Windows 8 Tricks, Tips and Shortcuts to Make the Preview Process Less Painful

Windows 8 Consumer Preview cracked 1 million downloads shortly after launching last Wednesday and I’m sure many of you have tried it already. Whether you went with a dual-boot, upgrade, clean install or virtual machine, if you’re coming from Windows 7 you’ll notice significant changes immediately, while others may not be as obvious. Inevitably, with…

Nuke Any Game With This Microwave Mod

It’s a little funny sometimes when you encounter a thing made to look like a different thing. You get a moment of cognitive dissonance that never quite goes away. Part of your brain always expects a cake shaped like a pizza to taste cheesier and less sweet than it does. So, too, with this older…

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iPhone, iPad Darling Flight Control Gets a Sci-Fi Sequel

In the midst of all today’s iPad news, we’re also hearing about a number of iOS games. Hit game Flight Control is getting a sequel this month. In Flight Control Rocket, rather than coaxing airplanes onto airstrips, players will be docking spaceships. In space. The player will use many of the same techniques and tactics…

Eight Exciting and Six Worrying Things About XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun Last week, I finally got to see XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis’ X-COM remake, with my own failing eyes. I have various things to post about it over the coming days, but let’s start with a break down of what made my little belly flutter with excitement and what made my…

Roccat’s Power-Grid Transforms Your Mobile Phone into the Ultimate PC Gaming Peripheral

What would you pay for a PC gaming accessory that could monitor your PC temperature, control program-specific volume levels, display your instant messages and juggle custom-made shortcut keys without taking you out of the game? Roccat’s Power-Grid app does all of this, and it won’t cost you a dime. Teased via a website that asked,…

PC Gaming Lives Booting Up

It’s time for two hours of PC-centric content, for those of us that prefer gaming machines we’re encouraged to open up and mess with.

Epic Games Says New iPad Will Have More Memory, Higher Resolution Than Xbox 360 And PS3

Developer Epic Games revealed the next game in its mobile Infinity Blade series today at the Apple iPad press conference. Showing off Infinity Blades: Dungeons on the new iPad, which will feature an A5X quad-core processor and a high-resolution display, Epic Games President Mike Capps said it will feature a new crafting and dungeon system.…

Apple Will Release The Next iPad, A ‘Graphics Powerhouse,’ On March 16

Apple will release a new version of the iPad on March 16, it said today at a press conference in San Francisco. Our sister site Gizmodo has all sorts of details on the new tablet, which will use Apple’s high-definition Retina Display and feature 2048×1536 resolution. It will be available in black and white, starting…

Sometimes it Can Be Hard to Make College Kids Play Video Games

Gaming has a substantial history now, 40 years after Pong first went out into the wide world. Even the Smithsonian is running a detailed exhibit on the art and history of video games, opening later this month. Game studies is growing and maturing rapidly as a research and education field, and game development programs are…

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WTPT: The Inarguably Awesome Robin Williams Movie That Predicted Predator Drones, War Games

Everyone seems to be insisting that Toys was an abomination of a movie. But I liked it! Regardless of our potentially disparate taste in movies (and if so, hmph), one thing seems to be undeniable: Toys looks like a forecast of how the military and air force are using video game concepts to operate predator…

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Here’s A Bunch of Shit That Zelda Fans Say

I don’t know how many Zelda fans actually say any of this, but this Shit Zelda Fans Say video is kind of amusing if only because it’s so damn specific. Now let’s all agree to stop making Shit People Say videos. Thanks in advance. Shit Zelda Fans Say [YouTube – thanks, Andy!]

Go Diving For Treasure in PopCap’s Latest Facebook game, Solitaire Blitz

PopCap’s latest Facebook Blitz game is Solitaire Blitz. Playable on Facebook, the treasure-diving solitaire game pits you against friends to win underwater treasures. You can learn more and play here

Draw Something, Even If It Looks Like A Two-Year Old’s Work of Art

Do you want a challenge? I’m not talking about how well you can aim a headshot, or the dexterity of your fingers that speaks to how good a platform gamer you are. I’m talking about communication. OMGPOP’s Draw Something is a drawing game that challenges your ability to take a concept—like “dolphin”—and translate that into…

The Glory Days of SquareSoft (*Not* Square Enix) Recaptured in Rap

Remember the glory days of SquareSoft, when the role-playing giant could seemingly do no wrong? Richie Branson does, and he’s got a little song about it. Want to hear it? Here goes. Branson’s letter to SquareSoft is riddled with suggestions on what franchises he wants to see resurrected, and what character crossovers would have fans…

Watch This, Play This Begins Now

Stuff to play, stuff to see, here comes Watch This, Play This. Confused? Read this

Gamers Are Now Angry at BioWare Because of An Image in Mass Effect 3 (SPOILER)

Fans have expressed outrage at the apparent reveal that developer BioWare used a stock photo as the basis for one of Mass Effect 3‘s main characters. Angry gamers sent a barrage of e-mails to Kotaku‘s tips hotline last night with links to the stock photo and the spoilery reveal from the action-roleplaying game, which was…

From Final Fantasy IX to Cruis’n World: 10 Classic Designs That Need Revisiting

In today’s design-minded edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter DrZaius looks at design elements of ten gaming classics (well, nine and Madworld) that could help spice up some of today’s titles. This has been boiling up inside of me for some time. This is the top 10 list of game designs I’d like to…