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Microsoft Finally Admits There Will Be A Next Xbox

After dodging many, many questions about the Xbox 360’s successor, Microsoft has finally confirmed what we’ve all known for years: there will be another Xbox. Windows Live general manager Brian Hall mentioned the new console to The Verge in a podcast last week “We did this- we’ve had Hotmail for- and operated Hotmail for about…

A Night of Deadly Improv in Dishonored

Improvisation is a word normally associated with jazz and comedy. You are presented with a situation, it changes, and you adapt. You start out with a key and a tempo or an audience suggestion and a scene but you end up with something different by the end through key changes, an unexpected turn of phrase,…

If Mario Were a Mexican Jumping Bean, This Would Be His Game

Imagine that you are playing Super Mario Bros 3. Now imagine that instead of Mario, you are a Mexican jumping bean. With a tiny little sombrero. And you have a quest. Bean’s Quest, in fact. This determined little bean was not always a legume. He once was a man, on a picnic with his girlfriend,…

We Should Be Calling The Designer of These Games Some Kind of Genius

You probably don’t know his name. And you might have ignored his games. But Luke Schneider deserves your respect. And your money. Schneider’s turned out more than a dozen games in two years, a feat that’s impressive no matter what you think of his output. And that output from his RadianGames studio has been very,…

6 Helpful Tips To Make Slender Less Scary

Have you played Slender yet? It’s fairly simple, which is part of why it’s so terrifying. YouTube user DMJared put together six tips to make the Slenderman slightly less frightening. Some are more successful than others. How to Make Slender Not Scary [YouTube via Reddit]

God of War, Infamous Collections Coming To PS3 August 28 [UPDATE]

You’ll be able to play new versions of some old games on your PlayStation 3 soon. New collections of God of War, Infamous, and Ratchet & Clank are all coming to PS3 on August 28, Sony said today. They’ll be available “starting at” $30, Sony says. Update: Sony’s Cristian Cardona has taken to the comments…

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It Looks Like Doom 3, But Better

Here are some fresh QuakeCon screenshots from Doom 3 BFG Edition, a remastered version of Doom 3 that will be out in October for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Although developer Id has promised that they’re all working full-force on Doom 4, we might not see much of that for a while. So at…

Gamestop Exec Says 70% of Used Game Credit Goes to Buying New Releases

Gamestop CEO Paul Raines knows that his business isn’t exactly a favorite of most developers, who see the retailer’s profits from pre-owned games as a big insult. But, he insists that Gamestop isn’t the bad guy. Used games actually help people learn about the medium, Raines says in a Gamasutra interview: “A lot of our…

When a PlayStation Hit-Maker Created a Facebook Game…They Tried Not To Pull a Zynga

If you buy the argument that there are people who make real video games and there are people who make things that merely pose as video games—and if you are convinced that these fake “games” threaten to undermine real video games—then a game called Outernauts should have filled you with hope. Outernauts is a science-fiction…

Has GLaDOS from Portal Invaded the Olympics?

It’s been a long time since I’ve played Portal, but this Olympic Stadium rig sort of looks like GLaDOS from Portal Kotaku tipster Ian summed it up: “Anyone noticed the speakers hanging from the athletics stadium at the Olympics kinda look like GLaDOS?” No, but now that you mention it… As several Kotaku readers have…

Valve Getting Ready For Its “Next Gen” Source Engine?

Valve’s Source Engine has been powering the company’s games for nearly a decade now, having made its debut all the way back in 2004 with Half-Life 2. While it’s done an admirable job in recent years for games like Left 4 Dead, updates and revisions can’t mask the fact it’s getting a little long in…

Nyan Cat? No, This is Nyan Pokémon

And so we come full circle. First, Chris Torres creates the Nyan Cat. Then he turns 151 Pokémon into cats. Now artist Simon Johnson has turned the original cat video into one starring said Pokémon, a feat he says took him 150 hours and over 4000 individual images. Nyan cat – All 151 Pokemon [YouTube,…

Mars Rover Survives Seven Minutes of Terror, Lands Successfully on the Surface

Well, the little rover that could has gone and done it. Having survived an epic voyage and a convoluted, dangerous descent, NASA’s Curiosity Rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, and is already transmitting images back to Earth. Nice job, little guy. And nice job all the men and women who designed and…

See What Actually Happens to Your Dirty, Broken, Pre-Owned Video Games

As we found out last week, not every game you sell to GameStop ends up on that store’s shelf. Sometimes games and hardware are sent to an enormous facility in Texas for testing, cleaning and re-assignment. Want to see what that process actually looks like? These images show you exactly what happens when the games…

I’d Kill to Play Games on This 72-Screen, 36-Computer Virtual Reality System

Later this year, the University of Illinois at Chicago will take the wraps off something it’s calling CAVE2. You, however, will most probably call it “that badass virtual reality system”. CAVE2 is big. It’s 24-feet in diameter and 8 feet tall. But then, it needs to be. It consists of 72 screens and 20 speakers,…

Atari Founder’s Favourite Game Was Kicking Competitor’s Asses

Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder of Atari and…other things, chats with Eurogamer’s Simon Parkin (Top photo by Johannes Simon | Getty)

The Amazing Cosplay of an Otaku Convention

Kotaku reader and talented photographer man Mike Kowalek, whose Anime Expo work we showcased a few weeks back, was also at the recent Otakon, held in Baltimore between July 27-29. Billed as a celebration of “anime, manga, and all facets of Asian pop culture”, it’s also a great excuse for people to get up to…

Was the $30,000 Video Game Sale a Fake?

The strange story of a collector buying a very rare Neo Geo game at an airport for $30,000 just got a whole lot stranger: there are now accusations that the cartridge is a fake. A forgery. A hoax. Members of the Neo Geo collector’s community have been picking at the story for a while now,…

For NBA Live, an Uncomfortable Silence Speaks for Itself

Let’s be candid. As a licensed sports video game, when your series hasn’t been on shelves in three years—a gap not seen since the days games were played on cartridges—you really face just one expectation and it’s a pretty low bar: Just come out. Launch. Release on time. Somehow, over the past week, NBA Live…