George Washington vs Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Fighting Game We Never Played

This fabulous image, done as an inspiration for a competition over on the Papercut forums, makes me sad. Sad that this isn’t a game I can pick up right now and play until my fingers curl up and fall off. [SHOWDOWN] – Contest Brief [Papercut]

Discount Machete

Have you ever bought a machete on sale? I did, earlier this week. Monday I went up to the big box hardware store and snapped up a mower and a weed trimmer, because I’m an idiot who doesn’t simply write a check every month to a lawn service to do the same thing for me.…

Not to be Undersold, Another Florida Games Store Lists Itself on eBay

Three weeks ago, a Florida man listed his independent video game store, plus a ton of real estate and vehicles, for sale on eBay in a $3.5 million package deal. Another video game store two hours up the road has decided to undercut him, selling everything in its chain for $2.6 million. My spidey-sense tells…

Transformers Mobile Transforms into Transformers Legends in Time for PAX Prime

Announced earlier this month as Transformers Mobile, Transformers Legends is a card battler for mobile devices featuring first-generation Autobots and Decepticons. Sold. Wait, it’s free? Fine, I’ll buy two. Mobage will be at the North Hall near Exhibitor Registration during PAX Prime this weekend, which seems like an appropriate place for players to get their…

Super TIME Force May Have Just Released The Perfect Video Game Trailer

It has everything. Gameplay footage from one of the slickest looking games in the pipeline (and it’s from the guys behind Sword & Sworcery). A Saturday morning cartoon intro. And dubstep. Plenty of dubstep. Because it wouldn’t be a video game trailer without it! The game will be playable at PAX. If you’re going. *sniff*.

Hi There, Ridiculously Enormous Two-Person Mario Bros. Controller

More weird riffs on classic video games from the New York City gaming collective Babycastles and Katamari Damacy dreamer Keita Takahashi. We showed you their unusual takes on Ms. Pac-Man and an old-school shmup. Here’s Mario Bros.

Here’s An Inside Look At The People Making Torchlight II

We went and visited the lovely people at Runic Games today, They make a lovely-looking game called Torchlight II. And they work in a lovely office. A cozy office. But a lovely one. Check it out!

This Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist Might Be The Most Fun Mass Effect Marketing I’ve Seen

I still haven’t had a chance to play the new “Leviathan” DLC for Mass Effect 3, but I’m kind of loving the alternate reality advertising going on for it. The Alliance News Network Twitter stream, in the persona of reporter Emily Wong, “live” broadcast the invasion of Earth back in March when the Reapers hit.…

The PS3 Version of Skyrim Might Not Get Dawnguard’s DLC At All

Guess I spoke too soon. I figured yesterday that Dawnguard, the Skyrim DLC that 360 and PC owners are enjoying, would some day come to the PS3. A day later, Bethesda doesn’t sound so convinced. A statement issued by the company this evening reads: Earlier in the month, we provided an update on Dawnguard’s status…

Guild Wars 2 dev ArenaNet said they would turn off sales if too many concurrent players became a problem. They just did

Everything Breaks Bad In The Darkest, Strongest Episode Of The Walking Dead Yet

If there’s anything Telltale’s The Walking Dead game has taught me about myself, it’s that come the post-apocalypse, I’d be of no use to anyone. We like to think that all our time spent scoring video game headshots in Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising, or yelling advice at the protagonists of 28 Days Later…

No Kotaku Melodic Tonight

Sorry, music fans—due to me being in Seattle at PAX, there will be no Kotaku Melodic this week. We’ve been posting a lot of good musical stuff lately, so do go browse the archive and give it a listen. Also, for any Melodic readers who will be at PAX this weekend, two panels worth checking…

Report Says NBA Live 13 Will Be a $20 Digital Download

Rumor out of GameStop’s annual expo in San Antonio says EA Sports representatives told attendees that NBA Live 13 will in fact be a digital only release, and will cost $20 on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. The site IRB Gamer, attending the expo, said it was told directly of EA Sports’ digital plans for…

When the Transformers Team Up With the Justice League, Everybody Wins.

Spotted over at the Midtown Comics Facebook page, this glorious work from comic book artist Phil Jimenez doesn’t represent an actual project in development, which is a damn shame, because this…this. This. Optimus Prime as a Green Lantern. A Batman Autobot. The hand of Unicron. Wonder Woman and a freaking-invisible Seeker that transforms into an…

Eurogamer has figured out just how powerful the Wii U is, and they explain why it doesn’t really matter anyway.

This PC Gaming Headset Will Make You Feel Like a Helicopter Pilot. I Promise.

Inspired by the headsets worn by some professional helicopter pilots when the perform whatever magic keeps those things from plunging into traffic, Razer’s new BlackShark gaming headset sets itself apart from other gaming headsets by not looking like a toy. Seriously, look at this thing. I actually tried on a pair of these back during…

Video Game Heroes Try to Convince Kids to Read In These Cool Fan Posters

If your school library was anything like mine, then it had a ring of old posters around the perimeter, high on the wall where no librarian could reach to change them, trying to convince children that reading is cool. I was a voracious reader, but I never did like those posters. (Half of them featured…

A Children’s Treasury of Madden Release-Week Glitches

When it was first shown to writers in April, I knew what was in store for Madden’s “Infinity Engine” of real-time physics. This is the YouTube age, where a game’s every gaffe, glitch and goof is filmed and uploaded within moments of release, it seems. Realizing how hyper-nitpicked Madden is, I asked if the development…

Let’s Help This Man Build a Gaming PC

Today’s Speak Up on Kotaku comes from commenter JuiceandSpoons, who’d like to build his own PC but needs a little help figuring out the guts to make it go. It’s the Kotaku community to the rescue! I’m new to PC building, and I’d really like some advice on what parts I should be getting. For…

There’s No Such Thing As A Game Without Politics Or An Agenda

Things get complicated when the real world seeps into games. Some players don’t like it, because it ruins the whole ‘escapism’ thing. And developers can come under fire for inserting agendas or politics that players don’t agree with. Here’s the thing though: there’s no such thing as an apolitical game and thinking otherwise can be…