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…

FarmVille 2 A Bunny’s Brew: Everything You Need to Know

Along with the new Fangtastic Fun items that have been launched in the FarmVille 2 marketplace this week comes the arrival of a cute little witch bunny that we can now adopt on our farms. The Witch Bunny is released via the “Bunny’s Brew” quest, which sees you building a Cauldron on your farm. We’re…

Talented duo who wanted $1,000,000 to make an Old School RPG are nixing their Kickstarter. “Expect something more soon”

US Senator Really Hates It When Federal Money Goes to Video Games

Prom Week is a social game and a social simulation game, an IndieCade finalist designed by a team at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The game, which follows the social trials and tribulations of a set of teenagers during prom week, is in a sense a proof-of-concept work, designed to show off how…

The Unfinished Swan and The Art of Making A Mess

Playing The Unfinished Swan feels a lot like being three years old. You make a terrible mess, and then when someone asks you “Why did you do that?” the only real answer you have is that, weirdly, it felt right. There was just something about that wall that begged to be drawn on with crayons,…

The Only People Who Can Play the New BioShock Infinite Web Game Are People Who Pre-Order BioShock Infinite

There’s a new BioShock web game out today, from the people who made the pretty cool puzzle game Cogs. Would you like to play it? Then pre-order BioShock Infinite Did you already pre-order BioShock Infinite? Then cancel that pre-order and pre-order again. (So says the official FAQ.) The web game, BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution, certainly…

Joe Maduriera—comics artist and creative director on the Darksiders games—will be leaving dev studio Vigil Games.

A New Borderlands Game Is Coming to iOS Before The End of October

An advertisement in the official Borderlands 2 strategy guide says that the popular shooter series will come to iPhone and iPad by the end of October. The ad, first discovered by a Gearbox forum poster (and confirmed by Kotaku this morning), announces Borderlands Legends, an iOS game that “will blow your mind.” Here’s the full…

Celebrating Major League Gaming going global, Gameloft’s Modern Combat 3 is on sale for $.99 on iOS and Android.

Jumping Finn Turbo Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Flight games might be my favorite kind of game for mobile devices. The repetitive notions and addictive quality are a perfect match for the style of play I want to experience in bite-sized increments. I’ve been playing Jumping Finn Turbo—a flight game based on the Adventure Time series—obsessively these past few days. And the further…

Here’s What the Multiplayer Looks Like (So Far) in the Next Game from the Creators of Minecraft

Forget about fantasy and those armless creepers. Mojang’s next game is going sci-fi. We’ve already seen one glimpse at an early build of 0x10c, but that one didn’t have sound. The newest video uploaded by Mojang CEO Markus “Notch” Persson lets you hear the blasters and computer interfaces, as well as offering a glimpse at…

Cave Continues Putting Out the Prettiest Shoot-em Ups on iOS

When the bullets start flying on October 26, shmup fans will be too busy dodging and shooting to appreciate how pretty DoDonPachi Maximum looks on the iPhone and iPad. Thank goodness for screenshots. Shoot-em up master Cave is bringing this fresh new take on DoDonPachi to iOS devices later this week. Riffing on previous games…

Ubisoft is ‘Fast-Tracking’ The Assassin’s Creed Movie That You May or May Not Have Wanted

One or more Assassin’s Creed games a year plus Assassin’s Creed comics, Assassin’s Creed novels and Assassin’s Creed animated shorts are not enough for Ubisoft, which remains anxious to create the thing that all great video games need: an official Hollywood-made movie. The latest incremental news about the movie is that Ubisoft is partnering with…