This Halo Concept Art is so Old it’s Drawn on Paper

Lovers of Halo (or of art in the most traditional sense) should dig these images from artist Eddie Smith, who over the years has worked on several games in the epic sci-fi saga. The more recent the games are, the more modern the art, but my favourites are Smith’s pieces for the first two Halos,…

Skyward Sword‘s Golden Nunchuk Comes to North America

Late last year Nintendo made a gold Nunchuk, matching the golden Wii remote for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, available for Club Nintendo members in Japan. The company’s now decided that North American members can pick up one, too. You’ll need a balance of 900 coins in Club Nintendo’s rewards program to claim it.…

Crysis 3 Will Make me Upgrade my PC, if This Beautiful Trailer is Anything to go on

This clip, which is masquerading as a Crysis 3 trailer but is really a showreel for the game’s engine, is beautiful. It claims to be running in real-time, and to have been captured from Crysis 3 the game, not Crysis 3 the tech demo. Unless it’s a clip full of lies, this would have to…

Grand Theft Auto’s Liberty City Has Been Buried in Sand, And it Looks Incredible

While most Grand Theft Auto IV mods do little more than add a stupid character to the game or mess with the visuals, this mod – called Desert Storm – does something way more drastic. It covers the city in sand. Like, it buries the entire city in the stuff. In a very Spec Ops/Dubai…

The Only Thing I Listened To All Day Was This Chiptune Album

Benjamin Pena, also known as Producer Snafu, has put together an exciting chiptune album. In a way, it’s kind of a mess. It’s got beats all over the place, sometimes within a single track. He jumps from sweet to panicky in the span of just a few seconds. But you know what? I kind of…

That Time The Slenderman Turned Up In A Skrillex Video

Slenderman, that terrifying faceless ghoul in a suit, has been around for a good long while before that stripped-down, scary video game Slender hopped into the public eye. He’s a long-standing meme going back years, and he’s turned up everywhere from the YouTube Series Marble Hornets to.. well, to a Skrillex video from last year.…

Mod tools are coming to The Witcher 2, developers CD Projekt announced today. More details to come at GamesCom.

Music-Powered Shooter Symphony Brings Out the Best (and Worst) in Your Song Collection

I’ve always enjoyed the mechanical stylings of chiptune artist Trash80. My favorite tune (next to the gorgeous “Icarus”) is “Robot Sneakers” a bouncy little tune that I must have listened to a hundred times. I’ve never wanted it to end as badly as I do when playing it within Empty Clip Studios’ PC indie music…

Hey, IGN‘s Greg Miller, go kick cancer’s ass. We’re pulling for you.

Sure, Why Not, Let’s Recreate The Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Inside Battlefield 3

So what’s going on with Grand Theft Auto V? Very little, aside from a couple of screenshots and some analysts reading tea leaves and thinking it’ll be out by April. A bored Internet public already has recreated the Grand Theft Auto V teaser trailer within the original San Andreas and then in Liberty City (since…

A Mass Effect Point-and-Click Adventure Fan Game? Yes Please!

Regular readers may have noticed that I have rather an addiction to classic point-and-click style adventure games. Those same astute readers may also have noticed I have a wee bit of an obsession with Mass Effect. This fan project that puts the two together, making a Mass Effect point-and-click adventure game, is therefore completely irresistible.…

Blizzard Network Breached; Change Your Battle.Net Passwords

The company behind World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo said that hackers breached their network. The breach was detected this week and while Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime says there are no signs that financial data was stolen, he is recommending that people change their passwords. Full statement from Blizzard’s wesbite (key lines bolded by Kotaku):…

There Are Good Ways To Experience The Walking Dead As A Game. The Facebook Experience Is Not One of Them.

There is an excellent game out there based on The Walking Dead. It’s a five-part serial, of which the first two chapters have been released, and it’s made by Telltale Games. One by one, many of us here at Kotaku have become fans, each for our own reasons. If you would like to play a…

If Your Game Isn’t Getting Patched, Consider It a Warning

THQ found the time to re-rate fighters for UFC Undisputed 3 a third time but still hasn’t delivered a patch for the game, now six months after its release, despite THQ’s promises it would continue to support the title even after the news it sold the license to EA Sports. THQ shuttered its San Diego…

Bridging the Gaming Age Gap the Mighty Marvel Way

In today’s incredibly moving installment of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter NathanJEvrard explains how he bonded with his nephew over Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, becoming a hero himself in the process. “Uncle Nate, come here and watch me fly!” That was my nephew Noah, who is 6 years old, excitedly introducing me into the…

A person claiming to be an ex-Zynga worker trashed the company at Q&A site Quora. No word from Zynga if they’re legit.

Hybrid‘s Creative Director is Answering Your Questions Right Here, Right Now [Interview Over]

The unusual multiplayer shooter Hybrid continues the Xbox 360’s Summer of Arcade this week and the guy who thought up the game, 5TH Cell creative director Jeremiah Slaczka is here to answer your questions about it and, well, about anything else you want to ask a game developer. A server problem may have kept you…

If THQ Gets Its Way I’ll Be Dead in Five Days

First THQ’s media relations folks send me a furry hat that’s too small for my head. Now they’ve signed my death warrant. In honor of next week’s release of Darksiders 2, THQ got some lovely folks in Pakistan (it says so on the sticker on the bottom) to jinx the living hell out of my…

BioShock Infinite Update: Multiplayer Modes Cut, Gears Maestro Joining. But Should Fans Worry? [Update]

A string of bad news about one of the most anticipated games on the planet might be giving BioShock Infinite fans cause for concern. But the game’s creative director, Ken Levine, tried to allay concerns during a call with Kotaku today. He did so on the heels of us learning some surprising details about Infinite‘s…

Sony ‘Abandoned’ The Trademark For The Last Guardian. Here’s Why That Means Nothing [UPDATE]

The Internet exploded today following news that Sony had “abandoned” the trademark for their much-anticipated PlayStation 3 game The Last Guardian (as first reported by PlayStation Lifestyle). And indeed, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has filed a “Notice of Abandonment” to inform Sony that the trademark is reverting to public domain. But despite rampant…