Sword & Sworcery, Pixelated Versus Spray Painted

Sword and Sworcery is an elegant iOS game (now on PC, Mac and Linux). Its quaint, pixelated art is equally charming. But we haven’t seen many renditions of that memorable, triumphant thrust of the main character’s sword-hand into the midnight sky quite like this. That is to say, we’ve never seen stencils of that scene…

Nintendo Japan will release a Nintendo Direct video tonight at 11pm ET. An English video will follow soon after.

Notch: “I’d rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along.”

Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is in the rare position to be able to do just about whatever he wants and say whatever he feels. So the man whose game is tearing up the charts on Xbox Live Arcade (more than three million copies sold)… the man who has said publicly that he…

I Could Swear Valve’s “Eye Guy” Is Now Etsy’s “Crazy Augmented Reality Headgear Guy”

You guys remember Valve’s logo with the dude with a valve on his eye, right? If not, he’s posted below. Or, or! Maybe it’s more like Deus Ex or Syndicate. The three definitely seem to have the same idea of futuristic fashion. Sure, sure we’ve seen some futuristic augmented reality headgear before, but nothing as…

Mount & Blade, one of the guiltiest pleasures on the PC, is getting a full-blown sequel

Getting This Classic Adventure Game onto the iPad Wasn’t Easy

Jordan Mechner jumped and kicked his way into gamers’ hearts with Prince of Persia and Karateka, two seminal releases that expanded the possibilities of what games could be and how they could tell stories. But it was The Last Express that proved to be the most ambitious title of Mechner’s game-making career. The period-drama point-and-click…

A Bunch Of Neat Games Were Announced For Vita Today

You don’t see the words “Vita” and “games” next to one another very much these days without the words “doesn’t have any” between them. But a few new titles for Sony’s powerful handheld were quietly announced today. We already knew that the Vita game Dokuro was coming to the U.S., but newly formed publisher branch…

World of Goo is only $.25 on Android right now as part of the Google Play 25 billion downloads celebration. Grab it!

Day Z Stand-Alone Game Will Arrive Before The End of This Year

We have known since August that the enormously popular Day Z mod to Arma II would be developed into its own stand-alone game. Today at the Eurogamer Expo, Developer Dean “Rocket” Hall confirmed that the game will be available by the end of the year, and it will be inexpensive to boot. Eurogamer reports that…

NBA 2K13 Outs the Brooklyn Nets’ New Uniforms

The new-look Brooklyn Nets are set to unveil their new uniforms sometime tomorrow, but the look already has been outed. The road uniform designs were leaked earlier this week and now, at NBA 2K13‘s star-studded launch party in New York last night, we can see the home threads. I mean, we should have expected this,…

Six Dead or Alive 5 Fighters Looking Depressed and Humbled After Defeat

There’s lots of crazy, over-the-top elements in the just-released Dead or Alive 5. Clown cannons, giant elevators of death and tanks blasting away in he background… all these things happen while the brawlers of Team Ninja’s latest fighting game are vying for victory. And you can’t win all the martial arts matches all the time.…

The Most Beautiful Sunsets in Video Games

What’s the most beautiful sunset you’ve ever seen in a game? We’ll start. This is a great sunset in Minecraft—transformed into an animated GIF by our own Chris Person, ladled out of a stunning video called “Natural World” made by RxRexhonHD (all the modding details required are in the video’s official YouTube description). Readers, show…

The Internet Unites To Talk About Video Games They Grew Up With

Twitter’s trending topics—subjects or phrases that the social network is buzzing about at any given moment—are sometimes based on big news headlines. Sometimes they spring from live events or tragic catastrophes, as everyone rushes to make the first supremely clever joke about Kim Kardashian. And sometimes they’re just awful memes. But for the past couple…

This Color-Swapping Runner is Not a Tron Game, But it Should Be

Considering the overall lack of quality Tron games since the time of the first film, I’m willing to give Hope This Works Games‘ upcoming neon red and blue Android and iOS free-runner Polara a couple of identity discs and call it a day. It’s a little bit color-shifting shooter Ikaruga, with a hint of color-shifting…

Guy Redesigns Rare NES Model For His Steampunk-Loving Nephew

Though collectors everywhere feel a pang in their sides from seeing the rare sight of a Top Loader edition NES (NES-101) so brutally redone, everyone else can lean back and enjoy this beautiful reconstruction. Reddit user Andrew5785 took his old NES, and turned it into something a little more steampunky for his nephew. Head over…

EA Sports Cancels NBA Live 13

EA Sports today canceled its troubled NBA Live 13 project. It is the second time in three years that sports video gaming’s dominant publisher has pulled the plug on its NBA simulation at the last minute. Andrew Wilson, the executive vice president in charge of the label, announced the decision in a statement posted to…

How You Earn 30,000 Coins In Two Minutes In New Super Mario Bros. 2

The road to one million coins in New Super Mario Bros. 2 can be daunting. Maybe you’ve given up by now. Well it’s time to get back on track, champ. Let Kotaku reader Slider show you how to earn 30,000 coins in two minutes all without leaving your couch. (Sorry about the video quality.)

Zynga Games Lose a Couple Hundred Thousand Fans in the Facebook Fake Account Purge

Facebook has implemented countermeasures to purge fake, forged, hacked or otherwise unsavory ‘Likes’ from its pages, resulting in the sudden departure of several hundred thousand of Zynga’s several hundred million fans. The ‘Like’ is a powerful unit of measurement in today’s Facebook-connected world. For the average consumer of social media content the number of ‘Likes’…

A Determined Group Sets Out To Recreate The Legend of Zelda In Real Life

The Zelda Project is twofold: on the one hand it’s a group of cosplayers, recreating scenes from Ocarina of Time. On the other hand, the project also has a bigger goal of producing a short film to represent the game, as well. From their site: The Zelda Project is a Los Angeles, CA based group…

The Next Game from the Makers of The Chronicles of Riddick Looks Like a Beautiful Fairy Tale

You know Starbreeze. They’ve made sturdy, sometimes spectacular shooters like The Darkness, the Chronicles of Riddick games and this year’s Syndicate. Usually, when the Swedish dev studio announces a new game, you usually expect highly stylized sci-fi violence and clever, satisfying gunplay. Their newest game doesn’t have any of that. And it looks wonderful. Brothers:…