What Is Scribblenauts Remix?

Currently, we know Scribblenauts Remix is a new domain registered by Warner Bros. (and spotted by “superannuation“), but little else about mysterious Scribblenauts project. But, I wonder what would be summoned if we typed in “iOS” into a Scribblenauts game…

Indie Bundle Adds Five More Games if You Donate Five Bucks or More

The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has now added five more games, and still is being offered for the super-low price of “whatever you want to pay.” Provided whatever you want to pay is more than the average donation, which is $4.96 as of now. The Bundle’s masters today decreed that the lineup from Humble Indie…

Quake Cake Down

Strogg!!! – Strogg recently beheaded from Fahey’s Quake cake. (Photo by Michael Fahey) Requiem For An iPhone Game Free running through a dream, leaping over crates, running along walls, dashing through gaps, Requiem is a slightly marred look at what Mirror’s Edge could have been on the iPhone. In Requiem you play a boy lost…

The Hidden is the Strange Lovechild of Face Raiders and Ghostbusters, Living in Foursquare’s Foster Home

At first glance, The Hidden looks an awful lot like Face Raiders, one of the free augmented reality games pre-installed on every 3DS. Like Face Raiders, The Hiddenis a shooter that uses the 3DS’ camera to superimpose things for you to shoot in your real world environment, turning whatever room you’re in into a shooting…

The Video Game That Got Jazz so, so Right

For some reason or other, jazz soundtracks are a rarity among video games. Plenty of games feature heroic chiptune anthems, Hollywoodesque orchestral scores, and evocative sci-fi themes, but jazz, one of America’s oldest art forms, remains surprisingly underrepresented. Though they may be few and far between, there are a handful of games that have used…

Black Ops’ Rezurrection DLC is One Small Step for Zombie-Kind

Nacht der Untoten. Verruckt. Shi No Numa. Der Riese. These names strike terror in the hearts of anyone that dared venture into the undead playgrounds of Call of Duty: World at War. The zombie story started there. It ends on the Moon. Due out on August 23 for the Xbox 360, the Rezurrection donwloadable content…

The Xbox 360 Has a Hidden Solution to Your Nintendo 3DS Screen Woes

If you own (and use) a Nintendo 3DS, you’ve probably noticed that the system’s top screen can get marked up and scratched rather easily, just by closing and carrying it around for the sake of Street Passing. Nintendo has recommended that 3DS owners place a cloth between the screens to prevent any damage, but some…

Modern Warfare 3 is Also Deploying to Wii

Not one to exclude 87 million customers, Activision confirmed today that it will release a Wii version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 this year. Typically, the Wii versions of Call of Duty games launch alongside their HD counterparts.

The New Spider-Man isn’t the Only New Comic Worth Checking Out this Week

Good luck squeezing into your local comics shop this week. Plenty of strangers will probably be dropping in to pick up the new Spider-Man comic with the new Spider-Man in it. But squeeze on in, because there are some cool new comics out this week. And there are some good old ones available for legitimate…

Master Chief takes on Voldemort

Halo‘s Master Chief jumps into the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Spoiler alert! It’s still pretty close to the how the actual movie ends so if you don’t want the movie ruined, don’t watch. Harry Potter vs. Halo [Official Ending] [Youtube]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Getting A Resurrection This Fall

Activision will release the fourth Call of Duty: Black Ops “content pack,” named Resurrection, by end of September on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the company says. Resurrection will follow First Strike, Escalation and Annihilation. Details still to come…

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Serves Up Multiplayer Marines 1.8 Billion Ways

If the text flashing by in this trailer are to be believed, Relic Entertainment has managed to cram 1.8 billion different ways to customize Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s six multiplayer classes, a number at least 1,000 times larger than the amount of people likely to care. You can contact Michael Fahey, the author of this…

How To Make The Doom 4 We All Want and Need

For a time, years, whenever a person talked about a first-person shooter they called it a Doom Clone. Such was the power, the influence of one of the first, first-person shooters, the proto-FPS. But in establishing an entire genre, Doom also planted itself firmly in history, becoming a game that even its savvy creators seem…

StarCraft II Demo Upgraded to StarCraft II: Starter Edition

Still on the fence about StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard’s spacey real-time strategy game? Maybe the StarCraft II: Starter Edition, the game’s revamped demo, is for you. It’s the bigger StarCraft II demo that’s less restrictive. Unlike the previous StarCraft II demo, there are no time restrictions on the Starter Edition, meaning you can…

Everybody at the Call of Duty Convention Gets a Free Modern Warfare 3

Activision sweetens the pot for fans considering attending the first-ever Call of Duty XP convention in Los Angeles next month, revealing additional details on what fans can expect to get out of the show, including a free copy of the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition. $150 is a lot to ask fans to spend on…

Dr. J Joins Larry, Magic and Michael in NBA 2K12‘s “Greatest” Challenge

NBA 2K12 will follow last year’s extremely popular “Jordan Challenge” by again reaching deep into the game’s memory bank, serving up 15 re-creations of the NBA’s greatest performances with an all-new cast of legends, and broadcast presentation authentic to their eras. “NBA’s Greatest” will bring ABA/NBA all-time great Julius Erving to a simulation basketball game;…

Simple Question…What is Sega?

We recently discovered that the first “frequently asked question” in the Xbox section of the website Team Xbox is “What is the Xbox?” Sometimes the most obvious questions are the best ones, so, inspired by Team Xbox, I turned to Twitter and asked: “What is Sega?” The First Answer I Got “The publisher of Platinum’s…

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How Many Interns Does it Take to Cover a Press Event?

Last week, ace Kotaku Interns Jen Schiller and Joshua Rivera underwent a vital video game journalism rite of passage: their first publisher Press Event. At the suggestion of their mentor and spiritual guide Stephen Totilo, the two met up afterward via the magic of the internet to discuss their thoughts on the proceedings. This began…

Tribes: Ascend Revisits the Series’ Glory Days

I first played Starsiege: Tribes at the 1998 E3 Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. A relative newcomer to the multiplayer first-person shooter, I fondly recall ignoring whatever objective our team was supplied with, instead spending my time whooshing about the map with my jetpack, giggling to myself. Eventually I got a copy of the game for…