What’s the Batman: Arkham City Comic Hinting At?

The video game sequel to the extraordinary Batman: Arkham Asylum won’t be released until October, but starting today a new comic, Batman: Arkham City, is bridging the two Arkham games’ gap. That compelled me to rush to the comics shop to find out what’s next in this saga. If you’ve been following the pre-release coverage…

Assault Mode Unlocked for Section 8: Prejudice

A combined ten million Xbox 360 and PC kills in two weeks has unlocked Assault Mode for Section 8: Prejudice, in which two teams take turns trying to secure all Control Points on a map. Go play.

Video Game Gave Me Seizures, Says Grounded Navy Fighter Pilot

A former U.S. Navy F-18 fighter pilot is suing Sony, Bethesda and Zenimax claiming that the Playstation 3 version of Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls IV gave him a grand mal seizure, breaking his shoulder and permanently grounding him. In the suit, John Ryan McLaughlin says that on March 28, 2010 he was playing the game…

Namco Tops Competitors in Race for Swankiest Game Junket

Back in April, I was standing in a Miami beach-front hotel talking to people from Capcom, the games publisher that invited people like me to check out their new games. (We paid our own way, if you care). I joked that they could up the ante and do their event in Dubai next year. Too…

Play Angry Birds Online, Right Now, for Free

Google isn’t above killing a little productivity to prove the power of its web browser. The search engine king has released a special free browser-based version of Rovio’s avian-flinging sensation Angry Birds on the Chrome Web Store, just to prove it can be done. Announced earlier today at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco,…

Thoughts Born of Ten Hours with Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Quintin Smith recently got a chance to play ten hours’ worth of Eidos Montreal’s latest cyberpunk thriller, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Rather than exhaustively regurgitating every minute, instead he shares the thoughts playing the game put into his head. Thoughts like, “I am SUCH a badass. Watch this!” Oh admit it, you’ve…

The Dark Souls Collector’s Edition Might Be For You, Softer Players

Or maybe it’s for you, Demon’s Souls diehards or those ravenously anticipating the challenge of Dark Souls. What it is, assuredly, is a strong motivator for pre-ordering Dark Souls for the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Namco Bandai announced today that Dark Souls would get a limited release collector’s edition bundled with stuff, including a…

There’s a Man with a Laser-Sighted Sniper Rifle Hunting Rats in Moscow

Look, everyone needs a hobby. I like to read, and stare solemnly out my window. It’s good to stay active! But this Russian fellow has a particularly engaging pastime: hunting down Moscow’s rat population and blowing them to rodent hell. Gennady, whose last name is a mystery because he is a covert rat sniper, used…

Fallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts Laid Bare in New Trailer and Screens

The unspoiled wilderness of Utah’s Zion National Park shines in the first trailer and screens for Fallout: New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts downloadable content, coming May 17 to the Xbox 360 and Steam, with the PlayStation 3 version coming whenever the PlayStation Network decides to start cooperating. The first of three new installments of downloadable content…

The Newest L.A. Noire Trailer is the Most Action-Packed L.A. Noire Trailer

You will need to be patient when you play L.A. Noire. You’re a detective, not a soldier; a crime-solver, not a crime-committer. There will be action in the Rockstar/Team Bondi game that finally comes out for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next week. Here is the game’s official launch trailer, filled with gunplay. We’ll have…

The Gawker Media Census Numbers Prove that the Home Console Is Still King. Take It and Win an iPad 2!

So far, over 2,000 Kotaku readers have shared their feedback with us via the 2011 Gawker Media Census. And we learned that no matter how many people are addicted to playing Angry Birds on their smartphones, you think they’re missing out on a key element of gaming. 66% of you said consoles still offer a…

What We Know So Far About Soulcalibur V

Since last night’s sneak peek at Soulcalibur V during Namco Bandai’s Dubai press event, game director Daishi Odashima has been Tweeting like mad, revealing fresh information about the sixth installment of the beloved fighting game franchise. Mind the 17-year gap! In his mad post-event Twitter rampage, Odashima ironed out some of the details of the…

The Harsher, Deadlier Dark Souls is also a More Beautiful Horror Adventure

There’s no mistaking it. Dark Souls is as much a Demon’s Souls sequel as we’re ever going to get, at least any time soon. It’s the more beautiful Demon’s Souls. It’s the game more willing to run wild with its unique brand of twisted dark medieval fantasy. It may have been touted as a more…

Dark Souls Screen shots

Hey Kids, Stealing Video Games is Not Cool

It seems like it should go without saying, but commenter CornflakeJustice felt like saying it anyway, and since this is Speak Up on Kotaku and not sit quietly and say nothing on Kotaku, here we are. When did it become cool to pirate games? Lately, I’ve been noticing a lot of people outright admitting to…

Sid Meier Hopes to Release Civ World This Summer, Says It Fundamentally Changes Series

Civ World, Sid Meier’s attempt to bring the complexities of his long-lived strategy game Civilization to the quick play nature of Facebook, is due to hit the online service this summer, CNN reports. Meier says that while the game will have all of the traditional pieces of his series – science, economy, military, culture –…

How Not to Fake a Game Informer Cover

If you’re going to fake a Game Informer cover, you might want to get their slogan correct. And “specs”? Not on a cover. “in” instead of “at”? The one tool they don’t have in Photoshop is spellcheck stylecheck*. [via tips@] * This post written in Photoshop.

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Hello again everybody! Welcome to a new day of Talk Amongst Yourselves, the forum where people get together to talk about whatever video games are on their minds. Props to ShinLord for today’s image. Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a…

Is This Modern Warfare 3‘s Cover?

Yesterday we told you what we’ve been told about the yet-to-be announced Modern Warfare 3. Today we’re showing you what we’ve been shown. Granted this could easily be a photoshop for the game’s PC cover, but that logo seems to match what others are saying appears for the game. Click to expand the image. Thoughts?…

In 6 1/2 Minutes, We’ll Show You Lego Pirates of the Caribbean‘s Small Twists And Amazing Cut-Scenes

Less than two months after the last Lego video game, we’ve got a new one. March’s Lego Star Wars III was a big surprise, an epic evolution of the series, offering grander spectacle and new types of levels. This week’s new Lego Pirates of the Caribbean is a more conservative effort. Nevertheless, it does the…