Bungie Reveals its Destiny in This Documentary

Bungie, the studio behind Halo is today revealing its next saga, Destiny, to be published by Activision. This is the first documentary describing the new sci-fi world the studio is creating. In Destiny, coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, players will be thrust into the role of defending Earth, setting off on adventures on…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Diggin’ in the Desert

Yesterday, I said to myself, “Self, this image of Nolan Bushnell, the man who founded Atari, digging a hole in the desert outside of Dubai, looks like an A-list exploitable for the next Kotaku “Shop Contest.” Now, if my self concurs (or disagrees), should it address me as “Owen,” or also as “self”? While I…

Here’s a Peek at Halo 4‘s Next Map Pack—Before Bungie’s Date with Destiny

Today’s the big day for Halo‘s ex, Bungie, which will soon tell all about its new affair, Destiny. That makes the discovery of these four images for Halo 4‘s forthcoming Majestic Map Pack quite a coincidence, indeed. It’s probably not as nefarious as it sounds, actually. NeoGAF user Wifiplayer13 found them by altering the URL…

Sunday Comics: This Situation is Butt

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. Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Published Feb. 13. Read more of Penny Arcade Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Feb. 11. Read more of…

Takedown, the tactical shooter which ran a successful $200,000 Kickstarter in 2012, has found a publisher: 505 Games.

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Let Me Google Iwata For You: The Winners

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata strapped on a Google Street camera to promote a new Wii U feature, providing us with the juice for our latest ‘Shop Contest throwdown. Many of these are .gifs, so take your time and let them load. When you hear a crunch, you’re there, and you’ll pull out 20 finalists, plus…

Approaching Wednesday’s reveal of the next PlayStation, Sony looks back at the first three, beginning with the PSOne.

The Latest Celebrity Golfer in Tiger Woods PGA Tour is Satan, Apparently

This image went out earlier in the week from the official Twitter feed for EA Sports’ Tiger Woods PGA Tour series. “Night golf” is among a slew of features arriving in this year’s edition (along with an LPGA Tour mode, throwback equipment, and historic course layouts). Who better to advertise that than the Prince of…

In Injustice, There Can Be Only One (Guy in a Red Suit With a Lightning Bolt on His Chest)

Really now. Considering the history these two have, you didn’t think there was any way Flash was going to lose to Captain Marvel Shazam in the latest hype video from Injustice: Gods Among Us, did you? Let’s recap. Captain Marvel began life as “Captain Thunder” in Flash Comics, an ashcan edition published by Fawcett more…

Atari’s Founder Goes Digging in the Desert, but not for E.T.

Everyone’s familiar with the great video game burial of 1983, a disposal of Atari 2600 cartridges so bizarre it’s often taken to be urban myth. No, that’s really how they got rid of colossal flops like E.T. and the Pac-Man port, 30 years ago this September. Here, Video Games Live thought it’d be funny to…

See the Star Wars Lightsaber-Fighting Game That Never Made It

It never went anywhere, and maybe that’s a good thing, but this is a demonstration Studio Gigante put together for a Star Wars fighting game on the original Xbox. Josh Tsui, currently of Robomodo, co-founded the studio and for some reason tweeted out this video on Valentine’s Day It’s somewhat better than the trainwreck that…

This Week in the Business: ‘There is a Real Problem With Putting Console Games on Mobile’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “There is a real problem with putting console games on mobile.”—Chris Mahoney, director of emerging platforms at Sony, explaining why so many mobile games aren’t good and what Sony plans to do about it QUOTE | “We sent a loud and…

God of War: Ascension‘s Demo is Feb. 26, but There’s a Way to Get It Early

Everyone will get their hands on the demo for God of War: Ascension on Feb. 26, but some will get access to it on Feb. 20, provided they prevail in some kind of social media sign-up challenge that’s been going on for the past 10 days. The “Rise of the Warrior social challenge,” as it’s…

The Moneysaver: Only Two More Hours of Payne

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The Best Of Kotaku, This Week

Welcome to the Best of Kotaku, where I round up all of this week’s best content. Look, you guys have known me long enough now. It’s been a year since I’ve been at Kotaku. You know if there’s a cat and there’s a video game, Tina is going to post it. So here’s the latest,…

All These Animals Scream Like Humans. It’s Freaky, Man.

I had no idea all these animals could make these sounds. Some aren’t so surprising—goats screaming videos have been floating around the web this week. And some, like the frogs—the frogs!! What the heck!? The screams. So many screams. “Thanks” for the video, CompilarizTV. Okay, that’s a weird send-off to the weekend in this open…

Here’s another new superhero-customization demo from Project Awakened, a game we wrote about earlier today

Interactive fiction + shooter = this neat experimental Twine game. It’s about a cowgirl who gets her heart broken.

Ian Bogost has written this ironic-yet-thoughtful “Trio of Artisanal Game Reviews” about the meditative PC game Proteus

This Legend of Zelda Vocal Arrangement Gave Me Chills

I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that lately, “Fi’s Theme” from Skyward Sword has sort of become my favorite piece of Zelda music. So, I very much enjoyed this vocal performance from Laura Shigihara. Shigihara is perhaps best known as the composer of the music for Plants vs. Zombies, though she’s…