An Owner’s Guide To Surviving Dark Souls

Some of the fun of playing Dark Souls, and Demon’s Souls before it, is the spectacle of the game and the sheer confusion you might feel when you first drop into the unforgiving world created by From Software. But that’s not for everybody. Some people don’t like to play their way through a game trial…

The World’s Best Donkey Kong Players Throw Down in The Kong Off

The Kong Off from Scott Cramer on Vimeo Has any game has as much celluloid devoted to it as Donkey Kong? First we had Seth Gordon’s brilliant The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Then we got the feature short Dr. Kong about Hank Chien, the guy who unseated Steve Wiebe to become the…

NVIDIA Shows Off a PC Batman: Arkham City Well Worth Waiting For

! While console players are busy exploring everything Batman: Arkham City has to offer, PC gamers have to wait until November 15 to don the cape and cowl. NVIDIA gives them something to look forward to with a video showing off how PhysX makes with the dust and clutter. The video shows off a more…

Lets Watch The Counter-Strike Global Offensive America Vs. Europe Throw Down

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive had its first official tournament over the weekend at the New York Comic-Con. While I showed you a few minutes of play, here’s the full one-hour, blow-by-blow brought to you by the guys over at ESL TV. The tourney took place as part of the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge New York.…

Eve Online Developers CCP Laying Off 120 People

Best known for the massive online game Eve Online, Icelandic company CCP has been steadily ascending its profile over the last few years, as they moved from that ambitious sci-fi virtual world to other projects like Dust 514, the in-development, PS3-exclusive shooter that ties into their MMO and new franchise World of Darkness But, just…

EA Sports Resurrects NFL Blitz, the Ultimate Arcade Football Franchise

Midway’s classic game of over-the-top seven-on-seven football returns with online multiplayer and HD graphics this January, when EA Sports releases NFL Blitz, a downloadable game for the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. While the more dedicated football fans were plowing through primitive Madden titles (or actually going outside to play), those of us that…

Saints Row: The Third Screen Shots

Parachute Fights, Naked Henchmen and Getting ‘Whored,’ All in the First 17% of Saints Row: The Third

When I saw Saints Row: The Third earlier this year, developer Volition showcased a spectacular bank heist from the game, a carnage-filled showdown with Steelport’s SWAT team. It was a bizarre, comedically ultraviolent shootout that played like a major, mid-game highlight. Turns out that bloody cops and robbers confrontation was just Saints Row: The Third‘s…

You May Now Watch Grand Theft Auto III‘s 10th Anniversary Trailer

Behold the 10th anniversary for Grand Theft Auto III, a game that came out on October 22, 2001, back before Halo existed (Halo came out a month later, and, man, we’re all so old!). What version of the game is this? A Rockstar rep says it’s not the new mobile version, which is coming soon…

Batman: Arkham City‘s Obligatory ‘Fall Through the Map’ Glitch

We’ve seen our fair share of glitches that take you under the game world’s map, and Batman: Arkham City is no exception! Using some clever parkour, Batman can maneuver himself under Arkham City’s buildings, looking up from below. What makes this particular instance of this glitch entertaining is that you can seemingly glide forever! The…

This Adorable Video Shows the Birth of a Gamer

Before and after: What you’re seeing here is the moment when a person makes the leap from future suit to Gamer. You might want to turn your volume down. You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.

Should Reviewers Take Off Points For Online Passes?

Used sales squashing online passes are annoying as hell, but should their utilization affect a game’s review score? Commenter Smash Bro thinks they should, and he’ll tell you why in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Can we get a call to reviewers to start taking off points for anti-consumer practices, like online passes? I understand…

Skylanders Hits The Mac

The fun, expensive, toy-laden Skylanders Spyro’s Aventure is now available on the Mac, according to a press release.

New Battlefield 3 Trailer Shows Off Multiplayer

Finally, the chance to watch DICE’s shiny Frostbite 2 engine get put through its paces in nearly two minutes of multiplayer mayhem. The clip showcases action from all the multiplayer maps shipping on the disc. The game’s massive destructibility looks like it’s going to radically change the experience of online warfare. One minute you’re in…

Star Wars Machinima A Clone Apart Returns, Reminds Us of Battlefront

What a wretched, wonderful fictional construct the Star Wars universe has become. While many people hate how George Lucas’s fiddling continues to dilute the memories of the folks who love it most, the Skywalker saga remains a rich playground for all kinds of comedy or tragedy. Three years ago, the crew at Illusive Entertainment created…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Hello people of Kotaku! We’re halfway through the week, I hope you’re having a good one. Gaming is keeping me busy, as well as watching my beloved sports teams. I’ve been playing Minecraft, FIFA 12, and some of the F2P MMO Vindictus. How about you? If you’re curious, I’m a huge ice hockey and soccer/football…

Virgin Admits They’re Not the Best For Online Gaming, Gets Censured

Virgin Media was told it can no longer run broadband ads claiming that their UK internet service is the best for online gaming. The Advertising Standards Authority said in their censure that the Virgin ads were likely going to lead gamers to think that Virgin’s broadband service was better than other UK internet services for…

From Yale To Persia: Read the Private Diaries Of Gaming’s Renaissance Man

In 1985 Jordan Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first video game, Karateka, and trepidation over the idea of turning that success into a career. Trading the east coast for the west landed him in the thick of a game industry beginning…

Hey! It’s Dead Island Zombies and Keiji Inafune

Mega | TOKYO, JAPAN: Dead Rising creator Keiji Inafune attended a Dead Rising event in Tokyo. (Photo: Game Watch Impress) Here’s Harrison Ford. Playing Uncharted. [Updated] National treasure Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, your childhood) has popped up in an unlikely place: A Japanese television commercial for Uncharted 3. More » The Spies, Soldiers and…

Sega Now Location-Testing Toilets

Remember Toirettsu? It’s a toilet, outfitted with mini-games. As Sega Toys pointed out, “You’re able to game with pee!” Finally! The contraption is outfitted with mini-games, and there is a sensor that can apparently measure the speed of one’s urine stream. Some of the mini-games include erasing graffiti with a hose (with your pee), causing…