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When PC Games Look Like Complete Shit

As the current generation of consoles get older and older, we're seeing PC games like Battlefield 3, Crysis 2 and even Max Payne 3 already start to look decidedly next-gen. At least, they do if you've got a decent rig. More »

See How Tron’s Original Arcade Looks Today

In the 1982 film Tron, nearly everything takes place, in one way or another, inside a joint called Flynn's Arcade. While at E3 last week, video game historian Scott Patterson decided to skip the noise and light and go and see how the building used for filming is looking today. It's...not bad! More »

Nintendo’s Early DRM Was Simple, But Charming

DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is in many ways the great scourge of modern gaming. Designed to limit the effects of piracy, it's often more of a pain in the ass for paying customers than it is a hindrance to pirates. It's usually associated with PC games, but Nintendo is no stranger to it... More »

Holy Crap, It’s a Dog With Perfect Pitch

Look at this little guy, matching notes like a pro! How does he do it? Well… okay, so maybe he's just trained to follow his owner's visual cues and hit the right keys. More »

This Video Game is a “Paedophile Haven", Apparently

Being neither a small child or, it turns out, a paedophile, I had no idea, but according to a documentary put together by Britain's Channel 4, kid's online game Habbo is the place to go if you want someone to " licky your v a g i n a". The report collects a ton of imagery and text captured by the... More »

This World War II Dogfighter Barely Feels Like a Mad Catz Game Anymore

When peripheral maker Mad Catz first announced it was going into the game publishing business, I laughed. When I got my first look last year at what was then called War Wings: More »

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By Mike Fahey

10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Making of Prometheus

(Io9.com ) Ridley Scott's Prometheus is one of the year's most visually stunning movies. It's full of astonishing images that live on in your mind's eye after you leave the theater — More on Io9 »

Gaming’s Top Screenshot Artist Has Been Capturing Dishonored

Well, this is pretty cool. Duncan Harris, the man who runs the eye-popping website Dead End Thrills (and whose work you'll see from time to time right here at Kotaku), has been working with Bethesda to create in-game photography from their upcoming game Dishonored. In what feels like an uncommon... More »

The Best Zombie Mod in Gaming Now Has a Wicked-Cool Cinematic Trailer

Hopefully you've been following along with the saga of DayZ, Dean Hall's amazing, brutal Arma II mod that adds zombies to the already intense and realistic open-ended shooter. In case you haven't played it yet and are curious, you can now watch an extended, gritty-as-hell trailer that effectively... More »

Holy Talking Minifigs, LEGO Batman 2!

This is what will keep me from losing interest in LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes as I did other LEGO games. Love the toys, love the concept, but I need talking, preferably of the witty variety.

08:15 PM
By Mike Fahey

Can Nintendo Convince Us To Care About The Wii U?

For this week's Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk return from E3 to talk about their impressions of Nintendo's next big console. What kinds of new games will the Wii U make possible? More »

08:00 PM
By Kirk Hamilton & Jason Schreier

Atlus’s Newest Game Is A Lovely Strategy-RPG

Here's the latest trailer for Gungnir, a new strategy role-playing game that Atlus released today for PSP. Yes, PSP. It's aliiiiiiiivvvvveeee. More »

Intense, Yes. Unique? Maybe…

Here is a video game soldier, rifle in hands, taking cover. A helicopter explodes behind him. The word "intense" might describe this scene from the TV commercial for the new shooter Spec Ops: More »

Dawn of the Seeker is Best for the Lore-Crazy Dragon Age Fan

With games, the whole "ancillary media" thing is usually just not my style. I read and loved all of the Myst books, way back in the day, and for something like a decade that was it. But then came Dragon Age. More »

07:00 PM
By Kate Cox

I Played Ten Minutes Of Studio Ghibli’s Stunning, Dreamy Ni no Kuni

Not unlike reading a Murakami book or watching a Miyazaki film, playing Ni no Kuni is sort of like wandering into a dream. This makes sense, because Ni no Kuni mostly takes place in a dream world. More »

Skyrim Director Wishes Console Gamers Could Experience PC Mods

Skyrim's vast, lush world is a wonderful thing made all the more remarkable by the fact that it continues to grow and expand, constantly changing in unexpected ways. More »

Sell! Sell! Diablo III’s Real-Money Auction House is Now Live

Rejoice, well-moneyed individuals—Diablo III's real-money auction house, which lets players exchange real cash for in-game items, is now live in the Americas. Blizzard has posted a guide for new users here, which lays out how to use the auction house, as well as how to attach the required... More »

We’ve Got Too Many DVDs, It’s Time for a New Monster Rancher

In today's randomly-selected-via-CD episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Daemon_Gildas wonders where the hell our current-generation, Blu-ray scanning edition of Tecmo Koei's Monster Rancher series is. More »

05:30 PM
By Speak Up

Sony Says PlayStation Vita Burials Were Premature, Predicts Good Things

The headlines about the PlayStation Vita are often harsh these days, especially the headlines that deem the system is "almost D.O.A." That's a brutal assessment of a machine that's been out for only about four months in America and is very likely the most impressive piece of portable gaming... More »

Here’s Why You Should Get Cards Against Humanity, The Hilarious Hyde to Apples to Apples’ Jeckyll

