Select Gamers Can Try Out Steam’s New Community Features Right Now

A few thousand (well, more like 100,000) lucky gamers can now use the new Steam community features announced this week by Valve. The new features, which include organized hubs for each game, new group organization, updates about your uploaded content, and a new friend interface, are now operating in a beta, according to an update…

Wait, the Kwik-E-Mart Doesn’t Actually Belong Next to the Flanders’ House? D’oh!

I don’t tend to enjoy city-building social games. I try them, and then I end up disappointed in my inability to advance quickly and I end up walking away rather than giving them my money. Clearly, the problem with every previous game I played was that it did not star The Simpsons On the one…

Game maker David Jaffe praises an unsung hero who may be responsible for a renaissance at PlayStation’s Japan studios.

Catwoman Looks More Modest in Batman: Arkham City for Wii U

Notice anything different about Catwoman in the image above? Sure seems like she’s covering up for her debut on Nintendo’s upcoming console, no? In the Armored Edition of Batman: Arkham City for Wii U, The Dark Knight and Catwoman get a new power-up that covers the nocturnal adventurers in additional protection. Selina Kyle’s armored look…

Along with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Konami’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is also making the trip to PC next year.

Don’t Expect A Vita Price Cut This Year

The PlayStation Vita is struggling. Some have predicted that Sony, looking for an easy band-aid, might slash the system’s retail price for this holiday season, much like Nintendo did last year to pump up sales of its then-floundering 3DS. That’s not gonna happen. Speaking to Eurogamer at Gamescom this week, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei…

Medal of Honor Website Ends Tomahawk Promo and Pulls Links to Weapons & Gear Manufacturers

Earlier this week, Electronic Arts came under fire for hosting links to the websites of companies that sell and make assault weapons and tactical gear on the Medal of Honor Warfighter website. Those links—connected to items that players will be able to use in the game—were accompanied by blog posts written by Warfighter producer Greg…

Let’s See How Windows 8 Performs Against Windows 7

Unless you have been living under a rock, there is a good chance you have caught wind of Microsoft’s latest operating system. Those eager to see what the new OS is all about had their first chance to take a peek back in February when Microsoft released the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. More than a…

Square Would Like You To Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Final Fantasy

The 25th anniversary celebration for Final Fantasy will kick off in a couple of weeks, a few months short of the series’ 24th anniversary, but, hey, no one ever said the numbering of anything Final Fantasy-related was logical. The series that debuted in Japan in December 1987, will be celebrated in grand style in Tokyo…

The Age of True Platform-Free Gaming Begins with Goko

The screenshot you’re looking at is for the video game adaptation of Donald X. Vaccarino’s wildly popular card game Dominion running on iOS. And Android. And Facebook, Google+, Chrome, Safari — anywhere HTML 5 can be used, this game can be played, online and off. Using HTML 5 as a universal gaming platform is not…

NVIDIA’s Most Powerful Graphics Technology Just Got Much More Affordable

When NVIDIA debuted video cards featuring its powerful Kepler architecture earlier this year, PC gamers around the world stood up and cheered. Then they got quiet when they realized their only options were the $500+ GTX 680 card or the GTX 690, packing dual-Kepler graphics processing units for around $1,000. PC players drooled over these…

The New York Post reports that Electronic Arts is looking for a buyer

Here’s the Opening Cinematic for World of Warcraft‘s Mists of Pandaria Expansion

This video preview of the newest add-on to Blizzard’s mega-successful MMO premiered today at Gamescom. Enjoy the pandas! And the mists!

Why The World of Warcraft Has Such Bright, Cartoony Graphics

The Warcraft franchise looks like its entire world was made from children’s balloons. It’s nothing but big shapes and bright, bright colours. Love it or hate it, it’s become an iconic style, something that’s helped World of Warcraft not only run on anybody’s computer, but look unique in doing it. But have you ever wondered…

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Beta Scheduled For Winter. No Hardware Upgrades Necessary

Square Enix’s new/remade MMORG, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was shown at Gamescom 2012 in Germany yesterday. During the stage event, producer/director Naoki Yoshida stood on stage to show what has been developed so far. As can be seen from screenshots, FFXIV: A Realm Reborn has some pretty spectacular graphics. Yoshida proudly announced that…

Team Ninja Explains How It Researched Breast Physics: “Hands On”

For years now, Team Ninja has been talking up the breast physics in its Dead or Alive fighting games. And now that DOA5 is coming out, Team Ninja is…talking up breast physics. According to website PSU, Team Ninja producer Yosuke Hayashi said the DOA5 development team went “hands on” with partners and other studio staff…

I Know What Hulk Looks Like with His Shirt Off

Here’s the latest entry in The Avengers line of collectibles from Hong Kong figure maker Hot Toys. As with other Hot Toys figures, the amount of detail and craftsmanship to marvel at is simply staggering. Staggering ain’t cheap! As with other Hot Toys figs, you’re need to open your wallets for this Hulk (the Japanese…

Beyond: Two Souls‘s script is 2,000 pages long—four times longer than a film script.

This Kiddy Smack Talk Song Will Make Your Day

UK comedian Adam Buxton (one half of Adam and Joe) recently uploaded this song to YouTube. As Kotaku reader Sam pointed out, it was for a section called Song Wars in which both Adam and Joe have to make a song on a theme and listeners vote on the winner. This is the result. Dubstep…

PS Vita Is Finally Getting PS1 Compatibility, And Possibly Some New Security Holes

The PS Vita will be getting a firmware update soon which will allow for a bunch of new features, including the long-awaited PS1 game compatibility. However, by opening the doors to older classics, Sony could potentially be exposing or creating new security holes to hackers who would eagerly exploit them. The new system update, version…