The Best Ways I Killed People In Dishonored

Call it morbid, call it gruesome, call it what you will. But murdering corrupt guards in creative ways is one of the most satisfying things you can do in Dishonored, the triumphant stealth-action game that hits store shelves tomorrow. While playing the game over the past week or so, I killed enemies in quite a…

Apps Plus Toys: Apptivity Batman and Cut the Rope

I love gaming apps, and I love toys. This week I’m taking a look at gaming apps that employ physical toys to enhance the play experience, starting with a look at Mattel’s Apptivity Batman and Cut the Rope games. Let’s play with toys! The Apptivity line sees Mattel bringing the full force of its children’s…

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President Obama’s Birth Certificate Super-Move Totally Whups Donald Trump’s ‘Comb Over Here’ Attack

It’s been a long road to the presidential election, which is less than a month away at this point. In case you’ve forgotten how tense and occasionally absurd the talking points and the personas of this political cycle have been, news website Slate has been recapping 2012’s highs and lows with a series of fighting-game-inspired…

Gameloft’s first Unreal Engine 3 game, Wild Blood, is now available on Google Play for Android.

Riot Addresses Allegations of Cheating and Network Failures During League of Legends Championship Tournament

The playoffs in the League of Legends season two championship began on Thursday and were scheduled to conclude on Saturday, but ran into a series of troubles along the way. The first day went smoothly, as did day two. On Saturday, though, matches had to be paused and restarted more than once. Streaming and play…

Stop Teasing the My Little Pony Fans, Gameloft

This morning Gameloft tweeted this image. If anyone needs me I’ll be curled up in the corner rocking back and forth. You may have noticed I’ve been covering mobile and social games here a lot more often. I assure you the upcoming My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic games from Gameloft have absolutely nothing to…

Fox Is Turning Battlefield: Bad Company Into A TV Series

Fox plans to make a television series out of EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company, Deadline reports You might remember Bad Company as that Battlefield game that focused on a colorful single-player campaign rather than multi-player slaughtering. You might also remember it as the one with the grenade and the smiley face pin. It had a sense…

Humans Are The Enemy In This Ridiculous PETA Pokémon Parody

You! Person reading this! Scum human. Go play Pokémon Black & Blue, a new Flash game by the folks at PETA, noble heroes and the only people in the world who had the balls to point out how disgusting it is that Mario wears fur You will undoubtedly learn quite a lot from Pokémon Black…

If Not for Facebook We’d Never Play Megadeth Slots

Today’s world is a beautiful and magical place, where a person can click a single link in an article and instantly be playing a Megadeth slot machine in the AvaTingo Slots and Bingo Facebook app. That’s right, its the slot machine too rowdy and drunk for Metallica. Thank you, Facebook!

The Two Ways You Become Immersed in Video Games

Editor’s Note: Back in July, the folks at the wonderfully-named science-minded consulting group Thwacke, they were telling us about what StarCraft and Mass Effect get right about astronomy Today, one of the neuroscience experts, Ian Mahar, is here to talk immersion—what happens to you when you play a video game, and what game developers can…

Borderlands 2‘s Gaige Upgrades Deathtrap, Gets Reported by Fellow Student

Gaige’s ECHO recording journeys continue today with a newly released episode by developer Gearbox Software. Today’s digital journey reveals that Deathtrap got some upgrades: no legs, more hover. But not everyone shares Gaige’s love for flying robots with laser beams attached to their friggin’ heads. Hey, I can do easter eggs, too.

Watch 8000 Redcoats Fall Like Dominoes (Literally) In This Impressive Tribute to Assassin’s Creed III

Ubisoft asked for an Assassin’s Creed III fan film. These three gents obliged. It took 139 takes, but the end result is more than worth watching. This impressive Rube-Goldberg-like machination takes the redcoats—over 8000 hand-painted figures—through fire, snow, a staircase wrought of video games, and even the kitchen sink. But in the end they all…

Blueprint 3D Gains the Power to Blow Your Pictures Apart in Three Dimensions

An incredibly cool game I somehow neglected to tell you folks about despite playing it for hours on end, Blueprint 3D is an iPhone game that involves twisting about exploded blueprints until they line up on your screen—or at least it was. With next week’s 2.0 update, it’s all about transforming your photos into exploded…

A Platforming Classic Goes Free on iOS

LostWinds isn’t a new game. It’s been around for years, first on the Wii, then on iOS devices. I’m mentioning it again and now, though, because for a limited time it’s suddenly free. This isn’t just one of the best platformers on iOS, it’s quietly one of the best platformers this hardware generation, combining a…

Director Says Halo Webseries Isn’t “the Definitive Master Chief Story”

What would a Halo movie look like? For years, that’s been a question that Hollywood and Microsoft have been trying to answer to no avail. The long and winding road of making a live-action Master Chief adaption is full of stumbles but, today, Microsoft’s 343 Industries begins the rollout of a new webseries set in…

Episode Four Of The Walking Dead Is Out This Week

The next episode that continues Telltale’s intriguing take on The Walking Dead is releasing tomorrow, the developer/publisher announced today. Well, sort of. PSN users get first dibs with its release tomorrow. Everyone else in NA will have to wait for Wednesday (shucks). From the official release: The Walking Dead: Episode Four – Around Every Corner…

Dishonored and XCOM: Enemy Unknown: The Kotaku Reviews [UPDATE: Now With Dishonored Videos]

Two vastly different, perhaps equally great games hit store shelves tomorrow, October 9th. And we’ve reviewed both. Dishonored: The Kotaku Review I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for Dishonored. “Well, it’s Deus Ex meets BioShock,” someone undoubtedly said. “Oh hey, and let’s throw in some Half-Life…

What Facebook is Playing This Week: I’m Going to Run Out of FarmVille 2 Screenshots

When last we left our intrepid gathering of the top ten Facebook games by daily active users, Zynga’s FarmVille 2 had made a dramatic leap to the head of the pack. It’s still there, bigger than before. Last week FarmVille 2 inched ahead of Texas Hold ’em Poker, with a mere 200,000 users separating the…

Super Mario and Angry Birds Make A Pretty Good Team

When you combine the incendiary oomph of the Mushroom Kingdom’s fireflowers and the myriad talents of the various Angry Birds, green pig flesh explodes all over the screen. The video above—made by amateur filmmakers CC Megaproductions—isn’t quite as gory as all that. But it does imagine what might happen if Nintendo’s mascot found himself in…