Author: Owen Good : Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:00 EST
Skullgirls, Revenge Labs downloadable game coming sometime soon ("early 2012" is the latest word) on PSN and Xbox Live, is a 2D fighter with a heavy multiplayer component. That doesn't mean it doesn't have a story explaining who its characters are, how they acquired their skills and powers, and just what the heck "Skullgirl" means, anyway. More »
Author: Owen Good : Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST
Our Super Bowl Sunday edition comes, astonishingly, by request. Yes, folks, you saw that picture of the Denver Broncos' Tim Tebow at Madden Bowl XVIII and demanded it be the source image for the Kotaku 'Shop Contest. Who am I to argue with the wisdom of the crowd? More »
Author: Owen Good : Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST
Today we kick off Kotaku's eight-hour Super Bowl coverage with the Edge NFL Blitz Insider Sports Talk Amongst Yourselves Report Presented By TD Waterhouse and Driven by Bud Light. And now we'll throw it to our analysts. What do you see here? We need you to say some falsely wise cliché-strewn bullshit with all the earnestness you can muster! Don't worry, we're not asking you to comment on American football ... More »
Author: Owen Good : Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:00 EST
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week's best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. More »
Author: Mike Fahey : Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:00 EST
Just because the PS Vita isn't out for another ten days in North America doesn't mean you can't start picking up your launch games in advance. This poor little guy looked so out of place in Walmart's PlayStation section I just had to take him home. More »
Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST
Last week, a Nintendo 3DS owner unfortunately learned the wisdom of deleting all pictures of you smoking up before selling the thing. This made for an eminently teachable moment in the 'Shop Contest. We've got 19 winners plus overall No. 1 Idono inside! More »
Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST
A Taiwanese gaming site has posted cards detailing the movesets for characters Street Fighter X Tekken, due for release in March. The big news here is that the movesets confirm M. Bison, Xiaoyu, Akuma, Jin and Ogre for the game's lineup. More »
Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST
In past years I've used the Saturday before the Super Bowl to handicap the field for the next cover of Madden NFL. Since the last time I did that, EA Sports put the honors up to a fan-voted, 32-player tournament in 2011, and on Thursday announced it was doubling that field to 64 for 2012. More »
Author: Matt Toder : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST
Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.
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Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST
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Author: Mike Fahey : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:00 EST
Last summer PC peripheral maker Razer introduced the world to the Razer Blade, a device CEO Min-Liang Tan boldly described as "the world's first gaming laptop." Well now the world's first gaming laptop is in my dining room. Let's open this baby up, shall we? More »
Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:00:00 EST
Protip: Aluminum foil is only useful for protecting you from the mind-controlling radio signals sent out by the CIA. If you're using it to shoplift games, all it does is attract the attention of the store manager. More »
Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST
North American subscribers to Battle.net, check your inboxes—and your spam box, in case its settings are too strict. Blizzard sent out another 100,000 invitations to the Diablo III beta overnight. More »
Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST
In an email to PlayStation Network subscribers, Sony told subscribers that their PlayStation Network accounts will now be known as "Sony Entertainment Network" accounts. Not that this does away with PlayStation Network as a name. Sony says PSN "will be aligned with Sony Entertainment Network." More »
Author: Owen Good : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:00:06 EST
The action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning releases on Tuesday, bringing with it damn near 200 hours worth of gameplay. You don't have to get it full price, either, there are savings on the console and PC versions of the game, plus more than 58 other values, inside this weekend's Moneysaver! More »
Author: Owen Good : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:00 EST
Stephen Toulouse—known as StepTo to those listening to Major Nelson's podcast, or unfortunate enough to feel the cold kiss of the Xbox Live banhammer—has given his two weeks notice to Microsoft. The director of Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement will leave Feb. 16, after 18 years with the company. More »
Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:30:00 EST
Believe it or not, that bed is not actually a murder scene! It's a thing that someone with super-amazing taste and instincts thinks you'll want to buy. More »
Author: Mike Fahey : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:00:00 EST
This week we featured five different titles across several different platforms in our daily Gaming App of the Day posts, but that doesn't matter to you, does it? No, you're too busy playing Kingdom Rush. More »
Author: Owen Good : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:30:00 EST
Earlier this week, the official Madden NFL 12 simulation of Super Bowl XLVI took both the underdog and the under for the first time in the past nine years, calling the New York Giants as 27-24 winners over the New England Patriots. A simulation run on dearly departed Madden nemesis NFL 2K5 returned the opposite result. More »
Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:00 EST
Since we ran a feature on Duncan Harris, the groovy "video game photographer" behind the website DeadEndThrills, I've been sharing some of his work each week here. More »
Author: Owen Good : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:30:00 EST
I got sucked back into Skyrim this week. My first playthrough didn't get very far; I was tromping around as a Nord warrior, and it didn't really connect me to my choices, and my choices to the story, as much as I would have preferred. More »
Author: Owen Good : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:00 EST
Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you're curious what the book's all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five minute clip from the novel's audiobook version. More »
Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:30:00 EST
These days, it can seem as though every Facebook game-title ends in -ville. So thank God for Telaxo, whose game Ball Separation stands out from the sack... I mean pack. More »
Author: : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:00 EST
That Old College Try | All-Americans LaMichael James, Justin Blackmon and Robert Griffin III celebrate a fumble return and touchdown late in the fourth quarter of Madden Bowl XVIII. But next year's NFL rookies left too much time on the clock, and fell to the team of Drew Brees, Tim Tebow and Jimmy Graham. (EA Sports)
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Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:30:00 EST
Mass Effect fans recently tore into the many errors and inaccuracies in William C. Dietz's new spin-off novel Mass Effect: Deception, putting together a thoroughly damning document cataloging scores of lore-errors and mistakes in the book. More »
Author: Steve Peterson : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST
What's happened in the business of video games this past week ... More »
Author: Stephen Totilo : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:30:00 EST
Here's something small that could mean something big. More »
Author: Mike Fahey : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST
Join me as I take a trip through my favorite new feature of Final Fantasy XIII-2, monster recruitment, snag a couple of rare creatures, and witness the beginning of a legend that will never die. More »
Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:00 EST
The guys at ApertureVFX have put together this more-than-somewhat-awesome live-action take on the chaotic, visually disorienting gameplay of Battlefield 3. More »
Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST
There have been a lot of stories about game-cloning flying around lately, from Zynga's cloning of Nimblebit's popular iOS game Tiny Tower to Spry Fox's lawsuit against 6waves for cloning Triple Town. More »
Author: Mike Fahey : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30:00 EST
Riffing on the Family Research Council's outrage over same-sex NPC relationships in Star Wars: The Old Republic, talk show host Conan O'Brien and team cobble together some footage of the science fantasy franchise's most famous gay couples. More »
Author: Mike Fahey : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST
With nearly 30 years in game development and a career spent crafting unique gaming experiences like Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, Warren Spector has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. More »
Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:30:00 EST
While speaking with Gamerzines, Mass Effect producer Mike Gamble suggested that "it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep your ME3 saves." More »
Author: Stephen Totilo : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:15:00 EST
Antonio Bolfo was an animator at Harmonix, working on video games such as Guitar Hero. Then, with the legacy of September 11 on his mind, he joined the New York Police Department. He started bringing a camera along and snapped photos of the police at work. And then he left the force and made photography his main gig. More »
Author: Mike Fahey : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:00 EST
In case Kirk Hamilton's preview of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox left you with unanswered questions about the 360 remake, here's CD Projekt with a professionally produced video filled with colorful lights, sounds, and people talking about making the game. More »
Author: Owen Good : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:30:00 EST
His season may be over, but Tebow Time has not run out. And if last night's news about the Madden NFL 13 cover is any indication, get ready to see a lot more of the Denver quarterback during the off-season. More »
Author: Kirk Hamilton : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:00:00 EST
Yesterday, we learned that the video game publisher THQ is sitting on 1.4 million unsold copies of uDraw, a hugely unsuccessful game designed around a tablet peripheral. uDraw was such a disastrous investment—it cost the publisher around $100 Million on production and lost revenue—that it is almost singlehandedly responsible for their dire financial straits. More »
Author: Mike Fahey : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:30:00 EST
Two robots enter, both robots stay, only one has a slightly elevated head. Minecraft craftsman Sethbling has recreated the 1964 sensation that swept an easily-amused nation, Rock'em Sock'em Robots. More »
Author: Nick Vannucci : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST
Every few weeks we here at Kotaku make a selection of some of the best Indie games that Xbox Live has to offer. These are our latest favorites. More »
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