Uncategorized

New Novel Bridges The Gap Between Guild Wars 1 And 2

What happens in the 250-year gap between Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2? Find out this summer in Ghosts of Ascalon, the first novel based on NCsoft’s popular MMO series. NCsoft is taking Guild Wars offline and into the bookstore for the first time this summer with Ghosts of Ascalon. Written by Jeff Grubb (The…

Help make Kotaku a better place. Type in the corrections that slip through our sausage fingers and we’ll fix ’em up lickety-split.

echoshift Timed For PlayStation Store Release This Week

The PlayStation Portable’s spin-off of the equally puzzling echochrome, echoshift will be making an appearance on the North American PlayStation Store this Thursday. The PSP-exclusive game plays with one’s perspective on time in a way that its predecessor for the PlayStation 3 and PSP did with one’s perspective on… well, perspective. The game’s time-shifting and…

While You’re Waiting For Heavy Rain To Install…

Heavy Rain is in U.S. stores now, and hopefully in the hands of many U.S. PlayStation 3 owners as well. While you’re waiting for the game to install, why not check out our review, or create your own origami swan? Reader Kyle sent us a link to this video, showing off the install process for…

Mile Marker 16: Vessel

Tired of stodgy corporate games made by The Man and his minions? We’re playing the 31 best indie games for a change of pace —- and so we can judge them. Today, Vessel. In A Sentence Man uses backpack that shoots fluids to solve puzzles in a 2D game that’s nothing like waterpack genre leader…

God Of War III Is Installation Free

Your inevitable purchase of God Of War III won’t inflict massive damage on your available hard drive space. The highly anticipated PlayStation 3 exclusive will be one of the console’s games that doesn’t require a hard drive install. So says Christer Ericson, director of technology at Sony Santa Monica, a person in position to know.…

Are You Playing A Video Game Before You Are Playing It?

Last week, Will Wright was talking in New York City and saying brainy things. Among them was an idea I’d never considered before, that people will play the virtual reality that is a video game before they physically play it. Specifically, Wright, while speaking about toys, was exploring the concept of model-building, in the context…

The Activision-Wants-Harmonix Theory

Over at the blog Dubious Quality, Bill Harris has been spotting some dots and trying to connect them. The picture he’s got is of Activision making a play for MTV-owned Rock Band studio Harmonix, something that is pure speculation. Harris notes recent comments from an MTV person saying the Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero format…

The Toys That Amazed Me

Gaming tends to take over things. We get video games molding movies, video games infesting Facebook. At Toy Fair 2010, I expected to see gaming infecting and influencing toys. I did. But I also saw so many other delightful things. See, you go to a Toy Fair in New York City’s cavernous Jacob Javits center,…

Lego Gallery

Makedo Gallery

When A Spartan Loves A Stormtrooper

They say Stormtroopers can’t hit the broad side of a barn, but there’s one that can hit the hardest target of all – the cold heart of a Halo Spartan. When you’re a crack commando encased in battle armor, it doesn’t matter if you spend all day fighting The Covenant or the Rebel Alliance. You…

Two Guests Are Better Than One: Chat with David Jaffe and Scott Campbell Live

This Wednesday, the founders of Eat Sleep Play, Scott Campbell and David Jaffe, joins us for our weekly podcast and to take your calls. Scott Campbell, former head of Incognito Entertainment and co-director of Twisted Metal, and David Jaffe, director of the Twisted Metal series and God of War, will be on Kotaku Talk Radio…

Assassin’s Creed II Novelization Comes To The U.S.

U.S. Assassin’s Creed II fans looking to delve deeper into Ezio’s story should check out Assassin’s Creed Renaissance, the novelization of the game, released today at book stores around the country. Assassin’s Creed Renaissance, written by someone named Oliver Bowden who I’ve never heard of, follows the story of Ezio Auditore da Firenze as he…

There Are Secret Messages On Your BioShock 2 Posters

A 2K forum poster holding a random blacklight session with his friends discovered scrawled secret messages on the three BioShock 2 posters that were packed in his special edition. Creepy! When I first unwrapped my special edition of BioShock 2, I didn’t give the posters a second thought, leaving them bundled up in the box,…

Street Fighter IV iPhone in Action

Commenter Senics pointed us to this video from Slide to Play showing off a bit of Street Fighter gameplay on the iPhone. While the game appears to have smooth gameplay, and some pretty nice graphics, I have some major concerns. Playing the game requires swiping your thumb around on the corners of the screen, pretty…

GameStop’s Current Trade-In Promotion Is Insane

Taking advantage of GameStop’s current trade-in promotion, my extra copy of Mass Effect 2 netted me $56 in store credit, $1 more than the retailer sells the game used. I’d say it’s a good week to trade-in your games. No matter how you feel about the used game market, it’s hard to ignore the chance…

The 40th Day Continues In Chapters of Deceit

Can Salem stop this nurse from getting between him and Rios? Find out in Chapters of Deceit, a new campaign map pack for Army of Two: The 40th Day, appropriately slated for an April 1st release. Chapters of Deceit presents two new story chapters for The 40th Day, in which players come across intel that…

Ancient Poet Joins WWE Smackdown

Apparently it’s not enough that Dante Alighieri practically invented the Italian language and wrote an epic poem that solidified our views of Hell. Or that he’s the star of his own video game. No, now he’s a WWE wrestler too. If you check out the page dedicated to the “superstars” of Smackdown, you’ll find Dante’s…

Video Games in Space Nixed Over Fears of Space Station Hacking

Richard Garriott, the first video game designer to ride a rocket to outer space, wanted to play a massively multiplayer video game from the International Space Station. And he wanted to bring his iPod. Neither happened. Garriott’s gaming plan was to play his then-still-active computer game Tabula Rasa from the International Space Station, logging onto…