Charge: Gamers Not Honest About Their Defense Of Violent Games

In our continued efforts to see both sides of the argument in Australia and elsewhere about the extreme content of some games we find this letter to the editor that says that many violent game defenders are being disingenuous. The context is the ongoing debate in Australia about whether the country should finally allow video…

Blizzard Takes The World Of Warcraft Auction House Out Of Game

Fancy shopping for new armor and enchanting components on your iPhone? Blizzard is working on giving players access to the World of Warcraft auction house through the WoW Armory, meaning players could soon do their in-game shopping everywhere they go. The news comes by way of the World of Warcraft forums, with Blizzard poster Bornakk…

A Peek Inside Mass Effect Redemption #2

Dark Horse Comics’ prequel to Mass Effect 2 continues today, as Liara T’Soni, with the aid of the pro-human Cerberus organization, takes the hunt for Commander Shepard’s remains into the seedy underbelly of Omega. Mass Effect Redemption is a four-issue comic book series that tells the story of what happened between the explosion of the…

Tournament of Legends Screen Shots

Online Multiplayer Assassin’s Creed II Coming To The iPhone

Assassin’s Creed II Discovery has only recently hit iTunes, and Ubisoft is readying another dose of portable professional killing with Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer, an online game of kill-or-be-killed for the iPhone. Coming soon to iTunes, Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer is an online multiplayer game for the iPhone, which uses a Wi-Fi connection to connect…

Join Us For a Chat with Developers From The Sims on Kotaku Talk Radio Now

Join us live today on CBS Radio for our latest episode of Kotaku Talk Radio with two special guests from Electronic Arts’ Sims team. This week marks the tenth anniversary of a little game called The Sims. Our guests today are MJ Chun, associate producer of Sims 3, and Charles London, Sr., art director for…

Scribblenauts Sells A Million

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment proudly announces today that 5th Cell‘s word-based wonder, Scribblenauts, has sold more than one million units worldwide. That’s more copies than you can shake a fig leaf gourd at! Scribblenauts, 5th Cell’s innovative DS title that has players solve problems using written words, is not your average million-selling title. It’s innovative.…

Aliens Vs. Predator Multiplayer Demo For Everybody

We knew there would be a demo coming for Sega and Rebellion’s Aliens Vs. Predator, but we didn’t know when it would be showing up. Does tomorrow work for you? Not only have Sega and Rebellion surprised us with the announcement of an online multiplayer demo for the update to 1999’s hit first-person shooter Aliens…

Happy 10th Anniversary Sims

On Jan. 31 2000 Electronic Arts open the floodgates to another one of Will Wright’s off-kilter, but strangely addictive games. Over the next ten years the Sims franchise sold more than 100 million copies and became the best selling PC franchise of all time. You may not have been around when the first game hit,…

Nier Dated For North America

Square Enix has announced an April North American release date for Cavia-developed action-adventure game Nier, not far removed from the release date of its two Japanese counterparts. Japan is getting Nier Gestalt for the Xbox 360 and Nier Replicant for the PlayStation 3 on April 24th. Three days later, on April 27th, North America welcomes…

Madden Predicts Saints Win In Super Bowl XLIV

Every year since 2004, EA Sports has used Madden NFL to predict the outcome of the Super Bowl, and they’ve only been wrong one time. Is a New Orleans Saints win guaranteed? Madden gives the Saints a leg up this year over the Indianapolis Colts, predicting a score of 35-31, with Drew Brees bringing home…

Phasers Set to Fun

Life in the 24th and 25th century wasn’t all about shooting people with phasers, knocking around aliens and “making it so.” No, the Star Trek universe also has its share of fun diversions including a wide array of drinks, sports, games and even a video game that was highly addictive and sapped a person’s will…

The 10 Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America (As Of Feb 1)

Welcome to a month of declines. Every month we at Kotaku show which Wii games have racked up the most playing time, per player, since launch. And this month, all but two of the 10 declined or were flat. (Click the chart to enlarge) Rune Factory Frontier and Lego Star Wars were the only games…

Drinks of Star Trek

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Sports of Star Trek

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Games of Trek

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“Mass Affect” – BioWare’s Upcoming Hipster RPG

Composer, bandleader, jazz instructor, gamer and writer Kirk Hamilton takes a little time out of his busy day to walk us through an “undiscovered” BioWare pitch for a never-announced role-playing game. By now, we all know how I feel about BioWare’s incredible new role-playing game Mass Effect 2. But even with two massive RPG launches…

Three Days. No Coffee.

To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Events Not trying to quit or anything. We ran out! But got some this afternoon, and I’ll tell you what, I was climbing up the walls at about 11am. I hadn’t felt this irritable in ages. Kinda scary! What you missed last night BioShock 2’s Launch Trailer Goes Under The…

Forza Developer Working On “Next Big Thing”

Turn 10 Studios released racing simulator Forza Motorsport 3 last fall. The company went on to do what most other developers do: Start develop on a new game. But is it another Forza title? Turn 10 has churned out three Forza titles since 2005. “[A] core part of the team is off working on our…