From the Makers of the Wikileaks Video Game, Here’s One About Killing People With Unmanned Drones

Via NerdWire, we have today a set of typographic prints and t-shirts representing some of gaming's most famous icons, old and new. These aren't quite the "standard" typographic style where the words themselves form the entirety of the art, but I enjoyed how the minimalistic icons and colors... More »

Less than a year ago, EA told PC gamers it would give them something that many PC gamers probably thought they didn't need: a competitor to Steam. Another PC storefront for downloading games. Another PC service for connecting PC gamers. Another thing to install and… wait, where'd the EA games go... More »

This fall when Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers are tearing through Cybertron in the shiny metal skin of Grimlock, PC gamers will remain earthbound, forced to witness the grand robot battles from afar. More »

Having covered the $549 and $449 territories in January with the Tahiti-based Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950, AMD is bringing its latest generation GPU to mainstream brackets today. More »

I would have found a different PC case mod to kick off PC Gaming Lives' weekly celebration of the art of enclosure craft, but this Godfather-themed masterpiece made me an offer I probably could have refused but chose not to. More »

When I see the term 'gaming laptop', the first word that comes to mind is 'performance'. And when I hear of a gaming laptop with a price tag of nearly $2,800, I imagine a system that can readily outperform any less expensive machine. More »

Are you ready for two hours of nothing but PC gaming and PC gaming by-products? Of course you are.

This February is proving to be a fascinating month for non-traditional development and funding paths in game design. While Double Fine's Kickstarter proposal has been in the news, indie title Dear Esther has been making small waves of its own. Dear Esther became available for purchase on Steam... More »

Former Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle wriggles his way into Modern Warfare 3's upcoming Overwatch map, giving us a guided tour of the hoary heights of New York City skyscrapers. You've seen the screens, now catch live scenes from the upcoming downloadable map, coming February 21 to Call of... More »

The latest installment of Ubisoft's open-world FPS series comes into focus in this new trailer, where we see that it's never a good idea to get blackout drunk on an uncharted island.

Ubisoft won't even wait a full year to release the next Assassin's Creed, because the next one, Assassin's Creed III, will be out on October 13 30. The company announced that today during a call with investors, bumping the AC series up from its traditional November release. Ubisoft boss Yves... More »

This morning's Watch This, Play This features a little of everything. In fact, you could probably break multi-tasking records and watch the videos simultaneously even while playing our new Gaming App of the Day. More »

Music steals time. Think about it: whether you're making it or listening to it, you're devoting ticks of the watch (mental energy away from some other pursuit.) But, what you get back, hopefully, is enjoyment. More »

Tomonobu Itagaki, the mind behind Dead or Alive and two of the recent Ninja Gaiden games, went through a few rough patches during his long career as a game designer. More »

Soulful songstress Lana Del Rey made a splash last year with her single "Video Games", a song that repeated the term 'video games' several times, causing many gamers to fall instantly in love despite the games in question being used as an example of how routine her once passionate relationship had... More »

Stuff to play, stuff to see, here comes Watch This, Play This. Confused? Read this.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a wonderful game on the PC and a fine game on the Xbox 360. On the PlayStation 3, however, it had issues for some players. More »

With early start Vita bundle buyers picking up their systems this morning in the U.S., commenter bassguygt is curious to know how they'll be picking up games, and frankly so are we. More »

New game designer Hannah Wyman won a trip to New York, got a grant for her school, educated kids, and met the President of the United States. And she managed it all around her dance lessons and her homework, because she's eleven years old. We may keep seeing the same old arguments over whether... More »

Welcome to Kotaku's official forum, Talk Amongst Yourselves, where we gather on a daily basis to discuss the joys and wonders of gaming all rolled up into one. Kaploy9's TAYpic concerns itself with international trade in classic old-school fashion. More »

The PlayStation Vita is built to last more than half a decade and is designed to confound pirates more than it confounds the average gamer, Sony's head of worldwide game development, Shuhei Yoshida, tells Kotaku. "We are designing this PS Vita to last five, six, seven, eight years," he told me in... More »

Don't expect to see Deputy Rick Grimes make an appearance in the first episode of Telltale's comic-based The Walking Dead video game series. The hero of the series will be sleeping away the first installment in a coma while creators explorer what supporting cast members were getting up to at the... More »

It's pronounced "cara-take-a." And the hit Apple II game is coming back this year. Jordan Mechner's best known for Prince of Persia, the platformer action game that became one of gaming's first independently developed hits. More »

In what is quickly becoming a Valentine's Day tradition for my family, last night I hit up Psycho Tattoo in Sandy Springs, Georgia to add another role-playing icon to my growing (and until yesterday Final Fantasy-centric) party. More »

Disgaea | TOKYO, JAPAN: Developer Gamania is developing a casual game called Phantom Brave. (Photo: Game Impress Watch) New Details about Resident Evil 6 Emerge Details about Resident Evil 6 are super scant. More »

On March 11, a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked Japan. In its wake, the country's Northeast was ravaged. Buildings and lives were destroyed and lost. More »

Japanese role-playing game Persona 4 is being turned into a hardcore porno. This is not the cast of that flick. Sorry! Instead, these are the folks starring in the Persona 4 stage show. Called Visualive Persona 4, the show combines movie-style special effects with a live performance. More »

Microsoft Korea joins World Gym Fitness Center in the Ilsan district to promote the Kinect throughout February. Members of the gym will be able to participate in the "Dance Time with Kinect" program, held twice every Tuesday. More »

A leaked German Far Cry 3 dates the game for a Sept. 6 release. The trailer is CG and a longer version of a previously released teaser. If real, it's unclear whether the release is worldwide or Europe-only. More »

There's a tired stereotype that Japan looks like Blade Runner. Sure, some parts do, but the vast majority of the country doesn't. While most of Japan isn't terribly exciting (not necessarily a bad thing!), it sure is pretty. More »

In Japan, you expect to see maids in cute cafes, slinging coffee and rice omelets. But for two days earlier this week, they popped up in an unexpected location: More »

What might kill video games in Korea? The ice age. Earlier this month, the South Korean government's Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology announced plans for its new game shut down system. More »

Details about Resident Evil 6 are super scant. Today, however, that changes. Today, they are simply scant as the game's developer shed some more light on the title, providing more info about the upcoming title. More »

While Japanese cosplayer Ushijima Ii Niku ("Good Meat") was in Taiwan, she caused a media storm after showing up to an event in her underpants. The incident even made the evening news there. More »

Annyeong. Depending on the inflection, you can use this to say "Hi" or "Bye" or "I wish you well" in Korean. annyeong is also the title of a movie, which promotes Korean culture using interactive elements taken from gaming conventions. The film is a three day journey through Korea, and the main... More »

Yesterday, Japanese game designer Hideo Kojima posted a photo of himself wearing the jacket actor Ryan Gosling wore in the movie Drive. But Kojima, best known for his Metal Gear games, didn't call it a "jacket". More »