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Five Year Old Girl One-Ups Making Her Own Game By Giving Her Own TEDTalk

Remember Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure, the absurdly adorable game made by a five year old girl? Now she’s doing things like TEDTalks, which unsurprisingly touch on her experience making Ponycorn. Her dad also chimes in, reminding us of the importance of enabling children to become creators, not consumers. Crazy to think the girl is so…

Halo 4 Reviewers All Glad That The Fight’s Not Finished Yet

Players jumped in by the millions to finish the fight in Halo 3, back in 2007. And yet, like many a franchise before it, the one-time trilogy of Halo games finds itself with a new fourth sibling, years later. This year, the old franchise-Halo first launched in 2001-found itself in new hands, no longer developed…

The Week in Gaming Apps: Rumbly Tumblr Edition

Welcome to the first (and hopefully final) Tumblr edition of Kotaku‘s Week in Gaming Apps, where we look fondly back at the mobile games that touched our lives during this trying time, except for the one from Monday that we can only link to via Google cache. Since our normal format won’t work here, I…

Here’s Shigeru Miyamoto Doing Gangnam Style

Via TinyCartridge. Head over there for a few more gifs from Miyamoto’s trip to Spain.

Borderlands 2 Developers Bringing Back The Claptrap Webseries

It’s come to the point where I’m getting excited about any opportunity to see more of the characters of the delightfully silly Borderlands franchise. And apparently Gearbox is heeding my call, because they’re bringing back the Claptrap webseries, which, if you’re like me and haven’t even watched season one yet, you can watch all of…

Don’t Underestimate The Treasures Found In Dumpsters

Don’t Underestimate The Treasures Found In Dumpsters. Or a BLU soldier’s quest for murder.

Look Out, It’s A Kung-Fu Dragon Baby

Look Out, It’s a … Kung-Fu Dragon Baby?

Making An Open-Ended Game For A Linear Audience

The Hitman series has long been about choice-bald-headed 47 was set loose inside a semi-sandbox with a target or two, and players could come up with any of a number of ways to do away with them. That style of play is becoming increasingly uncommon, at least in mainstream AAA console games, at least in…

Hey, You Got Your Borderlands 2 in my Minecraft.

Someone went to the trouble of creating the full Borderlands 2 logo within Minecraft. Click the image to embiggen the picture.

Treasure Isle and FishVille Are the First Zynga Games to Die

Last month Zynga revealed that 13 of its lesser-performing Facebook games would be closed in order to make the social side of the company less of a massive disappointment. Yesterday players of FishVille and Treasure Isle were informed that those games would be closing up shop on December 5. What, there was a FishVille? Not…

The Faces of Grand Theft Auto Through The Years

Twelve years will have passed between the release of Grand Theft Auto III in 2001 and Grand Theft Auto V in 2013. Those 12 years have seen ten releases of major GTA games and DLC, each putting its own spin on the series’ classic vector art look. The 71 official images pulled from Rockstar’s website…

Assassin’s Creed? Halo? Screw’em, I’m Playing Persona

“Oh no!” you are almost certainly thinking. “Gawker Media is underwater, desperately clinging to Tumblr like that guy in that movie where the cruise ship sank. But it is Friday! It’s 3pm Kotaku Time! What will I do without my favorite weekly JRPG/sex-advice column Random Encounters?” You are too sweet. But don’t worry! I am…

Somehow, the New Army of Two Game Seems More Bro-Dacious than Ever

Nowadays, it seems like all sorts of beefed-up characters in shooter games can sling taunts and emotes. But back in 2008, Army of Two won a crucial bros’-rights battle when the two leads-whose names, c’mon, no one even remembers-were able to express their bro-love for each other in a series of team-based mechanics. With elements…

Hurricane Sandy’s Effects on the Gaming Scene: From Blacked-out Developers to a Guy Who Walked 3 Hours To Line-Wait for Wii U

Hurricane Sandy didn’t have an effect on the video game scene the way it would have if it had hit in a city like Montreal or San Francisco, where many of the most popular video games are made. But New York City and the surrounding region does have a vibrant indie gaming scene, millions of…

This Mass Effect Trilogy Trailer Combines All the Awesome of Three Games in One Place

The Mass Effect Trilogy-which bundles BioWare’s acclaimed sometimes controversial sci-fi series all in one place-comes out next week. (PS3 owners will be able to download the first game in December.) In case you need a refresher for Commander Shepard’s saga, watch the clip above.

Take a Look at MIT’s Slightly Trippy—and Oddly Spiritual—Game About the Speed of Light

The last thing I was expecting from a game built on relativistic physics principles was a gentle allegory about the afterlife. But that’s exactly how A Slower Speed of Light starts off. The little protagonist in this title from the MIT Game Lab actually dies right at the start of the game and has to…

The iPad Mini is out today! I wouldn’t drop it if I were you. [Android Authority]

There Are 489 People Playing Competitive Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now, Up From 145 Yesterday

There are 495 people playing Halo 4‘s multiplayer, if you count the cooperate Spartan Ops mode. That’s over three times more than the amount of people that were playing just yesterday, and the game still has four more days before its November 6 release. Maybe more people are logging on as the weekend nears? Power…

Watch Michael Moore’s Audition Tape To Direct Star Wars VII

If this was a real audition tape for Michael Moore to direct the recently announced resurgence of the Star Wars films, I imagine it’d go pretty much exactly like this. But it’s not real. It’s a Conan skit.

Wreck-It Ralph Isn’t Just a Movie, It’s Also a Game

Building on the free iOS App, the $.99 version of the official Wreck-It Ralph mobile game features three movie-themed games in one-Fix-It Felix Jr., Hero’s Duty and Candy Climber. It’s available on iTunes today, with an Android version coming soon.