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Kojima Productions Was “Dissolved,” Says Snake’s Japanese Voice Actor

Iconic voice actor Akio Otsuka might have shed some light on the murky Metal Gear Solid situation. According to him, Kojima Productions is no more. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard this. Rumors have been swirling for months, and the Kojima Productions logo seemed to vanish from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s…

Video Of New Hitman Game Leaks

We haven’t seen much of the new Hitman game, which is having a kinda weird digital launch. Until something more official turns up, then, here’s a bunch of footage from a very rough version of the game. The footage’s label says it’s from an “alpha” build, in case you couldn’t work that out from the…

Jared Leto’s Joker Shows Up in Suicide Squad Trailer [UPDATE]

UPDATE (7/13, 4:06pm): Presumably realizing that the official version looks way better than that off-screen leak, Warner Bros. has uploaded the Suicide Squad trailer. Watch here: Original post follows: Watch it before it gets pulled, kiddies. In the tradition of all trailers surreptitiously recorded and leaked during Comic-Con, this teaser for next year’s villain-turned-black-ops-agents movie…

LEGO Avengers Introduces… Iron Stan

There’s more to the LEGO Avengers video game than the two blockbuster movies. During a Comic-Con panel earlier today Stan “The Man” Lee took to the stage to introduce his two cameo characters as well as a few surprise guests. That’s right, famous creator Stan Lee doesn’t just get a homage to Iron Man’s old…

One Of These Warcraft Movies Posters Looks Better Than The Other

On the left side we have the lead from the excellent Vikings TV series in a wig looking stoic. On the right…well I suppose that’s an orc, if orcs looked like humans with horrid prosthetic faces. Lothar, portrayed here by the talented and frightening Travis Fimmel, looks like a human ruler with a massive weight…

Check Out The New Batman V. Superman Trailer, Starring Wonder Woman

So she’s only on screen for a few seconds of the over three and a half minute long Comic-Con trailer for next year’s Batman V. Superman. They are the best seconds. It’s an impressive trailer, both visually and lengthwise. Lex Luthor’s wig gets a lot of play, and we get to see more of why…

The Happiest Word Game Ever, With Bears

The problem with trying to tell people about Spry Fox’s Alphabear is stopping playing long enough to do so—at least in any form besides random tweets. Normally I am not a big fan of mobile games that encourage users to post Twitter or Facebook updates, but every now and then there are exceptions. That’s one…

Batman: Arkham Knight PC DLC Delayed Until The Game Is Fixed

Batman: Arkham Knight players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One get their first taste of post-release downloadable content this week with Batgirl: A Matter of Family. Those still playing the PC version will not, and for good reason. After all, it would be silly to release downloadable content for a version of the gamethat isn’t…

Transformers First All-Female Combiner Team Is All The Fans’ Fault

Here’s our first look at the toy version ofVictorion, the first all-female Transformers combiner. Fans voted on her name, gender, modes…color scheme. Maybe this fan voting thing isn’t so great after all. Now before we criticize, let’s get a good look at this close-knit group of female robots. Victorion is six separate entities that form…

A Few Extra Features Just Made The Sims 4 A Lot Better

The Sims is a very additive game. It never really stops or “ends” the way many single-player games do; it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. This week, a handful of small but much-needed new tools dropped into The Sims 4. First there’s the two official additions that EA dropped into the game this week:…

Tahm Kench Is A Great Addition To League Of Legends

A gigantic man-eating catfish arrived in League of Legends yesterday. His name is Tahm Kench, AKA “The River King.” And the newly-minted champion seems pretty freaking awesome so far. I’ve only managed to play a few games with Kench so far, and it always takes a little while for League of Legends’ gigantic player community…

Worth Reading: The Story Behind Dragon Age Inquisition‘s Best Character

Look, it’s Friday. The day is starting to wind down. That means it’s time for Worth Reading, our weekly collection of the best games writing from the past week. Hey, You Should Read This “Open world games are becoming too bloated to be fun” by Fraser Brown Boy, do I share this sentiment. With most…

What We Loved and Hated About Batman: Arkham Knight, With Spoilers

Let’s gather and talk about the newest Batman game. All of it. In the most spoiler-riffic fashion. Last night I got together with my fellow Kotaku writers Kirk Hamilton, Luke Plunkett, and Chris Suellentrop to talk about Rocksteady’s latest interactive Batman saga. We’d all finished the game, and although Chris had alreadyreviewed it for us,…

Kotaku Asks: The Staff Of Kotaku

Hello, Kotaku. We’re Kotaku. Let’s chat. It’s Friday, so come ask us questions about whatever you’d like. We’ll keep an eye on this post for at least a few hours, if not longer. This is Kotaku Asks, a weekly feature where we invite guests from the world of gaming to come answer burning questions from…

Crypt of the Necrodancer is an amazing game, and it’s coming to both PlayStation 4 and Vita, the developers announced today! There’s no release date for the rhythm action game just yet, but it’s the perfect handheld game. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Podcast: Why Her Story Worked But Sunset Didn’t

On the most recent episode of Shall We Play a Game?, my podcast with former NPR producer and correspondent JJ Sutherland, we review Sam Barlow’s Her Story as well as Sunset, a game from Tale of Tales about being a housekeeper during a South American revolution. You can listen to it here. Spoiler: JJ really…

The Gamer Parent’s Dilemma

Of all the strange things that come with writing about video games for a living, raising kids while doing so might be the strangest. We have daughters, who are now 3 and (almost) 5. They are old enough to know that when Dad is holed up in his office over the garage, there’s a very…

Shrek 5, anyone?

Despite 23 Months Without Updates, Cube World Devs Say Game Isn’t Dead

Cube World grabbed endless headlines for good reason: it looked incredible. A playable alpha was released in July 2013, but the game only received a few updates before things got weird. The last time the developers said anything publicly was over a year ago. Is it dead? Apparently not. It once cost $20 to jump…

1979 Revolution is a game that’s caused Iran to brand one of its creators a spy and made another one hide his identity. The long-brewing game set in the Iranian Revolution—is up now on Steam Greenlight. Spearheaded by former Rockstar Games developer Navid Khonsari, the episodic game is expected to be out this fall, with…