Funcom Wishes You A Merry Cthulhu

Christmas in Funcom’s upcoming paranormoal MMO The Secret World is just as festive and terrifying as it is in the real world.

How Mötley Crüe Helped Save Christmas

Everyone knows that skoad who stole gaming consoles from a children’s cancer ward was just arrested. We didn’t know that, in addition to industry samaritans, Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx was one of the secret Santas replacing the kids’ games. Electronic Arts and Microsoft’s Halo Waypoint team were among those contributing game care packages to the…

Texas GameStops Robbed, Re-Robbed, Robbed Some More

Bandits have struck three San Antonio-area GameStops this week, two of the incidents involving armed confrontations and the latest ending with employees duct-taped on the floor as the thieves raided the till. Police aren’t saying how much money the suspects got in this instance, which happened Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. But the spread of circumstances…

Tekken Washes Away The Gray, But Don’t Touch The Hair, OK

Heihachi Mishima finds some jet-black locks in the men’s hair care section; but Tekken’s evil patriarch would kindly prefer that you not punch his hairdo. Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada sent this latest trailer for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 out over Twitter yesterday. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (TTTT?) will release sometime in 2011. New Tekken…

Have Yourself A Non-Linear Little Holiday

CD Projekt Red gives us a choice of holidays to celebrate, in keeping with the non-linear spirit of the Witcher PC role-playing series.

What Are You Playing This Holiday Weekend?

Can’t put this one off any longer. It’s time to try (and quite possibly fail miserably doing so) to play some NBA 2K11. Here’s why that’s going to be a problem… The extent of my video game basketball experience is a few games of NBA Jam played during my part-time arcade job and a few…

Review: World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Shatters Expectations

Nothing ruins a perfectly good fantasy world like an enormous angry dragon tearing through the surface of the planet, destroying everything in its path. How does Blizzard’s ridiculously popular online role-playing game fare in the face of this Cataclysm? That whole dragon-ripping-through-the-planet scenario is exactly what happened prior to the release of Cataclysm, the third…

Twas The TAY Before Christmas….

Gather round the tree and talk about video games. Are we a day early? No big deal. Credit to reader buckyboy2009 for the festive image. Submit your best take to #TAYpics

He Kept His Faith In Music Games This Year — And In Kinect

Greg LoPiccolo didn’t have to leave his office in a brick building near Boston this year to see how two of the biggest trends in the last half-decade of video games were playing out. There were doubters outside. Inside? In the offices of Harmonix Music Systems, the place where the hit Rock Band games are…

Thank You Sandwiches, Thank You!

To: Owen From: Bash RE: From Rafts To Surfboards In 24 Hours Happy Christmas, Owen! What you missed last night Does The New Pokémon Copy NYC, Ground Zero And All? What’s The Worst Christmas Game You Ever Got? Did Nintendo Just Copyright A Goddess? Motorola Wants Ban On Xbox 360 Sales Super Meat Boy’s WiiWare…

And A Marvel vs Capcom 3 Trailer In A Pear Tree

Merry Christmas, Marvel vs Capcom fans. Here’s a brand new trailer for MvC3, featuring enough cinematic shots to stuff even Santa’s Yuletide stocking.

Does The New Pokémon Copy NYC, Ground Zero And All?

New Pokémon game Pokémon: Black and White is set in the fictional Unova. According to the game’s designer Junichi Masuda, it’s modeled after New York, complete with Brooklyn Bridge, Financial District and Ground Zero? Certainly looks that way, evident by this map. As blogger Brad O’Farrell points out, Pokémon: Black and White’s Unova map lines…

Fallout MMO Might Need To Duck & Cover

For over a year now, two companies have slugged it out in the courts, battling over the past – and in some cases future – of the Fallout franchise. This month, that battle took a slightly ridiculous turn. Bethesda — who published both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, and who also own the rights…

What Presents Are You Getting?

It’s Friday. Did you know that? I did. Let’s talk. Here’s how it works: We ask a question, you answer it. Simple and no strings attached! This isn’t some marketing survey or whatever. It’s an emotional investment in you. Yes, we’re interested in knowing you, Kotaku reader person. You probably know oodles about us –…

A Visual Guide To XtendPlay

When Assassin’s Creed Meets Strategy Gaming

Massive, a studio that has only ever made real-time strategy games, is working on an Assassin’s Creed project. Wonder what that could be? Ubisoft revealed the move via Twitter yesterday. What makes it interesting isn’t just the fact that Massive has only ever made strategy games (Ground Control and World in Conflict), it’s that in…

Deus Xmas

The video game Deus Ex is wishing us a happy holiday. Though I believe it’s more of a Merry Christmas message here. It’s the hat that gives it away.

What’s The Worst Christmas Game You Ever Got?

With Christmas Day almost upon us, no doubt many of you are asking for games to be crammed in your stocking. But such requests aren’t always the stuff of fond memories: sometimes Christmas games can scar you. I remember December 25, 1990 like it was yesterday. The world was in the grip of Teenage Mutant…

Did Nintendo Just Trademark A Goddess?

And you thought it was bad when Nintendo filed to trademark the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong.” The Japanese Patent Office recently revealed that Nintendo trademarked the kanji “Amaterasu” (天照) as well as the katakana form (アマテラス) in relation to video games. “Amaterasu” certainly seems to refer to the Shinto goddess, but the full…

A Challenger De-Rezzes

Tron-inspired Street Fighter art, by BossLogic; seen on DeviantArt (via Ripten). BossLogic’s also done Tron concepts for M. Bison and Akuma, see them in his gallery.