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Disney CEO Vows to Examine the Company’s Violent Video Games, If Any Exist
In America’s wrenching argument over how and why we have so many mass shootings, such as the ones at Newtown, Conn. and Aurora, Colo., many have pointed the finger at video game makers to demand they take a good hard look at what they sell and its effect on impressionable young minds. And one CEO…
By Owen Good Published January 25, 2013 -
Resident Evil: Revelations on Consoles Looks Better but Still Sounds About the Same
On one hand, this is the first trailer for Resident Evil: Revelations on consoles and PC. That lets you see the game (which released on the 3DS a year ago) as you’ve never seen it before. On the other, that means you’re seeing something that looks like BioShock, starring Davy Jones’ bad guys from Pirates…
By Owen Good Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2013 -
Only the “limited edition” NeoGeo X units are out of production, Siliconera reports
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 25, 2013 -
Reminder: The very good PC Version of the very good DmC is out today.
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published January 25, 2013 -
Get out your bulldozers, EA reports that the SimCity closed beta is now live.
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2013 -
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 &…
By Mike Fahey Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 25, 2013 -
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,…
By Owen Good Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
by Brandy Shaul | Games.com Published January 25, 2013 -
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…
By Holden Miller Published January 25, 2013