One Hell of an Arcade Beat-Em Up is Coming to Facebook, and Here’s Why You Should Play It

Console quality games are a hard sell on Facebook. Each day millions of people log into Facebook to tend their virtual farms or play colorful candy puzzle games, while the hardcore shooters or robot-powered action role-playing games attract daily users in the low ten-thousands. What’s it going to take to get traditional gamers playing on…

Only the “limited edition” NeoGeo X units are out of production, Siliconera reports

Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Here. Got Any Questions? [Update: No More Questions!]

Hey, Kotaku readers. It’s been about a year since I took the reins of Kotaku and just about a year since we brought in a lot of fresh faces. Much has changed. Much has not. I figure now is as good a time as any to hear from you fine readers about what you’re liking…

The official Kotaku t-shirts are on sale right now. Barbarian lady? $18. Snazzy K logo? $18. Both? $29. Go, Meatbun!

Reminder: The very good PC Version of the very good DmC is out today.

U.S. Senator: Video Games Gave Sandy Hook Shooter ‘A False Sense Of Courage’

Let the scapegoating continue. Adam Lanza, the person who shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut last month, reportedly played Call of Duty, among other games. So for quite a while now, pundits and politicians have been drawing links between his heinous actions and the video games he played. Most recently…

This Is How You Survive Attack Dogs In Black Ops II

Or, as they’re now called, the K9 unit. Regardless of what you call them, dogs are no laughing matter in Call of Duty. As a scorestreak, they’ll mess your shit up. But! There is a way to survive them. It involves an assault shield though, which not everyone carries around—here is a demonstration by YouTube…

Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem Could Totally Be A Dress-Up Sim (And Other Wild Theories)

Earlier this week, Nintendo dropped one of the most interesting bombshells they’ve dropped in a very long time: the Wii U will get an RPG collaboration between Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei In the world of fan-fiction video game crossovers like Street Fighter x Tekken, Kingdom Hearts, and Marvel vs. Capcom, this might be…

Get out your bulldozers, EA reports that the SimCity closed beta is now live.

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is Now on iOS. It Could Use Some Work.

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is one of my favorite puzzle role-playing games. I loved it on the DS. I loved it on Xbox Live Arcade. I’ve got it for my PC. This week the game finally arrived on iOS, and I grabbed it immediately. So far I am less than impressed. Might &…

DayZ Standalone Update: Reworked Servers, Improved Graphics And More

The people working on DayZ have posted a chunky update about the game’s standalone version, along with some lovely-looking new screenshots. (You can see a nice comparison between the original game and the new one using the slider up top.) Here’s the full thing, as posted by DayZ creator Dean “Rocket” Hall: This is the…

Coulton Says Fox Won’t Apologize For Ripping Him Off On Glee

Songwriter Jonathan Coulton has posted an update on his personal blog in which he says Fox is unrepentant after blatantly stealing his arrangement of “Baby Got Back” for last night’s “Sadie Hawkins” episode of Glee The full update from Coulton’s website: Well, they aired it, seemingly unchanged. And it’s now for sale in the US…

SimCity‘s Visual Filters Mean No Colorblind Gamer is Left Behind

If you have it, color blindness is extremely frustrating to a video gamer. I’ve written about this before. No, it’s not a debilitating condition, nor does designing games for a perfectly color-sighted majority constitute a moral injustice or the worst insensitivity video gaming shows to its diverse constituency. But man, in minimaps, friendly/hostile apparel, puzzles,…

The publisher of L.A. Noire is disputing a director’s claims of a legal threat over his planned L.A. Noir TV show.

Science Isn’t Sure Yet If Gaming Addiction Is A Real Mental Disorder

What is gaming addiction, exactly? There is an easy answer to that question, but there is also, naturally, much debate about whether or not it is even a thing. Psychology can at times be an inexact science, and it seems as though there is always room for debate within that world. As of today, gaming…

ChefVille ‘Burger Station Upgrade’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Even with bugs, the show in ChefVille must go on, which is the case this week when it comes to Bello’s Burger event that has been available over the past couple of weeks. While some of the quests in this multi-stage event have been allowed to expire and disappear from the game, there’s another series…

StarCraft’s New Replay System Lets You Pretend To Be A Pro

In a patch to the Heart of the Swarm beta released yesterday, Blizzard added some much-needed—and dare I say awesome—new features to StarCraft II. And they all had to do with replay. We’ve known for a while now that Blizzard was planning to introduce a system where a dropped game could be recovered from a…

You Can’t Be Serious—You Can Not Be Serious—Playing Tennis in the Face

My father has been a tennis umpire for more than 25 years. He’s seen and penalized plenty of bad behavior, both professional and college. But I doubt he’s ever seen anything like Pete Pagassi, the protagonist of Tennis in the Face “If a player hits a ball at a court official or a ballkid, is…

The Ouya Controller Will Change, Because Developers Complained About It

In a post on their website yesterday, the team behind open source console Ouya announced some changes to their controller based on repeated complaints they’ve received from developers. As one of the highest funded Kickstarter projects ever, the Ouya team has been insistent on working with their investors, and at least for now seems to…

Walking to Work in New York City: The Game

Coming to the iPhone and iPad in February, Gutpela’s Sidewalker: Late to Work is a painstakingly accurate recreation of what I felt like when I visited New York City last month to hang at the Kotaku main office, right down to the lack of pants. Gutpela says this is an endless walking game, like a…