Microsoft Office Web Apps Wants To Be Your Friend

Everyone’s computing needs are a little different and thus everyone has a slightly different relationship with their documents. Well, like the perfect buddy, Office Web Apps has your best interest in mind, and despite being available any time, day or night, it won’t ever call you and be all, “What are you doing right now?…

Watch Me Fail at Super Mario 3DS Over and Over and Over and Over and…

Super Mario 3DS is a wonderful, difficult, though not too surprising, Mario experience. It delivers the joy of maneuvering Nintendo’s titular Mario through a colorful world of moving blocks, anthropomorphic enemies, power-ups and coins. It even seems to lean a bit on the 3DS’ ability to deliver 3D imagery without the need for glasses. Many…

Homefront Studio Shut Down, Series Creation Shifting To Montreal

The New York City-based developer of Homefront, Kaos Studios, has been shut down, according to a source close to the studio. It’s not clear if the shutdown was due to the performance of the game, the high cost of operating a studio or some combination of factors. We’ve reached out to THQ for official confirmation.…

Can the Swedish Super-Gamer Conquer Kid Icarus 3DS? Yes He Can.

In the first of three videos I shot of Kid Icarus: Uprising at E3, you can see here the efforts of one Swedish super-gamer who was making his third attempt to conquer the previously-unconquerable third level of the game’s E3 demo. Watch as he beats this level into submission. (The next video in the gallery…

These Postcards Are Lousy With Midichlorians

I found these eight postcards at Lucas Arts’s E3 backstage meeting room, a place that was also home to a tiny museum and playable copy of Kinect Star Wars. Enjoy.

The Force Post Cards

There Will Be No Gold Wii Nunchuk

There will be a gold Nintendo Wii Remote Plus coming out late this year. Nintendo plans to bundle some of them with the new Zelda, Skyward Sword, and sell others separately. But what about a gold nunchuk? You’ll need some sort of Wii nunchuk attachment plugged into your gold (or white or black) Motion-Plus-enabled Wii…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It’s time to talk about video games. So, talk about them. Thanks! Wanna get your TAYpic on Kotaku? Submit your pic to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)

The Big Games, Big Gadgets, Big Surprises of E3

The promise of uncompromising gaming on the go, a sexy new console from the makers of the Wii and a robust line-up of must-have, must-play games topped this year’s celebration of all things gaming in Los Angeles last week. This year’s E3 kicked off early last week with a look at what the makers of…

Backbreaker‘s Team Checks In Again With Icebreaker

In real life, I skate like a waddling five-year-old forever on the verge of crapping his pants. In Icebreaker, I’m light on my feet, spinning, deking, and sprinting away from the bowel-loosening checks coming my way. At the end of it all, there’s a shot on goal that always goes in. Icebreaker (99 cents), like…

The E3 Comedown

Game Over | LOS ANGELES, CA: At this year’s E3, gamers checked out the Microsoft booth. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian | Getty) Before Duke Nukem Was An Asshole, He Was a Simple Man In the latest Duke Nukem game, the titular star is an offensive asshole, much of his macho charm having given way over the…

Your PS Vita Games Might Look Like This

Earlier this Spring, a real-time technical demo for Trinigy’s Vision Game Engine showed off what kind of texturing and lighting the then-codenamed NGP could render. Trinigy’s released a new demo, this time trading the urban setting for a fantasy one, complete with real-time water reflection, glare effects, and lighting. As Kotaku previously pointed out, the…

After PSN Hack Arrest, Spanish Police’s Website Knocked Offline

On Friday, Spanish police arrested three in the PSN hacks. According to the BBC, this Sunday Anonymous knocked the website for Spain’s national police offline with a denial of service attack. [BBC]

Professor Layton Studio Making Gundam Game

Makes sense! Especially seeing how Layton designer Akihiro Hino is penning the story for new Gundam series, Gundam Age. His studio, Level-5, is also working on a new Gundam RPG for unspecified hardware. Gundam Age will encompass a new anime series, toys, plastic models, a plastic figure based in-store game, and a card-based arcade game…

3DS Crosses The Million Milestone in Japan

As of this past May, the Nintendo 3DS has sold over a million units in Japan. The glasses-free portable went on sale there on February 26. Congrats! [MANTAN]

Dark Souls Might Be Dark, But It Looks Fantastic

For all the bitching and moaning about Japanese games being creatively bankrupt, lame, or simply crappy-looking, there’s this, Dark Souls The game is the spiritual successor to the difficult and oh so moody Demon’s Souls and will be out this fall. The game is being developed by From Software, the studio best known for the…

Portal 2’s Chell Has Busted Out, and Is Having Her Photo Taken

I couldn’t bear another week of kids dressed up as Final Fantasy characters. So for this instalment of Fancy Pants, we’re looking at a single person in a single costume. That person is Emiri. That costume was made by marimbamonkey14. And the shoot is of Portal 2 star Chell. While the prop work isn’t the…

Women Responsible for Company of Heroes’ Developer Death Sentenced

The two women responsible for the tragic death last year of Company of Heroes developer Brian Wood have been sentenced to prison, The Herald reports. Jordyn Weichert and Samantha Bowling, both from Oak Harbor, Washington, were both steering the vehicle that collided with Wood’s car last September, killing the developer and injuring his pregnant wife.…

These Are the First Game Gear Games for the Nintendo 3DS eShop

Game Gear and the Turbografx are coming to the Nintendo 3DS eShop. According to Nintendo, here are the first Game Gear titles, all with a “Summer” release window: Columns, Dragon Crystal, Shinobi, Sonic Drift, Sonic The Hedgehog: Triple Trouble

Sega Exec Says Wii U Out Spring/Summer 2012

Nintendo has only said its new Wii U console will be out in 2012. Former rival Sega, however, has been a little more specific. In an interview with GameSpot last week during E3, Sega executive vice president of marketing Alan Pritchard said “the Wii U is coming out next spring/summer”. Blunt! It’s not, however, confirmation…