Yes, it is Off-Putting When There’s an Achievement for “Staring at a Woman’s Tits”

Rock Paper Shotgun points us towards this great video by OXM, on the subject of women in video games. It starts a little slow, but bear with it. By the time you get to Mass Effect’s “dicks in a cupboard”, you’re well on your way. I wouldn’t often say a video I post here is…

My Favourite Black Ops II Moment Was When a Hollywood Legend Gets His Dues

There are a number of Hollywood stars lending their talents to Black Ops II. Sam Worthington returns as Mason, for example. The only thing Worthington provides, though, is his voice. Others got to be in the game. You might recognise Admiral Briggs as Tony Todd, while Harper bears a resemblance to his voice actor, Michael…

Wife Leaves Game-Addicted Husband Who Spends 25 Hours a Week Playing… Second Life

No, you didn’t just wake up from a bad dream of the future and find yourself safely back in 2006. It’s still 2012, and an Australian man who still plays Second Life has seen it cost him his marriage. The 51 year-old man, who “cannot be named for legal reasons”, saw his 33 year-old wife…

Star Wars Action Figures Inducted Into the Hall of Fame. Let’s Celebrate With Awesome Pictures.

Because there is a hall of fame for everything you can put in a hall, there is of course a National Toy Hall of Fame in the United States. Which this week has inducted perhaps the most popular figures of all time into its ranks. From a rocky beginning in 1977, when not enough figures…

This Grand Theft Auto Movie Doesn’t Just Work, It’s Incredible

This is RISE, a Grand Theft Auto-inspired short film by director Gevorg Karensky. Whatever quality and budgetary limitations you might think this has because it’s “fan made”, you go right ahead and throw them out the window. If this is what Grand Theft Auto VII looks like on my ValveBox TVPC, then the future might…

Skyrim, Smooshed Into Teeny Tiny Little Planets

Drawing on some awesome photography work, Dutch artist midhras has taken three of the biggest video game worlds around—Skyrim, Fallout 3 and RAGE—and condensed them into tiny little planetoids. It’s like Super Skyrim Galaxy. You can see some here, but the whole collection is at the link below. Planetesimals [midhras, via Save Room Mini Bar]

Your First Dragon Age 3 Screenshot is Tiny, Blurry

BioWare revealed the first screenshot for the upcoming Dragon Age III yesterday at… the Bradford Animation Festival in England. It was only shown for a few seconds, but according to this report on Eurogamer that was long enough for an attendee to grab a shot. As you can see, Dragon Age III will feature both…

Black Ops II’s Ending Sure Was Terrible (For Me)

Stephen made a great point earlier in the week when he compared Black Ops II to, of all things, Mass Effect. The way the game is punctuated with moments that can re-shape an entire experience with a single decision is an unexpected and welcome move for a series that’s so often criticised for being little…

Over 100 Million Friendships have Been Made Over Xbox Live (And Over 200 Billion Achievement Points)

Amidst all the back-slapping and high-fiving going on at Xbox Live today, Microsoft released a statistic related to the service that I found pretty interesting. Seems that since Xbox Live’s inception in 2002, over 100 million friendships have been made. 122,265,266 at time of printing, to be exact. No word on how many friendships were…

Oh No Big Deal, It’s Just A Thought-Controlled Robot

I mean we all knew this was coming, but it’s still cool to see. Here’s a video of the progress of researchers working on a thought-controlled robot in a joint venture by the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory and the CNRS-LIRMM Interactive Digital Human group. We know this starts innocently enough, but it’s only a matter…

Spike VGAs Announce Nominees for Best Video Games of November

Assassin’s Creed III, Dishonored, Journey, Mass Effect 3 and The Walking Dead are the nominees, announced today, for Game of the Year at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. The rest of the list contains, as you might expect, a number of nominees that were just released only days ago, if at all. Halo 4…

Next Year, Gabe Newell Becomes a Video Game Hall of Famer

John Carmack’s in there. Will Wright’s in there, too. So are Tim Sweeney, Peter Molyneux and Shigeru Miyamoto. And now Gabe Newell will be joining all of those video game luminaries in the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame According to the AIAS, the Hall of Fame Award goes to “game creators…

Black Ops II‘s Zombie Mode: a Bit of Left 4 Dead, a Bit of Adventure Games, and a Whole Lot of Fail

When I had enough of Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s campaign, I decided to spend some time with its more fantastical mode, Zombies. These are my thoughts. There are three game types: the story-based “Tranzit,” the classic “Survival,” and, less excitingly, the maliciously spirited “Grief.” All overtly have the same premise: using teamwork, survive/kill…

The Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Soundtrack Is A Stealthy Success

Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation , the new portable entry in Ubisoft’s popular historical adventure series, offers up a few genuine surprises. It’s impressive how well Ubisoft managed to cram a fully-packed Assassin’s world onto the handheld PSVita, and players might be surprised at the myriad ways that historical tropes from the African-American experience show up…

The Sounds And Stylings Of Black Ops II‘s Kick-Ass Soundtrack

I haven’t played enough of Black Ops II to render a real verdict on how I feel about as a game, I can say for sure that I really enjoy the soundtrack. It’s a cut up from past games in the series, an exciting, diverse blend of whirling orchestral parts, ethnic instruments and atmospheric electronics.…

For Your Consideration: The Second Annual Saxxy Awards

Valve has opened the voting for the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2, and a winner shall be crowned on Nov. 30. Why so soon? Well, because the best overall winner is going to be announced at the Spike Video Game Awards on Dec. 7, and the video is going to…

The Lead Designer Of Guild Wars 2 Is Answering Your Questions Right Now (Q&A Closed)

ArenaNet’s massively multiplayer Guild Wars 2 has been out for a few months now, and many of us here at Kotaku really like the game. Like any MMO, it’s already changed quite a bit since launch, and ArenaNet has begun regularly adding new content, quests, and gear to extend the game’s life well into the…

The Best (Worst) Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Comments, Immortalized

I’m excited about Grand Theft Auto V. You’re probably excited about Grand Theft Auto V. And with so many people excited about Grand Theft Auto V, pretty much everyone out there with a keyboard an functioning brain has taken to the internet to voice their opinion about the impressive second trailer that Rockstar released yesterday.…

Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s free-to-play option is live now. Update the game; get a killer robot pal in the process.

Now Facebook Games Can Create User Groups to Fill With ‘Add Me’ Posts

The second Zynga posts a message on the app page for a game like FarmVille 2 it fills with posts from people seeking friends to help them in-game. Now there’s a new feature in beta for Facebook developers that will allow for apps and games to create their own groups, giving players another place to…