This Week in the Business: Doomed to Repeat History?

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Industry veterans will remember the crash of 1983 … Today, the industry runs a similar risk.”—Analyst report from Superdata, on the data indicating consumers are resistant to adding more hardware to their living rooms QUOTE | “I know at least a…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of September 30th

It’s been a bumpy, weird week what with Tom Clancy’s passing and all the craziness going on in the rest of the real world. The virtual world has been kind of shaky, too, considering GTA Online‘s struggles. Also I sprained my ankle, so there’s that. While all of that is going on, feel free to…

Watch The League of Legends World Championship Right Here

The League of Legends Season 3 world championship is going down tonight. You can watch the whole thing, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, right here. Korea’s SKT T1 will be facing off against China’s Royal club for the championship. The whole thing is streaming at Riot Games’ Twitch Channel, and is embedded…

GTA Online Update: Rockstar has shared more details about the fixes in the new title update for GTA Online. The title update is now live for PS3 and is coming to Xbox 360 soon; Rockstar estimates the Xbox update will be live sometime overnight.

The Weekend Is Cold And Lonely. Fill The Emptiness With Gaming Apps.

Did you guys see theBests update for Android? It signals a renewed effort to cover the latest and greatest games coming to the world’s most popular open mobile platform. That’s going to have to do for this week. I didn’t play many new Android games this week, because I was spending all my Android time…

The comedian and the journalist involved in an alleged incident of the former misgendering the latter at last week’s Eurogamer Expo have issued a joint statement clarifying the incident. Both parties have issued apologies. We’ve updated our account to reflect this.

New Comics With Time-Stopping Orgasms and Superheroes for Hipsters

Sex that gives you superpowers sounds awesome, right? But, in one new comic-book series that came out last week, it’s also kind of sad. And, Kotaku bossman Stephen Totilo is still annoyed by hipsters, even when they’re world-saving superheroes. In this week’s Panel Discussion video, Stephen and I talk about what Sex Criminals #1 and…

Starting December, You Can Pay For Your Very Own Pokémon Storage Unit

Is your apartment too small to hold all of your Pokémon? Don’t worry! You can buy more space soon! On December 27, Nintendo will launch the Pokémon Bank, a cloud-based storage system that can be used to hold Pokémon in the digital world for eternity—or at least until the servers all collapse. There will be…

GTA Online, Log #1: We’re Connected But a Little Lost

The road to Rockstar’s nihilistic online paradise has been full of potholes. But, with enough prayers to Kraff, it is in fact possible to connect to the online version of Los Santos. When you get there, you’ll want to find your friends and do stuff together. Figuring out how to do that is damn trickier…

Valve’s First Steam Machine Prototype Is Crazy Powerful

Valve’s first Steam Machine—the one they’ll be sending out to 300 beta users later this year—will be a super-high-end machine. And the specs are crazy impressive. This afternoon, Valve spilled a whole bunch of details on the first-ever Steam Machine, which the company officially announced last week. This one is a high-end, totally upgradeable box…

Getting JRPGs Out In English Is Harder Than You Think

Maybe one day, when the rapture comes, every single Japanese game will be instantly translated and localized for English-speaking audiences, and then they will be transmitted into our brains so we can experience them without moving from our fluffy heaven cloud-couches. One day. Today, we are stuck with publishers, and we can do nothing but…

Of Course This Wonky Game Featuring A Sloppy Drunk Dude Is On PC

With a title like Day One: Garry’s Incident you might be mistaken into thinking Garry had a small traffic accident, or maybe grazed his knee. But no, Garry does nothing in half measures. He’s only gone and crashed his airplane through a strange rift. The mix of first person shooting, survival, and crafting might as…

Proof That Trevor Is The Best GTA V Character

Hands down. No competition. Nothing comes close to that crazy, gross gross gross dude. Mild spoilers for fun Trevor moments (nothing for the plot) in the video above. If you rather have your experience completely fresh, feel free to skip this one. The folks at Machinima put together a montage of Trevor’s transition moments—those moments…

Deals: GTAV, Free Gamefly And Hulu Plus Trials, Blu-ray Collection

If you haven’t gotten your hands on this year’s biggest release yet, pick up Grand Theft Auto V at a decent discount from Gamestop today by stacking some promo codes to nab $6 off and free shipping. PS3 Grand Theft Auto V ($54) | Gamestop | Use promo code 10FWT and SAVER 360 Grand Theft…

Tom Clancy’s Splintered Legacy: Great Video Games, Troubling Worldview

If you’d asked me in 1998 to look fifteen years in the future and guess who the the most enduring names in video games would be, I might’ve listed the usual suspects: Sid Meier, Tim Schafer, Will Wright, Shigeru Miyamoto and maybe a few others. I probably wouldn’t have included Tom Clancy. And yet here…

They’re Making a Tiny Tower Set In The Death Star

Did you feel that? It was as if millions of productive work hours just cried out in pain and then were silenced. Tiny Tower is one of themost addictive mobile games ever made. Star Wars is Star Wars. This combination, teased via the Star Wars Twitter account, is the death of productivity. Here’s the official…

The Internet’s 2001 Hate For One Of The Most Beautiful Video Games Ever

The average person over the age of 13 can no longer proudly stand by all the opinions they expressed 12 years ago. In time, a person simply decides that dirt no longer tastes good. Later, one regrets the pants they wore in middle school or, further into life, feels some shame when recalling the thing…

A team at Maxis is exploring the possibility of making an offline mode for the always-online SimCity, because you demanded it, according to an official update on the state of the game. (But they can’t offer bigger cities; hurts performance.) Previously, Maxis management had said that an offline mode was rejected as inconsistent with the…

Pokémon X And Y Is Everything You Wanted Pokémon To Be As A Kid

Here’s what I like to imagine. Game Freak shipped Black and White 2, and production then started for a new Pokemon game. They didn’t have any specifics yet, but they knew they want to breathe some life into the franchise—make it feel fresh, sure, but still keep the core of what makes Pokemon games so…

Does Saints Row IV Work As A First-Person Shooter? Hell Yes.

They did a first-person mod for GTA IV, so it was bound to happen for Saints Row IV, too. And thank goodness it did. The mod is being developed by a group of modders led by ImmortalSin, who hails from the Saints Row Mods forum. It is currently in alpha—a fact that’s readily apparent in…