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  How To Crochet Your Own Assassin’s Creed Sackboy

  First you need to know how to crotchet, of course. But once you’ve got that down, this video has your back.

  By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010
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  Need For Speed World Starts Its Engines In July

  EA’s massively-multiplayer online racer goes live on July 20, giving PC drivers a chance to experience the mix of open world driving mixed with role-playing game style progression completely free, to a point. Need for Speed World is free-to-play, meaning that anyone with a PC strong enough to handle it can download the game, setup…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 27, 2010
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  Sonic Team On Sonic Colors

  Yesterday Sega revealed a new Sonic the Hedgehog game, Sonic Colors, but didn’t mention who’d be handling development duties. According to an update from ArchangelUK at the Sega City Blognik, the development team formerly known as Sega AM8, Sonic Team, will be handling development on the Wii version, with longtime Sonic collaborators Dimps pitching in…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 27, 2010
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  Everything is Juicy and Wet in Splatterhouse

  The successes of 1988’s arcade brawler Splatterhouse were almost entirely due to its shocking portrayal of over-the-top violence and gore. But in the two decades since its release, video games have gone on to master the art of highly realistic, explicit violence in frighteningly creative ways. Fragmenting bodies, vomit-inducing injuries and strategic dismemberment are just…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010
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  High Seas Pirate Hunters Play Mario Kart

  Oh yes, this is another post about piracy and video games. These men, photographed this month, are members of the Swedish Embarked Military Force on board the warship HMS Carlskrona. They hunt Somali pirates on the high seas. They also play Mario Kart Wii. Good prep for nabbing pirates? (AP Photo/Tim Freccia)

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 27, 2010
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  There was a time when video game systems were measured in bits. There was also a time you didn’t comment here about video games. I am glad those times are past. Confused about commenting on Kotaku? Read our FAQ

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 27, 2010
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  Erasure and Robot Unicorns Make Sweet Love on Your iPhone

  There’s nothing better than storming the purple shores of some nameless land as a robot, rainbow-shitting unicorn to the beat of Erasure’s Always. NOTHING!!! And soon you can take the addictive fun of Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn with you on your iPhone. The $3 title hits in June and include the ability to bug friends…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010
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  Tough Times In Asia

  To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Quick Links Nerve racking and sad what is going on in Korea. Thailand is having terrible unrest. Military base protests in Okinawa. Lots of things are coming to a head. 🙁 What you missed last night World of Warcraft “Has Not” Peaked FIFA’s Facebook Game Launches, Threatens Productivity Marvel vs…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010
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  Grease: The Game, No Seriously

  What better way to capture the splendor of the leather-clad, hip shaking of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease than with a game for the Wii? By making sure that the game forces you allows you to use two microphones and a Wii Balanace Board while playing it, that’s how! If only they could…

  By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010
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  Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light Hits the DS in October

  Square Enix’s Japanese-only portable game The Four Warriors of Light: A Final Fantasy Anecdote is coming to the U.S. with a less unwieldy name in October. Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light arrives on Oct. 5 for the DS

  By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010
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  League of Legends Going Mac

  Popular Warcraft III spin-off League of Legends is coming to the Mac this summer. Players will be able to download the game for free once it hits.

  By Brian Crecente Published May 27, 2010
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  Let’s Look At White Knight Chronicles 2

  Role playing game White Knight Chronicles 2 is the upcoming sequel to White Knight Chronicles 1. Here is the “opening trailer”. White Knight Chronicles: Awakening of Light and Darkness will be out on the PS3 in Japan this July.

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010
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  Greenpeace Still Says Nintendo Is Bad For the Environment

  This year, like every year, Greenpeace has given Nintendo the lowest marks out of the electronics companies it graded. “Nintendo remains in last place with a pitiful 0.8 points out of 10, scoring zero on all e-waste criteria,” Greenpeace wrote last year. Many of Nintendo’s low marks were the result of the company not divulging…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010
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  Report: Home Finally Leaving Beta, “Is Not S**t”

  Kirk Ewing, from PlayStation Home developer Veemee (who make virtual spaces and items), reckons Sony’s underwhelming virtual network service will be emerging from its long-running beta at the end of this year. Having entered an “open beta” in December 2008, Home has been in that state ever since, despite appearing for all intents and purposes…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010
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  8-Bit Lost Game Looks Less Confusing

  So, Lost fans, Lost is finished. What are you to do? What half-brained theories as to what it all means will you come up with in its wake? I don’t know, so…here’s an 8-bit NES game of the show. It’s by Adam Campbell, and would be great if it stopped at that single screenshot, but…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010
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  World of Warcraft “Has Not” Peaked

  Oh really? In December 2008, massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft hit 11.5 million subscribers. However, the number of active players has not crossed that magic number since. Meaning? Well, meaning WoW, which launched in 2004, has peaked. And with the release of StarCraft II around the corner, the number of active players could…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010
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  Noby Noby Boy Is Safe For Small Children

  We presume this is Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, in disguise. Who else could make an otherwise creepy situation so charming? Here he is, dressed as one of the houses from Noby Noby Boy, showing an emerging demographic how the game’s iPhone app works. Wonderful. We’ve heard others describe it…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010
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  No More Joker For Luke Skywalker?

  Okay, Mark Hamill isn’t just Luke Skywalker, star of Star Wars. He’s also Luke Skywalker, star of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Video game Wing Commander, too! He’s also in World War II movie The Big Red One and 1970s comedy Corvette Summer. To be fair, the man has done a buncha…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010
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  FIFA’s Facebook Game Launches, Threatens Productivity

  Having only been revealed by EA a couple of weeks ago, Playfish’s FIFA Superstars game has gone live on Facebook. And I must say, it’s rather good. Not good in the way a real FIFA game is. But good in the way a Facebook game – built for football fans, not farming fans – should…

  By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2010
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  Is Story Important For Japanese Role Playing Games? Ask This Lady

  Miwa Shoda joined Squaresoft, now Square Enix, in 1995 and went on to write Japanese Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy XII. Those are big games with big stories — something that they apparently do not need. “I’ve worked all over the place and gained a great deal of valuable experience from all sorts of…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published May 27, 2010