Diablo III’s Auction Houses Down For “Emergency Maintenance” [Update]

Blizzard has taken down Diablo III’s gold and real-money auction houses for “emergency maintenance”. The company isn’t providing any ETA on when they’ll be back up. UPDATE – And we’re back AUCTION HOUSE MAINTENANCE – 11.13.12 [Diablo]

Wii U Could Be The Perfect Console For People Like Me

I am a multi-tasker. I habitually bounce between screens and activities with the twitch of a speeding driver glancing at his rearview window to check for cops. I keep an obscene number of browser tabs open. I am addicted to doing tons of things at once. It’s awful, I know. I’m part of the generation…

Call of Duty is Turning Into Mass Effect

Many Mass Effect fans lamented the recent metamorphosis of BioWare’s signature sci-fi series from a role-playing game with shooter elements to a shooter with role-playing game elements. So what are we to make of the new Call of Duty playing a bit more like a Mass Effect? This new Call of Duty: Black Ops II…

Now Zynga.com Has Two Castle Building Games To Choose From

Crafted by Playdemic and now available on Facebook and Zynga.com, Kingdom Quest (cleverly tagged “A Game of Scones”) is a social game that revolves around building a fantasy kingdom, not to be confused with CastleVille, a game about building a fantasy kingdom. What are the differences between CastleVille and Kingdom Quest? I could not tell…

Assassin’s Creed III Developers Defend Their Game

Here at Kotaku, we’re of two minds on Assassin’s Creed III. But whether we think the game is a success or a disappointment, we’re all interested in how it came to be the way it is. Over at Reddit, several of ACIII‘s developers are currently participating in a Reddit ask me anything thread. They’re defending…

Are You Ready for Some Motherduckin’ Rock and Roll?

Rock music is incredibly powerful. Ducks as also incredibly powerful. Combine the two and damn, man… just damn. Wild Factor’s Duck and Roll, available now on iTunes, tells the age-old story of a duck with rock and roll in his heart, setting out from the pond to find success in the big city. His name…

Three Comics That Have Unexpected Visitors 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…

Call of Duty: Black Ops II Has a Mighty Marvel Comics Easter Egg

Black Ops II is all about the consequences of unmanned war machines running amok under a hostile power. So the last thing you might be expecting to find is a certain Thunder God’s magical weapon as an easter egg. But Mjolnir—the war hammer wielded by Thor—is exactly what GameFront found in Black Ops II, tucked…

The Batman Comics Sequence You Think Best Sums Up the Dark Knight

Batman knows on how to put on a freakin’ show when he wants to. And he’s polite, too. Whenever my brain randomly moves to thoughts of Batman, this is the series of panels that comes to mine. It’s a page from Batman #405, part of the Batman Year One storyline. This 1987 arc contained Frank…

Once iOS Gaming App of the Day Zombie Highway finally makes it to Android. What took you so long?

Sleeping Dogs Is Getting A New Downloadable Island

Hopefully in the hustle and bustle of the big fall releases, everyone hasn’t lost sight of Sleeping Dogs, the little Hong Kong open-world crime game that could. At least, I still play the game off and on while rotating between others. Square Enix is hoping you haven’t forgotten, too, as they’re releasing yet another chunk…

This Is A House Built For Gamers. Can I Live Here Now Please?

Lately I’ve been thinking I want to move. Something new, you know? But seeing this, I realize I don’t want, I need to move. To a house where I can fit thousands of Xboxes and have friends over all the time This guy lives with several floors’ worth of games in his house. There are…

Free-to-Play Fantasy MMO Arcane Legends Launches on Android and Chrome

Spacetime Studios’ latest and greatest mobile/browser MMO Arcane Legends is now live on Android devices and the Google Chrome Web Store, giving fantasy fighters everywhere a chance to take on the forces of evil with their best pals by their side. Anyone keen on a Kotaku-exclusive in-game weapon? Spacetime Studios applies lessons learned over the…

Mysterious 24-Hour Call of Duty Flu Keeping Gamers Home “Sick”

Let’s be honest for a moment here: pretty much everyone around the world has at the very least thought about calling in “sick” to work or school while their health was perfectly fine, for one reason or another. For some folks, it’s a beach day; for others, just a chance to sleep for an extra…

I Would Play An Entire Game Of Mario and Limbo Put Together

It’s not a full, real game yet, but Newgrounds user executive11 is working on it. For now, you can bounce around in the pretty half-Limbo, half-Mario world. Limbo Mario [Newgrounds via Dorkly]

FarmVille Mistletoe Lane Chapter 2 Goals: Everything You Need to Know

FarmVille‘s Mistletoe Lane expansion won’t be available for free until November 19, but if you’ve already made your way into Zynga‘s second holiday farm, you’ll find a second series of goals available for a limited time. Mistletoe Lane’s Chapter 2 contains six goals to finish over the next week, but again, only players that have…

Here Are A Bunch Of Black Ops II Glitch Videos For You To Laugh At

It’s not uncommon for a game to have bugs and glitches, just ask Bethesda. But especially when multiplayer is involved, people will dig up or stumble on some hilarious (and sometimes useful) glitches. Here are a few that people have already been uploading to YouTube, not even a full day after Black Ops II has…

Black Ops II’‘s Zombies Is Amazing… And It’s Killing Me

Don’t try to solo the extraordinary Zombies mode in the new Call of Duty. You won’t last long. The new zombies mode should probably be its own game and is definitely designed for co-op. I learned this after wrapping up the campaign and trying to play the new TranZit part of Zombies on my own.…

“They have good things,” Ubisoft chief says of THQ when asked if he’d want to buy THQ assets. Like…Patrice Désilets??

Your Skylanders Are the Most Important Resource in Lost Islands

Build things to harvest things to build more things—the resource management genre is huge on mobile, thanks to its simple click-based gameplay and the ability to play for minutes at a time and still get things done. Activision takes that winning formula and layers another one on top—the ability to transfer real-world collectible figures into…