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How To Fix Your Broken PS3 After Last Week’s Firmware Update

A week ago, Sony released new firmware for the PS3 that unfortunately messed with a lot of people’s consoles, trapping them on a menu screen. Well, having pulled the offending firmware shortly afterwards, Sony now has a fix for those affected, as well as an updated firmware that hopefully works a lot better. If you’re…

Since Nobody Else Is Making New Homeworld Games, This Guy Is

Paul Zakrzewski has done the bulk of the work single-handedly on Void Destroyer, a game that started out as a space combat sim before morphing into a strategy title that, yes, looks a lot like Relic’s classic Homeworld. Which is a good thing. I mean, it’s been a decade since we last saw a new…

Turning A Sick Boy Into A Video Game Hero

Wade Sharp is a young boy born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a condition that means his bones are as brittle as chalk, and which stops him playing sports and keeps him inside playing video games. Wade’s Make-A-Wish request, then, was to see how games are made, so Robot Entertainment (Orcs Must Die) were only too happy…

More Pikmin 3 Gameplay Footage Than You Could Throw A Spaceship At

This video runs for nearly seven minutes, and rarely pauses from showing you raw gameplay footage of one of the biggest upcoming Wii U exclusives. Yes, the audio is in Japanese, but you can still soak up the visuals.

Borderlands 2 Gives A Pretty Elaborate Shout-Out To Dark Souls

Leave it to the new Borderlands 2 DLC, Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon’s Keep, to throw in at least one more good reference for the road. The shout-out here is somewhat more substantial than an easter egg—as documented by Gamefront, it’s an entire quest dedicated to Dark Souls. (Insert joke about difficulty here.) I haven’t…

A Collection of South Park Easter Eggs Over The Years

South Park is a popular show, and video games love easter eggs. So it shouldn’t be surprising that a number of games over the years have given nods to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s edgy show. If you’re curious as to what those easter eggs are, well, DYKGaming took the liberty of compiling many of…

The Wii U’s Most Adorable Game Gets A Dubsteppy Trailer

…and a Steam release, too. Toki Tori 2, the adorable Wii U platform-puzzler in which you play as a giant bird who solves puzzles by whistling and stomping, is coming to Steam on July 11 as Toki Tori 2+. In honor, the folks behind the game have created this wub-wub-wub trailer, which is totally incongruous…

The Last of Us‘ Hidden Phone-Sex Numbers ‘A Mistake,’ Will Be Removed

The Last of Us has plenty of easter eggs; some of them goofy, some sly. And one of them, a little bit naughty. Last week a tipster sent in a photo taken from the game depicting two phone numbers on a bulletin board in Pittsburgh, both of which he said were phone-sex hotlines. I called…

Little Girls Are Still Better Than You At Designing Superheroes

Last time we checked in to Better Supes, they had a number of of illustrations that took inspiration from superhero-loving little girls who like to put their own costumes together. It was cute, heartening and kind of badass. Alex Law, the artist behind the blog, has kept updating the site with more awesome designs—like the…

The First 30 Minutes Of Star Wars, Precisely Recreated In Minecraft

The monumental plan of the man called Grahame is to recreate the entirety of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in Minecraft. It’s coming together; he’s teased the first 15 minutes of his project, which now has blocky Star Destroyers and jawas on Tatooine. As the description says, the clip should be in sync…

What Do You See In This Dragon Age: Inquisition Screenshot?

A couple days ago, this Dragon Age: Inquisition screenshot surfaced on the BioWare blog. Sure, it’s just a high-res still of what we already saw in the big E3 trailer. But it raises some questions nonetheless. Who are these guys? Is that their hair next to their helmets? What’s that thing on the table? What’s…

If The Brothers Grimm and Tim Burton Teamed Up To Make A Game

Something sinister awaits you in Our Darker Purpose. Today I finally had a chance to try outthe top-down roguelike featuring a creepy orphanage full of secrets. Here’s the premise: the kind teachers have disappeared, leaving in their wake a school full of chaos. We’re talking Lord of the Flies type deal, only darker thanks to…

A New Look and Game For One Of The Most Successful Women In Gaming

With more than 700 million downloads between PC and mobile, the Diner Dash franchise is one of casual gaming’s biggest success stories. That success is largely due to series’ hero Flo, so I won’t begrudge her a makeover to go with tomorrow’s release of Diner Dash Rush. Flo has come quite a long way since…

A $10,000 Steel And Copper Dream PC

This is not a gaming PC. This is a handcrafted work of art. A work of art and advanced engineering, of course. It’s the Aventum II, and you can purchase one right now, though Digital Storm isn’t really expecting you to. With base configurations starting at $5,000 and running as high as $9,500, it’s more…

Todd Hollenshead, president of the embattled studio id Software, has left his position, Bethesda confirmed to us today. Full statement: “After many years with the studio, Todd Hollenshead decided to leave id Software to pursue other personal interests. While Todd was not part of the development teams, he was an integral part of id Software’s…

Who Would Star In A Last Of Us Sequel? Creators Won’t Rule Anyone Out

The Last of Us may have ended; the credits may have rolled. But this is a video game! Of course it’s not over SPOILERS FOLLOW for The Last of Us The game’s ending was so strong and, well, final that I don’t really feel like it needs a sequel. And no sequel has been announced.…

A Note About ‘Brutal’ Comments and a Kotaku For Everyone

I was recently asked to be more clear with readers about who Kotaku is and isn’t for. Let me be clear here about what I believe the mix of content we run on the site already attests. Kotaku is a site for any and all gamers and even people who don’t play games but are…

These Critics Can’t Quite Decide Whether to Love or Hate Game & Wario

Some thought it disappointingly shallow where others had an unusual, but ultimately enjoyable experience. Nintendo’s latest Wario-themed Wii U-exclusive assortment of quirky and highly imaginative minigames, Game & Wario, is unquestionably divisive. The minigames themselves got a lot of complaints, and were said to be a mixed bag concerning quality and depth, but Game &…

Oil, Bomb-Dodging and Nerds: Life As a Middle Eastern Game Developer

Pardon the pun, but Captain Oil isn’t one of those mobile games that’s going to set the world on fire. But the more I play it, the more I think about the place where it was made. That almost never happens. Captain Oil was made by a dev studio called Game Cooks, which sends its…

If NCAA Football 14 Still Sounds the Same This Year, You Can Blame Me

On Oct. 6, North Carolina’s Tobacco Road triumvirate of State, Duke and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill all played home games on the same day, and all of them won. Audio from all three games wil be in NCAA Football 14, on shelves in two weeks. Some of that may come from a microphone…