A Kotaku 5-Player: Will The VGAs Announce A Flash Game? Or Wonder Woman?

As news goes, the Video Game Awards are more about the future games they will tease than the existing ones they honour. Kotaku will be in Los Angeles on Friday covering the gala. Here is an internal chatroom discussion among Stephen Totilo, Luke Plunkett, Mike Fahey, Kirk Hamilton and yours truly as we try to pin down the most expected unexpected announcement of the evening.


Hitler In A Mini-Skirt And Stalin In Hot Pants. Infamous Dictators As Anime Ladies.

Some of the most infamous dictators of the 20th century have now been turned into cute anime characters with not so cute accompanying biographies.


Looks Like We’ll Be Getting More Dishonored Games, For Better Or For Worse

It warms my disease-ridden, whale-oil tainted heart to hear that the wonderful Dishonored was a financial success for its publisher Bethesda. In this age of sequels and iron-sights, games this original, smart and flat-out good don’t come around that often.


Zelda Gets The Skrillex Treatment, And It’s Surprisingly Great

Yeah, I know. Skrillex game channels The Legend of Zelda. Seems like it might be bad, or at least, haphazard. But as it turns out, Skrillex Quest, a new official browser game, is really pretty cool. It something less of a surprise considering that it comes from Jason Oda, the same guy who brought us that amazing Perfect Strangers game.


A Statue Of Diablo Itself? That’ll Cost Ya.

First shown off in unpainted form earlier this year, Sideshow’s enormously fancy Diablo statue, from Diablo III, is finally going on sale this Thursday.


This Week In… Oh Here Comes The Wii U

Oh man. The Wii U. Sweet lord above it has a lot of launch titles. A lot of those titles are just ports of previous 360/PS3 titles, and a lot of them exist as perfect definitions of ‘shovelware’. A handful are probably worth buying. But first a general question: who’s buying a Wii U this week?


Skylanders Giants Has A Little Something Extra On The Wii U

The Wii U version of Skylanders Giants doesn’t look noticeably better or worse than the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 version. It plays exactly the same as well — the Skylander toys are placed on the USB-connected portal, they come to life in the game, adventure ensues. For the Wii U version of Skylanders Giants, the Wii U control pad makes all the difference.


Spike VGAs Announce Nominees For Best Video Games Of November

Assassin’s Creed III, Dishonored, Journey, Mass Effect 3 and The Walking Dead are the nominees, announced today, for Game of the Year at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards.


The Lead Designer Of Guild Wars 2 Is Answering Your Questions Right Now

ArenaNet’s massively multiplayer Guild Wars 2 has been out for a few months now, and many of us here at Kotaku really like the game. Like any MMO, its already changed quite a bit since launch, and ArenaNet has begun regularly adding new content, quests, and gear to extend the game’s life well into the future.


The Unity Platform Gets Even More Impressive With Version 4.0

Version 4.0 of the Unity platform is available for purchase and download today. This is important, because eventually every game not made with the Unreal Engine will be made with Unity. I am only exaggerating a little bit.


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