A Different Interpretation on the Chell/GLaDOS Relationship

Internet Harmony | Reddit user GryphElyse drew Chell and GLaDOS in adorable kitten form. (Photo: Imgur) Why People Give a Shit About a 1988 PC Role-Playing Game Brian Fargo, whose credits include Bard’s Tale and the original Fallout, wants to make a new Wasteland game. This is a very good idea. It’s also a very…

What MLB The Show’s “Diamond Dynasty” Is, and Why It Isn’t Another Ultimate Team [UPDATE with images]

Cards, collections, virtual currency— when “Diamond Dynasty” appeared in a retail listing as a new mode for MLB 12 The Show, everyone thought they knew what it was: A feature that would borrow heavily from EA Sports’ “Ultimate Team,” which has been a cash cow for its FIFA, NHL and Madden franchises. It would seem…

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Jeremy Lin Gets Another Ratings Boost in Time for the Weekend

News and notes from around the world of sports video gaming: • As promised, 2K Sports rolled a second roster update early this morning to give New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin another nudge in his overall ratings. Lin, who has come from the end of the bench to lead New York to seven straight…

Biff Tannen Predicts This Weekend’s Biggest Sports Matchups

Hey, are you a sports fan on the go? Who has time these days to watch the big game, or bother with messy DVR, or boring highlight shows? With Biff Tannen’s Sports Almanac, we’ll give you the weekend’s biggest matchups before they happen, thanks to these highly accurate peer-reviewed scientific simulations of sports video gaming’s…

Major League Gaming and Mad Catz Team Up for An Xbox 360 Controller With Some Pros and Some Cons

With the collective profile of eSports rising over the last decade, you’ve seen an ever-increasing prominence of the kind of endorsed accessories and products that hover around physical sports. Gaming mice, keyboards and gamepads that promise to make you better, faster and more accurate sell to hardcore fans who want an edge in matches where…

The New and Improved Week in Gaming Apps, Now With 50 Percent More Flavor

It’s a brave new Week in Gaming apps as Kotaku’s fresh new faces take a crack at the millions of smartphone and tablet titles available for purchase and download. Guess what? A couple of them are Android-exclusive. Gives you shivers, doesn’t it? I meant the writers, of course. Not Android exclusive games. Not this week…

Mysterious Trailer Teases Unknown Game

I fall for puzzles and mysteries. Put a code in front of me, or a series of entirely unrelated clues, and I will sit there for hours if I have to, attempting to solve it. Even if I end up completely uninterested in the product a puzzle is promoting, I generally leap at the chance…

The 3DS Circle Pad Pro is Mostly Great, Actually

It sure has been a week for twin-thumbstick portable gaming. In addition to the PlayStation Vita (which has two thumbsticks built in), I’ve been playing around with the “Circle Pad Pro” attachment for the Nintendo 3DS. The Circle Pad Pro is a chunky plastic contraption that fits around the 3DS, retrofitting it with a right…

The New SSX’s Ready to Take You Around the World in These New Videos

The dev studios working on EA’s upcoming snowboarding reboot are using satellite data to recreate some of the world’s most iconic mountan ranges. How do the results look? You can take a gander in three clips above, which take you to near the South Pole, the American Midwest and into a plucky Pacifica principality. There’s…

Introducing ‘Random Encounters,’ Your Weekly Destination For All Things JRPG

There’s a little Lego figure standing next to my computer screen. It’s a miniature depiction of Darth Maul, from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and he’s holding a double-sided lightsaber. Sometimes, when I’m trying to think, I’ll take that lightsaber and snap it in and out of Darth Maul’s outstretched little Lego hand. Everything about…

Sleeping Dogs Screenshots Give Glimpses of Open-World Hong Kong Chaos

First we had that crazy live-action trailer, complete with obligatory Asian crime movie kitchen fight. Now come screens from the game formerly known as True Crime Hong Kong, showing off chases on land and water and some combat besides. Sleeping Dogs is due out later this year.

Why Did Batman: Arkham City Have 440 Trophies? Why Did Batman Fight A Shark? And More Questions Answered

I had a chat with Sefton Hill, chief game designer at Rocksteady Studios, in Las Vegas last week. The man’s team just made two terrific Batman games, so it was time we talked. Off-limits topics: The thing about Harley Quinn at the end. OK to discuss: Lots of other stuff. Stuff you might consider to…

Black Ops 2 Reportedly Outed by Amazon as This Year’s Call of Duty

French game site Gameblog.fr reported earlier today that Amazon’s French digital storefront leaked details about the next installment in Activision’s blockbuster FPS series. The site claims that a product page for the sequel to the 2010 Call of Duty title went live on Amazon.fr and that, after they reported this, Activision France requested that the…

Pick Bachelor Number Three, A Pigeon, in Hatoful Boyfriend

Hatoful Boyfriend puts the player in the shoes of a reasonably well-adjusted high-school sophomore girl. She attends class, studies hard, participates in extra-curricular activities, and works part-time in a café during the summer. She just happens to be the only girl, and only human, at St. Pigeonation’s, the country’s premier school for birds. Literal birds,…

WTPT: Kick Off The Weekend With Some Laughs at the Mario Bros’ Expense

Before you clock out today, don’t miss the videos we’ve compiled for you, as well as our Gaming App of the Day. WATCH: This episode of Epic Rap Battles of History shown above features our favorite brother-duo from gaming history up against the famous Wright brothers. So, who won the rap battle? Honestly, I might…

Fling Fowl Where No Fowl Has Been Flung Before in Angry Birds Space

Next month Rovio launches a whole new game in the Angry Birds universe … into space! More than a simple expansion pack or companion game, Angry Birds Space is a whole new game, promising a mix of innovative new gameplay mixed with familiar elements from the award-winning series millions of fans around the world have…

Here’s How Alan Wake’s American Nightmare New Survival Mode Plays

After playing a few hours with it, I can say that Alan Wake’s American Nightmare‘s survival mode, officially dubbed Fight ‘Til Dawn, feels spiritually closer to Resident’s Evil‘s survivor mode than Gears of War‘s Horde mode. The emphasis is on surviving, not on mowing down schloads of enemies with your chainsaw gun (though if you…

Witness the Interspecies Fighting Game Insanity of the Animal Kaiser evo.3 Trailer

I’d never heard of Animal Kaiser before seeing this video but, after seeing animals doing backflip bodyslams off the top rope of a wrestling ring, I can only weep at the fact that this game isn’t in my life. This trailer’s hyping the release of the latest title in Namco Bandai’s Japan-only beast battle series,…

Quell Reflect is a Soothing Puzzle Game for Grown-Ups

Most of the games I have on my phone are in some way frenetic. They’re filled with bold, bright colors, quick action, and noisy effects. After watching my friend’s preschool-aged niece school us all at Angry Birds, I have found myself occasionally desiring something a little more calm and adult. Enter Quell Reflect. This puzzler,…