The Onion Connects Excessive Madden Play To Brain Damage

Examining MRIs and PET scans of Madden football veterans, scientists discovered severely damaged neural pathways in parts of the brain associated with motivation and attention, malformations that might explain the common inability among players to perform such basic tasks as maintaining hygiene and preparing meals for themselves. — so reports joke news outlet The Onion,…

The Future of Gaming at 35,000 Feet

The future of airborne gaming may include a full-sized monitor, surround sound and plenty of legroom, if you’ve got the cash to drop on a plush, “Not For Wimps” airline seat. The seat, designed by Contour Aerospace and Factorydesign, is among the future design concepts being shown off at the Aircraft Interiors Expo at the…

Final Fantasy V Coming To The PlayStation Network

Square Enix announced today that Final Fantasy V, the Super Famicom game that didn’t make it to the states until 1999’s Final Fantasy Anthology for the PlayStation, is in development for the PlayStation Network, enhanced by exclusive CGI cut scenes.

How the Playstation Helped Shape the Most Interesting iPad Game of the Year

It all started with a song, an instrumental created with a Playstation by Canadian musician Jim Guthrie, it seems. Speaking to NOW Magazine, Guthrie explains how he went from days creating music for Three Gut Records to working with a team of five on what would become iPad gaming darling Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery –…

If You’re Scared Of Spiders, Bees, And Ticks Do Not Play This Game

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon is a simple shooter that raises one of life’s great questions: Which is worse, giant-sized bugs or normal-sized bugs? Spiders terrify me. When I think of evil, they’re the first thing that comes to mind. I’ve been told all my life how they help regulate the insect population and are…

The Fighter Rolls 20s In Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale

Watch the Fighter class hack and slash his way through the forces of evil in the latest trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, bringing the pen-and-paper role-playing module model to Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, and PC later this year.

Crysis 2‘s Manhattan Vs. Real Life Manhattan

When a great-looking video game imitates a real life place, how close do the two get? Compare the downtown Manhattan of Crysis 2 to the real thing and you’ll see what happens when just one real intersection, where State St. meets Bridge St. down in the financial district, becomes a video game battlefield. The real…

See The First Spectacular Trailer And Amazing Screens For Spider-Man: Edge Of Time

In order to help the Amazing Spider-Man save the future, Spider-Man 2099 has to save the past. That’s the kind of convoluted story you get when you start messing with temporal physics, but who cares when it looks this good? Activision and developer Beenox of Shattered Dimensions fame showed off Spidey’s latest time-twisted adventure this…

Battlefield Play4Free Pulls The Trigger On Open Beta

The war between the United States and Russia escalates today as EA’s browser-based shooter Battlefield Play4Free enters open beta, allowing gamers everywhere to enter the fray with the default equipment or pay to play the tricked-out way. Signing up for an EA account and a quick download is all it takes to get started in…

Edge of Time Gallery

Casey ‘The Zangief Kid’ Gets His Own Video Game

Casey is a real kid who used a pro wrestling move to teach a school bully a dangerous lesson. And now a Brazilian game developer has created a simple web game that lets you take a few punches, like Casey did, before pummeling scrawny bullies. Warning: Our expert play-tester lost interest in Zangief Kid The…

What Music Stirs Your Ancient Gaming Memories?

In today’s edition of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Arok_Lazarus wonders what music transports us back to the games we used to play. So I’ve been listening to a lot of Queen lately again. It has also been bringing up lots of gaming memories for me. Back when Star Wars: Battlefront II came out my best…

Big-Headed Caveboys And Infinite Adventures In This Week’s Nintendo Download

While we patiently wait for the 3DS Virtual Console to arrive, Nintendo continues to deliver fresh new and old content to the Wii and DSi, with the ginormous cranium of Hudson’s Super Bonk headlining this week’s offerings. Yes, North America finally gets a Virtual Console release of Super Bonk, the side-scrolling caveman platformer that hit…

This Robot Dog’s Ugly is Only Skin Deep

It looks more organic than robotic. The four legs march under the barrel chest of the robot, snapping up two at a time in perfect precision. But when Boston Dynamic’s creation, BigDog, is pushed, or it walks across ice, it suddenly looks very much alive as it stumbles to correct itself, and succeeds. Designed to…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to a new week of talking about video games. Do your video game chatting right here. Thanks to Snake56 for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics (Read this thread for directions on how to do a TAYpic.)

Long Lines In Akihabara To Donate To Quake Victims

STAND UP | TOKYO, JAPAN: “Otaku” celebrities like voice actress Aya Hirano collect money for quake victims. Small talk, handshakes, etc. were not permitted. (Photo: Koepota) Wake Up, Kotaku Anonymous Targets Sony, Warns Of Penises Stuck In Hornets Nests Militant hacker group Anonymous has launched a campaign against Sony, citing the Japanese company’s “unforgivable offense…

Max Payne 3 Developers Learned All About Brazil

Upcoming action game Max Payne 3 is set in Brazil. Rockstar, the folks making Max Payne 3, are not a Brazilian studio, so that meant one thing: research. The game’s art director, Rob Nelson, tells Edge magazine that the team put as much research into Sao Paulo as the original Max Payne developer did with…

The Puzzler That Made Arcades More Fun, 7th Guest More Maddening Hits iPhone, iPad

There are many devious puzzles in 90’s classic, and often infuriating, computer game 7th Guest. So you may not have noticed that when the puzzler made its way to the iPhone and iPad it was missing one particularly teeth-grinding one. The original Microscope game in the 7th guest used a custom built AI engine that…

New Super Mario Bros. Arrives In A New Setting

New Super Mario Bros. Wii is making the jump from the Nintendo Wii to arcades, and trading Wii Remotes for joysticks and jackpots. Dubbed Super Mario Bros. Wii: Coin World, the game is being reborn as a four player “medallion game”. Medallion games are arcade games in which players try to hit the jackpot and…

Nintendo Is Taking May Off, It Seems

April showers might bring May flowers, but they sure as shit don’t bring games in Japan. The release schedule for the Wii, DS and 3DS is looking shockingly barren. According to Nintendo’s Japanese site, there are only two DS games getting released in Japan in May: Treasure Report, Red Stone DS and Nakayoshi Kids: Oshigoto…