Why Yes, Atlus, I’d Love Another Online-Enabled 3DS Action RPG

We’ve not written much about Atlus’ Code of Princess, and that’s partly my fault. I saw the online-enabled co-op and competitive action role-playing game at E3 earlier this year, and forgot. I know, let’s blame Persona! In fact it was sort of Persona 4 Golden‘s fault. After getting a small taste of that and the…

The Smartest Half-Life Mod Of 2011 Is Making A Run For Steam

It’s been almost exactly a year since Davey Wreden’s brilliant Half-Life 2 mod The Stanley Parable threw us all for a loop. In that time, Wreden has been working on a number of projects that take the story of Stanley, his job, and that helpful (but maybe kinda sinister) narrator to new and exciting places.…

There’s Not That Much Difference Between Guild Wars 2 Players And Lemmings

So, Guild Wars 2 has a lot of cliffs and high ledges in it. Really, a lot of them. Jumping up and climbing and platforming are a significant part of the experience. Unfortunately for players like me, unlike other games it has no safe fall skill you can train up. Falling equals falling damage and,…

Why We Love Stealth Games

There’s just something special about games that make you sneak. The push, the pull, the contemplative pause… and the rush of action. We’ve been spending the last week playing one of the most enjoyable stealth games in recent memory, and so we thought we’d take a closer look at the genre. What makes sneaking so…

If You’ve Got the Wood, Money and Time You Too Could Fill Your Home with RPG Heroes

In today’s special later-than-normal, screw the top-right box edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Slagathorian shares some truly spectacular wooden creations that the editor is pretty sure he’d make a killing selling on Etsy. So I’ve been hitting the blocks again, by that I mean I’ve been making pixelated wooden block characters. I’m finished…

Report: Earth Defense Force 4 (PS3/Xbox 360) hits Japan in 2013. The game will have online multiplayer.

One NASA Scientist’s Quest To Prove We’re All Trapped Inside A Video Game

I’ve seen The Matrix. You’ve seen The Matrix. And so we’ve both had the same thought: “Woah. Maybe we really are living inside a computer!” (Since The Matrix is copyrighted and everything, this is more commonly referred to as “The Simulation Argument,” as put forth by Oxford professor Nick Bostrom. (Thanks, Seth)) At least one…

Report: Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney will be out November 29 in Japan.

Waiting Around? Don’t Play Games On Your Phone; Just Play Games On The Traffic Light Instead

On the one hand, it seems a bit ridiculous. Who needs a game embedded in their walk light? Is the humble button not good enough anymore? Whatever happened to just waiting patiently for the light to turn? And yet on the other hand, the planner behind this German intersection may indeed have been onto something.…

I Want To Play With This Hilarious Set Of Hungry Hungry Koopas

Just look at that mouth. Those teeth. That shell. Adorable. This close-up is part of a Hungry Hungry Koopas set created by artist Donald Kennedy, who plans to sell it at El Paso Comic Con (and, if it doesn’t sell well, on his website later). Lots more pictures below: (via TinyCartridge)

See A Bunch Of New Pokémon Black And White 2 Features In These Commercials

Here are a set of new commercials for Pokémon Black And White 2, the latest games in Nintendo’s popular monster-catching series. Seems like Nintendo is really playing up the new: understandable, considering they have the same names as the last two games, and considering they’re on a system that has been obsolete for almost two…

Call of Duty In The Skin of Minecraft On A Star Wars Map Is A Thing You Can Play

Guncraft is a first-person shooter stylized much like Minecraft and its boxy facade. It’s a multiplayer game whose players create the customizable maps, and can fully mod the game to their heart’s desires. The PC game is currently in open beta, which you can sign up for, or help get on Steam One of said…

Holy Cow, There’s An Elephant Loose In Liberty City

May they never, ever stop making mods for Grand Theft Auto IV. I’m serious! Never stop. This latest one lets players assume the role of a giant elephant, stealing cars and riding motorcycles around Liberty City. Good thing there are no mice in GTA IV. Though there are peanuts…. We can only hope that the…

Two Comics That End at Beginnings This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Who Needs Sonic? Get a Look at Knuckles the Echidna’s Collected Comics Adventures Right Here

Sure, Sega’s blue mascot has had a long run of comics of his own from Archie Comics. But his frenemy Knuckles saw action on his own, too, with exploits that unfurled an oddly touching interpretation of the animal-verse. A new collection of Knuckles comics hits stores next week. Here’s a first look at the continued…

Black Mesa, Nine Other Games Get Greenlit On Steam

Highly-anticipated Half-Life remake Black Mesa will come to Steam thanks to the Greenlight program, Valve said today. So will nine other games, with more to come. Here’s a list of the first ten titles that have been accepted on Steam’s Greenlight: Black Mesa Cry of Fear Dream Heroes & Generals Kenshi McPixel No More Room…

One Year after DC Comics’ New 52 Reboot, The Same Old Problems Linger

I shouldn’t be feeling déjà vu when I read a issue of Green Lantern that introduces a new hero. The last thing that should happen when Superman and Wonder Woman kiss after an emotional adventure is me yawning. Yet, here I am, struggling to stay excited 12 months after the exhilaration of a line-wide reconfiguration…

Time Travel, Lasers and Dinosaurs Add Up to the Video Game of One Man’s Dreams

Evan’s Note: It’s hard not to want to love Super Time Force. The next release from Capybara Games features a ridiculous sci-fi premise, one that has players spawning hundreds of versions of themselves on-screen in side-scrolling shoot-em-up action. Then the game got a hilarious animated trailer that took the piss out of old cartoons like…

Why Did Resistance Never Get As Big As Halo? Maybe It Changed Too Much.

Resistance started out as a Halo clone. It was to be Sony’s answer to Microsoft, the PlayStation’s own sci-fi shooter and killer app. It was to sell millions and earn its own base of rabid fans. That never happened. While Resistance did okay, it never quite became the blockbuster Sony and developer Insomniac were hoping…

Meet the Brand-New Dead or Alive Competitor. She’s My Favorite.

With her two-toned hair, spunky attitude and part-time job at a diner (free food!), Mila might be my favorite Dead or Alive fighter yet. The up-and-coming MMA fighter makes her debut in Dead or Alive 5 Considering Mila’s admiration for Tina’s father, she seems to have a thing for giant balding men with beards, so…