24 Signs Of How Far Video Games Have Come. Enough To Make You Feel Old.

We’ve already looked at the signs that show how video games have matured in the last year Pulling from the ESA’s 2012 statistics on video gaming, BuzzFeed has put together a list of 24 signs that video games have grown up in a much more simplistic way: namely, that they’re damn old now and maybe…

British Developers Get Tax Breaks For Including British Characters in Their Games

Say you’re a game developer in the UK. You’re working on a new game about, I don’t know, aliens planning a casino heist. You’re thinking about setting it in Las Vegas, or maybe Dubai. But wait… wouldn’t it be cool if you set the game in jolly ol’ England? It would be! And best of…

So, How Good Are You at Humming Music?

Hum a Song is a free social humming game for iOS. It’s like Song Pop, except you hum the songs. It’s rather fun. More importantly, it’s an opportunity to post a trailer filled with close-ups of people’s mouths. I never pass up such an opportunity.

Six Comics to Make Your Blood Run Cold This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

The Art of Remember Me Previews the Look of Capcom’s Futuristic Action Game

It sort of seemed that Remember Me popped up out of nowhere (despite actually having been shown before) when Capcom screened it at GamesCom this year. The publisher seems to be keeping the hype machine for the game at a medium simmer, with a handful of glimpses that offer a sense of what heroine Nilin’s…

Take a Look at The Legend of Zelda Manga Inside The Hyrule Historia

We’ve already shown an exclusive sneak peek of the English translation of the Hyrule Historia, which is due out next year. Now, Kotaku gives you a full look at the 35-page manga that’s included in the Zelda hardcover. Drawn by Akira Himekawa—the collective nom de plume for artists A. Honda and S. Nagano—the story happens…

Horn Free is Much More Than a Demo of One of the Year’s Best Mobile Games

Phosphor Games’ Unreal Engine 3-powered Horn is one of my favorite games of 2012, but $6.99 a relatively hefty price tag. Horn Free gives iOS gamers a taste of the gorgeous adventure along with a brand-new endless Quest Mode that should thrill old and new players alike. While other mobile games are busy trying to…

Dishonored‘s first piece of DLC, “Dunwall City Trials,” is out today. The PlayStation Blog’s got more details

If Mario’s Story Was Grittier, It’d Look Like This War

The acting is a little cheesy, but it’s fun to watch what the Mushroom Kingdom would look like ravaged by a modern-day, yet still totally fictional war. We’ve seen the trailer, but here’s the full 11-minute first episode. The video starts off very Call of Duty, music and all. And there is a lot of…

Assassin’s Creed III‘s Final Chase Sequence Was The Worst Thing I Played All Year

As I leapt into the fire, dying for the 28th time, I didn’t feel anger or frustration; I felt resignation and a little bit of wonder. How, I asked aloud, to no one in particular. How on earth does something this awful wind up in a big-budget video game in the year 2012? I was…

FarmVille ‘Mistletoe Lane Chapter 6’ Goals: Everything You Need to Know

It’s another Monday in the holiday season, which means that another chapter of the Christmas-themed goals in FarmVille‘s Mistletoe Lane is now available. We’ve made it to Chapter 6, which contains six goals for us to complete over the next seven days. We’re here with a complete guide to finishing these quests, thanks to Zynga.…

Nintendo of America Says Wii U Online IDs Aren’t Locked To One Console Forever.

Since the Wii U was released last month, it’s been unclear whether Nintendo Network IDs—the online username and profile for any Wii U owner who plays, communicates and shops online on the system—is forever baked into the Wii U it is initially registered on. Users are not given any tools to transfer their Nintendo Network…

Ubisoft and Toys’R’Us Team for an Incredibly Complicated Way to Earn Coupons

Why spend hours maintaining a virtual business for no real reward when you can spend hours building a virtual Toys’R’Us and earn valuable coupons? Within 15 minutes of launching Ubisoft’s Toys’R’Us Towers on Facebook, I earned 15 percent off any single item in the store. Taking into account the massive markup the company pays to…

Samuel L. Jackson Says He Likes Assassin’s Creed Better Than Pong

Sometimes you see Samuel L. Jackson walking down the red carpet at the Spike VGAs. And sometimes you feel compelled to ask him random questions about video games. Even if you get the feeling he doesn’t actually play video games.

Here’s the New Trailer for Superman: The Man of Steel

The latest teaser for Zack Snyder’s update on the saga of the Last Son of Krypton looks incredibly moody. Christopher Nolan is producing on this film and hopes are high that it repeats the success of Nolan’s Batman movies.

The Smartest & Dumbest Things Sony Did in 2012

We’re currently taking a look back over 2012, not only at delivery foods we’ve ordered and personal mistakes we’ve made, but also what the major gaming companies have been up to. What have they pulled off? What did they bungle? We already ran down the list for Microsoft, and today it’s good ol’ Sony’s turn.…

Sometimes You Just Have to Hit a Guy With a Goat

I’ve been playing some rather complicated mobile games lately, deep titles requiring strategic planning and inventory management to navigate epic tales of adventure. I’ve been managing cities, maintaining farms and gathering massive armies to vanquish my foes. It’s nice to kick back with a game that only demands I tap the screen to jump. Something…

Thirteen Things You Should Know About Metro: Last Light

The first thing I thought, while checking out Metro: Last Light during a demo presentation in a Manhattan hotel a few weeks ago, was “Another grey shooter? Seriously?” The second thing I thought was “Gee, this actually looks kind of neat.” The third thing I thought was “Okay, now I want to play the first…

You Have Three Years to Prepare for the Angry Birds Movie

After what feels like years of rumblings about a motion picture based on the world’s most popular mobile game franchise, Finnish developer Rovio makes it official: Angry Birds the movie, in theaters summer 2016. Following Marvel Studios’ lead (David Maisel, former Chairman of Marvel Studios is executive producer of the film), Rovio is producing and…

Aliens: Colonial Marines Will Make You Jump at Every Freakin’ Shadow You See

The challenge Gearbox faces in making Aliens: Colonial Marines is twofold. First, since this is an authorized product, they need to make a game that seamlessly slides into Aliens continuity. Given the way that dev studio CEO Randy Pitchford can quote chapter and verse from the movie franchise timeline, this problem seems to be well…