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If Everything’s a Call of Duty Clone, Why Can’t Anyone Outdo Call of Duty?

Whenever a military-themed shooter comes out, the first thing many people say is “oh great, here comes another Call of Duty clone”. It’s a term used as a slur against a game, saying that it’s not just copying another game, it’s copying another game that for many has long run out of ideas. Why, then,…

Fans Waiting for the Beyond Good & Evil Sequel Just Have to Keep Waiting, Ubisoft Head Confirms

Fans of Beyond Good & Evil have been waiting a very long time for a sequel. The game, which came out in 2003, was envisioned as part of a trilogy but as the years have gone by, fans have let their expectations wane. A 2011 HD re-release seemed to be it for a while, until…

The Ten Commandments Of Video Game Menus: Sinners And Saints

For lo, we did climb to the top of Video Game Mountain. We spoke with the burning GameCube, and we did return with The Ten Commandments of Video Game Menus. And they were good, even if the games weren’t always. But our work has only just begun. With these new commandments, we must now turn…

Reviewers Love the Shooting, the Killing, and the Choices in Call of Duty: Black Ops II

It’s November, and that means three things. The days are getting shorter, holiday advertising is ramping up, and there’s a new Call of Duty game. Last year’s entry, Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 3, shattered all kinds of sales records in its first day and first weeks on store shelves, launching into the stratospheric billion-dollar sales…

Borderlands 2 Gets A Mondo PC Patch

I’ve been a fan of the PC version of Borderlands 2, even though it hasn’t been without some issues Today, a whopper of a patch was released for the PC version, which fixes a ton of various bugs and repairs a grip of broken missions that I didn’t even realize were bugged. Here’s the full…

There Are More Than 800,000 People Playing Black Ops II On Xbox Live Right Now

Well then. There are a crapload of people playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II online right now. On Xbox Live alone, between Zombies mode and regular multiplayer, there are more then 800,000 playing: And bear in mind, that’s just Xbox Live. Factor in PlayStation Network and PC players, and you’ve got even more. That’s…

EA Giving Free Games to Some Black Ops II Players on PC

Never ones to let a chance pass them by to rain on an Activision parade, EA is giving away some free games to those affected by a Black Ops II disc printing error. The publisher is offering 50 copies of the Mass Effect Trilogy on PC for those who send in pictures of their dodgy…

My Little Pony Progress Report: It’s Been One Week

Gameloft released the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game last Thursday. I started playing last Wednesday. One week later I am king of the ponies. It’s undisputed. Mostly undisputed. Level 40 is king, right? I’d like to keep the comments for this post mature and civil, so let me preface this post by mentioning…

New LEGO Lord of the Rings Game Needs a Recall Thanks to Printing Error

Today is becoming something of a comedy of errors as far as game discs are concerned, it seems. As Game Informer first reported, Warner Brothers is recalling Xbox 360 copies of Lego Lord of the Rings after they were mistakenly shipped containing a demo disc instead of the final product. Game Informer editor Andrew Reiner…

Too Many People Are Stealing This Terrible Call of Duty/Halo Joke

Boy, those young men sure do love video games, don’t they? And wouldn’t you know it, two of the biggest games of the year, Halo 4 and Black Ops II, just came out! Surely there is some pithy joke to be made here, some quick gibe about how men will be playing those games and…

Diablo III’s Auction Houses Down For “Emergency Maintenance” [Update]

Blizzard has taken down Diablo III’s gold and real-money auction houses for “emergency maintenance”. The company isn’t providing any ETA on when they’ll be back up. UPDATE – And we’re back AUCTION HOUSE MAINTENANCE – 11.13.12 [Diablo]

Wii U Could Be The Perfect Console For People Like Me

I am a multi-tasker. I habitually bounce between screens and activities with the twitch of a speeding driver glancing at his rearview window to check for cops. I keep an obscene number of browser tabs open. I am addicted to doing tons of things at once. It’s awful, I know. I’m part of the generation…

Call of Duty is Turning Into Mass Effect

Many Mass Effect fans lamented the recent metamorphosis of BioWare’s signature sci-fi series from a role-playing game with shooter elements to a shooter with role-playing game elements. So what are we to make of the new Call of Duty playing a bit more like a Mass Effect? This new Call of Duty: Black Ops II…

Now Zynga.com Has Two Castle Building Games To Choose From

Crafted by Playdemic and now available on Facebook and Zynga.com, Kingdom Quest (cleverly tagged “A Game of Scones”) is a social game that revolves around building a fantasy kingdom, not to be confused with CastleVille, a game about building a fantasy kingdom. What are the differences between CastleVille and Kingdom Quest? I could not tell…

Assassin’s Creed III Developers Defend Their Game

Here at Kotaku, we’re of two minds on Assassin’s Creed III. But whether we think the game is a success or a disappointment, we’re all interested in how it came to be the way it is. Over at Reddit, several of ACIII‘s developers are currently participating in a Reddit ask me anything thread. They’re defending…

Are You Ready for Some Motherduckin’ Rock and Roll?

Rock music is incredibly powerful. Ducks as also incredibly powerful. Combine the two and damn, man… just damn. Wild Factor’s Duck and Roll, available now on iTunes, tells the age-old story of a duck with rock and roll in his heart, setting out from the pond to find success in the big city. His name…

Three Comics That Have Unexpected Visitors This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Call of Duty: Black Ops II Has a Mighty Marvel Comics Easter Egg

Black Ops II is all about the consequences of unmanned war machines running amok under a hostile power. So the last thing you might be expecting to find is a certain Thunder God’s magical weapon as an easter egg. But Mjolnir—the war hammer wielded by Thor—is exactly what GameFront found in Black Ops II, tucked…

The Batman Comics Sequence You Think Best Sums Up the Dark Knight

Batman knows on how to put on a freakin’ show when he wants to. And he’s polite, too. Whenever my brain randomly moves to thoughts of Batman, this is the series of panels that comes to mine. It’s a page from Batman #405, part of the Batman Year One storyline. This 1987 arc contained Frank…

Once iOS Gaming App of the Day Zombie Highway finally makes it to Android. What took you so long?