PC (1920×1080 resolution, with HD tree mods) and came up with some amazingly accurate screenshots to match…

This Dog Does Not Like Skyrim‘s Dragons

When I was growing up, my dog, like most dogs, didn’t like thunder. I bet she wouldn’t have liked the dragons in Skyrim, either. This image of “Maggie,” tweeted by Skyrim-makers Bethesda, shows a dog reacting quite viscerally to, we have to assume, a charging winged beast in Skyrim Now that I’ve bumped up the…

Love Minimalist Pop Culture Iconography? Here is Your Free iPhone Game

If you look at a red and black square with two white dots and immediately think “Mickey Mouse”, then Icon Pop Quiz is for you. Reducing beloved pop culture characters, television shows and movies into simple colored squares is officially a thing, and where there’s an official thing there’s a game. In this case it’s…

I May Not Be A Fan Of Halo 4‘s Spartan Ops, But I Sure Do Love The Episodes That Come With It

So far, I only like Halo 4‘s mission-based Spartan Ops mode in theory. A new episode every week? Wait, every week? Amazing, I love the dedication. The missions, on the other hand, have so far been boring and bland and monotonous. Fortunately the episodes that come with them are, like the game itself, gorgeous. So…

Shanko Shizz Is More Excited About GTA V Than You Are

The new Grand Theft Auto V trailer seems to have gone over pretty well. Fans are happy. Very happy. They’re reciting a favorite line from it on Twitter. They’re commenting with great passion on the YouTube page for the Stevie Wonder song that was used in the trailer (“GTA V BROUGHT ME HERE SO SUCK…

Budget Solid State Drive Roundup: The Best SSD for Less Than $100

Computers relying solely on age old hard disk drive technology should be deemed a thing of the past. Mechanical devices suffer from slow response times, so if and when performance matters, spending a small amount of money on upgrading a PC’s boot drive could pay off enough to render other potential upgrades useless. TechSpot’s first…

AverMedia Live Gamer HD: The Kotaku Review

Video capture devices confuse the hell out of me. For years I’ve wanted a hardware solution for PC video capture, perhaps something I could also hook a game console up to, but after a string of ill-informed purchases and a box full of cards that didn’t do what I wanted them to do, I settled…

If You Like Comics Or Trippy Dreams, You’ll Love This Game

Glancing out the window, the boy sees a dragon-like beast—something that seems like it could only exist in the imaginative scribbles of his sketchbook. An ornate, majestic creature with jade eyes, and fins that resemble coral reefs. It’s awe inspiring. And just like that, it’s gone—was it real? The answer, I find out as I…

The Unity Platform Gets Even More Impressive With Version 4.0

Version 4.0 of the Unity platform is available for purchase and download today. This is important, because eventually every game not made with the Unreal Engine will be made with Unity. I am only exaggerating a little bit. Unity is a cross-platform development engine that allows for developers to develop a game on one platform…

Here’s the Best Way to Travel in Halo 4’s Mongoose

Pity the lowly Mongoose. It’s outshadowed by the flying vehicles in Halo 4. And it’s not even the coolest ground transportation in the game, either. This humble ATV is what you use when nothing better is available. But Achievement Hunters found a way to make the Mongoose one of the more exciting travel options in…