Microsoft has released the list of games and apps that will support Smartglass when it launches on Friday.

2012 Game Title of the Year: Hamlet or the Last Game without MMORPG Features, Shaders and Product Placement

There’s Already an Assassin’s Creed Movie, and it’s Awesome

While we wait for a feature-length movie about Assassin’s Creed, the kids at Corridor Digital have put together this five-minute clip for Assassin’s Creed III that is way better than it has any right to be. If I had to gripe, it’d be that the fat British guy needed more screentime than the skinny one,…

Xbox 360 Owners Sure Do Love Drone Strikes

Here’s a question from tonight’s US Presidential debate, put to Xbox 360 owners watching it on their system and taking part in the interactive polls. @carolynmichelle [Twitter]

X-Wing: Miniatures: The Kotaku Review

Lucasarts seems intent to never release another game in the X-Wing (video game) series so long as I live. That’s fine. Whatever. I can cope with that now that I can clear a tabletop and play a game of Fantasy Flight’s X-Wing (the miniatures game) instead. Built on the same bones as Wings of War…

Brilliant New PlayStation Commercial Makes Drake Fight Kratos

Here’s a new PS3 commercial – and spiritual successor to last year’s “Michael” – for the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. It’s certainly something. While I disagree with my colleagues who think “Michael” was Sony’s best-ever ad for the platform, this is certainly the best commercial I’ve seen for a Sony gaming product in a…

Why Pulp Fiction Was So Cool

When I saw Pulp Fiction, I was 14. It was the coolest thing I had seen in my entire life. Since that day, I’ve seen the move probably a dozen times. Each time, I have more of an appreciation for the craft behind it. And so I loved this video essay, which went up at…

Classic NES music gets a soothing, modern makeover courtesy of The Electric Witch’s wonderful NEScapism

You Will Not Believe What This Ripley is Made of

Take a look at these images of Ellen Ripley, star of the Alien series. Take a good look. Squint if you have to. Now let me tell you that these are not photographs of Sigourney Weaver, taken while filming the movie. Nor is this a 3D image, made using data captured from the film. No,…

The Best Way To Transform Doom Into Thief Just Got A Little Better

After several years of existence, The Dark Mod remains the single best way to convert Doom into Thief. Hey, I’ll take it – I like Doom fine, but I like Thief better. The new version of the mod, version 1.08, adds a crap-ton of fixes and tweaks; way more than I could list here. And…

Return To New Vegas: How To Mod The Wasteland Pretty Again

There are so many good games out this fall. So, so many. There’s a type of video game for just about every type of video game player. But there is one thing missing: There’s no vast, open-world role-playing game. Bethesda, scions of the vast open-world RPG, have dedicated this year to the fantastic but decidedly…

Destruction of One Tiny Ship in EVE Online Costs Player $6000 Worth of Cargo

It’s no secret that you can get your virtual self killed—or at least space-shipwrecked—pretty easily in EVE Online. It’s a game of shifting alliances, of diplomacy and economics and war. A player flying around solo, in a small ship, is likely to find himself easy prey. One player, stewie Zanjoahir, apparently wasn’t thinking about how…

We Just Unboxed $500 Worth of Halo 4 Stuff to Help You Decide If It’s Worth It

We got Halo 4 in the office today. The $100 Limited Edition… plus the $400 special edition 320GB Xbox 360 that comes with the game packed in. So what’s the deal with these things? We put our unboxing committee on the case. The console is partially see-through, makes Halo 4 sounds and has cool blue…

How To Fix Borderlands 2‘s PC Performance-Killing DLC Bug [Update]

Many of us here at Kotaku are fans of Borderlands 2‘s first downloadable content, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty. The sand skiff is great, the new loot is poppin, and the bosses are super challenging. But as I played the new content on my PC, I began to notice a problem—anytime I’d enter a…

Let’s Remember A More Colorful Nintendo

Graphic artist Jillain Kristen has a good perspective on Nintendo, exchanging the gray-scaled consoles with her colorful nostalgia of playing with them as a kid. The result is this series of prints, all delightfully colorful. She explains the inspiration to me in an email: I wanted to design out the consoles in really child-like and…

The MOGA Android Controller Will Make You Curse Like a Sailor in Public

Available today where ever an Android gamer cries out for an analog stick, Power A’s MOGA gaming controller invites you to offend complete strangers with your outrageous trash talk. I post this because a) I quite like the MOGA and b) any chance to see a mime lose his s*** is a glorious occasion, even…

By The Power Of Zeus, It’s A New God of War Trailer

Here now, the newest trailer for God of War: Ascension. Enthusiastic, Articulate Voice-Over Guy(™) and I agree—this sure looks like a God of War game! If you want even more Zeusiness, you can watch this 7-minute dev diary about the game.

The Ugliest Images From BioShock Infinite Are the Ones That Make Me Want to Play the Game

I enjoyed the new trailer for BioShock Infinite. It’s the best look we’ve had in a while at a game that I’ve been looking forward to since 2010, when the first gameplay footage surfaced. It’s not Booker that particularly intrigues me, or Elizabeth, or even the enemy types they face. And while Columbia looks very…

Webkinz Creators Tempt Women with Love, Romance, Intrigue and Adorable Mouse Figurines

Ganz, the company that married stuffed animals with social gaming with Webkinz (now on iPad) has recently introduced Tail Towns Friends, a game filled with juicy gossip, farming, drama, forbidden love and collectible figurines… you know, for the ladies. In Tail Towns Friends, players enter a soap opera world populated by tiny anthropomorphic cats and…

Aksys has confirmed that Amazon customers can now re-order Virtue’s Last Reward and get the pre-order bonus.