Ubisoft Struggles To Explain How Powerful the Wii U Is

As you can imagine, many reporters had questions about the Wii U’s hardware, relative to the PS3 and Xbox 360. One of the few people who actually provided some answers was Ubisoft Quebec’s senior technical architect Marc Parenteau, who was brought in to discuss a Wii U Assassin’s Creed at a developer round-table. Unfortunately, even…

Let Me Tell You How to Defeat an Armored Demon Warthog in Dark Souls

Playing Demon’s Souls spiritual sequel Dark Souls at E3 2011 left me with just as many questions as answers. How, exactly, does the beacon fire system work? What does it mean to be “hollowed”? And why won’t Namco Bandai answer those questions when asked about this punishing and complex role-playing game? I’ll tell you what…

Fallon Kicks Off Gaming Week Tonight With Modern Warfare 3

Video Game Week kicks off on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon tonight on NBC with the help of Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling who will be playing Modern Warfare 3 with writer and actor Simon Pegg. Not into Call of Duty, even if it’s being played by the guy who helped pen Shaun of the Dead?…

The E3 2011 Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Line Was Short (and Not Real)

The long-awaited Half-Life 2: Episode 3 wasn’t really at E3, but YouTube master of digital manipulation FreddieW shows us what could have been… though, surely at least eight people would have lined up for the game. (Thanks to everyone who sent this in.)

Ranking the Tech Nerds Who Own Sports Teams

You might have wondered why so much attention was lavished on one doughy white guy after the Mavericks won the NBA title last night. That was Mark Cuban, technology billionaire, and possibly the best owner in professional sports. But he’s not the only nerd with a big wallet and a sports fetish. Here’s how Cuban…

The Single Greatest Trailer For the Greatest Games of E3

Can you imagine if this was one game? One shooting, stabbing, jumping, running, driving, flying master piece of gore, politics, character growth, feminism and dude-brotopia? It could never happen, but for a bit more than three minutes Polygamia managed to mash together all of the games of E3 into this one singular video event. Enjoy…

Hitman Absolution In One Sexy Brochure

Hitman Absolution was one of many of the games I saw at E3 that impressed me not only with its new take on an old formula, but in the new story it was trying to tell and the character it was trying to refresh. Here’s a look at the sleek brochure the IO Interactive was…

The Long Path to Discovering that God Hand is Awesome

How great was God Hand, a 2006 PlayStation 2 game that IGN gave a 3.0 out of 10 to? Very, very great, Kotaku reader Bondage Zombie finally realized. And with that eureka he has sworn off looking at review scores, as he explains in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku Whenever a new game is released,…

I Guess it Was Bethesda’s Turn to Get Hacked

Bethesda announced this morning that a group of hackers have grabbed data from some of their users, including “e-mail addresses and/or passwords.” If you frequent Bethesda’s sites, like their forums or the Brink statistics site, change your password. [BethBlog]

Hitman

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…