Tera: The Kotaku Review

The latest big-name Korean import to hit the North American massively-multiplayer online role-playing scene, Tera does little to differentiate itself from countless other fantasy MMO titles we’ve been slowly growing bored with over the past decade. Sometimes a little is all you need. In a world formed via the dreams of two slumbering titans, the…

Learn Some New Things About Assassin’s Creed III, Thanks to Developer Commentary

You may have already seen the captivating gameplay demo for Assassin’s Creed III last week. Awesome, wasn’t it? But now, you can get a better sense of all the newness that the sorta-reboot is bringing to the franchise. The game’s new stalking zones, dual counters and new enemies all get explained in the clip. Watch…

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Allow Me To Apologize For E3 2012

Allow me to apologize, on the behalf of all game developers, for the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo. I don’t have time to read every piece of periodical published on the subject. The few articles I have scanned, however, point to a general consensus that this year’s E3 was a sort of bloodbath Roman Carnival of…

Tim and Lisa Review E3 2012.

Tim Rogers and Lisa Foiles, Kotaku columnists extraordinaire, bravely attended this year’s E3 and would like to tell you all about it. You may have read lots of E3 coverage before, but Tim and Lisa’s takes are, well, a bit different. Settle in. Be prepared to laugh. And be prepared for them to dole out…

Oh, The Pageantry! My Unofficial E3 Awards

I’ll admit, after watching the E3 2012 press conferences at home on my couch while drinking Heineken and using a spray bottle on my 8-week-old kittens every time they used my scalp as a scratching post, I didn’t have high hopes for the show floor. No Fable 4? No God of War 4? No Dreamcast…

Go Try PointerPointer Right Now

Even if you never lose track of your mouse on screen, you should let PointerPointer help you find it. It’s a brilliantly tuned cache of random pictures tweaked to load up a snapshot where a finger locates that pesky mouse pointer. Go there. Go there now.

The Creator of Mario and Zelda Wants to Make a First-Person Shooter

Can someone at Nintendo please step up and take over some of Shigeru Miyamoto’s work assignments. Can someone make his coffee for him? Answer his phonecalls? Zero out his inbox? The most successful game designer of all time, the chief creative mind behind Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda and a slew…

This Game Understands The Importance of Appearing Successful At Your High School Reunion

With a name like LifeQuest, you might expect some sort of sweeping life-simulation. Perhaps a miniature saga like the board game of Life, wherein you pick a career, overcome hardships, build a family and ease into retirement. But while you do most of those things in the iPad game LifeQuest, you’re really only doing them…

Super Modern Mario Bros. Is Both Delightful and Terrifying

Watching this video, I can’t help but teeter back and forth between desperately wanting to play it and desperately wanting to shun it. On the one hand, the concept is ridiculously cool. The eerie lack of music lets you hone in on the ultra-realistic sound effects. Gone are the cute and familiar Mario jump sounds,…

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The People Behind Final Fantasy Are Making A Card Battle Game

Here’s a look at Guardian Cross, an upcoming Square Enix-published mobile game by some of the development team behind multiple Final Fantasy games. If you like cards and battling and battling with cards, you might just want to look into this one! It’ll be out this summer.

Meet Some Of The New Civilizations In Civ V‘s First Expansion

Watch a whole bunch of new civilizations take over the world in this new trailer for Civilization V: Gods & Kings, the upcoming Civ V expansion pack that will be out for PC on June 19. New additions to the game include Austria, the Netherlands, and Ethiopia, among others.

Aisha Tyler Rants “I’ve Been a Gamer Since Before You Could Read.”

For people who care, the consensus seems to be that Ubisoft won E3 this year. Part of that was owed to a NSFW Far Cry 3 trailer, the surprise spectacle of Watch Dogs and the hosting of Aisha Tyler. But the MCing of comedian and co-star of best-thing-ever Archer didn’t win over everybody. Need some…

Nintendo Has a Plan to Deal With Its Wii U Calibration Problem

The most significant flaw I found with the otherwise-sturdy Wii U last week was the new screen controller’s inability to “remember” its position vis a vis your TV. This proved to be a problem for games that required the GamePad to be aimed at the TV, since the GamePad’s internal motion sensors would gradually lose…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! How dedicated is Suda51’s new cheerleading zombie-killer? Dedicated…

Hitman Director Says Controversial Trailer ‘Wasn’t Supposed To Be’ Sexist

The director of upcoming stealth game Hitman: Absolution says the team didn’t mean to cause controversy with their most recent trailer, which features protagonist Agent 47 slaughtering his way through a squad of scantily-dressed nuns In fact, he says the ensuing Internet firestorm caught them all off-guard. “[The controversy] was a big surprise to us,”…

Indian Teen Murders Elderly Neighbor to Buy a Video Game Console

A 14-year-old Indian boy staying with his aunt and uncle in the Tamil Nadu village of Ekkadu couldn’t afford the 8,000 rupees (roughly $150) to purchase a video game system, so he strangled a 69-year-old neighbor. According to local authorities, the teen and his aunt hatched a plan to murder their neighbor, a 69-year-old retired…

This Game’s Your Chance to Get Revenge on Stupid Kids and Their Stupid Rock ‘n Roll

What happens when you mix the old Hollywood cool of the Rat Pack with a Scooby Doo plot? You get a game like The Moonlighters. Produced by two young developers who make up RadDragon Games, it’s a action/RPG hybrid that has players controlling a group of washed-up actors when rock ‘n roll renders their high-flying…