The Secret World “State Of The Game” Update Promises Continued Content, Despite Developer Difficulties

It’s no secret that The Secret World has been facing some troubled times. Developer Funcom laid off half their staff earlier this month, which would seem to make the promised monthly content updates more challenging to release on time. However, in his August, 2012 State of the Game announcement, Ragnar Tørnquist, the game’s creative director…

Hi. Kotaku Editor-In-Chief Here. I’ll Answer Your Questions Right Now.

Hey, Kotaku readers, every so often I like to check in with all of you and find out how you think we’re doing. This time, I thought we’d use our nifty, new Live Q&A system to answer your best questions about what’s going on with Kotaku, why we’re doing this or that, what we can…

Steam Greenlight Is A Good Idea, But Makes Its Buried Treasures Very Hard To Find

After one day of poking around Steam Greenlight, I feel like I have seen this all before. And then I realize: in a way, Steam’s suddenly going all Kickstarter. It’s a big new platform that the little guys—and not-so-little-guys—can use to get their project in front of millions. And it’s a bit of a mess.…

It Looks Like People In Poland Are Playing Resident Evil 6 Very, Very Early

It’s August 31, not October 2, but somehow, some way, gamers in Poland have gotten their hands on some retail copies of Resident Evil 6—or are extremely awesome at PhotoShop. A writer on the Polish gaming site NeoGeo reports that they were able to purchase copies of the October-scheduled game now. Google translate sorta clarifies…

Fun, a Little Frustrating, but Still Free, One Epic Knight Gives a Good Run for the Money

I was having a fun time hustling through this dungeon, darting left, sliding, slicing up a gelatinous cube, picking up loot, when suddenly I turned splat into the wall. That’s a fitting metaphor for One Epic Knight, too. For a free game, released last week by Simutronics, whose Tiny Heroes lends its knight character to…

Dead Island: Riptide Puts the Four Survivors Through Even More Hell

After name-dropping the Dead Island sequel at E3 in June, Deep Silver drops the first visuals and details on Dead Island: Riptide, which challenges the original four survivors to live up to the label once again. They thought they were safe, but this is a zombie game — no one is ever truly safe. A…

Power A brought its MOGA Android controller solution to PAX, giving the public their first chance to play with it.

Splinter Cell Blacklist Hasn’t Abandoned Stealth. Take a Look.

After Blacklist reared its head at this year’s E3, many Splinter Cell fans feared that the renowned action game would be cutting back on its exacting stealth gameplay. There might be hope, guys. This new playthrough of the same level shown at E3 shows a sneakier take on Sam Fisher’s infiltration of a terrorist cell…

Xbox Live Games Are Coming to Windows 8 This October

On October 26th, your Windows PC will become an Xbox. Sort of. The integration between Microsoft’s game console and its newest PC operating system will be getting a whole lot tighter, as Windows 8 users will be getting access to select Xbox Live games like Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds Space and BlazBlue Calamity Trigger Full…

Team shooter Gotham City Impostors is now free-to-play on Steam. Free on computers only; still costs money on consoles.

This New ZombiU Trailer Does Terrible Things to Buckingham Palace

I’ve never been to Buckingham Palace. Hopefully, when I get there, the Windsor family home won’t be infested with the undead like it is in this new trailer for ZombiU. You’ll see a variety of uses for the WiiU GamePad here, including inventory management and environmental scanning. And, hey, soldier zombie wearing a helmet and…

Origin Teams With Virtu MVP to Make Laptop Gaming Gorgeous

LucidLogix responsiveness-boosting Lucid Virtu MVP GPU virtualization software has been surprising and delighting desktop PC gamers for months now, utilizing software-based technology to boost the performance of their graphics hardware. Now gaming laptop makers Origin have teamed with LucidLogix as the exclusive partner for the mobile version of the tool, and it’s pretty damn amazing.…

I love Final Fantasy VII: Now Watch Me Pretend I Hate It.

Final Fantasy VII‘s Wikipedia entry is 6,596 words.The Wikipedia entry for William Shakespeare is 5,999 words. Let’s apply One-Hundred-Point Scale Internet Video Game Web Site Score Logic to these two word counts: if we were giving Final Fantasy VII a 10, Shakespeare’s collected works would score a 9.7. Hello. My name is tim rogers. The…

You Think You Know the Borderlands? You’ve Seen Nothing Yet

The charming and well-spoken Sir Hammerlock gives us a guided tour of the new Pandora, showing us what’s changed (everything) and what’s stayed the same (dying a lot) in Borderlands 2

Let’s Take A Tour of the ArenaNet Studios, Where The Wall Art Is Beautiful And There’s A Cereal Bar

Guild Wars 2 may be filled with amazing artwork, but the development team behind the game—ArenaNet—makes the best use of them as wall art. Concept art blown up to staggering sizes line the walls of the two-floor studio, artfully complementing the half-industrial, half-wood laden interior. There really isn’t a wall that isn’t plastered with gorgeous…

Macross: Do You Remember Love? on the PlayStation is a Forgotten 2D-Shooter Classic

Macross: Do You Remember Love? is one of the defining anime of the 1980s—which explains why this year’s Blu-ray 30th Anniversary Box is so full of amazing additions. We at Kotaku East have already looked at the hybrid pack’s PS3 title Macross: My Boyfriend is a Pilot 2012, but there is a download code included…

You Want Guns? She’s Got Guns. Plastic Guns.

Aigis (née Aegis in Japan) from Persona is getting a new posable figure this December. It’s for Persona 4 Arena, and if you don’t like the color variation, sit tight. In January 2013, another color variation will hit—it’s a “Famitsu original color version”. Famitsu is a Japanese game magazine. You can see the new color…

These Weather Girls Do More than Make Weather Fun

Taiwan’s Weather Girls are have their sights set on Japan—not to make the weather “more fun” (they’ve already done that, apparently!) Rather, they hope to make it as popstars. Weather Girls originally debuted in August 2010 and were the brainchild of Next Media, the Taiwanese TV network famous for creating Sims-like news recreations. They didn’t…

The Macross Do You Remember Love? Remaster is Beautiful Beyond Belief

While comparatively unknown in the West, Macross: Do You Remember Love? was one of the most important anime of the 1980s in Japan and was one of the most ambitious hand-drawn animation projects of all time. A remake of an already popular TV series, the film bled into the main stream with the success of…

Internet Addiction Clinics Cracking Down on Beatings

China was one of the first countries to recognize internet addiction as a psychological illness—and then beat the crap out of people suffering from it. As The Register points out, a 2008 government supported report stated that those who gamed more than six hours in a day and then experienced withdrawal type symptoms suffered from…