Building The Ultimate Transformers Origin Story

In this video documentary for Transformers: War for Cybertron, the development team at High Moon Studios talk about bringing the Autobots and Decepticons back to Cybertron to tell a story never fully told. With the team working closely with Hasbro, War for Cybertron is definitely Transformers canon, which is both good and bad news to…

EA Sports MMA: Who Knows About Broken Bones?

I was outclassed last week by the other games reporter watching a demonstration of EA Sports MMA. He knew the name of the game’s fighters, the name of the referee — and — he knew the ref’s shaving habits. I am an oddball who likes boxing and pro wrestling but has never had the urge…

Frankenreview: Final Fantasy XIII

Come, brave adventurers, and witness the Final Fantasy XIII Frankenreview, a Franken so disparate we decided to run the graph right at the top of the post. As you can plainly see, Final Fantasy XIII isn’t shaping up to be the runaway critical hit that Square Enix was hoping for. Metacritic scores are currently hovering…

Make Rico Pull Off the Best Just Cause 2 Stunt: UPDATED

Instructions: 1) Download the Just Cause 2 demo here; 2) play, play, play; 3) submit your video to [email protected]. Click here for full contest details. Winner gets a PS3!

Stream Netflix, Read Comics, Track Sports, Play Games With Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 is shaping up to be a mighty powerful looking platform for all forms of entertainment. What’s that mean? Well check out all of the things you can do on the upcoming mobile phone platform. Here, for your viewing pleasure, are a selection of videos showing off how you can stream videos on…

Progress Wars Cures Your Craving For Progress Bars

Are you addicted to leveling up in Facebook games like Mafia Wars and Farmville? Jakob Skjerning cures that craving with Progress Wars – “The ultimate game of being better than all your friends at filling progress bars.” “No mafias, no vikings, no pirates – just pure, uninterrupted progress bars,” that’s one of the witty messages…

Windows Phone 7 Playing an Xbox Live-Linked Game

The MIX10 conference kicked off today in Las Vegas. Most of the stuff they’ll be talking about puts me to sleep instantly, but Microsoft let us know to expect some Windows Phone 7 news to hit as well. The first taste of gaming we saw at the show was this sexy video of Xbox Live-linked…

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, A Dungeon Crawl For The Gears Age

inXile Entertainment’s Brian Fargo wants to update the classic dungeon crawler, popularized by MUDs and dark medieval adventures like Stonekeep and the Wizardry series, for the modern age, for the Halo or Gears of War player, with Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. The argument can be made that the dungeon crawl has already been modernized with…

Trooping Through The Oblivious Enemies of The Old Republic

Much has been made about Star Wars: The Old Republic and its “next generation storytelling” driven by volumes of spoken dialog. But what’s it like to play the game? I spent a few minutes trying the game out at E3 last year, but only enough time to get a short taste of the game’s controls…

The Nintendo Download: Do You Like Games About Gladiators?

Airplane star Peter Graves may be dead, but our fascination with movies and games about gladiators lives on in this week’s edition of The Nintendo Download. Ghostfire Games’ Rage of the Gladiator might not have started out to a tribute to Peter Graves, but I’m making it such. It’s now a first-person gladiatorial combat game…

Super Mario Bros. In 64 Pixels

Here’s what happens when you take a relatively primitive game and downgrade it to an extremely primitive game, courtesy of Carnegie Mellon student Chloe Fan. This project is very reminiscent of Street Fighter in 15 pixels, only of course this is Super Mario Bros., and Chloe had several more pixels to work with. Still, it…

The Men, And Old Men, Of Red Dead Redemption

Forgoing the usual subject matter of horses and landscapes, the latest set of screenshots for Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption instead focuses on the game’s cast of supporting characters. The screens also give me a chance to point to something interesting on the game’s official site: a series of features on the history behind the game.…

Crackdown 2 Busting Heads In July

Ruffian Games and Microsoft do what they can to take care of the traditional summer gaming drought with Crackdown 2, heading to the Xbox 360 the first week of July. 2007’s free-roaming superhero cop game was a blockbuster hit, thanks in no small part to the inclusion of beta access to Halo 3 included in…

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Screens

iPhone Chart Toppers: Where’s Waldo? At Number Two!

I’ve beaten Street Fighter IV three times already, and loved everyone of the nine minutes it took me to do so each time. No wonder it’s at the top spot. Now about that lack of online multiplayer… Here’s the full list: Which do you think should be the top game? Check out all of our…

Take Part In Kotaku’s Census 2010

Later this month, citizens of the United States will take part in the 2010 Census, an event aimed at helping the government learn more about the people it’s trying to serve. We’re doing exactly the same thing. POLL 1 – The Consoles You Own Ever wonder how many other people out there like the same…

Why GDC’s Parties May Be More Important Than the Talks

Last week San Francisco transformed, turning into something like the Hollywood Canteen, but for gamers. A famed servicemen’s club of the 40s, the Hollywood Canteen was operated and staffed completely by volunteers, mostly from the movie and music industries. So the likes of Bette Davis, Abbot and Costello and Ronald Reagan could be seen hanging…

Peter Molyneux Wants Fable III Players To Change Their Clothes

Peter Molyneux was smarting last week from the fact that half of the people who played his studio’s last game, Fable II, didn’t bother with half of its depth. People didn’t even change their (virtual) clothes. His fault. Molyneux’s got a plan to fix things, and to induce more wardrobe changes. The butler will do…

10 Short Interviews With The World’s Best Game Makers (And Three Other Guys)

Gabe Newell. John Carmack. The creators of Uncharted 2, Scribblenauts, Farmville. Even Penny Arcade. I interviewed a parade of award-winners backstage at the Game Developers Choice Awards. And I wanted to make sure these post-awards interviews were not dull. We talked about everything from PlayStation Move and Farmville: The Movie to a major sequel that…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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