PC

Celebrate Five Years Of Lord Of The Rings Online With Free Stuff

Has it really been five years since Turbine took the world’s most beloved fantasy world and transformed it into a massively multiplayer online game adored by a handful of players until it went free-to-play? Well I sure hope so; otherwise this post is pretty pointless.


February 14, 2012
Xbox

A Shrunken Cortana And Master Chief Wage War Against Halo’s Bad Guys

The newest Halo Minimates aren’t going to offer up any clues to Halo 4, but they’re still worthy additions to the collections of fans who’ve been following the sci-fi series. First announced last September, the Series 4 set will mark the first time that Cortana’s been a bite-sized plaything. The UNSC vs. Covenant battles will spread to your desk later this year.


December 22, 2011
In Real Life

Celebrate 15 Years Of Wild Arms With Four Hours Of Free Music

A decade and a half ago a sublime blend of Eastern role-playing and Wild Western adventure was released in Japan. Today the talented folks at OC Remix celebrate that release with a free album featuring more than four hours of expertly twisted tunes from the soundtrack of the original Wild Arms.


November 23, 2011
Nintendo

Rock Band: The Untold Story Of Robot Goat Legs

In October of 2007, Rock Band hit rock bottom, crashing its car into a tree in an alcohol-soaked haze. It was then it knew it had to turn things around. On November 20, 2007, Harmonix introduced it to the world and changed everything.


October 5, 2011
News

Celebrate 15 Years Of Tomb Raider With Battered Lara Croft

Fifteen years ago this month, Eidos introduced to a sexy new video game heroine by the name of Lara Croft. Crystal Dynamics celebrates the 15th anniversary of Tomb Raider with a month-long digital art exhibition inspired by the upcoming series reboot.


September 22, 2011
In Real Life

Halo Anniversary Minimates Put Cortana In Your Pocket

All I ever wanted was a clear blue curvy woman to call my own, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in Diamond Select Toys’ commemorative Halo Anniversary Minimates set.


August 13, 2011
PC

30 Years Of IBM PCs Means 29.9 Years Of PC Gaming

Today’s a special day: The 30-year anniversary of the launch of the IBM PC, a machine created for business that many of us soon discovered made a perfectly wonderful gaming machine. The PC wasn’t my first gaming computer (that was a Radio Shack TRS-80), but it was certainly the one that turned me into a gamer.


August 8, 2011
Nintendo

Samus And Metroid Turns 25 Years Old

Kotaku AU

While Microsoft are making a big fuss over Halo’s 10 year anniversary, and Nintendo itself highlighted Mario’s 25th birthday, Samus and Metroid turned 25 over the weekend and I’ve barely heard a peep about it from anyone. This makes me a little bit sad.


July 21, 2011
News

20 Years Of Sonic The Hedgehog All At Once, All For You

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its spiky blue mascot and the upcoming double-stuffed Sonic Generations, Sega show us how far Sonic has come, how far he’s gone off course, and how Sonic the Werehog gameplay never really counted.


April 29, 2011
News

Celebrating Seven Years Of City Of Heroes

Seven years ago today, NCsoft and Cryptic Studios released City of Heroes, providing fantasy-gorged massively multiplayer online gamers a new way to waste countless hours of their lives alongside thousands of their closest friends. Let’s celebrate seven years of heroes and villains with a colourful infographic and nostalgia-laden anecdotes!