Modern Warfare Makers Complain Of Secret Call of Duty Games And More Broken Promises

“Don’t worry about it. It’s impossible for you guys to get fired,” Activision boss Bobby Kotick told Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in 2008, according to a new cross-complaint filed today in a Los Angeles court. Two years and one Call of Duty game later, the creators of the billion dollar war…

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Bronze | The Pony Express, immortalized in this statue found at the Colorado state line, lasted a bit more than a single year. (Photo by Me) Bedtime Stories These New Shots From Skyrim Are No Laughing Matter There’s nothing funny at all about the latest screenshots from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, unless you count…

Leaked Forza 4 Video Confirms Kinect Features [Update]

Realizing it is April Fool’s, if this video is a fake, someone went to a lot of trouble to create something that delivers no punchline. Here is a solid three minutes jampacked with in-game footage of Forza 4, touting a lot of features we’d scented from a marketing survey that went out last week. Details…

Sega’s MLB-Licensed Management Sim Launches

Just to make it official, Sega’s MLB Manager Online had a beta launch earlier this month, not a full launch as some posts had implied. Moot point now as the fully-licensed sports management sim is now available. All 30 Major League teams and over 900 real players are featured in the game. Scads more details…

West And Zampella vs. Activision Cross-Complaint

Evony Awarded $300K From Hacker Who Probably Can’t Pay It

That Evony hacker who showed up to federal court in sweat pants will likely be wearing them a lot longer – if not a barrel. A judge rather quickly ruled against him, finding that selling auto-playing bots and game maps violated Evony’s copyrights, and awarded the game’s owners $300,000. Could be worse. Philip James Holland,…

Pirates Of The Caribbean‘s Charm Is Recharged In LEGO Form

The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was a refreshing sea breeze that’s grown ranker with each subsequent sequel. In swoops TT Games with a blast for fresh ocean air in LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean. I’ve grown weary of Captain Jack Sparrow. I am tired of Johnny Depp acting like a fool. I am…

12 Ways Consoles Are Hurting PC Gaming

It’s happened to everyone at one point or another. You’re playing your favorite FPS and minding your own business when your character finally succumbs to that pesky stream of bullets that’s been bouncing off his face for the past two minutes. “Aw man,” you say aloud while a big, ominous Game Over screen stares you…

It’s Your April Fools’ Day Round-Up

Never trust anything you read on the internet, and that goes doubly today. It’s April Fools’ Day, and we’re rounding up the very best and very worst of what the gaming industry thinks is funny. Bookmark this page and keep checking back, as April 1 is generally the longest 24 hours of the year on…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

I’m not gonna lie. This weekend will be a major Demon’s Souls weekend. Again. After investing more than 100 hours in this PlayStation 3 game, what else is there to do? Well, beat it for the third time, finally accomplish the Mephistopheles assassination quests, farm some crystal lizards and get the Demon’s Souls platinum trophy.…

Atlus’ Fake Rock Of Ages Ripoff Gathers No Moss

If a game company is going to do something silly for April Fools’ Day, we might as well all get a free game out of it, right? Today Atlus accuses developer ACE Team stole the idea for action-strategy game Rock of Ages and used it to make a 2D game that you can play right…

Grand Theft Auto‘s Latest Gift To Hollywood Looks Painful

There are many wonderful things that a Hollywood filmmaker could borrow from Grand Theft Auto, including better police chases and user-controlled soundtracks, but the director of this weekend’s Jake Gyllenhaal movie Source Code is snatching something else. Here’s filmmaker Duncan Jones talking to the Columbus Dispatch: There’s this infamous video game, Grand Theft Auto, where,…

New Angry Birds Already Hits 10 Million Mark

Angry Birds Rio, the Angry Bird sequel for iPhone, iPad and Androud has already been downloaded 10 million times, 10 days since the game came out, according to the website Mobile Entertainment, which confirmed the details with the game’s creators at developer Rovio. The Finnish game-makers count the free and paid versions of Rio in…

The Week in Gaming Apps

We checked out one pricey Final Fantasy game, a neat GameBoy camera emulator, discovered a game that reminded us of Final Fantasy Tactics, X-Com and Shining Force, flicked footballs and played a PC MMO on an Android tablet. It was a week of Gaming Apps that saw the start of an examination of games not…

This Is A Live-Action Modern Warfare Killstreak

What would Call of Duty killstreaks look like in real life? Maybe like this. This was created by a crew called The Film Fest Rejects, who also made a video featuring Solid Snake facing off against his greatest foe: Sam Fisher Good job, rejects!

Dungeon Siege III or Diablo III?

With Blizzard reluctant to nail down the release of Diablo III, Dungeon Siege III is increasingly looking like the computer game that will be satisfying my clicky dungeon brawler itch this spring. Here’s a look at Lucas, one of the game’s four playable characters. Clicky!!!

We Offer 3DS Advice To Nerds

I appeared on College Humor’s Nerd Alert show yesterday in order to make the other people on the show seem funnier. They also wanted my expertise about the 3DS, which I told them they don’t need to buy now — but should plan to get someday. Sure, we already told you that here at Kotaku,…

Your First Episode Of Back To The Future Is Free

Episodic adventure crafter Telltale Games has dropped all charges for the first installment of its Back to the Future series, making it available for free download to anyone with a PC or Mac capable of playing it.

Sega Makes No Apologies For This Thor Wii Trailer

While the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the upcoming Thor movie tie-in game embrace the thunder god’s movie appearance, Red Fly Studios’ version looks a bit more like World of Warcraft exploded in New York City. Graphics aren’t everything, of course. I’ll take a fast-paced cartoony game to a slow and stuttering graphically…

Vendetta Online Offers a Glimpse of What a Portable Eve Online Could Be

This is no Eve Online, nor is it meant to be. It’s Vendetta Online, a 7-year-long space massively multiplayer online game now playable on Android tablets. While there is much that separates the twitch space combat, and NPC alien infested outer limits of Vendetta from the purely player driven machinations of Eve, one can serve…