Trashy remake Red Dawn is in theaters tonight. There’s nothing in it you haven’t seen before, such as this game.

Sleeping Dogs, Kingdom Hearts Discounted For Square Enix’s Black Friday

Sleeping Dogs for $30! Dead Island for $10! Kingdom Hearts 3D for $20! Like everyone else in the world, Square Enix is holding a Black Friday sale this weekend. From tomorrow through Monday, you’ll be able to buy a bunch of their games online at some decent discounts. Here’s the promo image (looking super pixelated…

Call of Duty: Black Ops II GPU & CPU Performance

For Call of Duty fans, developer Treyarch just delivered an early Christmas present when they released Black Ops II. As the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise and the sequel to the 2010 game Black Ops, we are hoping to see something meaningfully new from Black Ops II. We say this because last…

My Little Pony Too Hardcore for You? Try Littlest Pet Shop.

From the same Hasbro/Gameloft agreement that spawned the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic mobile game comes Littlest Pet Shop, a game about collectible animals with giant wobbly heads. Littlest Pet Shop features 150 collectible pets to feed, wash, play with and build luxury housing for, just like real life. It’s freaking adorable, even if…

Transformers Prime Teaches the Wii U Control Pad How to Drive

Transformers Prime for the Wii U isn’t a particularly spectacular game, but it does hint at big things to come for racing games on the console, transforming that bulky control pad into a capable little steering wheel peripheral. Turning the Wii remote sideways never made for an immersive driving experience. It was novel at best,…

Simply The Best Scribblenauts Art We’ve Ever Seen. And Lots Of It.

The Scribblenauts games are for people who like using their imagination, but what if using one’s imagination didn’t mean creating something new? What if it meant creating Scribblenauts versions of some of the coolest movies and games ever? We were tipped a trove of shots captured from the PC version of Scribblenauts Unlimited. The shot’s…

Avengers Initiative Now Available on Android With Extra Tegra 3 Sexiness

Marvel’s Infinity Blade take on the Avengers finally smashes its way onto Google Play, but not every Android device is created equal. Is yours on the list? If you’re on a Tegra 3-powered device then you’re more than good. The game has been optimized for the powerful platform, with exclusive battle effects that accurately model…

Mirror’s Edge 2 Is Being Made Right Now, According to Ex-EA Developer

Few recent games have had as many requests for a follow-up as Mirror’s Edge. If you go by the amount of love professed for it on the internet, the first-person freerunner charmed the vast majority of people who played it. But the 2008 release didn’t sell well enough to merit a sequel and it seemed…

Soccer Seems Much More Entertaining When It’s a Strategy RPG Puzzle Game

Coming December 1 to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, Soccer Puzzle League combines everything I love with soccer. I feel this is something that should be done with everything I’m not normally excited about.

Steam’s Autumn Sale Has Begun

Happy Thanksgiving! Time to stuff your turkey with cheap PC games. The Steam Autumn Sale begins right now. Looks like you can get Darksiders II for $16.99, X-COM for $33.49, and The Walking Dead for $12.49. And then there are the daily flash sales, and the indie sales (Torchlight II for $15! Mark of the…

FarmVille 2 Feast Table: Everything You Need to Know

While FarmVille 2 players are already encouraged to purchase a variety of Thanksgiving themed items in the game’s store, along with helping a poor little turkey to call your farm home, there’s also a need to plan a large Thanksgiving Dinner (since you can’t have Thanksgiving without a ton of food). The Feast Table is…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Gift Can You Get For $26-$100?

The holiday gift guides continue! What gift ideas do you have that range from $26-$100? As opposed to the more cost effective suggestions we shared yesterday, these might be for a closer friend. We’ll be sharing down in the discussions below, but feel free to drop your own suggestions. Anything is welcome. Even a somewhat…

Far Cry 3: The Kotaku Review

Here’s what happened: I was soaring above a gorgeous tropical island in a hang-glider when I heard gunfire below. Waaaay down on the road below, a gang of friendly islanders was going toe-to-toe with a band of ruthless pirates. I banked around and dropped in low, landing just inside the treeline. I pulled out my…

Conquering The World, One Awesome Roller Coaster At A Time

It was only a matter of time until iOS devices got their very own roller coaster management game. There may not yet be an iOS version of Roller Coaster Tycoon, but now we’ve got the next best thing: Coaster Crazy, a new free iOS game from Frontier Developments, the studio behind RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Coaster…

We Have Successfully Convinced Harmonix To Add Call Me Maybe To Rock Band

Call Me Maybe. Rock Band. Next Tuesday. $1.99 Thank you for your support, Kotaku. Today is not just a historical day for Rock Band, or for Carly Rae Jepsen, or for indecisive phonecallers. It’s a historical day for all of us.

The Best Grand Theft Auto Comes to iOS and Android December 6

With the mobile version of Grand Theft Auto III still tearing up the Android and iOS charts, Rockstar readies a second helping of mobile free-roaming mayhem with the December 6 release of the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition More than any other installment in the series, this is my Grand Theft Auto.…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The 3DS Gamer?

If your friend is a handheld fiend, they may just own a Nintendo 3DS, DS, or Xl version of either. What would you get them? The circle pad pro? A new game? A cool new stylus? Drop your suggestions down below, where you’ll see our official gift guide from the Kotaku editors.

Why We Like To Shoot

A few days after the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the first-person shooter game’s publisher, Activision, released their annual braggadocious press release about the success of their most successful video game series. “Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Star…

This Week’s Android Charts: All Hail the Mighty Fruit Ninja

As Angry Birds Star Wars fever beings to calm and we move into the Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., our thoughts turn to food, more specifically how badly we want to slice it with a katana. Fruit Ninja isn’t at the top of the Android charts this week, but it’s on both of them,…

Holiday Gift Guide: What Do You Get The PlayStation Gamer?

Does your gaming friend or relative have a PlayStation 3? Maybe you want to buy them one. But even if they already do own Sony’s home console, your friend, relative or puppy (don’t judge) might need some new games. So what will it be? Drop your suggestions down below, while our editors do the same.…