These Guys Made a List About Sexism Against Men in Video Games. Are They Trolling? [UPDATE: Yeah, Pretty Much]

There’s been a lot of controversy lately surrounding Anita Sarkeesian’s crowdfunded documentary Tropes vs. Women in Games. Sarkeesian’s now-funded project will be a multi-part series dedicated to taking a closer look at the many problematic tropes that video games use while depicting female characters. Most of the controversy has been due to the fact that…

What Exactly is Madden‘s New Career Mode Giving You—and What Is It Taking Away?

The debut of Madden NFL‘s new suite of career modes—called “Connected Careers”—seemed to be drowned out by the noise of E3 and by the announcement that same day of the game’s new real-time physics engine. That’s a gameplay enhancement gamers could easily understand. Connected Careers wasn’t so easily reduced, and as such, its debut sounded…

Video Gaming’s Imaginary Triumphs, Silently Celebrated, by Sportaku

From the Worldwide Leader in Sports … Video Games, your 6 p.m. Sportaku begins now.

Creator of ‘The Painting Obama Fears’ Is No Longer Selling Assassin’s Creed-Inspired Masterwork

Artist David Bugnon wanted to paint/Photoshop/draw a tribute to conservative muckraker Andrew Breitbart and didn’t intend to sell what was discovered to be a near-copy of Assassin’s Creed artwork. But it went on sale nonetheless. He’s yanked it and apologized

Battlestar Galactica is a Live-Action Japanese Role-Playing Game

Earlier this year the folks at CollegeHumor created a video that summarized the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica in 16-bit Japanese RPG style. According to commenter Shinta, they weren’t too far off. I’ve been rewatching Battlestar Galactica recently and I came to realize that this show is a live action JRPG series. Considering how heavily this…

Angry Birds Is Partnering With The Philadelphia Eagles To Give You Awful Cartoons

In honor of its new partnership with the Philadelphia Eagles, Angry Birds creator Rovio released this video today. It’s cute, in an awful, unfunny sort of way. Rovio will launch a new, Eagles-themed version of Angry Birds this fall. Because the Eagles are birds. Get it?

Nintendo Isn’t Scared of Apple’s Rumored TV

Nintendo isn’t worried about Apple wresting dominance in the battle for your living room. Even if the iPhone maker could announce its long-rumored television at some point this year, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says he isn’t worried about Apple’s new device taking attention away from the Wii U. In response to a question during an…

It’s Time to Start Worrying About Thief 4

Editor’s Note: The mysterious figure known as Superannuation is back with more fistfuls of gaming gossip. What has Superannuation dug from the Internet this time to share with you wonderful Kotaku readers? One of the more mystifying absences from last week’s E3 was Eidos Montreal’s Thief 4, a game which has been in development for…

Tomb Raider Creators Are No Longer Referring to Game’s Attempted ‘Rape’ Scene As an Attempted Rape Scene

The creators of the new Tomb Raider have denied that their new game features an “attempted rape scene,” directly contradicting their own statements to Kotaku last week Addressing the widespread reactions to the article posted on this site Monday, Crystal Dynamics studio head Darrell Gallagher released a statement today saying that there is no rape…

PlanetSide 2 Plays Like a First-Person Shooter, Not a Massively Multiplayer Compromise

The original massively multiplayer online FPS, PlanetSide, promised competitive first-person shooting on a massive scale. It got the scale right, but tech limitations made for gameplay that was a pale shadow of its more traditional shooter counterparts. With PlanetSide 2 technology has finally caught up to Sony Online Entertainment’s ambition. We’ve seen large-scale online shooters…

Four Cool Things about Four ‘Free’ MMOs

The world of massively multiplayer online games keeps getting, well, more massive. We’ve come a long way since I first picked up the genre eight years ago. World of Warcraft may still dominate the traditional monthly susbcription market, but free-to-play multiplayer worlds of all kinds boast tens of millions of subscribers worldwide. At E3 last…

A Case Mod That Takes “Mod” Seriously

PC designer Jeffrey Stephenson, whose work we have featured before, is back with his latest creation. There are case mods, and then there are ultra-mod case mods. This mod, is, well, mod. Have words lost all meaning for you yet? That’s all right. You won’t really need them to admire this sleek, svelte, sixties-inspired PC.…

Permadeath and Other Players Make Wizardry Online One Hardcore MMO

Last week I openly wondered how Wizardry Online, a massively multiplayer online game, could possibly capture the spirit of the original grid-based first-person dungeon crawler that stole my heart so many years ago. The answer, I found during a quick hands-on session with the game last week, is tension. The tension that comes of knowing…

Sir, You Are Being Hunted Through This Haunting English Countryside

The idea behind Sir, You Are Being Hunted is, well, exactly what it sounds like. Man’s greatest enemy is man. That’s something we see in quite a few games, really. Mostly they have guns in them. But what gives this particular in-development indie title a quirky, unique edge is its Britishness. Also its robots. Its…

Miner Wars 2081 Takes Space Combat to a Creative New Level

The early Miner Wars 2081 alpha I played last year was little more than a spaceship equipped with a mining laser capable of blasting tunnels through massive asteroids. I played with it for hours. Since then the Descent-inspired space sim has grown into something much bigger. On the most basic level Miner Wars 2081 is…

It’s Time for PC Gaming Lives!

After a brief hiatus PC Gaming Lives returns, fresh from E3 2012 with plenty of PC and PC gaming-centric goodness for the next two hours. Don’t call it a reboot.

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…