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The Next Xbox Will Require an Internet Connection To Start Games, Sources Say

Two Kotaku sources have added more credence to the rumor that the next Xbox, expected to battle the PlayStation 4 in late 2013 or early 2014, will be an always-online system, though it will be able to tolerate dropped connections. “Unless something has changed recently,” one of the sources told us over email, “Durango consumer…

Which Is Worse, Aliens: Colonial Marines Or The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct?

It’s hard to say which game is the best of 2013 so far. But two games are in a dead heat for worst: Aliens: Colonial Marines and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct Kirk was blunt about his thoughts on The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct: he thought it was the worst game he’d played all year.…

Another Sega Studio Bites The Dust

Sega’s Australian development studio, once known as Creative Assembly Australia and responsible for games like Medieval II: Total War, is to be closed down. Sega confirmed the move with Kotaku today, saying the developer will be shut down “later this year”.

Composer Bear McCreary has a great new post up at his always-entertaining blog in which he talks about making the music for Defiance, both the TV show and the game.

Here’s how Fox Business reported that closure of LucasArts had no effect on Disney’s stock price. Also, here’s how the media pronounces Kotaku (Note: This is not how to pronounce Kotaku).

Roger Ebert, R.I.P.

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer. Ebert wasn’t just a film critic; a liberal activist, a loving husband, a tech enthusiast, he also made headlines in the gaming press late in his life by sparring with gamers about the worth of the…

After 24 Pages I Finally Care About the Heroine of The Last of Us

Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic adventure for the PlayStation 3 looks brilliant, but I haven’t developed quite the excitement for The Last of Us that many of my colleagues have. I’m a little post-apocalyptic’d out — the idea of traipsing through another story about how men become monsters in extreme circumstances leaves me lukewarm. Particularly worrisome was…

This is Not the Injustice: Gods Among Us You’re Waiting For, But It’s Not Too Shabby

As comic book and fighting game fans anxiously await the April 16 release of Injustice: Gods Among Us, NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment deliver a tiny taste of the alternate-reality DC Universe battle royale in the form of a gorgeous little free fighter with collectible card tendencies. You won’t need a fighting stick…

The people who make “Lore in a Minute” have been branching out from video games to provide some fun (short!) history lessons about important video game personalities. This week, it’s Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell

Well, that’s it guys and gals. The console wars are over now that VoucherCodesPro (who??? what???) found that Xbox players are better in bed than PlayStation and Wii owners. What does this mean for people who own multiple consoles, though? You have more Very Important questions to answer, science.

The Next Xbox Will Require an Internet Connection To Start Games, Sources Say

Two Kotaku sources have added more credence to the rumor that the next Xbox, expected to battle the PlayStation 4 in late 2013 or early 2014, will be an always-online system, though it will be able to tolerate dropped connections. “Unless something has changed recently,” one of the sources told us over email, “Durango consumer…

If Limbo Was A Movie, It Would Look Like This

The eerie, kind of creepy atmosphere of 2010’s Limbo is captured perfectly in this short film by Jesper Eriksson. It’s kind of uncanny, to the point that I was surprised to find no mention of the game in an interview with Eriksson about the short. If you told me this was Limbo-inspired, I’d have believed…

The Penny-Arcade Report has a touching story about transgender gamers who were able to settle into their identities thanks to the safe haven of video games and the avatars that helped them experiment.

Duck Retro Hunt Developer Charmingly Denies Rip-Off Claims In His Very Own ‘Retro Reply’

Yesterday I was snarking at Asier Marzo, the developer of the apparent Android Duck Hunt rip-off Duck Retro Hunt. But the guy is winning me over. Here’s what I sent him, after running an item about his studio Infinity K and their seeming interest in making games that look like other people’s games or at…

What an Astoundingly Clever Way to Play Tekken

There are some incredibly sharp people out there who would truly enjoy playing Namco Bandai fighter Tekken competitive online, but lack the skills necessary to prevail against the lightning-fast reflexes of their peers. Tekken Card Tournament is the game for them. I nearly called this “The Thinking Man’s Tekken Game,” but that would suggest that…

Before It Was Cancelled, Star Wars 1313 Was Going To Be About Boba Fett

We’ve learned a great deal about Star Wars 1313 over the past few months, and today we’ve got one more huge detail thanks to a reliable Kotaku source: last year, just before E3, LucasArts shifted focus and turned it into a game about the masked bounty hunter Boba Fett. This happened last May. Star Wars…

BlizzCon 2013 ticketsgo on sale briefly on Wednesday, April 24, followed by another equally brief sale on Sunday, April 27. Chances are you won’t get any, but we’re rooting for you.

Have you seen our readers’ new Talk Amongst Yourselves page? It’s a beast. Some really interesting content they’re churning out over there. Go check it out and contribute.

Toki Tori 2 hatches on the Wii U and the original Castlevania makes its big 3DS debut in this week’s Nintendo Download. Get your ghostly groove on with the full listright here.

The Rules of Grand Theft Auto Box Art

Rockstar not only recreated the 2D universe of the previous games in 3D, but the developers also came up with a new standard for the North American box art. For each title after Grand Theft Auto III, the cover art would focus on characters and various staples from the game. The mosaic-like designs consistently portray…