Resident Evil 6 Vs. Gears of War 3: A Slide-by-Slide Comparison
Some people may have noticed that Resident Evil 6 is a bit more like a modern Gears of War game than it's like a classic Resident Evil game. Is that because you can now run and shoot at the same time?...
View ArticleOld-School Game Creators Want A Million Bucks (Or Two) To Make An Old-School...
Brenda Brathwaite made Wizardry, among other classic role-playing games. Tom Hall made Anachronox. They and their indie team at Loot Drop want to make a new throwback role-playing game, and they've...
View Article$30 Assassin's Creed III Season Pass Will Add Evil George Washington...
In a twist from previous Assassin's Creed post-release plans, the creators of Assassin's Creed III are going to let players download what seems like a massive alternate-history expansion to the game's...
View ArticleThe Latest Sign that League of Legends Has Made It: Miss October Loves It
Here's an e-mail I received yesterday from a PR person yesterday: Hi Stephen- Below please find information on Playboy's Miss October, Pamela Horton. The Playmate of the Month graces this issue's cover...
View Article4 Minutes of Resident Evil 6's Most Ridiculous Moments
We reviewed Resident Evil 6. We showed you what we think is the coolest mode in the game. We compared its use of an in-game playground to Gears of War 3's. We showed you how to microwave a monster's...
View ArticleHey, It's That New New Super Mario Bros. 2 DLC
Straight out of Japan, via German gaming site NTower TV, it's a playthrough of the new downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. 2. The new levels will be released on the 3DS' American eShop on...
View ArticleA Debate of a Different Sort, About The State of Video Games in 2012
Over in The New York Times, where you can see more and more contributions by Kotaku writers, Yahoo News deputy editor Chris Suellentrop and I just had a debate—or maybe, more accurately, a...
View ArticleNintendo's 3DS eShop Line-Up For The Rest of 2012 Is Spectacular
Nintendo just dumped a list of games coming to the 3DS' eShop through the rest of the year and slightly beyond. Some of these games were expected but there are a lot of surprises. The surprises include...
View Article47 Minutes of the New Animal Crossing... In Japanese
The next Animal Crossing still doesn't have an American release date, but it'll be out in Japan on November 8. That's why Nintendo just showed about 40 minutes of the game on YouTube this morning....
View ArticleHitman: Absolution's Five Difficulty Levels Should Make Everyone Worry Less
The new Hitman game probably has the right difficulty level for you. After all, it's got five of them... one for the person who likes to shoot first and sneak sometimes, one for the person who doesn't...
View ArticleThese People Have No Clue About The Wii U
Some of the people in this man-on-street Game Informer video don't know what the Wii U is. Some are pretty sure it's a college thing. You know, like Wii University or something. Does The Public Know...
View ArticleBooth Babes Weren't the Only Embarrassment at the Eurogamer Expo [UPDATE 6]
There's being funny. And then there's being whatever FIFA-loving YouTube video game commentator JJ "KSIOlajidebt" Olatunji was in the video up top. When we last covered the exploits of Olatunji, he...
View ArticleCreator of Controversial Eurogamer Expo Video Offers An Apology
YouTube gaming personality KSIOlajidebt said on Twitter today that he "apologise[s] to the people I may have offended with my 'awkward eurogamer' video. My intent was never to sexual harass." Full...
View ArticleAngry Birds: Star Wars Arrives on November 8. We're Not Making This Up!
Yep. Angry Birds + Star Wars. Just announced this morning by the Angry Birds folks at Rovio. The game will be out for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone and Windows 8. Peter...
View ArticleTuesday is Officially Ridiculous, Because There Is Yet Another Cool Game...
It is now official: October 9, 2012 is the new May 15, 2012. May 15 was the day we got Max Payne 3 and Diablo III. October 9? The world will receive Dishonored and X-COM: Enemy Unknown, both of which...
View ArticleCan You Figure Out How Much This Game Really Costs?
Good news: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment chose today to reveal how much their December 4 MOBA/DOTA-style Guardians of Middle-Earth game will cost. (The game is like League of Legends but with...
View ArticleThe Endless Classic Gaming References in This Amazing Retro City Rampage Trailer
Retro City Rampage will be out tomorrow for PlayStation Vita, PS3, Steam and GoG. We already told you that. But what we can't possibly do on our own is identify every gaming in-joke packed into this...
View ArticleWatch The Makers of SimCity Play Their New Game Live... Right About Now
Starting at 1pm ET, 10am PT folks from the Maxis studio behind The Sims 3 and next year's very promising SimCity revival are going going to be showing off the newest stuff in their games. This is a two...
View ArticleThe First Minute of Microsoft's New Kinect Game Doesn't Exactly Instill...
One of Microsoft's big holiday-season Kinect games, Fable: The Journey, came out today. As our reviewer notes, it's not very good, because Microsoft's popular Kinect sensor often fails to properly...
View ArticleFool Me Again? The New Sonic Racing Trailer Looks Good
The problem with the Sonic Cycle these days—the experience of getting excited by the hype for a Sonic games before playing the mediocre game that Sega then delivers—is that recent Sonic games have...
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