NCAA Football‘s Cover Does Include Plans for Putting an Actual Human On It

BCS National Championship Game curbstompee Notre Dame finished in first place, overall, in the first round of NCAA Football‘s anything-goes cover voting contest currently running on Facebook. Defending national curbstomper Alabama also is in the list of 32 finalists, and currently is the top vote getter in the second round of balloting, ahead of perennial…

Microsoft’s IllumiRoom Concept Turns Your Entire Room into a Video Game Level

Microsoft and Samsung apparently think that your TV—no matter how big it is—isn’t big enough. That’s the only possible explanation for the two companies’ partnership on the IllumiRoom project, which projects images and colors across the space that you’re playing video games in. Shown off at CES during Samsung’s keynote today, IllumiRoom pairs up a…

Ballplayer Curt Schilling, founder of the notorious 38 Studios got, yep, 38 percent of the vote for the Hall of Fame.

How To Launch Your Game Development Career In 2013

Okay. You need one original idea that no one has ever had before. Try this: Everything we do is a game. Games are systems, and since everything is, like, totally a system, you can almost say life is a game. Find yourself at the kind of party where everyone is “seeking capital”. Raise your glass…

You wanted more cowbell, you got it. Cowbell Hero is now in the iOS app store, featuring 16 licensed songs for $6.99.

Some Guys Who Worked on LittleBigPlanet Want You to Spread the Plague in Death Inc.

What do you do after helping craft some of the cuddliest, most heartwarming games of this past generation? If you’re the guys at Ambient Studios—some of whom worked at Media Molecule on the big-hearted LittleBigPlanet games—it’s making a game about Death and the horrors of the bubonic plague. Death Inc. imagines shuffling off the mortal…

Gameological analyzes a game from Star Trek that was “Angry Birds if you had an orgasm every time you killed a pig.”

This Skyrim iPad Case Looks So Real It Might Be Made Out Of Elf Skin

Etsy user GeekifyInc created this custom case, so you can convert your iPad into one of the most recognizable Daedric items in Skyrim, the Oghma Infinium. You’ll just have to fork over $68.95 if you want to buy it. The original in-game item looks suspiciously similiar to the case. Let’s hope no elves were harmed…

Grant Crime Auto: Ice City Now Available on the Amazon App Store. Wait, What?

I refuse to believe for a single second that any of the reviews under Amazon’s Grant Crime Auto: Ice City listing actually paid $3.99 for such an obvious fake. I cannot afford to have my faith in human intelligence damaged any further. Pointed out by Kotaku reader rh_underhill, Grant Crime Auto: Ice City‘s description on…

This new trailer for SimCity takes you on a spline-reticulating whirlwind tour. Nifty.

Prepare Yourselves For Our Next Live Q&A With Dave Fennoy, The Guy Who Voices Lee In The Walking Dead

Let Dave Fennoy, Lee’s voice actor in The Walking Dead and Gabriel Tosh’s voice actor in StarCraft II, excite you for our next live Q&A. It’s happening tomorrow at 1pm Eastern time.

What Can We Expect from MLB 2K13? Not Much, Probably.

2K Sports isn’t saying anything more today about the surprise resurrection of its MLB 2K series. When asked for an interview, a representative told me today’s news release is all we’re getting for now. So it’s time to speculate on what this game may deliver, and my gut feeling is if we see anything more…

The Fate of the Breakaway Metroid Prime Studio, A Mysterious Square-Enix Adventure and More Gaming Secrets.

Editor’s Note: The mysterious person known as Superannuation shows up every two weeks like a new paycheck, if you had a job that paid you in gaming rumors and secrets, all sourced to publicly available information. This time, he/she/it has info on the people who oversaw some Metroid Primes, the people who made Dark Void,…

FarmVille Enchanted Glen Stone Trolls: Everything You Need to Know

As with all new farms in FarmVille, Enchanted Glen comes with a series of immovable “treasures” that can only be opened and removed after collecting a variety of materials from friends. In this case, however, these treasures are moving, apparently living creatures called Stone Trolls. They like to stomp in place and shake their arms,…

The Planned Firefly-Inspired MMO Is Real. It’s Some Fans’ Labor of Love.

There are few things harder to do in gaming than gather a bunch of like-minded friends from around the world and try to make a video game out something you love that happens to be owned by a big corporation that you’re not a part of. For a couple of years, Canadian indie game developer…

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The plan to collect and destroy violent video games in Southington, Conn has been cancelled

The Moon Sneezes Its Way into Your Heart in This Little-Kid Version of the Universe

My two-year-old daughter doesn’t think of stars as huge bodies of flaming gas millions of miles away. She thinks of them as little five-pointed symbols that live inside books and on top of Christmas trees. In similar fashion, she knows that there’s a moon in the sky but also thinks the glowing circles formed by…

You Can Buy This Fully-Functional Mega Man-Themed Operation Game

KodyKoala’s Guts Man design has been out in the wild for a while now, and so has the Gutsman Operation game based on those designs. But now you can actually buy the thing, for $225. It comes with fake money and tiny “ailment” pieces for your surgery needs. Custom Gutsman Operation Game [Etsy via Neatorama]

I’m Addicted to the iTunes Game Store

The moment my iPad or iPad Touch’s screen illuminates my finger hones in on the blue icon with the pencil, ruler and paintbrush formed into a stylized ‘A’, no matter what my previous plans for the device might have been. I know the shop lurking behind the icon is only updated at certain times, but…