#batsvsjokerz
Revealed yesterday, Gotham City Impostors is a multiplayer first-person shooter that pits Batman acolytes against the Jokers disciples. It sounds just crazy enough to work and it looks even crazier, based on the game's first piece of artwork. More »
The Jokerz were so badass. I love Batman Beyond. But anyways, even the Red Triangle Circus is better than those Joker wannabes, and they worked for the *crag*ing Penguin. Bat-Scot could put them all into a soupcan.
#rumor
The revelation that Artificial Mind and Movement's Wet and Naughty Bear were both getting sequels—despite some mixed reception—was something of a surprise. Less surprising was A2M's name change to the less giggle-inducing Behaviour. Now it appears that Wet 2 may not happen after all. More »
#chewingbubblegum
In Duke Nuke: Forever, a wide variety of heterosexual tropes get probed. "Sexuality is part of Duke's personality," game designer Randy Pitchford recently said at the BAFTAs in London. It's part of the games, too. More »
#books
Ballistic Publishing, the team behind the excellent Uncharted 2 art book, are back with another tome for a Sony franchise, only this time it's God of War. More »
#counterstrike
Should you lack Kuma War II, which on Saturday published a free episode recreating the raid on Osama bin Laden's final hiding spot, you may also download a free map of the Abottabad complex created with Counter Strike: Source More »
#top5listoftop10lists
Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What's better? A list of those. Here's a roundup of the rundowns out there. More »
#hackers
The Sony hackers who perpetrated one of the biggest data breaches in history left a calling card on Sony's servers: a file called "Anonymous," containing the notorious hacking group's tag line. This is bad news for Anonymous, whose members largely want nothing to do with the hack. More »
#odnetnin
Did you catch the latest trailer for Wii adventure The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword that debuted at this year's Game Developers Conference? Did you catch the hidden secret of the trailer's theme song? If not, watch this video. You might just be amazed. More »
Twitter is freaking out right now over news that Osama bin Laden is dead. Jill Jackson, a producer for CBS News, seems to have broken the story on her feed. President Obama has called a news conference...Developing.… [Gawker] More »
*crag* you get back to your job and tell me what is happening to my games
#ohgod
Microsoft Word's loathsome Clippy, the Crazy Crab of application mascots, is making a comeback. Yes, really. Killed off in 2007, Microsoft is now using him as the tutorial host introducing you to the wonders of the latest round of whatever useless bloatware they're heaping on Office. More »
#gaijingames
The adventures of Commander Video are served six ways in the new Bit.Trip Saga, the Nintendo 3DS compilation that will included every Bit.Trip game released by developer Gaijin Games. Not only do you get Bit. Trip Beat, you get Core, Void, Runner, Fate and Flux. More »
#zenonia3
In 2009 Zenonia changed my idea of what an iPhone role-playing game could be. 2010's Zenonia 2: The Lost Memories further refined the series' winning formula. Now Zenonia 3: The Midgard Story arrives, and it looks to big the biggest Zenonia yet. More »
#viciouscycle
And so the cycle starts anew. Sonic Generations lets players play as a classic, sidescrolling Genesis Sonic or as modern, control-him-from-behind-in-3D Sonic. As Kotaku previously pointed out, there are no special powers and no playable friends. More »
Classic sonic levels look okay. I like how Sega focuses more on the modern sonic levels. This game looks meh now.
#breaking
Today in Japan, Nintendo confirmed the Wii's successor. The still unnamed console will be revealed at this year's E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles this June. More »
They better not just add two more i's in, that would be the shittiest most hard to explain to other people thing ever
#hotflashes
On Wednesday, XKCD - look, if you're reading a video game site at (checks watch) 11:47 PM, then XKCD needs no introduction - offered its vision of Tetris in heaven. Today, someone made that a playable reality. More »
#praisebetonintendo
Elk River, Minnesota Pastor Eric Dykstra has "no problem bribing people with crap in order to meet Christ," which is why hitting up The Crossing Church for Easter Sunday services could win you a Nintendo 3DS. More »
#oddities
You may have seen games from European PC game publisher Excalibur Publishing before, responsible for mundane transportation sims like German Truck Simulator, Forklift Truck Simulator and Bus Simulator 2. But Excalibur may have outdone itself this time with the arrival of Garbage Truck Simulator, its latest release. More »
#ps3
After days of intermittent service, the Playstation Network's complete outage rolls into its second day today with no new updates from Sony. More »
#veryearlyaccess
Capcom is calling Mega Man Legends 3 for the Nintendo 3DS the first Capcom game to be co-developed by fans. That's why there'll be a prototype version of the game available for testing as soon as Nintendo opens up the 3DS eShop. More »
DEAR GOD YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
This makes me think a lot of companies are going to start making their players make their games for them, essentially making gamers pay for a game they created. still I can't wait for this game.
#ps3
The PlayStation 3's digital hang out space, PlayStation Home, will soon be home to better actual video games, thanks to the platform's next big update. Version 1.5 of Home brings promised features like real-time multiplayer, improved physics and better visuals. What else? More »
#video Atari, after reviving (or attempting to revive) classic games like Warlords and Yars' Revenge, is turning its attention to 1980 arcade classic Centipede for its next project. This is Centipede: Infestation, a twin-stick shoot 'em up for the Wii and Nintendo 3DS. More »
#wii2
Nintendo's next console will debut at E3 in June, moving the maker of Mario and Zelda into the HD era. The news, first reported by Game Informer today, confirms rumors that have been swirling for months in the wake of slowing game releases from Nintendo. More »
Cool, now we just have to hope they get it right this time.
#anatomylesson
Last week, in Miami, Yoshinori Ono, the cheerful, jokey lead producer of the Street Fighter series had just shown off his team's new game, Street Fighter X Tekken. He and I were just about done talking about it. More »
The fan-made Streets of Rage homage released earlier this month, eight years in the making, was recently pulled at the request of Sega. The maker of the 16-bit Streets of Rage games says it took action to "protect our intellectual property rights." Sega's full statement is here. More »
#quoteoftheday
In the 1980s, the bestselling Secret Wars miniseries was an antecedent to today's comic book mega-events, as it featured almost all of Marvel's marquee heroes and villains beating the tar out of each other. But how was it named? More »
#flawlessvictory
While it's had its fair share of cross-franchise cameos before, one thing Mortal Kombat has always lacked has been guest appearances by classic arcade mascots. Let's fix that. More »