NHL 13: The Kotaku Review

My ice hockey knowledge comes primarily from being an obnoxious and uninformed fan. When Nashville came to San Jose for the 2007 playoffs, I was the guy trying to start the “Child Predators” chant. In Raleigh, before the Carolina Hurricanes arrived, my friends and I would go to IceCaps games and try a stunt called…

How Video Game Fans Mourn the Death of One of their Own, Slain in Libyan Attacks

Grief, in an online community, can be a shockingly intimate thing. People who have known each other as a collection of digital avatars and assumed names gather together to mourn the genuinely painful loss of one of their own. The best and most generous parts of a community’s nature often show when tragedy strikes it.…

Wreck-It-Ralph Really Looks Like It Might Be Toy Story for Video Games

Disney’s been promoting Wreck-It-Ralph with cleverly faked vintage arcade machines and tie-in games that do a good job of channeling the old-school appeal of games like Donkey Kong and Dig Dug. (There’s an Activision game coming, too, but that doesn’t look quite as charming.) But, all those things exist around the orbit of an actual…

The Doomed Kingdoms of Amalur MMO Would Have Explored the Darker Side of Everlasting Life

The sad tale of the closure of 38 Studios and Big Huge Games and the cancellation of the Kingdoms of Amalur becomes even more tragic with each new scrap of information on the massively-multiplayer game. That’s why author R.A. Salvatore explaining the story behind the game at DragonCon earlier this month made me so melancholy.…

An Iconic Baldur’s Gate II Scene, Re-Created In Glorious 3D

Remember that awesome scene near the beginning of Baldur’s Gate II, when you’re escaping that first (annoying) dungeon and Irenicus comes out, kidnaps one of your companions, and wreaks havoc everywhere? Here it is in 3D, created in the Dragon Age map editor by YouTuber Dahlia Lynn. Cool stuff! (via David Gaider)

The iPhone 5 Might Be the Best Smartphone for Gamers

Today, Apple announced the iPhone 5. Once again, it’s thinner and more powerful than its predecessors. Mobile gaming just got that much better. One of the biggest complaints about playing games on Apple’s iPhones has been how cramped the screen feels. The iPhone 5’s taller screen translates into more room in which to draw a…

Guild Wars 2, Log Three: I Made A Thing! Then Another Thing, and Another Thing…

Oh, dear. I have begun crafting. I put it off until I reached level 20 with my main, and truth be told it’s just as well. I’ve never yet sold or traded away any of the crafting materials I’ve come across (though I should really put the ones I can’t use into the guild bank),…

New iPod Touch Is Faster, Bigger, Better For Gaming

This is the new iPod Touch, announced at Apple’s press conference today. It’s got the iPhone 5’s screen and the A5 processor, which makes it about as fast as the iPhone 4S. The new iPod Touch is out in October. $299 for 32gb; $399 for 64gb. The iPod Touch is “the world’s most popular music…

Apple has announced that iOS6, the latest operating system for their iPad and iPhone, will be available on September 19.

Hey, Mom, Your Seven-Year-Old Knows Uncharted 2 Isn’t Real

I can’t say I was happy when my wife’s friend brought over her seven-year-old terrorist of a child, Charlie, one summer afternoon in 2010, the same day I brought home a freshly cellophaned copy of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. All I’d wanted to do was pop it into my first edition PlayStation 3 (the one…

Konami’s New Little King’s Story—sequel to the quirky Wii RPG—comes to the Vita on October 2.

Here’s A Video Game Running On The iPhone 5

Announced at Apple’s press conference today, this is the iPhone 5, out September 21. The new iPhone will come with a bigger screen, a faster CPU, and better battery life. In other words, it’ll be a more powerful gaming device than any previous iPhone to date. (Check Gizmodo for a full breakdown of the new…

Jet Set Radio: The Kotaku Review

Few games were as revolutionary as Jet Set Radio for the Dreamcast. It completely overturned our expectations of what games could look like, and remained one of the best games to come out for the system. In the video above, I discuss the HD port of Jet Set Radio: How it’s aged as a game,…

Your First Look At The Newest Game From The Creator Of Mega Man

Here’s a quick first look at Yaiba, the stylish new zombie game by Keiji Inafune, designer of Mega Man and Dead Rising Not much to see yet, but what’s here is a fun tease.

Square Enix’s Latest Mobile Game Has Rhythm Combat And A Talking Teddy Bear

Here’s some gameplay footage from Demons’ Score, a rhythm-action-combat-music game for mobile platforms published by Square Enix and developed by iNiS, the Japanese studio that made Elite Beat Agents Maybe that’s why it’s so groovy. Demons’ Score is out “very soon” for iOS and “this fall” for Android, Square Enix says.

Sweet Mother of Assassin’s Creed III, I Would Wear This Jacket Up And Down And Everywhere

I don’t like most gamer clothing. They’re usually tacky, or have a huge, ugly logo plastered everywhere. Plus, personally, they’re usually all too large. I have a zillion gamer sleep shirts, but nothing I would actually ever wear outside the confines of my apartment. This, though. This. I’ve been following Volante Design for awhile now.…

This Confounding, Addictive Counting Game Will Tear Your Brain In Half

No no wait, it’s a good kind of brain-tearing! Welome to Nuclien, a new iPhone/iPad game from James Barnard. It will test you. It will push you. It may break you. And if you’re like me, you’ll get really, really into it. Nuclien has a distinctive, stark visual style that reminds me of nothing so…

8 Things You Should Know About LittleBigPlanet On The PlayStation Vita

LittleBigPlanet Vita doesn’t come out for another couple of weeks, but Sony has decided that they don’t mind if we go ahead and talk about it now. How nice of them! I’m taking my time playing it—LittleBigPlanet games have a lot of nooks and crannies, and I’d like to explore every one before I do…

Feed The Team Fortress 2 Turret Milk, And It Grows Up To Be The Terminator

What the hell did I just watch, you ask? Why, the most adorable squees of delight you’ve ever heard, I respond! Look at that twinkle in the engineer’s eyes. He’s like a proud, excited parent, ready to embrace the possibilities of a new future and… Oh. Oh, my. The Calcium (Source Filmmaker) [YouTube via Reddit]

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