The Littlest Hellboy and Friends Join the Cast of Big Head Bash

Spicy Horse Games’ (Alice: The Madness Returns) browser-based online shooter Big Head Bash is a game about toys shooting each other right in their over-sized heads. The competition heats up today, as Hellboy and four friends from Mike Mignola’s supernatural comic series join the likes of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama as collectible killers. Combining…

The Contemptible Games Journalist: Why So Many People Don’t Trust The Gaming Press (And Why They’re Sometimes Wrong)

Questionable Tweets. Claims of legal threats. Edited resumes. An article that named names one day and didn’t the next. Mock reviews. Free drinks. Extravagant swag. Elaborate junkets. These are the ingredients that are helping bring to a boil familiar suspicions about the gaming press, the work they—we—do, and whose side they’re really on. Welcome to…

Mass Effect 3 Special Edition will be out for Wii U on Nov. 18th, including the Extended Cut DLC. Full details here

Every Single Microsoft Device. Ever.

With the release of Surface, Microsoft is taking a serious dive into the wide world of hardware production. But this isn’t the first time Microsoft has gone down that road. In fact, Redmond has racked up a pretty impressive catalogue of devices. Here’s a list of all of them [Editor’s note. You might notice this…

Professor Layton And The Fantastic Verbal Smackdown

Capped from the recent Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, this screengrab shows just how badass the good professor really is. Would you play a video game that was just Hershel Layton yelling at people? I totally would. (via TinyCartridge)

Smurf Your Own Smurf in Smurf Life, Coming Smurf to Mobile Devices

Now that they’ve finished subverting millions to their wills via Smurf Village, Beeline Interactive places Peyo’s little blue money machines in such dire peril that Papa Smurf’s only recourse is to create a brand-new Smurf—you. The only-proficient-when-the-plot-calls-for-it wizard Gargamel has cast a powerful darkness spell over Smurf Village, threatening to increase the price of candle…

Every Single Microsoft Device. Ever.

With the release of Surface, Microsoft is taking a serious dive into the wide world of hardware production. But this isn’t the first time Microsoft has gone down that road. In fact, Redmond has racked up a pretty impressive catalogue of devices. Here’s a list of all of them [Editor’s note. You might notice this…

PC Gamers Can Now Download Battlefield 1942 for Free

Sure, Battlefield 3 remains a big deal and Battlefield 4 is on its way, but fans who want to go back to where it all began will need to hop into Battlefield 1942 The 2002 World War II-themed FPS launched a franchise that, between games and DLC, has had more than 20 releases in the…

Wonderful but Lonely: The Empty Cities of Halo 4, Dishonored and Recent Video Games

Playing Tokyo Jungle reminds me of my insomnia, of all things. The reason I often stay up until I can greet sunrise is because there’s this serene calm that comes with being awake late at night. Everyone is asleep. The streets are empty. It’s peaceful to not have anyone around. I can focus. It’s kind…

FarmVille 2 Shady Trough Quests: Everything You Need to Know

If you’re running out of animal population room on your farm in FarmVille 2, but aren’t satisfied with simply building more Water Troughs, why not take a look at the new Shady Trough that has been released this weekend? The Shady Trough will increase your animal population limit by 10 animals, but it must be…

Yup, Helping Make League of Legends Sounds Like an Awesome Job

CNNMoney runs videos of people who they think have great professions. Who’s in their latest batch? None other than Ryan “Morello” Scott, lead content designer on Riot Games’ League of Legends In the segment, Scott talks about the different ways one can get into the game design field, as well as detailing the career path…

From Everyone At Kotaku: Thanks For Your Support Last Week

As of yesterday evening, Gawker’s network of sites bounced back up after Hurricane Sandy violently swept through the North East. In the downtime interim, we’d been posting on our Kotumblr, bringing our regulars to a temporary platform and meeting new readers in the meantime. So from everyone at Kotaku, from our headquarters in New York…

2012 Is a Time Machine: Original X-Com Developer Rebooting 1985 Classic Chaos

Julian Gollop co-created the original X-Com, many years ago, and was not optimistic about the chance of this year’s XCOM turning out well. But XCOM turned out to be a smart game and was very well-received. Nearly everyone loves it. Perhaps the wild success of the new XCOM, then, is what has inspired Gollop to…

Your PS3 Controller Can Also be a Phone Controller

Flagship Android phones might be getting bigger screens, but that’s not making game control much easier. Sometimes, you really need a controller. There are dedicated phone controllers you could buy, sure, but if you’ve got a DualShock 3 lying around the house, you may as well use it instead. Sixaxis Controller turns a PS3 pad…

Washington’s War on Wargaming

The only thing that’s cheap about war is the gaming. The U.S. military services and their assorted war colleges, the Department of Defense, and various thinktanks do quite a bit of wargaming of potential conflicts such as Iran. Compared to a billion-dollar aircraft carrier, wargaming isn’t terribly expensive (all you really need is a table,…

Here’s an Action-Packed Social RPG You Can Play Anywhere

Launching November 8 from Pangalore Games, Knightly Adventure is a free-to-play Diablo-esque action RPG tucked inside a social city-builder. You can play it on your cell phone. You can play it on your tablet. You can even play it on your PC. It’s versatile like that. The future of social games shall be platform-agnostic, and…

Killzone‘s Helghast Come to Life in This Amazing Live Action Fan Film

I’ve seen quite a few fan films in my time, but this one blows most out of the water. It’s not surprising to learn that it took the team two years to make this 14-minute beast. As described by creators Infectious Designer, the film above sees a small squad fight against all odds in a…

Skyrim‘s ‘Dragonborn’ DLC Is Official. Here’s The Trailer.

It was hinted before, but now it’s official: this is Dragonborn, the third piece of DLC for Bethesda’s open-world RPG Skyrim. Looks like there are some trippy new areas, though I can’t tell if any of them are from Morrowind, as a previous patch had suggested. Sure looks like they are! Dragonborn is out on…

Wreck-It Ralph Got the #1 High Score For This Weekend’s Movie Box Office

Lots of gamers threw their goodwill towards the various stunts and trailers that Disney spooled out for Wreck-It Ralph, even if they made fun of modern-day games All the hype paid off, with the Disney Animation film pulling in $49.1 million over the weekend, according to Box Office Mojo That makes it the highest grossing…

What’s Mightier Than the Mighty Eagle? Try the Millennium Falcon

Rovio continues to tease the November 8 release of Angry Birds Star Wars on mobile, PC and Mac, this time with a full gameplay trailer that ends with the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. While Luke, Leia, R2, C3P0, Han, Chewbacca and Ben will be doing the grunt work…