Halo 4’s New Guns Aren’t Purple, They’re Orange!

Halo 4 has new bad guys, and those new bad guys have new guns. Here are those new guns in action. I’m still unsure whether Halo 4’s marketing is just lying to us, or whether 343 has performed some kind of dark magic on the Xbox 360. Those are the only two explanations as to…

I’m in Love With a Giant Batman Figure That’s Made Out of Metal

Being a big Hot Toys fan, I’m super impressed with the company’s line of recent Batman figures. Yet realistic isn’t the only way to go about making incredible Batman toys. You can also take the stylish route. Based on comic artist Jim Lee’s recent interpretation of the Dark Knight, this figure’s torso, arms and legs…

In A Realistic Fighting Game, We’d Play As Drunken Pansies

College Humor tackles the fighting game genre today, shedding light on the reality of what (probably) most fights look like. Basically just two dudes in a bar, watching as the situation escalates and both totally hoping it will just go away. Or at least that’s what I imagine is going on in their heads. Realistic…

Midweek Moneysaver: A True Pandemic

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Software • Yesterday’s release World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (PC) is $35.99, free ship from Buy.com. Elsewhere $40. [Dealzon] • Yesterday’s release FIFA Soccer 13…

All three of the Ezio Assassin’s Creed games are being bundled on the PS3 and sold for $40. It’s out November 13

Represent Your Borderlands 2 Character With Some Fancy Wallpaper

Maya is the sexiest—and also the first character I chose to roll as in the recently released sequel to Gearbox’s hit FPS/RPG hybrid—so she’s obviously my first choice in terms of wallpaper. But the rest of these designs made by CodyAWilliams are just as suitable. Though, I personally prefer the more colorful designs. Take a…

This Left 4 Dead Fan Film Is Forty Minutes of Zombie-Shooting Fun

Brothers Colin and Connor McGuire wanted a Left 4 Dead movie… so they made one. The home project took them the better part of two years, including 3000 hours of editing. The final product is about the length of an “hour” long television show, clocking in around 40 minutes, and looks at least as good…

Rumor: Next Year’s Madden Will Include Actual NFL Referees

EA Sports plans to include real-life NFL referees in Madden NFL 14, according to two different sources close to the NFL Referees Association. One of them said the officials’ facial features have been scanned into the game, with an eye toward making their calls and explanations a part of the broadcast presentation for next year’s…

Get In The Heads Of Far Cry 3‘s Most Deluded Characters

Vaas and Buck are two of the most savage, brutal characters you’ll meet in Far Cry 3. They’re prone to stabbing, and setting tigers to feast on your limbs. But here’s the thing about being this particular brand of crazy: it’s usually followed by a heavy dose of delusion. Case in point: “We’re not the…

There Will Be No FemShep Edition of the Mass Effect Trilogy [UPDATE]

The female version of Mass Effect hero Commander Shepard finally made it onto the cover of a Mass Effect game this year—as long as you reversed the piece of cardboard in Mass Effect 3‘s box. She even finally starred in a Mass Effect trailer, a scant five years after hordes of players started playing as…

The Wonderful Surprise Hiding in the Wii U Launch Line-Up

Some facts hide in plain sight. You don’t notice them until you move them around a bit. Then suddenly, like some unscrambled Scrabble letters, there’s clarity. Un-jumble the launch line-up for the Wii U and here’s the fact that emerges: This fall, the Wii U is actually going to be a good console for… downloadable…

Pocket God‘s Latest Update Will Be There For You, When the Plague Starts to Fall

Only Pocket God creators Bolt Creative could work the Friends theme song into a trailer for a game update about spreading a plague and burning the corpses of pygmies. Pocket God Episode 46: Germs of Endearment is now live, giving the players’ pygmies access to the Plague Room, an incredibly ill-advised playroom containing a fountain…

I Would Not Ever Really Expect Space Invaders On The Ocean Floor

Artist Invader has a theme: Space Invaders. His homages to the little 8-bit enemies show up all over the world, on art and loose in wild, showing up in all manner of places where one might not ordinarily expect them. In this case, he went to the Bay of Cancun, where sculptor Jason Taylor deCaires…

This Keyboard Tries So Hard To Be Great That I Actually Feel Sorry For How Terrible It Is

The kindest thing I can say about the Imperator Pro, a gaming keyboard from Taiwanese company Genius, is that it works exactly as advertised. Keys, both standard and programmable, function as intended and do what a user would expect them to. That’s a big plus, in a keyboard. Sadly, there are also a number of…

Hasbro’s CityVille, FarmVille, Words with Friends and Draw Something Games Launch October 1

Come Monday, October 1 the agreement between toy maker Hasbro and game maker Zynga finally bears fruit (and vegetables), as physical games based on digital favorites hit store shelves. Who’s up for some Hungry Hungry Farmville? If anything can pry your Zynga game-loving friends and family off the computer, it’s Hasbro’s line of games and…

Guild Wars 2: The Kotaku Review

The true heart and essence of Guild Wars 2 lies in its map. It took me three weeks of playing and a chat with my colleague Kirk to realize and articulate how much magic lies in that seemingly simple function. The map of Tyria isn’t just utilitarian; it’s beautiful. Even mired in the fog of…

This Diabolical Dragon Breeding Game Has Kept Me Playing for Over a Year

You want to know how a free-to-play iPhone game keeps a guy that barely has time to play new releases engrossed for more than 365 days? I have one day left to breed a Solstice dragon, and three days to breed a Sapphire. Curse you, Dragonvale I first wrote about Backflip Studios’ Dragonvale in December…

The Flood Return In Halo 4

Halo Waypoint released a massive amount of new Halo 4 screenshots for us to feast our eyes on. These include campaign shots (beware that spoilers might follow in several of those in reference to the Dawn and Infinity missions), multiplayer mode War Games and cooperative mode Spartan Ops. War Games includes a Flood “simulation,” where…

Is Bad Piggies The New Angry Birds? Watch Closely.

Pigs might fly in the new game from the creators of Angry Birds. But only if you build them a helicopter, a plane or whatever you call a crate that’s tied to a balloon and propelled by a house fan. I’ve been playing Rovio’s new game on my iPad on and off for the past…

These Are The Most Unexpected (and Horrifying) Diablo III Errors You’ve Ever Seen

Error 37 and Error 3003 might have been the popular ones in Diablo III‘s first burst of popularity, but the Mega64 folks have found quite a few other…”interesting” ones. I rarely shield my eyes from anything, especially not from a silly YouTube video, but Error 5 really horrified me. I guarantee you haven’t seen Error…