Music-Powered Shooter Symphony Brings Out the Best (and Worst) in Your Song Collection

I’ve always enjoyed the mechanical stylings of chiptune artist Trash80. My favorite tune (next to the gorgeous “Icarus”) is “Robot Sneakers” a bouncy little tune that I must have listened to a hundred times. I’ve never wanted it to end as badly as I do when playing it within Empty Clip Studios’ PC indie music…

Hey, IGN‘s Greg Miller, go kick cancer’s ass. We’re pulling for you.

Sure, Why Not, Let’s Recreate The Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Inside Battlefield 3

So what’s going on with Grand Theft Auto V? Very little, aside from a couple of screenshots and some analysts reading tea leaves and thinking it’ll be out by April. A bored Internet public already has recreated the Grand Theft Auto V teaser trailer within the original San Andreas and then in Liberty City (since…

A Mass Effect Point-and-Click Adventure Fan Game? Yes Please!

Regular readers may have noticed that I have rather an addiction to classic point-and-click style adventure games. Those same astute readers may also have noticed I have a wee bit of an obsession with Mass Effect. This fan project that puts the two together, making a Mass Effect point-and-click adventure game, is therefore completely irresistible.…

Blizzard Network Breached; Change Your Battle.Net Passwords

The company behind World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo said that hackers breached their network. The breach was detected this week and while Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime says there are no signs that financial data was stolen, he is recommending that people change their passwords. Full statement from Blizzard’s wesbite (key lines bolded by Kotaku):…

There Are Good Ways To Experience The Walking Dead As A Game. The Facebook Experience Is Not One of Them.

There is an excellent game out there based on The Walking Dead. It’s a five-part serial, of which the first two chapters have been released, and it’s made by Telltale Games. One by one, many of us here at Kotaku have become fans, each for our own reasons. If you would like to play a…

If Your Game Isn’t Getting Patched, Consider It a Warning

THQ found the time to re-rate fighters for UFC Undisputed 3 a third time but still hasn’t delivered a patch for the game, now six months after its release, despite THQ’s promises it would continue to support the title even after the news it sold the license to EA Sports. THQ shuttered its San Diego…

Bridging the Gaming Age Gap the Mighty Marvel Way

In today’s incredibly moving installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter NathanJEvrard explains how he bonded with his nephew over Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, becoming a hero himself in the process. “Uncle Nate, come here and watch me fly!” That was my nephew Noah, who is 6 years old, excitedly introducing me into the…

A person claiming to be an ex-Zynga worker trashed the company at Q&A site Quora. No word from Zynga if they’re legit.

Hybrid‘s Creative Director is Answering Your Questions Right Here, Right Now [Interview Over]

The unusual multiplayer shooter Hybrid continues the Xbox 360’s Summer of Arcade this week and the guy who thought up the game, 5TH Cell creative director Jeremiah Slaczka is here to answer your questions about it and, well, about anything else you want to ask a game developer. A server problem may have kept you…

If THQ Gets Its Way I’ll Be Dead in Five Days

First THQ’s media relations folks send me a furry hat that’s too small for my head. Now they’ve signed my death warrant. In honor of next week’s release of Darksiders 2, THQ got some lovely folks in Pakistan (it says so on the sticker on the bottom) to jinx the living hell out of my…

BioShock Infinite Update: Multiplayer Modes Cut, Gears Maestro Joining. But Should Fans Worry? [Update]

A string of bad news about one of the most anticipated games on the planet might be giving BioShock Infinite fans cause for concern. But the game’s creative director, Ken Levine, tried to allay concerns during a call with Kotaku today. He did so on the heels of us learning some surprising details about Infinite‘s…

Sony ‘Abandoned’ The Trademark For The Last Guardian. Here’s Why That Means Nothing [UPDATE]

The Internet exploded today following news that Sony had “abandoned” the trademark for their much-anticipated PlayStation 3 game The Last Guardian (as first reported by PlayStation Lifestyle). And indeed, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has filed a “Notice of Abandonment” to inform Sony that the trademark is reverting to public domain. But despite rampant…

You Can Now Pre-Order the Ouya Console

If you contributed to $95 or more Ouya’s record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, then congratulations! You’ll be getting one of the shiny, Tegra-powered game consoles when they come out next year. But if you didn’t contribute to the crowdfunding and still want to see what all the fuss if about, you can pre-order the Android box today…

I Can Explain Zynga’s Decline After Playing FIFA 13

Everyone’s got some genres they’re not really into. For me, it’s always been puzzle games and sport games. Puzzle games are good at making me feel frustrated if not stupid. Not a fan! And sports games, well, I usually figure I’d rather actually play the sport than watch it. I grew up playing all sorts…

I Wouldn’t Know Gameloft’s First Unreal Engine Game is for Mobile if I Hadn’t Been Told

Gameloft, most recently of the Dark Knight Rises tie-in fame, have recently been promising their first mobile game using Unreal 3. That game is Wild Blood, and that is its trailer you see here. By itself, without context, this trailer might not be terribly impressive. These are elements we’ve seen before, after all. Giant sword,…

MVP Baseball Returns, but Only in Korea

Few noticed back in April, if it was even announced stateside, that EA Sports’ MVP Baseball series was returning as an online game in South Korea. It’s an interesting re-emergence of a brand many sports gamers remember fondly, but it offers little hope of the game actually returning in North America. MVP Baseball Online, in…

See How Dishonored Will Let You Improvise Some Really Cool Kills

The malleability of the combat system in Dishonored is one of the things that has me most lookingf forward to the upcoming alternate-reality adventure from Arkane Studios The trailer above shows how you can mix and match abilities and gadgets to pull off sneaky, surprising kills. Can’t wait until October.

There Are 10 Million Reasons You Won’t Be Able to Stop Playing This Puzzle RPG

My latest run through the pixelated dungeon of EightyEight Games’ iOS dungeon puzzler earned me a score of a little more than 800,000 points. Freedom costs 10 million. I’m half-hoping I never make it. Reaching that lofty goal in the aptly-named 10000000 means freedom, sure, but it also means a possible end two-minute marathon dungeon…

Epic Games Announces Best Studio Logo Ever

Today Epic Games announced the opening of some video game studio in Maryland that has a freaking bear with wings and a unicorn horn for its logo. It’s working on Infinity Blade: Dungeons or something. Bear. With wings. And a horn. Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, this new game studio is comprised of top-level development…