In Real Life

Well, I’d Say This Stupid Error Message About Sums It Up, Diablo III-Wise

Hey, I know that server errors are to be expected when an online game launches. That doesn’t make it any less annoying that I’ve been trying (quite diligently!) to log in to Diablo III for the last half-hour to no avail.


April 4, 2012
Xbox

Kinect Star Wars: The Kotaku Review

If you know how to use the internet, you will have little trouble finding people who will tell you that Kinect Star Wars is a bad video game. These people are correct. The combination of one popular thing (Star Wars!) with another popular thing (the magical hands-free Xbox 360 Kinect sensor!) has resulted in one foul ice-cream-lobster sundae.


March 20, 2012
Nintendo

Behold: Nintendo’s Most Pointless Peripheral In Years

I possess an official stand for my Nintendo 3DS.


December 14, 2011
In Real Life

Samsung Flies A Nomadic Namibian To Korean Video Games Olympics In Exploitative Stunt

Cwi Nqani’s brush with video game greatness could’ve been mapped on the plot points of The Air Up There, Cool Runnings or The Gods Must Be Crazy or really any shallow movie where people from different cultures collide in an explosion of hilarity. As reported by CNN, the 32-year-old was selling his rural ethnic group’s crafts in Namibia’s capital city of Windhoek next to a tent where a World Cyber Games representative was hosting the country’s national championships. Despite never seeing or playing digital games before, Nqani was the only person to play the Asphalt 6 mobile racing game, which automatically qualified him for a spot in the world finals. Those finals happened two weeks ago.


November 10, 2011
News

Call Of Duty’s Elite Service Still Broken, But Getting Better

Elite, Call of Duty’s answer to stat tracking, community building, help guides and original videos, remains mostly unusable nearly two days after the service’s official launch. But teams are working around the clock on fixing the problems, Activision tells Kotaku.


November 8, 2011
News

Video Game Company Wants To Turn Virtual War Into Our Next Pastime

Baseball, hockey, football… Call of Duty? If the people behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have their way, the next big sport people around the world will be obsessing over will involve virtual soldiers killing each other in perpetual warfare.


September 14, 2011
Nintendo

3DS Owners, You Just Helped Nintendo Beta Test A Product

Nintendo is no stranger to hardware iterations. Its last portable, the Nintendo DS, saw several major revisions. The 3DS is a different story. It just came out a few months ago but is already seeing half-hearted hardware upgrades. (A snap-on second slide pad? Ugh.) And 3DS owners should be pissed.


August 25, 2011
News

Hey, Ben Affleck, This Movie Sounds Stupid!

Ben Affleck is in negotiations to star in thriller Line of Sight, which will be produced by legendary action flick producer Joel Silver. OK, so far, so good. The movie follows an elite group of commandos transporting cargo and dealing with a global threat. That’s kind of vanilla, but maybe they’ll make it work.


August 20, 2011
PlayStation

Our Excitement For Capcom’s Biggest Game Ever Remains Low

There are some games we at Kotaku love writing about. Skyrim‘s one. Assassin’s Creed. Whatever Atlus game our Mike Fahey’s obsessed with this month.


August 19, 2011
PC

From Dust’s PC Release Is A Man-Made Disaster

Ubisoft’s release of From Dust on the PC has been, in every sense of the word, a disaster. Just the fact that, today, it was discovered the game requires an always-on internet connection — putting the lie to earlier claims that it wouldn’t — is a throat-slash to its credibility. The additional fact it’s also a terrible port of a console game is the cherry atop a shit sundae for a raving mad PC gaming community.