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They’re Still Not Showing Enough of Dead Space 3

Someone somewhere has decided the best way to show off Dead Space 3, an EA game only four months from release, is to keep only showing the tiniest bits of the thing. The latest third-person horror/shooter adventures of space miner Isaac Clarke could be wonderful. They could be terrible. It’s impossible to tell. The latest…

Adam Sessler Joins A New Video Game Network

Seven months after leaving G4TV, gaming personality Adam Sessler has a new job. He’s now over at Revision3, where he’ll make video content, talk about games, and continue to refuse to wear pants.

Zelda Meets WarioWare Meets King’s Quest? I’ll Take It.

Coming November 15 to an iTunes near you, Arranger is a madcap musical adventure that stitches together a Zelda-style RPG, WarioWare-esque mini-games and King’s Quest questing and style into an epic tale of world-saving and saxophone-playing. Arranger is the creation of musician Arman Bohn, who according to the official announcement press release is “former bandmate…

One of the generation’s best RPGs, Radiant Historia, is on sale over at Amazon for just $15. UPDATE: Sale’s over!

Don’t Worry About GTA V Being Too Big, Rockstar Says

Rockstar’s next game looks to be its biggest ever. In fact, it’s supposed to outstrip the combined size of the three of the publisher’s most massive releases. Some folks worried when they heard about GTA V‘s size. Would the quality suffer? Would there be enough to do? Sure, there will, says one of Rockstar’s co-founders…

Kotaku Timeline: Half-Life 2: Episode Three

Remember when you first finished Half-Life 2: Episode 2? The excitement? The shock? You were ready to set out with Alyx at your side, ready to show those alien bastards who’s boss. The trilogy, and with it, the Combine’s rule over Earth, would end soon. Except it didn’t. At the time of this writing, almost…

Kotaku Gallery: Half-Life 2: Episode Three

April/May, 2006 the world according to gabe Valve’s Gabe Newell reveals the future of Half-Life and tells us why episodic gaming is going to rule Be honest now: how many single-player games have you played all the way through? Gabe Newell, the founder and managing director for Valve, is betting that it’s fewer than it…

This Week’s Facebook Losers and Winners: Zynga Only Dominates One of These Charts

For the past couple of months I’ve been taking time every Monday morning to report on the top ten Facebook games by daily active users. That list has barely budged in four week. Here’s a better pair of lists — the top fan gainers and losers of the week, featuring a chart that’s almost entirely…

RAGE May Have Underwhelmed, But Its Characters Were Gorgeous

id’s RAGE may have its fans—and I’m one of them—but even they’d admit it never really hit the heights it could, or given the developer’s pedigree perhaps should have hit. Two two things I liked best about the game were its sky (seriously, it’s one of the best in video game history) and its characters,…

These New Grand Theft Auto V Screens Are On Fire

Grand Theft Auto V won’t feature one protagonist, but rather, it will feature three. Here is a look at them, courtesy of Gamer.nl and GTAV.net, as well as a round up of recent details about the game. Preview [Gamer.nl] New Screenshots [GTAV.net] Click here to visit our Grand Theft Auto V timeline!

Portrayed as a Loser, Gamer Steps Out To Confront Bad Reporter

Defense of the Ancients, aka DOTA, champion Wei Shanchuan (卫山川) doesn’t have many regrets regarding his professional gaming career. Why should he? He’s fairly young and he’s won many national tournaments in China. So when he was approached by a reporter for a profile piece on his life as a gamer he was eager to…

This Totoro Costume Is So Incredibly Adorable

For Halloween, college student Melanie wanted to be Totoro. So she and her mom decided to make a Totoro costume. Hours and hours of hard work later, the costume was finished, totally cute, and screams “sleep on my belly!”. Totoro Halloween Costume [Melanie Mescher via Geekologie via Fashionably Geek]

South Korea’s “Too Sexy” MMO Is Heading Westward

Queen’s Blade is a South Korean developed MMO. The motif is science fiction—and skimpy outfits. No wonder Japanese bulletin board 2ch is already calling it “too sexy” for the game’s unabashed fan service. This Queen’s Blade is not to be confused with the Japanese Queen’s Blade franchise. It’s from Liveplex, the Korean studio behind Dragona…

In Japan, Little Plastic Figures Make Lovely Portraits

Screw traditional portraits! Who wants that when you can get a miniature figure of yourself, right? That’s exactly what people in Japan can soon get. But don’t expect them to overtake traditional photos anytime soon. What’s being dubbed the “world’s first”, the Omote 3D Shashin Kan is a portrait studio that scans your likeness and…

Pinch Me, I’m Excited About Halo 4’s DLC

Excited? About DLC? I’d normally rather throw myself under a bus, seeing as 90% of the stuff is usually over-priced fluff, but 343 look to be putting a ton of effort into Halo 4’s fancy Spartan Ops game mode. An episodic series of co-op and multiplayer experiences, I knew they’d have some sort of narrative…

Bad Things Happen When Team Fortress 2’s Medic Loses His Bird

Zachariah Scott, a cinematic designer at BioWare, may have an unfair advantage when it comes to Source Filmmaker clips, seeing as he’s not exactly an amatuer, but whatever. If professional videos are what we get when professionals use the tool, then we’re all winners. In this clip, TF2’s Medic has an…episode after the loss of…

Zombie Iron Man Thirsts For Brains, Booze

I’d like to think that a zombie Iron Man, retaining at least some small part of Tony Stark, would shamble around searching liquour cabinets and bars. Any brains or human flesh he’d find there would be just a bonus. These images are the work of cosplay photographer Adam Jay, while the man—or what remains of…

The Next American Flag Could Look a Little Different

The citizens of Puerto Rico have voted in favour of becoming the 51st State of the Union. It doesn’t mean they necessarily will soon, or will ever be granted such status, but it’s a sure step on the road to trying. If they succeed, as has happened a few times previously in American history, the…

There Was a Novel Based on 1994’s X-Com

I never saw this on a shelf as kid. I know this, because if I had, I’d have bought it RPS’ Alec Meer has just put down the paperback adaptation of Microprose’s 1994 strategy classic X-Com: UFO Defense (or UFO: Enemy Unknown), this year remade as XCOM, and while he reports it’s a bit of…

A GameSpot report says that GameStop’s Australian branch is “bullying” retailers.