News

What’s The Future Of Assassin’s Creed Have To Do With Snow?

The Assassin’s Creed Facebook page shifted over to the “timeline” display today, choosing that mysterious snowy image for its panorama.


June 9, 2011
PlayStation

Multiplayer Silent Hill For PlayStation Vita Defies Your Expectations

They’re making a portable Silent Hill game for Sony’s Vita (you know… Sony’s next handheld… the PSP2, the NGP). And it’s a multiplayer game.


May 10, 2011
PC

Beachhead Project Is Important To This Year’s Call Of Duty Game

Today’s Activision Blizzard first quarter 2011 financial results call came and went without specific mention of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, but talk surrounding Beachheads buzzword-powered online digital platform indicates it will play a strong role in the next Call of Duty game.


March 10, 2011
Mobile

Cognitive Reverse Engineering Explains The Allure Of Angry Birds

With more than 50 million copies of Rovio’s bird-slinging casual game downloaded, Angry Birds is one of the most popular games of all time, but why? Usability engineering consultant Charles Mauro tears down the surprising secrets to Angry Birds’ success.


November 30, 2010
News

Alright Nintendo, Time To ‘Fess Up

Kotaku AU

Eagle-eyed Nintendo site Vooks has noticed that three as yet unnamed Nintendo games have recently been classified under the names ’001′, ’002′, and ’003′. But what could these games be?


April 28, 2010

What On Earth Is Mega Man Universe?

A trademark application filed last week by Capcom for Mega Man Universe could indicate big things in store for everyone’s favourite blue bomber.


March 12, 2010
News

In Seven Days, Something Will Happen

Maybe you’ll eat a turkey sandwich. Perhaps, you’ll drink a glass of carrot juice. You may even read watch television. The future is endless. The reveal for this countdown teaser is not.


November 13, 2009
News

Mysterious LEGO Pods Falling From Space

Mysterious LEGO pods are appearing around the globe, piloted by minifig pilots that may hold the key to a parallel universe. Only you and The Bradford Rant Institute of Cosmic Kinesis can solve this riddle.


October 30, 2009
News

Have We Seen This Mysterious GTA Ad Before?

Yes, yes we have. Reader Bo (thanks Bo!) alerted us to this image on page 17 of the Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, wondering if it was a hint for GTA 5′s location.


June 26, 2008
News

Blizzard Splashwatch Day Four – Lost Edition

Great, now you folks have me wide awake at 3 in the morning my time, hunting for clues like an over-the-hill Encyclopedia Brown. The Blizzard splash page has updated once again, revealing what certainly look like a pair of glowing eyes peering through the broken ice. Is it Diablo? Arthas? Or is it Hurley? The reason I ask is because the latest secret image has appeared in the CSS of the page, bearing the number 16. That makes the sequence so far 4, 15, 23, 16. Fans of the television show Lost know those numbers, along with the numbers 8 and 42, as the numbers that keep popping up throughout the show on lottery tickets, prescription bottles, etc. Will the next two numbers follow suit, or is Blizzard throwing us another curve? If it is the Lost numbers, what does it mean?

And where did those Vikings get off to? I cannot seem to find them anywhere?