Marvel Comics is partnering with Korea’s Smilegate for an Asia-only MOBA title based on their popular superheroes.

The Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter Now Actually Shows A Little Bit More Elite: Dangerous

You could be forgiven for seeing the initial launch of David Braben and Frontier Developments’ ambitious Kickstarter campaign for a new Elite game and thinking, “Okay, but where’s the game?” Most Kickstarter pitches these days at least show some hint of what the finished project will look like, but the Elite Kickstarter Page, upon first…

Step Aside, Jessica Chobot Licking A PSP. There’s A New Scandalous Picture, And It Involves The Wii U.

Oooh so scandalous. Courtesy of freelancer extraordinaire (and dear personal friend) Miguel Concepcion and his downright gorgeous cat Sebastian is a hilarious parody of Jessica Chobot licking a PSP. You know the one, right? This one! And here are a bunch of other ones, because why would you not want to see more of this…

Hunt (And Be Hunted By) Xenomorphs In The Freaky-Looking Aliens vs. Marine

It’s a longstanding, somewhat sick desire of many of us who play games to stand, back against the wall, in the dark, waiting for the aliens to come. Why? I guess we all just really liked Aliens? But it’s what so many of us want. Aliens vs. Marine, an in-progress game/mod by YouTuber Dave P,…

The My Little Pony game, released yesterday for iOS, is now available on Android. Go launch trailer!

Bad Hotel Studio Making Another Cool-Looking Music Game

The studio behind Bad Hotel is back. They’ve just released the teaser above for their next title, Wave Trip Like Bad Hotel, Wave Trip is as much about sound as about graphics. Unlike its predecessor, however, Wave Trip looks to be more about side-scrolling motion than about defense. Additionally, it promises the ability for users…

Zynga’s Next Big Mid-Core Mobile Game Coming From November

That’s right, not in November, but from November Software, a team of former LucasArts developers looking to make the hardcore gaming experience more accessible with a game called Battlestone The screenshot above is not technically from Battlestone. It’s from Golden Arrow, the original project the folks at November showed off earlier this year. Using a…

Computer Security Research Team Finds Vulnerabilities in Modern Warfare 3

The same security company that found a security flaw in Steam earlier this year has found security holes in Modern Warfare 3 and CryEngine 3. As ComputerWorld reports, researchers from security company ReVuln announced their findings at a security conference in Seoul today. They demonstrated two major issues. The first was with Call of Duty:…

Our Video Editor’s Current Favorite Thing In New Super Mario Bros. U

Kotaku video editor Chris Person declares that the best part of New Super Mario Bros. U is the game’s Boost Rush Mode, in which the sidescrolling game sidescrolls faster as you collect more coins. Chris is a man of taste and a devotee of Dyad. Speed-racing is his thing. He hasn’t played that much of…

Return To New Vegas: The Most Refreshing Video Game Sex I’ve Ever Had

My first brush with homosexuality was at age ten—and it happened thanks to Fallout 2. Imagine my surprise—being a girl with ultra religious parents—when I saw that given high enough charisma, my female character could flirt and then sleep with a woman named Miria in an early town. Before that I hadn’t even considered the…

The Curiosity Team is Working Hard to Compensate for Your Boundless Enthusiasm

Peter Molyneux and his team at 22cans are a visionary group, but that vision didn’t include a million people eager to find out what’s inside the cube in the developer’s first foray into experimental mobile games. Today 22cans thanks tappers for their patience and promises to fix the connection and coin-retention problems with Curiosity If…

ARC Squadron Soars in the Wild Pew-Pew-Pew Yonder

The fact I’m sitting here thinking, “Dammit, I really need to get an iPad,” explains both the general excellence of ARC Squadron and its one unfortunate shortcoming, though the game still is a highly recommendable rail shooter that shines with high production value. Yes, a larger screen would do more justice to the outstanding visuals…

#firstWiiUproblems: Not Knowing Which Screen To Look At

I have a Wii U, so I shouldn’t be complaining. I’m not. I’m observing. And my observation is this, my friends: observing a Wii U game is a brand-new skill I have not yet mastered. When I play this new console, I’m looking at the wrong screen half the time! Or I think I am.…

ChefVille A Little Help Quests: Everything You Need to Know

While the first portion of the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution event may have expired in ChefVille, that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of this famous chef. A new two-part quest series has launched in our restaurants that once again sees Chef Oliver teaching how to cook healthy, delicious dishes. Here’s our complete guide to…

Tron Is Just the Place for Sweet Jumps in This GTA IV Mod

It’s true that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has given birth to some truly inspired mods. But not many of them totally re-paint Liberty City in as spectacular fashion as this one does. Modder Quechus13 re-skins GTA IV’s open world with the iconic, neon stripes of the Tron movies and throws in…

Some Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Players Encountering Save-File-Killing Bug

It’s starting to seem like fall, 2012 might just be best thought of as bug season. Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, the PS Vita handheld companion to Assassin’s Creed III, has a nasty save-corrupting bug hitting some players. The issue, as reported by players on Ubisoft’s forums, is corrupting save games and causing players to lose…

This Week’s iPad Charts: The Angry Birds Death Star Approaches Completion

In case you hadn’t figured out how this works yet, Rovio releases a new Angry Birds game, and then it sits on the charts for months and months and months. This week we welcome the latest Rovio chart-sitter, Angry Birds Star Wars It’s a week of major releases on the iPad, unlike last week where…

I Was Ashamed of Being a Gamer. I Don’t Feel That Way Anymore.

Ever since I figured out how easy it was to be judged for loving video games, I felt ashamed of them. For years, I labored to widen the distance between my adult life and that comfy digital world I embraced during my formative years. I’d even say that distance bordered on rebuke as I left…

More Than 144,000 People Now Own Natural Selection 2

Natural Selection 2 came out last week, and the folks who made it have created this neat infographic to show off the performance of their new real-time-strategy/first-person-shooter hybrid. Notably: between pre-orders and sales, more than 144,000 people now own the game. Not bad for an indie made by a studio of seven full-time staff Click…

Halo’s Story Got You Confused? This Chart Might Help. [Update]

I’ll be honest, Halo’s story confuses the hell out of me. Not the general outline, I get that, but the specifics and history of the universe are presented as a mess for someone who just plays the games and doesn’t get knee-deep in the external fiction. Why am I here? Who’s that guy? When did…