Kotaku Looking for Eager Interns in NYC

Aspiring writers: Kotaku is bringing in another round of editorial interns! Do you… • Live in the New York City metro area? • Are you over 18? • Want to learn how to work in the games press? • Have a laptop and a better-than-average command of English? (Better than us, I’m saying?) • Maybe,…

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2010 Promises?

Can you believe the hype you hear from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at each year’s big E3 circus of video games? Year after year, the big three make promises about their consoles and their games. Do they deliver? Each year, we check. Microsoft, last year we had to scold you for some of your unbelievable…

What the Sharp-Dressed Heavy Will Be Wearing in Tribes: Ascend

Hi-Rez Studios continues to tease Tribes fans with concept art from its upcoming online multiplayer sequel Tribes: Ascend. Here’s a look at the heavy-class armor Diamond Sword and Blood Eagle troops will be sporting once the game drops.

Sit Back and Listen to a Tale of The Witcher

In a dreary encampment outside the small town of Flotsam the inhabitants gather nightly to listen to legendary tales of heroism. You don’t need to visit, but if you’re passing through you’d do well to stop and sit awhile. I must have run through this camp a dozen times before I stumbled upon this storytelling…

Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong Now That Duke Nukem Forever Has Gone Gold

This is it, ladies and gentlemen. A gold master containing the culmination of fourteen years of game development is now in production, discs filled with action, toilet humor, and attitude rolling off the line in preparation for Duke Nukem Forever‘s June 10 release. Gamers’ collective hearts skipped a beat when Gearbox Software delayed Duke’s return…

Two Ninjas Converge in a Snowy Wood in Mortal Kombat: Legacy

Episode seven of director Kevin Tancharoen’s live-action Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series touches on the origin of two of the video game franchise’s most iconic characters, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Why did they use two actors instead of just palette swapping? It’s easy to forget the tragic tale of Scorpion while you’re busy harpooning your enemies…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Hits Nov. 8, 2011

Called it! As we reported, along with just about everything else about the game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will indeed be hitting on Nov. 8, 2011, according to an Activision press release and last night’s trailer. The release also goes on to say the game is in development by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer…

Get Perfectly Sexy Stubble with the Latest in Stubble Tech

The ability to create and maintain the perfect stubble is a daunting prospect. But, with the power of the latest technology from Philips Norelco, you’ll be dashing, mysterious, and zexy in no time. Their Vacuum Stubble and Beard Trimmer Pro is cordless, and is the only trimmer to boast an integrated vacuum system that captures…

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Goes Free and Online Only This Summer

This isn’t Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but it may be better, delivering tactical action and fast-paced play in an online only, free-to-play computer game. Ghost Recon Online goes into beta this summer with plans for a broader release in the second half of the year, and from what I played I can’t wait to spend…

Ghost Recon Online Screens

Digital Storm’s Newest Gaming Rig Swaps Choice For Affordability

Why are custom gaming rigs so expensive? There’s no such thing as a bulk discount when a company has to order each part individually. For players not picky about parts, Digital Storm’s new line of affordable pre-built gaming PCs might be the answer to pricey PC gaming. When last I touched base with Digital Storm…

Let’s Help a Gamer Get Into Anime

Commenter SecretMoblin has yet to experience the joy of sitting in a darkened room at 3AM sobbing hysterically over a Japanese cartoon. He needs anime suggestions, so its time to Speak Up on Kotaku. I’ve never seriously watched any anime, and I’m looking to start. I’ve seen a couple episodes of Ranma and a couple…

L.A. Noire: The Kotaku Review

The best trailer for the video game L.A. Noire that its creators never made would have featured a man’s face. The face would have been that of an unremarkable owner of a liquor store in 1947 Los Angeles, a hard-working type. His face would be creased, just a little, from the effects of encroaching middle…

If You’ve Never Played Halo: Reach, Now’s Your Chance

There’s a new Halo: Reach single and multiplayer demo available on Xbox Live today, coinciding with a week-long $39.99 sale on the Games on Demand version. If you’ve been waiting eight months for a price drop, your time is now.

Talk Amongst Yourselves

It was a dull, grey, no-good kind of Tuesday. The kind of Tuesday that could really put a man in the dumps. The kind of Tuesday that could push the wrong man over the edge. Oh, ahem, excuse me! I’m feeling a little, erm, pulpy today. Welcome to Talk Amongst Yourselves—a place to chat about…

LEGO Universe Developer: I Will Never Make an MMO Again

An open letter to my fellow developers and gamers who follow the industry. Drafted by Ryan Seabury, Chief Creative Occifer & Founder, END Games Entertainment. I recently departed my beloved old development studio after helping build it from five to two hundred people, with consistent 50% growth year over year for over 10 years. I…

Current Is Currently My Favorite Game

iOS games can be a crap shoot. There are some real diamonds, but a lot of crap. Then, every once in a while, you find a game, and you really get into it. For me, that game is Current According to the game’s developer TinkerHouse Games, Current is an “action match game”. That means the…

Look How Far We’ve Come

TANK VS. FORTERESSE | PARIS, FRANCE: Gaming in 1930 looked like this. (Photo: Hulton Archive | Getty) The First Explosive Modern Warfare 3 Gameplay Trailer Is Here Modern Warfare 3, is a globetrotting tale of destruction, taking the fight to America, England, Germany and France, bringing with it huge destruction and battles more ambitious than…

Would You Like Motion Controls with Your Sony Portable?

A recent Sony patent shows a camera-enable PSP dock that allows players to use PlayStation Move controls. The portable shown in the patent image is a PSPgo, Sony’s failed PSP iteration. However, the NGP already has a camera, so PlayStation Move could be possible. I’d rather that the NGP didn’t support Move controls at all.…

Is This The First Look at the Ace Attorney Movie?

Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) is in Cannes, prompting his latest film, Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai. His next film won’t be nearly as heavy. “It is a very light comedy that I am filming now, a court drama, based on a video game, the Nintendo game DS,” Miike told The Huffington Post. The…