PC Load-Letter??

Hello, Kotaku! Can it really be Wednesday already? I guess it can be. Taking Monday off will really make your week fly by, as will crazy E3 preparations. Hope you guys are as excited as we are. Here now, some things for you to read in your open thread: The analytics behind Star Trek’s ‘Redshirt’…

This Gross Companion Cube Figure is Available Only at Comic-Con

The San Diego Comic-Con is fast approaching, and among the many collectibles that’ll be available there as “exclusives” will be this fancy threeA x Valve piece, based on Portal It’s a variation on the companion cube first shown off in March, only this one looks a little worse for wear. Poor little thing. Best get…

Oh Boy, This Skyrim Cosplay is Terrific

In the far and distant future, we can hope that an Elder Scrolls game actually looks this good. Less like a fantasy world in a snowglobe, more like a place you’d actually enjoy a morning spent hanging out in the nice warm sun. Perhaps not the next generation of hardware. Maybe the one after. These…

Geez, Mom Just Wants To Play World of Warcraft, Why Is Nobody Listening?

Getting my family to sit down and have a meal? Hah, forget it. Too many conflicting schedules. Trying to have a conversation when we could actually sit down? Also impossible, and this is that Twitter didn’t even exist when I was a teenager. I can’t imagine having an entire family sit down and actually converse…

5 Things Rockstar Should Leave Out of Grand Theft Auto V

Yesterday, I listed 5 things that Rockstar should carry over from Max Payne 3 into Grand Theft Auto V. Today, I’ll list 5 things that I hope they leave behind forever. Some of these things are new to Max Payne 3, some are bad habits that have developed over time. A couple are story-related, a…

BioWare To Make Fan-Designed Mass Effect Hoodies a Reality

A little while ago, we caught wind of some excellent Mass Effect hoodie designs by Deviant artist ludodirosso, a.k.a. Christine Schott. Now, according to the artist, BioWare is actually going to manufacture the hoodies in an official capacity. On her DeviantART page, Schott shares that she talked with BioWare about a trial hoodie-run, with BioWare…

The Real Optimus Prime is a Fall of Cybertron Preorder Bonus

How the mighty have fallen. Once the proud leader of the Autobots, an instantly-recognizable hero in either of his iconic forms, and now he’s a mere preorder bonus. Not just that; he’s a retailer exclusive preorder bonus. Now who will light our darkest hour? Don’t say Rodimus. He doesn’t count. The G1 Retro pack is…

Inversion Therapy

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Software • June 5 release Inversion (360, PS3) is $53.99, free ship from Buy.com. Also available for $60 with $10 credit at Amazon. Elsewhere $59 and…

Shin Megami Tensei IV Is Coming to 3DS, Gets a Couple Teaser Images

There is a new Shin Megami Tensei game coming, and it looks to be coming only to the Nintendo 3DS. This confirms last night’s rumor The game’s teaser site is now live, depicting a couple of people overlooking a distant city, with the streets of the city covered in fog. NeoGAFer SolidSnakeex has cleared the…

Three Words I Said to the Man I Defeated in Gears of War That I’ll Never Say Again

“I raped you.” If words could lynch someone, then this was the moment for it. The post-game scoreboard said I had technically won, so I’d shown them all, right? No, no I hadn’t. The avalanche of trash talk was one thing—you play online enough, you come to expect it—but the laughter, the laughter stripped meaning…

What’s Your Dream E3 2012 Announcement?

With the kickoff of E3 2012 less than a week away, commenter (and E3 attendee) GiantBoyDetective wants to know what single announcement would make the entire show worth your while in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. Also he pees. I leave for E3 in one week! (pees pants throughly) So, if you could have ANY…

Report: Sony Close to Buying a Cloud Gaming Service, Potentially Transforming Future of PlayStation

Sony might be in talks to acquire either OnLive or Gaikai—the two biggest cloud gaming providers—according to a report on Edge that follows up on previous articles on MCV and VG 24/7. The speculation jibes with comments previously made by a Gaikai executive about this coming E3. It begs the question: what if a console…

Spy Hunter Reboot Bringing Super Spy Racing to Handhelds This Fall

Spy Hunter is getting another fresh face this fall, with a new game for handheld systems. The premise of the game is more or less what it sounds like: you’re a spy and a hunter. As the Agent, your mission is to stop bad guys and protect civilians. Your method of doing so is a…

The Secret World‘s Lead Designer Leads Me Straight Into Hell

In room 13 of the Overlook Motel on the scenic Savage Coast of New England there’s a doorway that leads directly to hell. If I had to sum up the setting for Funcom’s massively-multiplayer supernatural role-playing game The Secret World in one sentence, that would probably be it. Theodore Wicker studied the occult and demonology…

The Divinity Series Isn’t Always Divine, But I Still Love It Anyway

When Larian announced their new Divinity game yesterday, I felt an emotion for which I know no word. It was the sensation that combines unhinged fannish glee with abject terror and worry. In July, 2003, a friend gave me the gift of a new game for my new gaming PC. On seeing the box, I…

Watch GOG.com’s Slowjamin’ Love Letter to Game Developers

It’s a tough world out there for game developers; There’s rampant piracy, an unstable economy and all sorts of things that can go wrong at a moment’s notice. Sometimes you need someone to snuggle up to you and tell you everything is gonna be all right. Shhhhhhhh…don’t worry baby. GOG.com is here for some sweet,…

Bring on Shootmania, A Shooter Without Guns

Red guys fight blue guys in what may be one of the more ambitious games on the horizon, the goofily-named Shootmania. It’s a heavily-moddable shooter from the people who made DIY racing sensation Trackmania and are even cooking up a modern-day RPG Maker called Questmania But Shootmania (technically, Shootmania Storm) is also something else: a…

This Giant Robot Sculpture? It’s a Gaming PC.

It’s not often that I wonder if a PC might arise and, say, try to kill me. This one, though… this one makes that particular concern come to mind. Yes, this giant scrap robot is a computer, and a fairly powerful one at that. The creator of this immense work is a man of very…

Giant Metal Robot PC Case Gallery

The Musical, Mind-Bending, Microbial Magic of Splice

Cipher Prime, the studio known for crafting stylish concoctions of simple gameplay and stunning sound sets bioengineering to music in Splice, an award-winning puzzle game coming to Steam for Mac and PC June 13. How are you at splicing strands of DNA? In Splice the player is cast in the role of a researcher, tasked…