Most Popular Video Games Are Dumb. Can We Stop Apologising For Them Now? 
Epic: Why We're Charging For Gears Of War 3 Unlock Content That's Already On The Disc 
How Gears Of War 3 Alienated Me 
New Gears Of War 3 Screenshots Show Mechs Are Good With Their Feet 
Gears Of War Designer Talks To Jimmy Fallon 
Bang Bang, Is Creativity Dead? 
A few weeks ago, The Atlantic magazine published a profile I wrote of the developer Jonathan Blow, a man known in gaming circles as much for his criticism of the mainstream game industry’s intellectual shortcomings as he is for Braid, the outstanding game he created.
Unlike in-game marriages, real-life marriages can be problematic when video games are involved.
A lot of games set out to tell engaging stories. Some use a narrator, lots of cutscenes or branching dialogue systems. Others embed plot points in the environment. Success rates vary, of course. But what’s the worst storytelling in video games? Why, Gears of War, says Dead Space story producer Chuck Beaver.
World of Warcraft, Left 4 Dead, Tomb Raider… Avid Kotaku readers (and/or consumers of adult entertainment) know that actual porn parody movies exist for these video game franchises. But what if your tastes run to Ezio, Samus or, um, Rayman? These characters don’t have films but one digital artist has made up fake DVDs covers for these characters’ would-be sexploits.
Around a year ago, we brought you a look at a new Gears of War title being developed at Epic Games and designed to take advantage of Microsoft’s Kinect technology. It looked pretty silly, something Microsoft and/or Epic obviously agreed with, because the game — called Gears of War: Exile — sounds like it’s ended up in the bin.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using the Unreal Engine to create simulations and other training programs, BBC News reports today.
