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.

Trick Or Treat! Starting Today, Guild Wars 2 Gets Even Bigger

It’s Halloween in Tyria, and the Mad King has returned. Starting today, all Guild Wars 2 players will log in to find a ton of new content in the MMO, from holiday-themed decorations to transformative costumes all the way up to whole new areas, mini-dungeons, and bosses. Some of these events will only happen for…

Seen In China: A Home-Made Pac-Man Vehicle In A 600-Meter Race

Found at The Atlantic, here’s a Pac-Man-themed kart racer cruising down a 600-meter track. Taken in Hong Kong, China during the amateur Red Bull Soapbox Race on October 14, this great picture is part of a larger Atlantic post that documents some scenes from China in 2012. People are going crazy over Pac-Man and his…

Where is Cliff Bleszinski Going Next?

He cooked up Gears of War. was Epic’s lead game creator and then, surprising most of us, left. Yeah, Cliff Bleszinski went indie (read “is in between superstar game designer jobs”) as of a few weeks ago, and now he’s traveling the west coast, meeting people, tweeting images of their offices… maybe he’s going to…

The Dorkly Weekly: So That’s How Dr. Robotnik Became Dr. Eggman

There is nothing more sadly humorous than a someone trying to go by a self-conceived nickname. A nickname is something given to you by other people. With the dawning of the internet age a person can have a certain amount of control over what they are called, but someone can really do with an internet…

Master Modder Makes Xbox 360 Into A Surprisingly Sleek and Slim Laptop

Benjamin J. Heckendorn, more easily known as Ben Heck, makes a lot of cool stuff. He’s made laptops out of the Atari 800 and Commodore 64. He’s used household objects to help make a controller that severely physically disabled gamers can use. He’s even made an Xbox 360 controller dispense Hot Pockets, because why not?…

At Least One Person Is Already Waiting In Line For The Wii U

Isaiah-Triforce Johnson, who is actually named Isaiah-Triforce Johnson (I’ve seen his passport!), has made a name for himself as the first person to buy just about every piece of Nintendo hardware in recent history. He was the first to buy the Wii and the first to buy the 3DS. Now he wants to be first…

Battle Sudoku Against Friends Does Not Require a Clever Headline

You know Sudoku, the grid-based number game that everyone went crazy over a few years ago? This is Sudoku with power-ups, a three-move-per-turn limit, explosive mines and poker-style suites. When you’ve got all that, plus turn-based multiplayer, you do not require eye-catching wordplay. 6Waves’s latest free-to-play iOS game is now available for your number-revealing pleasure,…

In Fuse, The Guns Feel Like Superpowers You Can Hold In Your Hands

Sometimes when you’re picking up a gun in a shooter, you can’t wait to get rid of it. The nagging feeling that something better is going to come along persists, and you wind up chasing the weapon of your dreams. You’re not going to have that problem in Fuse Insomniac is known for churning out…

007 Legends: The Kotaku Review

They say you’re not supposed to judge something by its cover, but screw it: 007 Legends‘ awful cover gives the game away. The second giveaway of the title’s quality also revealed itself early on: in the middle of the first level, Pussy Galore asks who our intrepid secret agent is. His response? The most monotone,…

League of Legends World Championship Draws Over 8 Million Viewers

On October 13, the League of Legends season two world championship tournament concluded, and one team, the Taipei Assassins, walked away with the $1 million prize. Today, Riot announced just how many LoL fans watched it happen. The stadium where the competition took place held 8000 spectators. Another 8,282,000 unique viewers—well over eight million people—tuned…

Broken Pre-Order Promise Angers Fans Who Wanted Rubber Watch [UPDATE]

A pre-order mix-up has left a number of gamers upset at both retailer Amazon and Aksys Games, the publisher behind the great adventure game Virtue’s Last Reward On September 14, Amazon promised to ship the above rubber watch as a bonus to anyone who pre-ordered Virtue’s Last Reward, which is out tomorrow for 3DS and…