Journey Down to a Comic Adventure Romp in the Caribbean

I’m a sucker for a classic point-and-click adventure game. The LucasArts adventures of the early 1990s are how I fell in love with gaming, and to this day remain the biggest influence on my taste in digital worlds. So whenever I see a new entry in the genre appear, I have to jump on it.…

Fine. I’ll Admit I’m Infatuated With The World Of Super Monday Night Combat.

Super Monday Night Combat exists in a dystopia in which spectacle, corporate greed and marketing are the fundamental pillars that hold society together. The premise is this: there’s a deadly organized sport—that’d be Monday Night Combat—where two opposing teams of corporate-sponsored clones duke it out for money and prizes by shooting each other in the…

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Map Editor Gives Strategy Fans total Control of Total War: Shogun 2

For the first time in Total War history, fans can creatively assemble custom maps for Shogun 2 using the official level creator, AKA The Editor. TEd for short, the official Shogun 2 editor is free today for owners of the base game or the Fall of the Samurai expansion. Simply download the tool from the…

Tera MMO Log Part 2, Supplemental: Look at All That Rested XP

The plan was to spend a series of four consecutive weeks playing En Masse Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game Tera, reporting back every Wednesday leading up to the final review. Then all hell broke loose. Diablo III arrived. Since I still like to believe I am a single 25-year-old with boundless energy and…

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My First Gaming PC: A Love Story

In the fall of 1992, my father drove me to a nondescript computer store in Alpharetta, Georgia and changed my life. Amidst the hum and buzz of countless white and beige boxes I found my first gaming PC. I wasn’t a newcomer to keyboard set, but my experience up until that point had been limited…

PC Gaming Lives Starts Now

It’s time for your weekly two-hour dose of PC and PC gaming-related goodness!

Survey for Games Journalism Awards is Itself Award-Worthy

The people at the National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers have sent me a survey in an e-mail that was topped with the deceptive subject line “Game Reporter of the Year?” I thought I’d won! No, I merely have a survey I can fill out. I mean, I merely have a survey I…

Does This Dragon’s Dogma DLC Notice Piss You Off?

Dragon’s Dogma, Capcom’s open-world fantasy RPG that released yesterday, has been the subject of some controversy that Capcom fans are now well familiar with. On-disc DLC was the cause of consumer uproar when it was learned that Street Fighter x Tekken contained locked content on the shipped discs that could be purchased on launch day.…

An Exploration Game Helped Me Realize Why Nature Kind of Sucks

I’ve never really been one for the appreciation of the “great outdoors.” Take me out of my skyscraper rainforest, ground me in something other than the tangled detritus of concrete streets and roads, and I become unmoored. I blame it on my upbringing: I was largely sheltered, and as a result my outdoorsmanship was developed…

Paging Dr. Mario. We Need Unconventional Surgery In The ER.

Mario has been a doctor before, but he’s never been as reckless and ill-tempered as he has here. He’s basically taken on House’s ego and height, but still treats patients like Kirby and even his arch nemesis, Bowser.

Saving The World’s Endangered Species, One Trampoline-Bounce at a Time

Adult Swim games sure do seem to be on a roll when it comes to goofy animal games. Their incredible browser game Robot Unicorn Attack is one of the most simple pleasures you can find online, and their new universal iOS game Extinction Squad is just as enjoyable, if perhaps a bit less joyfully bizarre.…

Someone Made A Trials Evolution Map Where You Drive On Dragons

Achievement Hunter’s trek through maps of Trials Evolution has recently taken them through a level full of dragons and burning lava. Dragons. Dragons that you drive on top of, and maneuver around to avoid their spits of fire. It really is impressive what people design in games with open level editors. I’m just sad Geoff…

Wednesday Watch This, Play This

Watch! Fan-made Trials Evolution maps are getting crazy. Play! Kirk jumps on trampolines to save the world, Adult Swim style. Watch! Dr. Mario has some unconventional methods, kinda like House.

Put Down the Controller, Take the 2012 Gawker Media Census, and Win a New iPad

It’s no surprise that 57% you spend 11+ hours a week playing games—but what is interesting is how much that’s up from last year’s 35%. What happened? Did games get that much better? Did you have more free time on your hands? Take the 2012 Gawker Media Census and elucidate us. You could win a…

Tomorrow’s Your Last Chance to Talk Diablo III with The Game Club!

Take a break from your hardcore run to talk about Diablo III at our second (and final) Game Club tomorrow! We’re kicking things off at 4pm Eastern. See you there!

Go Try Angry Birds on Facebook. It’s Different Today.

Angry Birds on Facebook is now Angry Birds Friends, a re-naming that will either horrify you or launch a new Facebook gaming addiction. (Try it here.) The absurdly popular game is still free on Facebook, of course, but now it’s more linked to friends and operates more like Bejeweled Blitz, running regular multi-level tournaments every…

Lollipop Chainsaw Deploys Writhing Zombie Cheerleader Squad to England

After spending months parading about multiple live-action versions of Lollipop Chainsaw heroine Juliet, the game’s marketeers dress up four models in cheerleader outfits and bad zombie makeup and have them pile on each other. I can’t believe it took this long. It’s marketing 101: before you even set your eyes on the product you’ll be…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Welcome to Kotaku’s official forum, known affectionately as Talk Amongst Yourselves. This is the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential. Want to talk about new games, old games, games that aren’t even out yet? Knock yourselves out! It’s a Truth/Doubt/Lie kind of day here at…