Just In Case You Ever Wanted to Play a Pokémon Battle With Giant Robots

Offworld is a new iOS (coming soon to Android) game that is, as the headline suggests, a lot like the battling side of Pokémon. Only, you’re using giant killer robots instead of small cute animals. It’s one of the prettiest iOS games I’ve ever seen, optimised for retina displays and featuring some fantastic artwork. It’s…

Good Evening. Here’s Some Terrific Concept Art.

Simon Goinard has been doing freelance work for the past decade, with his art featuring for clients as diverse as Disney, Exxon, Camel and Aston Martin. He’s also done quite a bit of video game work, with an equally-impressive list of employers like Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Guild Wars developers ArenaNet. You can see…

Guild Wars 2, Your World is so Beautiful I Want to Live There

Guild Wars 2 has some of the medium’s finest concept art. And while the actual game engine often struggles to do it justice, the game’s environments can still look absolutely beautiful, proving once again that powerful “graphics” are often no match for strong art design.

Sweet Dreams, Creepy Valve Fanboy

While most people think fondly of Valve – at least, as fondly as one can think of a business out to take your money – there are some corners of the internet which can sometimes take things a little too far. I’m not sure if this is one such case, though. I mean, as horrific…

The Agony And Ecstasy Of The Pepperidge Farm Cookie

Over at Slate, a writer has gone ahead and eaten every kind of Pepperidge Farm cookie. He begins his article thusly: People think I’m weird because I like Chessmen. But they’re my favorite cookies, and I defend them with vigor whenever I encounter a Milano-lover who wants to fight me about it. And with that,…

Meet Diablo III’s First Paragon Level 100

Diablo III’s new “Paragon” system was brought in to give “maxxed out” players some more stuff to do. It’s been working for most, I guess, but for Alkaizer the well has once again run dry, because his Barbarian character has managed to hit the game’s new ceiling. As you’d expect, it took a lot of…

Report: Guilty Gear Coming to the PS Vita

Next year, Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus R is apparently headed to the PS Vita, bringing Guilty Gear arcade excitement to Sony’s portable. The game will feature full voice acting. You can see what’s believed to be a leaked scan below. Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus R is a rebalanced and enhanced version of Accent…

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…