An Ode To Splinter Cell’s Original Voice Actor

With the release of Splinter Cell: Blacklist today (in at least some parts of the world) I thought it time we look into the horrible fact that Michael Ironside, the man who would not free Willy, is no longer the voice of Sam Fisher. Will the world crumble due to this fact? We cannot yet…

Battlefield 4 Is Doing Its Best To Impre–Watch Out For That Ship!

This is what competition gets you. It gets you a development studio, DICE, trying to convince you that they are making the best military first-person shooter of the year. Today, they’ve made their latest pitch while uttering the word someone in their studio or in the EA marketing team cooks up the word—”Levolution”—in order to…

Stop Making Peggle 2 So Damn Sexy, PopCap

Revealed this morning as an Xbox One timed exclusive, Peggle 2 got a little more stage time at EA’s Gamescom presser than it did at E3, parading about its balls and pegs like it was in some sort of first-ever gameplay trailer. As pretty as all many of the other Xbox One games coming this…

Garden Warfare Introduces You to the Zombies (and Zombie Buttcrack)

Scientist, Soldier, Engineer and All-Star are PopCap’s take on the popular shooter classes in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, coming next year to Xbox One. The Zombies’ Engineer looks like a guy you don’t want to get behind, either. The game will feature online matches of up to 24 players, plus a four-player online cooperative…

The Battlefield 4 beta will kick off in early October, EA announced today. Platform details to come.

Patrick Stewart Makes Soccer Sound Like The Best Thing Ever

Who cares about football? Not the NFL version. You know, the soccer kind? Most of the world cares. Plus: Patrick Stewart. And in this new hype trailer for FIFA 14, Stewart just might get skeptics interested as well. Well done, Captain. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Titanfall Delivers Another Trailer, and It Is Breathtaking

There is a good reason Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall vacuumed up a bathtubful of awards when it was unveiled at E3, and you see a lot of them in this latest trailer shown today at Gamescom 2013. This throwdown is from a mode called “Attrition,” played on the Angel City map, and the seamlessness of the…

EA Sports UFC in May? Brian Hayes of EA Canada, developer of EA Sports UFC just said the game is “about nine months away from release.” That would mean the mixed-martial arts title would be due for a May 2014 launch. So far, EA Sports has said only Spring 2014. A first look at gameplay…

Minions! Moral Decisions! Dragon Age Inquisition Is Sounding Good.

Is the third time going to be the charm for BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise? If this dev diary is accurate to how the game is turning out, it just might! You’re an inquisitor. You run the place. You send minions on quests. You make moral decisions. And the game you’re in looks damn good. Inquisition…

Command & Conquer: Episodic, story driven missions will be coming to Command and Conquer next year, Victory Games said on stage today at Gamescom. The missions may be played alone or cooperatively.

The first expansion to Plants Vs. Zombies 2 will be set in the future, the game’s creators at PopCap just announced at a Gamescom EA kick-off event. The free-to-play game has already been downloaded some 16 million times since its release last week.

The Sims 4 Will Let You Manipulate Sims’ Emotions

The Sims 4, targets for a 2014 PC release, will have “emotion-based gameplay,” according to Rachel Franklin, exec v.p. of the game’s development studio Maxis. She was presenting the game today at an EA Gamescom event in Germany. “From angry to flirty, from sad to happy, you can now explore the gamut of human emotions…

Watch Electronic Arts’ Gamescom News Conference Live Right Here

Electronic Arts has news from Cologne, Germany for Battlefield 4, the next Plants vs. Zombies, Need for Speed Rivals, and the first look at gameplay for EA Sports UFC. You can watch it all here live at 10 a.m. EDT. The presentation will also unveil The Sims 4 and deliver news from FIFA 14 as…

Have You Ever Seen Ryse: Son of Rome‘s Co-Op Gladiator Movie?

We’ve seen plenty of combat in Xbox One’s Ryse: Son of Rome, but where’s the love? Why, it’s in the game’s cooperative multiplayer mode, which combines the thrill of gladiatorial combat with the convenience of modular furniture. It’s like fighting to the death with friends in Ikea.

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified: The Kotaku Review

In an early mission of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a deer clattered across the pavement of a wrecked college town’s main drag as I took my orders. It paused and looked at me, and I at it. Even before this invasion, that deer’s world was under constant threat from death-dealing technology beyond its comprehension. What…

Lords of the Fallen Introduces Us To Gaming’s Latest Badass

Meet Harkyn, a man who has just trudged across the world carrying an incredibly heavy-looking hammer, just to give a god’s fingers the finger. Harkyn is the main character of CI Games’ Lords of the Fallen, a new third-person action role-playing game that started as a stunning piece of concept art and then escalated to…

Killer Instinct Characters Are $5 A Pop, But Wait — There’s More

How much would you pay for classic characters like Sabrewulf, Glacius and the newly-announced Thunder in the upcoming free-to-download Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct? Microsoft has slapped a $4.99 price tag on each character’s head, but why buy piecemeal when you can get the whole shebang for $20? In case you missed it at E3,…

Korean McDonald’s Employee Taunted a Customer with Spit

Ask those who work or who have worked in fast food, and many will tell you that, yes, spit burgers sadly exist. But rarely have they existed in such a bizarre way. Earlier this month, Chosun.com (via Hachima) recounted the story of a McDonald’s customer who ordered home delivery. The customer, a graduate student surnamed…

These Courtroom Battles Put Ace Attorney to Shame

I spent a lot of last week watching anime in an attempt to find the five anime you should be watching this summer. One of these is based on the popular Japanese PSP title, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. And as it felt like the anime was just spoiling the game, I decided I had to…

This Simple Animated Film Might Make You Cry

Tekken, the Japanese comedian who named himself after the Namco fighting game, is back again with another animated short. It might make you all weepy. Maybe not! Previously, Tekken released an anime short called “Furiko” (or “Pendulum”), which featured a Muse track and even led to the comedian working with British rockers on a music…