How Guild Wars 2 Connects Its Servers in Bloody Battle

For years massively-multiplayer online role-playing game server communities have competed against each other, waging war with world first achievements and statistics. Guild Wars 2‘s World Vs. World battles allow the population of three different servers to bring the fighting to one gigantic persistent battlefield. World Vs. World combat is one of the four pillars of…

LittleBigPlanet will be available on the PlayStation Vita on September 25. So says the official PlayStation blog

Army of Two Returns to Take On Mexican Drug Cartels in Devil’s Cartel [UPDATE]

A press release issued today reveals that EA’s co-op paramilitary shooter will be back with a new game from Visceral Games, developed by the division’s Montreal studio. The image above and video below come from Game Informer‘s website Excerpts from today’s press release follows: Electronic Arts Inc. today announced Army of TWO™ The Devil’s Cartel,…

A Monstrous Angry Birds Alternative for the Physics-Minded Gamer

When physics puzzler Monster Island first launched on Windows Phone 7, it featured an Xbox Live Achievement that required the player to purchase items from the in-game store in order to unlock it. This caused Microsoft to pull the game from the marketplace just two days after release. Four weeks later it returned, the achievement…

Minecraft’s Convention Heads to Disneyland Paris for 2012

After debuting MineCon in Las Vegas last year, Mojang has announced that they’ll be staging the annual gathering of Minecraft enthusiasts in France for 2012. How do you say “creeper” in French?

The Designer of Call of Duty‘s ‘No Russian’ Massacre Wanted You to Feel Something

Long-time Call of Duty game developer Mohammad Alavi designed Call of Duty IV‘s famous ghillie suit level and Modern Warfare 2‘s notorious interactive massacre of civilians, the level called “No Russian.” In a stellar piece about interactive atrocity, game designer Matthew Burns gets Alavi to explain the intent behind that level, a level in which…

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A Weird Glitch Makes This The Best Dance Off In A Video Game Ever

I don’t even…what the hell is…ah whatever, don’t question it. Because this is undoubtedly the best dance off in video game history, thanks to what looks like some funny bugs in Arma 2. What the fuck kind of dance is that?! [YouTube via AmazingGames247]

The Red-Headed Killer Returns to the Nintendo Download

It’s an incredibly short week for the Nintendo Download, but that just makes Circle Entertainment’s follow-up to the compelling DSiWare action-adventure The Lost Town: The Dust more of a chance to shine. Stare into the eyes of the red-headed killer. It was a grave oversight on my part that I completely skipped over The Lost…

I’ve Never Wanted to Buy a Virtual House More Than I Do Right Now

Phineas T. Rotostar is one hell of a salesman. It only took him a minute and a half to complete sell me on a floating sky house in the animated sci-fi MMO universe of WildStar Not that it was a particularly hard sell. I already had one foot in Carbine Studio’s pretty space opera. The…

Gaming’s Biggest Problem Is That Nobody Wants To Talk

Last year, as you might remember, this website leaked almost everything there was to know about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 As you might also remember, Modern Warfare 3 did okay. Like, $775 million in its first five days okay. People could easily go on the Internet and read extensive spoilers on every single…

Okay, Maybe the Minecraft Creeper Plush Does Look a Little NSFW

Coming in September from official Minecraft online retailer Jinx, this huggable depiction of the game’s most familiar foe does, at first, resemble the Incredible Hulk’s junk. My younger sister Nadine was at my apartment watching my children when the UPS man arrived with the package containing the plush Creeper. Completely unfamiliar with Minecraft she was…

Modern Warfare 3‘s content season ends with the Chaos Pack and Final Assault, due on Xbox 360 August 9 and September 12.

Professor Layton Mastermind Dreams of Skyrim and Head Mounted Displays

Continuing their interview series from last week, Weekly Famitsu asked a group of game developers on their ideas and hopes for the future of gaming. Among the gaming bigs this week was Level-5 honcho, Akihiro Hino, who expressed his wish to make a new open world game. Asked about what technology he was most interested…

Just Imagine the Bugs You Can Shoot with This Starship Troopers Gun

One intrepid Japanese model maker recreated the Morita Assault Rifle from Starship Troopers as a full-scale replica. Bless him. Toys guns were sawed into pieces and then connected to an aluminum frame. Other parts were crafted, and the gun was then finished to give it a nice sheen. The result is magnificent—even more so when…

How China’s Biggest Expo Polices Booth Babes

At this year’s China Joy expo in Shanghai, booth companion Li Ling was booted from the show after appearing in a revealing outfit. This was the latest China Joy crackdown on companion outfits—a crackdown that swung into full force last year. But what are the booth companion regulations Chinese game makers must adhere to? And…

Resident Evil 6 Creators Talk About Ada Wong, And Warn Players Not To Get Too Gung-Ho In Agent Hunt Mode

With the release of Resident Evil 6 only two months away, more and more information and footage is being released, I may not even need to play the game to find out all the “mysteries…” With the latest information of Ada Wong as one of the playable protagonists, the producers sat down for an interview…

Japan Has Human Tetris. China Has Human Dominoes.

At a Shanghai shopping mall, over a thousand volunteers recently participated in the a human dominoes stunt organized by a Chinese mattress company. In total, there were 1,001 human mattress dominoes that were toppled—a new world record. Unlike human Tetris, which spread from Asia to the West, human mattress dominoes is already a thing in…

Dragon Quest X: The Kotaku East Live Stream [Completed]

Dragon Quest X, the first online iteration of the Dragon Quest series, was released earlier today in Japan. But how exactly does this MMO from Japan’s most popular RPG series play? Find out alongside Kotaku East as we play the first few hours of the game live for your enjoyment. We will be happy to…

Earth Defense Force 3: Portable Is Bringing A Bunch Of New Toys To The Defense Of Earth

Earth Defense Force 3: Portable, the portable version of the 2007 Xbox 360 game, Earth Defense Forces 2017 is coming to the PSVita at the end of next month, and with 5 years since the original release, there’s been a lot of time to refine and add a bunch of new goodies into the battle…