A Platforming Classic Goes Free on iOS

LostWinds isn’t a new game. It’s been around for years, first on the Wii, then on iOS devices. I’m mentioning it again and now, though, because for a limited time it’s suddenly free. This isn’t just one of the best platformers on iOS, it’s quietly one of the best platformers this hardware generation, combining a…

Director Says Halo Webseries Isn’t “the Definitive Master Chief Story”

What would a Halo movie look like? For years, that’s been a question that Hollywood and Microsoft have been trying to answer to no avail. The long and winding road of making a live-action Master Chief adaption is full of stumbles but, today, Microsoft’s 343 Industries begins the rollout of a new webseries set in…

Episode Four Of The Walking Dead Is Out This Week

The next episode that continues Telltale’s intriguing take on The Walking Dead is releasing tomorrow, the developer/publisher announced today. Well, sort of. PSN users get first dibs with its release tomorrow. Everyone else in NA will have to wait for Wednesday (shucks). From the official release: The Walking Dead: Episode Four – Around Every Corner…

Dishonored and XCOM: Enemy Unknown: The Kotaku Reviews [UPDATE: Now With Dishonored Videos]

Two vastly different, perhaps equally great games hit store shelves tomorrow, October 9th. And we’ve reviewed both. Dishonored: The Kotaku Review I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for Dishonored. “Well, it’s Deus Ex meets BioShock,” someone undoubtedly said. “Oh hey, and let’s throw in some Half-Life…

What Facebook is Playing This Week: I’m Going to Run Out of FarmVille 2 Screenshots

When last we left our intrepid gathering of the top ten Facebook games by daily active users, Zynga’s FarmVille 2 had made a dramatic leap to the head of the pack. It’s still there, bigger than before. Last week FarmVille 2 inched ahead of Texas Hold ’em Poker, with a mere 200,000 users separating the…

Super Mario and Angry Birds Make A Pretty Good Team

When you combine the incendiary oomph of the Mushroom Kingdom’s fireflowers and the myriad talents of the various Angry Birds, green pig flesh explodes all over the screen. The video above—made by amateur filmmakers CC Megaproductions—isn’t quite as gory as all that. But it does imagine what might happen if Nintendo’s mascot found himself in…

Angry 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 Vesterbacka, chief marketing man at Angry Birds studio Rovio calls the game “the best Angry Birds game we’ve ever…

Here’s a more than 4,000-word lament of Resident Evil 6 from a very disappointed Resident Evil super-fan, @cvxfreak

There’ll Be Mobile Fluxx for Christmas

Playdek, the folks dedicated to bringing amazing card-based experiences to mobile devices, is bringing the chaotic glory of Fluxx to iOS in time for Christmas, unless the rules drastically change between now and then. With Fluxx you never really know, now do you? Andrew Looney’s twisted creation is a card game in which the rules…

Two Very Important Pokémon Facts

When you play Pokémon—no, when you just think about Pokémon—there are two very important things to keep in mind. You could say they are the most important things to keep in mind. One: “If you make your pets fight in real life, you’ll be arrested.” Two: “The police also frown on crushing pets into balls.”…

You Know What Atari Classic Breakout Was Missing? Bunnies.

Really that headline works with any game, even games that already have bunnies in them. Coming soon from Atari and Zynga (The A to Z of mobile games—that’s free, marketing people), Super Bunny Breakout Inspired by the superhero Freedom Man, one rabbit embarks on a quest to free his furry friends from an animal testing…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown: The Kotaku Review

XCOM: Enemy Unknown should have been a disaster. It’s a turn-based strategy title, a style of game its publisher said only last year was “just not contemporary“. It’s also a remake of a cult classic 1990’s PC game, beloved by an audience so fickle that a modern version should be the most offensive entertainment product…

Argument Over Video Game Martial Arts Turned into a Real Fist Fight

The Chinese “Golden Week” is normally a very quiet week. For the many Chinese, it’s a week off work to relax. For others, it’s a vacation nightmare because all the tourist destinations are packed with people. Well during this “Golden Week”, two young men from Deyang, Sichuan province thought it was a good idea to…

Epic Trolling with Added Profanity in Beijing

Those who took the Line 5 on the Beijing subway home tonight were greeted with a surprise: big eff yous plastered all over the place. Chinese news site iFeng shows numerous screens and display read, “Wang Peng ni mei” (王鹏你妹) or as ShanghaiIst explains: it’s literally “Wang Peng, your sister”, but that means something like,…

Terrifying Hornets Attack Otaku and Hikers, Sending 11 People to the Hospital

The “Machi Asobi” event (above) in Tokushima, Japan is a gathering of gamers, anime fans, and other otaku. Part of the event is open air, meaning that organizers must contend with things like the weather. That’s expected. This fall, however, they had to deal with something totally unexpected: scary hornets. On Sunday morning, eleven individuals…

Man Loses Job, Spends Seven Months Living In Net Cafe

29-year-old Jiang Tao has been dwelling inside an internet café in prefectural city of Changde in China’s Hunan province for the last seven months. During that time, Jiang pretty much ate and slept at the café leaving the soft glow of his computer monitor only to clean himself up. While it may seem that Jiang…

Defend the Earth with these Earth Defense Force goods, available on the DP3 webshop.

What Protests? Says Foxconn

Foxconn, the assembler of most of our electronic playthings is in the headlines again this week after reports started to appear about a potential strike happening during China’s “Golden Week” holiday last week. Early reports painted a picture of upwards from 3000 to 4000 employees striking at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant located in central China’s Hebei…

Japan’s Amazing Drink Can Sculptures Will Melt Your Mind

Makaon has a hobby. She likes to make sculptures of pop culture characters as well as insects, animals, and more. But she doesn’t use clay. She doesn’t use stone. Makaon uses cans. Beer cans, soda cans, cocktail cans, and energy drink cans are her palette, which she uses to create her mind-blowingly wonderful work. Makaon…

Bungie hired a now former Rockstar developer as “a gameplay designer on the sandbox team” for its new project.