You Can Help Decide What Games Tim Schafer And Double Fine Make Next (If You Pay)

This year, as Tim Schafer and his Kickstarter-loaded team at Double Fine do their regular game jam Amnesia Fortnight—during which they throw everything out the window and experiment with crazy game ideas (like the ones that would eventually become Costume Quest and Stacking)—they’re making the whole thing public. And you get to vote which games…

Heroes & Castles Wades Into Castle Defense, Sword Swinging

Coming next month from the makers of N.Y. Zombies, Heroes & Castles is a strategy action role-playing game that drops the player into the meatier portions of a raging war. The strategy portion of Heroes & Castles sees players building fortifications, recruiting units and managing castle finances. Once the fighting starts, however, it’s into the…

Yes, the Wii’s Going Away But It Did Pretty Good Things For Mickey Mouse and Warren Spector

Epic Mickey was supposed to be one of the games that pumped new life into the Wii. The 2010 creation carried big expectations with it, namely that the Wii exclusive would be the third-party creation that showed how outside parties could make games as compelling as releases from Nintendo’s internal studios. Things didn’t work out…

CityVille‘s CityVille 2 Crossover Goals: Everything You Need to Know

In addition to the general cross-promotion that’s available to complete between CityVille and CityVille 2 on Facebook, players of Zynga‘s original city-building game can also complete a series of four CityVille 2-themed goals in their towns, receiving items like a Police Scene in the process. We’re here with a guide to completing this goals, thanks…

Nintendo Boss Declares Wii U The Start of the Next Console Generation, Teases Looming Surprises

The Wii U is not the last of the first wave of high-def consoles that began with 2005’s Xbox 360 and 2006’s PlayStation 3, according to Reggie Fils-Aime. It’s the first of what comes next. “This is absolutely the beginning of a new generation,” Fils-Aime told me during a quick interview late Saturday night, just…

Introducing Kotaku Social and Kotaku Mobile

There are more gamers in the world today than ever before, but the vast majority isn’t turning to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or Wii U for their interactive entertainment fix. They’re logging into Facebook or opening up their smart phone’s app store. These new, readily accessible gaming platforms have given birth to a new…

Two Concerned Friends Lead The Worst Video Game Intervention Ever

It started out innocently enough, but these two “concerned” friends worrying about their video gamer buddy’s tendency towards violence takes a turn for the worst.

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Buy The PC Gaming Enthusiast?

Ah, the holidays. That time of year where your wallet is empty and your belly is full. It’s a trade-off I’m willing to make. Especially if it means we get our hands on some delightful goodies, some perhaps gaming related! But what do you get that special PC gaming enthusiast in your life? We here…

Microsoft’s Smartglass is Great (And I Don’t Even Use it For Games)

When Microsoft first announced its Smartglass technology at E3, I figured it would end up like the console’s video marketplace, or Facebook application. A neat idea for the guys in marketing, but wholly uninteresting for the average user. A few weeks in and I’m glad I’ve been proven wrong. I’ve got the app installed on…

The Elaborate Pants Rules For Miis on Nintendo’s Wii U

One day, you might boot up a Wii U, see a bunch of Mii avatars gather in the system’s main menu/plaza, and you will wonder: Why are these Miis wearing different-colored pants? What to the colors of these pants mean? Good news. The Wii U’s digital instruction manual explains the fashion rules for Mii pantwear.…

Chillingo Gives Thanks for Mobile Gamers by Setting Some of Its Best Games Free

Based in the UK, mobile game publisher Chillingo has no real reason to celebrate the American holiday of Thanksgiving, but if that celebration means free copies of Totem Runner and Puzzle Craft then I’m willing to play along. Besides, we’re going to need something to do that doesn’t involve moving about or looking over our…

Good News: Vita Is Getting A New Uncharted This December. Bad News: It’s A Card Game.

Now this could very well be an excellent card game, but it’s still a card game. Clearly not the action-adventure experience you might think of when you hear the name Uncharted For more on this upcoming Vita game—called Uncharted: Fight For Fortune—head on over to the PlayStation Blog

Two Things You Should Know About Madden 13 For Wii U

I’ve been playing around with Madden 13 for Wii U, which is a Madden game for the Wii U. If you have played a Madden game, you probably know what you are getting (football). But! There are two big things you should know if you are considering playing this version of EA’s massive concussion-simulation series.…

This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: Moving to the Big City

Out with the relatively old and in with the new, that’s the theme of this week’s list of Facebook games losers and winners, as Zynga’s latest ‘Ville title grows and its next-to-latest shrinks. It’s almost winter, a time when folks living on drafty farms suddenly wish they were someplace where they never had to leave…

Wing Commander’s Spiritual Sequel Sets a New $5.7 Million Video Game Crowdfunding Record

Want proof that people want to soar through the cosmos in video games again? The people who’ve helped Chris Roberts’ upcoming space sim Star Citizen smash through more than $5.7 million of crowdfunding pledges are giving doubters all the evidence they might need. That’s more than any other video game project has raised via crowdfunding.…

Day 1 of the Wii U: Everything You Need to Know

It’s here. Nintendo’s sixth console, bringing one new controller and two screens to your living room, hit store shelves early this morning in America. As you would expect, there are are successes, setbacks, and tons of questions for the newest piece of video gaming hardware. Kotaku is here to document them all. What’s Inside: Wii…

Nintendo Burns Up Black Friday with a New 3DS Bundle

On the biggest shopping day of the year, Nintendo is launching a limited edition Flame Red 3DS bundle, the company announced today. Out November 23, the bundle is priced at US$169.99 and comes with Super Mario Land 3D pre-installed in the system.

Internet Cafe Webmaster Steals Internet From Internet Cafe

An internet cafe webmaster in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, was recently arrested for stealing user information, passwords, and money from the very same internet cafe he was working in. The method of his crime was something that seems like something lifted from the 1999 movie Office Space. The internet cafe webmaster, surnamed Zhang,…

3DS game Inazuma Eleven 1・2・3!! has been delayed from late Nov. to “winter” in Japan.

Evangelion 3.0 is (Not) the Film You Were Expecting

Over the past few weeks, we here at Kotaku East have been taking a look at the previous Rebuild of Evangelion films as we eagerly awaited the release of the third in the series: Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo Well, this past weekend, the long anticipated film was released in theaters across Japan. But…