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In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night! Panel Discussion Starts Now!
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Bruce Wayne on Drugs: One of the Best Batman Stories Ever
It sounds like a joke at first: What if Batman got addicted to drugs? But legendary Batman writer Denny O’Neil took a laughable premise and turned it into one of the best character portraits the Caped Crusader’s ever seen. Batman: Venom shows off everything that makes Denny O’Neil one of my favorite writers. His work…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Thinking About Buying Batman: Arkham City? Hang On.
Just a PSA: The upcoming Game of the Year edition of Arkham City, to be released May 29, will include all of the game’s downloadable content, including the upcoming Harley Quinn’s Revenge, which comes out at the end of this month. So don’t dish out your $60 just yet—wait for the Game of the Year…
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Each Level of Super Mario Bros. Condensed Into a Single Screen
You must play Super Mario Summary, a platformer that designer Johan Peitz created during the latest Ludum Dare game dev challenge. It’s a surprisingly fun recreation of Super Mario Bros. in which every level is summarized by a single screen. And you can play it at work. Which I just did. For the past 30…
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedBloodforge Features a Forge, a Gorge, and a Lot of Bloody Dumbness
Meet Crum. (Hi, Crum!) He wears a big badass skull on his head. (Hi, huge badass skull on Crum’s head!) He hunts things, and lives a life of contented happiness in the freezing mountains of Some Fantasy World of Another. Until… he makes the Gods mad. And some dumb stuff happens. Soon his wife is…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Preorder Customers Dress-Up With Gravity Rush‘s Physics-Defying Heroine
As if we needed more incentive to get our hands on one of the most anticipated PlayStation Vita games, players that preorder Gravity Rush will score a code for the Military DLC Pack, giving Kat a sharp new look to carry here through new missions and challenges. It’s not just a pretty costume; the Military…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Mass Effect 3‘s Multiplayer Got Me To Trade My Cynicism for Addiction
I spend a lot of time with the quarian lately; she’s become my favorite. Though if I’m being strictly honest, she’s actually the third quarian. The first two long since reached the limits of their potential with me, and are now off fighting some other battles elsewhere in the galaxy. It’s the Mass Effect 3…
By Kate Cox Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
We’ll Know About a Heart-Stopping, New PlayStation 3 Game on Thursday Night
Geoff Keighley, Game Trailers TV host and master of the world exclusive video reveal is currently in hype mode for Thursday’s installment of GTTV and is promising the following in a new promo for the show.. “A huge PlayStation 3 exclusive…” “…this new game that will definitely be the talk of the Internet…” “the next…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedAlmost Everyone Gets Demolished By One Guy’s Knife In A Round Of Modern Warfare 3
This latest video hosted on AmazingFilms247 captures a player knifing almost every single enemy. It all happens so fast that the other players are left wondering what the hell even happened.
By Tina Amini Published April 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedSky Gamblers: Air Supremacy is Like Having a Little Ace Combat in Your Pants
We’ve mentioned Namco Bandai’s Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy briefly during the launch of the new iPad, but we never got around to featuring it as a Gaming App of the Day. I don’t know about everyone else, but for me this was because I was too busy playing Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy. This is console-quality…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedModern Warfare 3 Player Gets Angry Kid To Argue With Himself
This is trolling at its finest (or worst, really). A MW3 player gets into a smack-talking back and forth with what seems to be a young kid, and records it for funsies. Funsies eventually turns into YouTube user Darknessgta4 playing the recording back to the kid, after which he actually gets the kid to argue…
By Tina Amini Published April 24, 2012 -
UncategorizedForests And Fireballs Fill Witcher-Inspired Action Sequence
In honor of The Witcher 2, which was rereleased as an enhanced edition for Xbox 360 and PC last week, here’s an awesome action sequence that was inspired by the game’s frenetic spell-filled combat. It’s quite well done. Confrontation at Dawn – Witcher-inspired short [YouTube]
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Tuesday Watch This, Play This
Watch! Kid argues with himself playing MW3. Watch! The Witcher 2 comes to life in this short. Play! Fahey likens Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy to an Ace Combat for your iPad. Watch! Guy practically demolishes the opposing team in MW3.
By Tina Amini Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
MTV Social Game Makes Election Season a Competition For Players, Not Just Candidates
MTV has been active in encouraging younger voters to get to the polls for well over 20 years. In 1992 they brought the “Choose or Lose” campaign to the airwaves, and in the decades since they have frequently partnered with nonprofit Rock the Vote to air initiatives encouraging 18-24 year-old voters to get to the…
By Kate Cox Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
You Can Get Mass Effect 3 For Half Price Today
BioWare’s sci-fi role-playing game is available at Amazon today for $30, thanks to an all-day Gold Box video game sale. Looks like they’ll have PlayStation Move and Final Fantasy XIII-2 later today. [Amazon]
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
BioWare Says The Old Republic Subscription Numbers Aren’t Dropping
When Star Wars: The Old Republic became available last December, the big test it faced was showing an ability to pull away players from the World of Warcraft juggernaut. Neither company wants to discuss the tug-of-war in terms of raw numbers, but Blizzard’s developers have admitted to seeing a dip in subscriptions. What about BioWare,…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
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! Who needs Kicking Guy? Not Angryrider ! This…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
This Batman Box Art Parody Is Better Than The Real Thing
By now you must have seen the box art for the Game of the Year edition of Batman: Arkham City It’s pretty much the worst thing ever, stuffed with superfluous quotes in giant red text that almost make the whole thing seem like one big parody. Well here’s a better parody. The fine folks at…
By Jason Schreier Published April 24, 2012 - Uncategorized
Naked Snake and The Boss Have Never Been So Amazingly Lifelike
Hong Kong-based collectible company Hot Toys makes some gorgeous action figures, but none have impressed me as much as the recently-revealed sneaking suit Naked Snake and The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and it’s not just the gruesome chest scars. Okay, it’s mainly the gruesome chest scars, but also the skin texture,…
By Mike Fahey Published April 24, 2012