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DayZ Stand-Alone Release Rescheduled, ‘Closed Testing’ To Begin Soon

The folks behind DayZ say they want to rebuild the game’s whole engine before releasing a stand-alone version. Writing in a blog post published this morning, DayZ creator Dean Hall says he’s delayed a stand-alone release of the Arma 2 mod—which was originally slated to be turned into a stand-alone game by the end of…

This Shark Prefers To Dine On Angry Birds

If Gameloft ever wants to shed its reputation as a studio that copies other people’s ideas and repackages them, then they probably shouldn’t be releasing games like Shark Dash Not that it’s a bad game. It’s decent! But it’s as shameless a ripoff of Angry Birds as you could hope for, copying most of that…

Nvidia Just Built Its Own Gaming Supercomputer: The Grid

Nvidia wants to make a Netflix of gaming—perfectly smooth, perfectly simple, superbly rendered PC games steamed to your system as if you owned an expensive rig. And so, here’s a GPU tower that the company says just that, combining 700 Xbox 360s in one tall box. Each Grid rack contains 240 Nvidia GPUs that stream…

This Is Probably What Blur 2 Would Have Looked Like. Too Bad You’ll Never Play It.

Bizarre Creations—who made Project Gotham Racing and The Club—met an unfortunate end more than a year ago, after putting out combat-enhanced racer Blur. The Liverpool dev collective were working on another racing game when Activision pulled the plug on the studio. On his personal Tumblr, former art director Chris Davie (now at developer Lucid) shows…

Fahey’s Top Ten Games of 2012

Just when you thought that it had passed, I went and saved the best for last. Or I procrastinated. Either way, looking back on 2012 from my death bed four years from now, these are the ten games that could possibly briefly pull me out of my fevered demetia, bringing a spark of recognition to…

Wii U Sales Are ‘Not Bad,’ Nintendo Chief Says

Hey Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, how’s the Wii U selling? Good? Great? Awesome? Fantastic? “At the end of the Christmas season, it wasn’t as though stores in the U.S. had no Wii U left in stock, as it was when Wii was first sold in that popular boom,” Iwata told Reuters. “But sales are…

Take a Dramatic Look at the Assembly of Nvidia’s New Gaming Handheld

So far, the biggest gaming surprise of CES 2013 is the totally unheralded reveal of Project Shield, the new handheld from Nvidia. Some of the functionality was run down in last night’s reports but if you want to know what’s inside the thing, then you might get some clues from this very-impressed-with-itself reveal video. Look…

Get ready to wake up early, Pokémon fans. Pokémon news coming in a Nintendo Direct tomorrow at 6am ET

The MOGA Mobile Controller Gets Supersized

Now that Power A’s MOGA game controller for Android is picking up steam, it’s time to go big. Announced today in advance of CES 2013, the MOGA Pro is a full-sized gaming controller that pairs the convenience of a phone clip with a stand for your tablet. The list of supported games is growing, and…

Weapons of Mass Disruption #3: How and Why Consoles Will Die

Many people (me included) have been saying publicly that they think the ‘console’—dedicated hardware designed primarily for gaming—is on its way out. I used to keep a list of famous developers and executives who shared my view, but it got too big to maintain! Anyway, here’s just two whom you might care about: David Jaffe…

Mad Catz’s Mobile Hardware is Just as Pretty as Its PC Peripherals

As promised last week, Mad Catz has drawn back the curtain on its new line of mobile peripherals, each (well, not the headset) featuring its fancy GameSmart technology to ensure compatibility across a wide range of mobile devices. If it supports Bluetooth Smart (and it should), your mobile jam could be enhanced by a mouse…

The New Final Fantasy XIV Opening Is a Ball of Fire and Pretty Pictures

Gotta give Final Fantasy studio Square Enix this: man, they can sure make dazzling cutscenes. Here is the new prologue for the revamped Final Fantasy XIV. Square Enix is massively overhauling its massive online FF game. Previously, Square Enix showed off a dungeon in the new Final Fantasy XIV. If you missed that, watch that…

How To Make a Chinese MMO Worse: Put It on Mobile Phones

Chinese massively multiplayer online games are usually nothing to write home about; they have the pretty much the same tropes, similar artwork, and in the end they are just plain boring grind fests. So what happens when you take a generic Chinese MMO and move it onto a mobile device? It gets a lot worse.…

One Last Gasp of Cosplay Insanity

With a name like Comic Market, you’d think the late December event in Tokyo would be all about manga. It’s so not. While Kotaku’s Toshi Nakamura was getting an insider’s look at the event, outside in the chilly cold, fans donned colorful, creative, and often crazy outfits, bringing their favorite video game, anime, and manga…

Wonderful Lord of the Rings Art That Goes On And On

Chinese artist Jian Guo is a very talented man, and a massive Lord of the Rings fan. The gorgeous images you’re about to see are testament to this. The Hobbit piece up top is a highlight (and a timely one at that), but there are pictures from other Tolkien works here as well. You can…

Get a Good Look At Nvidia’s New Gaming Handheld

PC hardware company Nvidia dropped quite the CES bombshell tonight, revealing a quirky new gaming handheld that doubles as an Android device as well as a means of streaming your PC games to a portable 720p display. To go with the information from Project Shield’s announcement, here’s a gallery of images giving you a good…

StarCraft’s Kerrigan Is The Queen Of Blades Cosplay

The standout piece of cosplay this week is the StarCraft Ghost photo you see above, by Jessica Dru. If you think it looks just like Kerrigan does on StarCraft II, that’s because Jessica actually got her hands on the official Kerrigan costume Blizzard used to promote the game. Some might call that cheating, but I…

Oh Yeah, Nvidia Also Officially Outs the World’s Fastest Mobile Processor

So there I was, prepping a post on Nvidia’s Tegra 4 processor, the successor to the Tegra 3 with six times the graphics processing power and all sorts of nifty advancements that really seem boring now compared to the Shield portable gaming device The Tegra 4 features 72 GeForce GPU cores—at least ten times the…

Nvidia, Out Of Nowhere, Announces A New Gaming Handheld

Nvidia just surprised a whole bunch of people by announcing, of all things, a dedicated gaming handheld during the company’s CES press conference. Based on the new Tegra 4 mobile chip, also announced at the show, it’s code-named Nvidia Shield. There are 5-10 hours of battery life, and it’s based on a clamshell design, sort…

Someone Is Re-Building The Entire Planet In Minecraft

Using a program called Worldpainter, a builder by the name of lentebriesje is trying to recreate all of planet Earth in Minecraft. At a 1:1500 scale. That is a lot of blocks. His Earth is based off this very large, very fancy 3D map of the planet, and while it doesn’t include anything man-made, it…