Asari Biotics Liara and Samara Look Fantastic As a Mage And a Templar In Dragon Age

Andrew Ryan, the artist behind the spectacular, brain-bending Dragon Age and Mass Effect crossover art, has continued adding to his glorious gauntlet of crossover characters. The most recent additions are deadly asari Liara and Samara. Liara has taken the role of High Enchanter and Samara, with her strict justicar’s code, makes a perfect Knight-Commander. (Preferably…

Apple Pulls Most Recent iPhone Game About Foxconn From App Store In Less Than An Hour

Surprising more or less exactly nobody, In a Permanent Save State, a serious game based around the suicides of Foxconn employees in 2010, was pulled from Apple’s App Store shortly after its listing. The game became available on iTunes on Friday morning and, according to The Verge, got yanked within an hour. Even artist and…

Friends? An Outernaut Needs No Friends. Not Anymore.

Players expecting something more than standard Facebook fare from the developer of Ratchet & Clank’s first foray into the social gaming world were somewhat disappointed by Outernauts‘ strong reliance on things like asking friends for help or waiting for energy to refill. Yesterday’s major game update should make those players a bit happier, with faster…

An Insider From One Of Those Cold, Calculating Mega-Publishers Is Back To Answer Your Questions Again [UPDATE: Interview Over]

Back in July, we brought in an anonymous insider from a large video game publisher to take your questions and talk about the state of gaming as he sees it. He had some oft-terrifying, always-illuminating thoughts to share about the industry—”Gamers are absurdly entitled, but I think they got there because we ask so much…

The crafty heroine of Assassin’s Creed on Vita can blend in with slaves or attack people with a dart-shooting umbrella.

Is the Star of Harvey’s New Eyes a Harmless Little Girl or Deranged Serial Killer? Yes.

Lilli is a soft-spoken orphan that does as she’s told. It’s not her fault that the tasks given her by her friend Edna and the cruel Mother Superior result in the horrible death of nearly everyone she knows. Released today on Steam, Daedalic Entertainment‘s point-and-click adventure game Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes is a…

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Log Three: I May Be Broke, But At Least I Can Ride

Some weeks you have a lot of time to be a panda-person. And some weeks, you don’t. Though I didn’t have as much time to take my ferocious little blue-haired pandaren rogue around the Eastern Kingdoms as I had hoped, still, I made some progress. I killed things and completed quests and uncovered areas of…

It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This Detailed Custom PC.

Here’s something Link never found inside a treasure chest: a microATX motherboard. I don’t really know what he’d do with one, to be honest. Surely something in Hyrule is susceptible to silicon and electricity? It’s probably less useful to him than a sword and horse are, let’s be honest. But here in our world, wandering…

Six Reviewers Travel From The Past To Shoot Their Way Through Doom

The Doom 3 BFG Edition arrived on store shelves (and in online storefronts) this week. This remastered version of 2004’s Doom 3 looks grand and supports fancy future tech like head-mounted displays. It takes the classic franchise off of the PC and onto the Xbox 360 and PS3, and even adds new levels But what…

You Have One Day to Get Carmageddon Free for the iPhone and iPad

The most gloriously violent racing game ever made is making a Kickstarter-funded comeback. To thank the folks that gave their money so the vehicular genocide could continue, Stainless Games is offering the iOS re-release of the original Carmageddon for free. What are you waiting for? Reworked with touch screen controls, achievements, and the ability to…

Ayopa’s incredibly additive iOS word game W.E.L.D.E.R. is now available on Android. Avoid it if you like free time.

Clever Modders Are Already Dissecting XCOM: Enemy Unknown [Update]

One of the best things I saw last week over at Nexusmods.com (where I go to get all my Skyrim and Fallout mods, dontcha know) was the news that they’d added a page for XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Yes! In an introductory letter, the Nexus’ Dark0ne points out that: Creating a Nexus site for XCOM –…

This Might Be My Favorite Borderlands 2 Easter Egg Yet, Courtesy Of The New DLC

The folks over at Gearbox sure love their easter eggs and hidden secrets. Borderlands 2 is chock full of them But while playing the first campaign add-on to Borderlands 2, called Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty, I stumbled on what might have to be known as my favorite. Easter egg spoilers follow Because it’s…

The Sims Social Halloween Quests Week 2: How to Finish Them Fast

Last week we had Van Helsim and Lady Grey around to help us out in The Sims Social. Unfortunately, this week, we’re left to fend for ourselves. And to top it off, we seem to have attracted some unwanted attention. Apparently, Edward Sullen has forged papers claiming he’s the heir to the Midnight Grove castle…

Microsoft Hints At a Very Different Future For Xbox Gaming. Plus: What Are EA and Activision Up To? [UPDATE]

Editor’s Note: If people in the gaming industry really wanted to hide stuff, they’re going to have to do better. The one and only Superannuation keeps digging stuff up that just has to be shared with Kotaku readers. Today, we’re looking to the future… a very weird future that has Microsoft, EA and Activision making…

The MOGA Will Change the Way You Play (Several) Android Games

On October 21 Power A makes a bid for the blossoming Android game controller market with the MOGA, the innovative game pad/phone dock I’ve been pretty excited about since its announcement earlier this year. Now that I’ve had a week alone with the MOGA I’m still enthusiastic, but the unit’s success hinges on much more…

She’s In Her Underwear. He’s Running Through The Dark Woods. It’s Teen Horror as a PS3 Game

The image here pretty much sums up what I remember of the horror movies I watched as a kid. Those Nightmare on Elm Streets and Friday the 13ths that me and my friends would rent on Halloween, some schlock for boys who would enjoy the tawdry thrills of watching dumb teenagers get kiled by some…

The Wii U Version Of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Won’t Come With Elite

Call of Duty Elite will be free when Black Ops II launches this November, but Wii U players won’t be able to get their hands on it just yet. Activision told Kotaku today that Call of Duty‘s digital network will not be available on Wii U when BLOPS2 launches for PC and consoles next month.…

Three Cheers for a Game That Makes Me Feel Like a Cosmic God

So, there’s this old philosophical concept of the Music of the Spheres, right? The idea holds that celestial bodies are part of a grand, unknowable symphony. Which might explain why everyone hums in the shower. Or not. Nevertheless, the great thing about Starbloom is how it makes you feel like you’re creating planets and stars…

Pamela Horton, lover of LoL and a Playboy Playmate, is also an aspiring character artist. Read a good interview w/ her