Capcom: Let’s Get In The Holiday Spirit By Grovelling Over Dante’s Crotch

You might associate the holidays with decorative lights, presents, warmth and cheer. But that’s not the way to get into the spirit of the season, oh no. Thankfully, Capcom’s PR sets the record straight with their holiday greeting this year. Shared by Polygon, the greeting features Devil May Cry’s Dante, and boy, these scantily clad…

The Best Stealth Moments Of 2012

2012 was a banner year for stealth games. From January up through December, we got to play a healthy variety of games involving dozens of different types of sneaking, skulking, lurking, and sklurking. (It’s a thing.) You could say that these games… crept up on us. We really… didn’t see them coming Jason and I…

THQ’s Boss Explains, In Plain English, What The Hell Happened To His Company Today

Jason Rubin, the president of beleaguered publisher THQ, has penned a plain and, for the average consumer/fan, incredibly helpful summary of just what happened to his company today While the word “bankruptcy” is enough to cause alarm, as it should, Rubin reminds us that along with that move, the company has also been sold (tentatively,…

Midweek Moneysaver: Digital Deals Galore

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 Amazon Digital Holiday Deals offer a giant arsenal of individual titles at their lowest prices ever, as well as bundles in the second list below.…

Men And Women Sound Sexual, Sometimes Terrifying When In Pain

If you detach the sound of pain from its source, I’m willing to bet the result sounds kind of uncomfortable. Here is a whole Tumblr dedicated to what women in games sound like when in pain. These can sometimes err toward sounding sexualized. Personally, that’s not surprising—my family listens to a whole lot of Spanish…

An open-minded mom is uneasy about giving her son shooter games for Christmas. A must-read about our culture of violence

OK, Now This Video of an Angry Bird Attacking a Baby is Totally Real. Swear.

So, that viral video of the eagle snatching a baby off the ground is a confirmed fake. But this? Totally for reals. Trust me. Animal control officers are worried that, since this marauding Red Bird didn’t clear the area in one shot, he may keep returning until he three-stars the level. Video by Chris Person

DC Universe Online is offering 30 days of Legendary access free to former subscribers. Deal ends Jan. 16. Details here.

Some War Z Images Were Ripped From The Walking Dead

As promised, the strange saga of War Z just keeps getting stranger. Turns out this promo screen for zombie survival game, which was pulled from Steam earlier today, was plagiarized from The Walking Dead A Kotaku reader sent over the following image to show off just how much of this War Z title screen was…

Peter Molyneux’s marriage is safe. His team’s new game, Godus, just hit its Kickstarter goal. Commence terraforming!

Team Fortress 2 Players Are About To Get A ‘Boatload’ More Adult Swim Gear

More stuff to play dress up with in Team Fortress 2, hooray! This time, it’s Adult-Swim related—take a look at the picture above, or head down to the official website to get a 360 view of the models. I think my favorite is the Dr. Roxxo related gear. No specific dates as to when this…

The Smartest & Dumbest Things Ubisoft Did In 2012

Bonjour friends! American gaming’s Franco-friends Ubisoft had quite the year, releasing or showing off games for what seemed like all of their major franchises, and revealing a new one to boot. Other than the pretty fun Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the beginning of their 2012 was defined by arcade and mobile titles like the dangerously…

There is something about this chiptune version of Kavinsky’s Nightcall. It’s hard to explain.

If you have really good taste, this is how you’ll count down to the end of the world.

The Final Pocket God Update Blames Scientology For the End of the World. Sounds About Right.

Those poor Mayans. All this time we’ve been pointing to their broken calendar with anxiety and dream, when we really should have been pointing at completely plausible alien-based religion created by a science fiction author. Do you think there’ll be Tom Cruise? Oh yeah, there’ll be Tom Cruise. In Pocket God Episode 47: Apocalypse the…

Now The Bastion Narrator Can Announce Your Dota 2 Game

One of the neat things about Dota 2 is that you can download “Announcer Packs” that change the voice of the in-game announcer to any of a number of other characters. This one may take the cake—Supergiant games has contributed a Bastion Announcer Pack to the game. I haven’t used it, but it sounds like…

Assassin’s Creed Creator’s Next Game Is Indeed 1666

THQ’s bankruptcy filing confirms what we already knew: the company is working on two new games titled or codenamed Evolve and 1666. The latter is under the helm of Patrice Désilets, best known as the creator of Assassin’s Creed You can check out a table of THQ’s upcoming releases at the end of this PDF.…

Alarmed By Sandy Hook, U.S. Senator Wants Government To Find Out if Violent Games Are More Dangerous Than Cartoons

West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller recently introduced a bill to congress which aims to study the impact of violent video games on children, The Huffington Post reports. Likely, this is a response to the claims that Adam Lanza played video games, and that video games might’ve negatively influenced Lanza. “This week, we are all focused…

Now’s Your Chance to Get Every Dragonvale Dragon You’ve Missed

Notorious for releasing limited-time only dragons and driving players insane trying to breed them before time runs out, Backflip Studios shows fans mercy for the holidays, unlocking every dragon ever released in the game for breeding and purchase—for a limited time, at least. I have the Leap Year Dragon. The one I’ve been bitching about…

Go read/play Wired’s fantastic interview/game with/about the pioneers of Zork and interactive fiction.