The Sad, Sweet Story of Justin and His Big Day Out Playing PlayStation Games

Every Wednesday, the Freddie Mac Foundation sponsors a segment on local news channels in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC, turning the cameras on one of their kids who is in need of adoption. The latest was Justin, a “quiet, reserved child” who sure does love video games. So for his turn…

In Dishonored, Stealth is For the Boring

Having got the fancy ending for Dishonored, I thought I had some skills. Turns out my only skills were patience and cowardice. The way Flakked gets things done in this video shows me that my second, more violent playthrough might be a lot more interesting That slide near the end is the stuff of highlight…

Oh Look, a Game About Starting Street Riots

You’d think that, in the wake of last year’s London riots, developers would be wary of making a game based on civil disturbance, even when you consider its a topic rarely covered by games anyway So it’s nice to see Dot Product’s upcoming Wildfire Worlds not only tackle the subject, but do it in a…

This is Orange 5, Standing By

Atey Ghailan is another of the talented team at Atomhawk Design, a British studio made up of a ton of former games industry artists. If you like what you see here, you can check out Atey’s blog or CA.org page for more. (thanks ConceptArtWorld!) To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if…

Medal of Honor’s Launch-Day Patch Notes Are Hilarious

There’ll be a day-one patch available for EA’s Medal of Honor: Warfighter (it’s out later today), and as the publisher advises, you’d do well to actually download it before trying to play the game. Otherwise you’ll run into an epic list of glitches and broken features Note that these are for a game that has…

Microsoft has released the list of games and apps that will support Smartglass when it launches on Friday.

2012 Game Title of the Year: Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement

There’s Already an Assassin’s Creed Movie, and it’s Awesome

While we wait for a feature-length movie about Assassin’s Creed, the kids at Corridor Digital have put together this five-minute clip for Assassin’s Creed III that is way better than it has any right to be. If I had to gripe, it’d be that the fat British guy needed more screentime than the skinny one,…

Xbox 360 Owners Sure Do Love Drone Strikes

Here’s a question from tonight’s US Presidential debate, put to Xbox 360 owners watching it on their system and taking part in the interactive polls. @carolynmichelle [Twitter]

X-Wing: Miniatures: The Kotaku Review

Lucasarts seems intent to never release another game in the X-Wing (video game) series so long as I live. That’s fine. Whatever. I can cope with that now that I can clear a tabletop and play a game of Fantasy Flight’s X-Wing (the miniatures game) instead. Built on the same bones as Wings of War…

Brilliant New PlayStation Commercial Makes Drake Fight Kratos

Here’s a new PS3 commercial – and spiritual successor to last year’s “Michael” – for the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. It’s certainly something. While I disagree with my colleagues who think “Michael” was Sony’s best-ever ad for the platform, this is certainly the best commercial I’ve seen for a Sony gaming product in a…

Why Pulp Fiction Was So Cool

When I saw Pulp Fiction, I was 14. It was the coolest thing I had seen in my entire life. Since that day, I’ve seen the move probably a dozen times. Each time, I have more of an appreciation for the craft behind it. And so I loved this video essay, which went up at…

Classic NES music gets a soothing, modern makeover courtesy of The Electric Witch’s wonderful NEScapism

You Will Not Believe What This Ripley is Made of

Take a look at these images of Ellen Ripley, star of the Alien series. Take a good look. Squint if you have to. Now let me tell you that these are not photographs of Sigourney Weaver, taken while filming the movie. Nor is this a 3D image, made using data captured from the film. No,…

The Best Way To Transform Doom Into Thief Just Got A Little Better

After several years of existence, The Dark Mod remains the single best way to convert Doom into Thief. Hey, I’ll take it – I like Doom fine, but I like Thief better. The new version of the mod, version 1.08, adds a crap-ton of fixes and tweaks; way more than I could list here. And…

Return To New Vegas: How To Mod The Wasteland Pretty Again

There are so many good games out this fall. So, so many. There’s a type of video game for just about every type of video game player. But there is one thing missing: There’s no vast, open-world role-playing game. Bethesda, scions of the vast open-world RPG, have dedicated this year to the fantastic but decidedly…

Destruction of One Tiny Ship in EVE Online Costs Player $6000 Worth of Cargo

It’s no secret that you can get your virtual self killed—or at least space-shipwrecked—pretty easily in EVE Online. It’s a game of shifting alliances, of diplomacy and economics and war. A player flying around solo, in a small ship, is likely to find himself easy prey. One player, stewie Zanjoahir, apparently wasn’t thinking about how…

We Just Unboxed $500 Worth of Halo 4 Stuff to Help You Decide If It’s Worth It

We got Halo 4 in the office today. The $100 Limited Edition… plus the $400 special edition 320GB Xbox 360 that comes with the game packed in. So what’s the deal with these things? We put our unboxing committee on the case. The console is partially see-through, makes Halo 4 sounds and has cool blue…

How To Fix Borderlands 2‘s PC Performance-Killing DLC Bug [Update]

Many of us here at Kotaku are fans of Borderlands 2‘s first downloadable content, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty. The sand skiff is great, the new loot is poppin, and the bosses are super challenging. But as I played the new content on my PC, I began to notice a problem—anytime I’d enter a…

Let’s Remember A More Colorful Nintendo

Graphic artist Jillain Kristen has a good perspective on Nintendo, exchanging the gray-scaled consoles with her colorful nostalgia of playing with them as a kid. The result is this series of prints, all delightfully colorful. She explains the inspiration to me in an email: I wanted to design out the consoles in really child-like and…