Just yesterday, the long-out-of-stock card game Cards Against Humanity came became available at Amazon. I had been waiting to order the game ever since I first played it at a party about a month ago, so I jumped on the opportunity. What do you know, my deck of cards arrived today! More »

Seven Comics That Will Inspire Your Inner Hero This Week

If you're here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. More »

Farewell, My Comic Book Longboxes (You Kind of Sucked)

This past weekend, I transferred my six longboxes of comics from white cardboard longboxes to black, plastic ones. This was the one bit of protection I am giving to my comics collection, which is being moved—deep breath—to the basement. Aside from the years I was in college, I've never... More »

The Dark Knight Surprises As a Talking Toy in New Lego Batman 2 Trailer

So Lego Batman 2 will be the first toy-centric video game developed by Traveler's Tales that features voice acting. Now, given that the silent comedy was a big part of the appeal in previous Lego games, there might be some worry about such a change. More »

New Avengers #30 Puts Three of My Favorite Marvel Superheroes in One Place At the End of the World

To my mind, the best episodes of a big-deal, all-hands-on-deck superhero crossover event are the ones that focus on the ground-level repercussions of the world-threatening chaos. More »

‘I Did It Thirty-Five Minutes Ago’: Before Watchmen’s Prequel Problem

Last week, Minutemen #1—the first of DC Comics' suite of Before Watchmen projects— came out. This week, Silk Spectre #1 hits the stands. More »

Faster than a Speeding Bullet, Panel Discussion Starts Now!

Are we still pretending that comics and video games don't have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we're not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not.

Finally, Your Xbox Live Avatar Can Take an Official Skyrim Arrow in the Knee

It had to happen eventually, and now it has. Among the many new Xbox Live avatar costumes that Bethesda released today is one that takes the meme to end all memes to its logical conclusion. Yes, for a mere 240 Microsoft points, your avatar can injure him or herself in the best, most Skyrimmy way... More »

“There Was No Face Anywhere”: Why One Movie Producer Chose Uncharted over Halo

Not to knock on the PS3's signature action franchise, but the Uncharted games never sparked the kind of cultural fascination that the Halo franchise did under Bungie's tenure. More »

Final Fantasy Creator’s Next Game Is Just The Kind Of Complex, Meaty JRPG I’ve Been Waiting For

A long time ago, the combat in Japanese role-playing games was extraordinarily simple. Classic turn-based RPGs would hit you with a deluge of random and scripted battles. More »

Gravity Rush Comes Out Today

The first must-play game for the Vita jumps onto Sony's handheld game device today. If you're not sure if Gravity Rush is worth your time, go ahead and read the review.

This Is How Nintendo Prefers You To See Their Games

Nintendo likes to prioritize their screenshots by what they consider to be the best images to use when discussing their games. Last year we looked at what Nintendo's favorite and least favorite screenshots post-E3 were, according to the notes in their batch of press kits. More »

02:00 PM
By Tina Amini

Persona 3: Official Design Works Explores the Artistic Process June 20

Persona 3 owes much of its success to the stunning work of legendary character designer Shigenori Soejima. The fan-favorite artist lends his commentary to 144 pages of character art, concept pieces and design work in Persona 3: More »

01:45 PM
By Mike Fahey

A Teeny Tiny Percentage of Lucky Gamers Have Been Invited to Play Skyrim’s Dawnguard Expansion Early

According to Bethesda's developer twitter feed, the beta invites for Skyrim's impressive-looking expansion Dawnguard, which is exclusive to the Xbox 360 for the time being, have gone out. If you applied to get into the beta but didn't get in, don't feel bad: More »

A Controller Solution That Strikes at the Very Core of Android Tablet Gaming

Last week I reported on Power A's MOGA portable gaming system for Android devices, a system that allows developers to quickly integrate game pad support into their Android titles. More »

01:30 PM
By Mike Fahey

Ten Years of Civ II Lock The World in Perpetual War

This is kind of amazing: one gamer, over on Reddit, has been playing the same save game of Civilization II off and on for the last decade. That, itself, is not the amazing part. The amazing part is how it's played out. More »

01:15 PM
By Kate Cox

Lollipop Chainsaw: The Kotaku Review

You could pick Suda51's work—like Killer7 or the more recent No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned—out of a line-up. The art style is cartoonish, as are the characters. More »

01:00 PM
By Tina Amini

Microsoft and Sony Dodge Questions About the Next Xbox and PlayStation in the Most Amusing Ways

As you read this, people are making video games for the next PlayStation and the next Xbox. They have been for many, many weeks. But last week, at E3, where the biggest video game companies were ostensibly talking about the biggest video games on the horizon, not a single soul would officially... More »

Gauge Your Endurance Under the Pressure of Dancey Music and Psychedelic Visuals

The music starts slow and rhythmic as you tap delicately on your iPad. Your eyes are glued to either end of the bar on screen, ensuring that your taps never linger long enough to push the bar's limit. More »

12:00 PM
By Tina Amini

Max Payne Knows How To Chill Out

In the midst of all the shoot-outs, drinking, and pill-popping, Max Payne is just another guy, you know? He wants to lounge on a pool chair and kick his feet up on the table. More »

12:00 PM
By Tina Amini
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