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EA Origin wants crowd-funded games

18 May 2012 |Publisher to provide free distribution services for 90 days for any successfully crowd-funded PC title; Wasteland 2 first confirmed game.

Amalur developer’s MMO Copernicus due June 2013

18 May 2012 |New massively multiplayer online game from embattled 38 Studios landing in 12 months; $1.125 check to Rhode Island clears.

Epic Games pushing for ‘quantum leap’ in next-gen hardware power

17 May 2012 |Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski says company has "huge responsibility" to "drag this industry into the next generation" with Unreal Engine 4.

Far Cry 3 beta included with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

17 May 2012 |Access to this summer's multiplayer test of Ubisoft Montreal shooter given away in GameStop sales promotion.

GameStop digital sales up, profits down

17 May 2012 |US retailer sees digital, mobile revenues rise, but not enough to offset dipping total sales and profit; Guild Wars 2 won't ship until after July.

Nascar The Game: Inside Line racing this fall

17 May 2012 |Eutechnyx developing new licensed racing title due out for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii later this year with 23 tracks and new career mode.

Big in Japan May 7-13: Mario Party 9, Starhawk

17 May 2012 |Mario Party is at the top spot, while a new PS3 multiplayer title takes fourth; PS Vita slides down to four-digit sales numbers.

Fruit Ninja competition heading to Australian capitals

17 May 2012 |Fruit Ninja fans from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are invited to enter for a chance to the title of Fruit Ninja Master; winner to receive a trip for two to Japan, plus more.

Blizzard apologises for Diablo III errors, delays launch of real-money auction house

17 May 2012 |Blizzard has apologised to Diablo III users who encountered server issues on the game's launch; it says it will continue to monitor and improve services; real-money auction house launch will be delayed as a result.

Respawn skipping E3 again

16 May 2012 |Studio founded by former Call of Duty developers not unveiling first project at next month's Los Angeles tradeshow.

Game Scoop! Podcast: Episode 246

19 May 2012 |Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly show that attacks your funny bone for massive damage. Your guides this week will be Daemon Hatfield, Greg Miller, Anthony Gallegos, and Ryan Clements...

Left 4 Dead 2 - Weapons Guide

19 May 2012 |Left 4 Dead 2 Advanced Weapons Guide by kratosorione | |Contact Author L4D2 has been out for several years but for new players (or open-minded veterans who enjoy reading about others' perspectives), this guide is meant to give an ...

Left 4 Dead 2 - Weapons Guide

19 May 2012 |Left 4 Dead 2 Advanced Weapons Guide by kratosorione | |Contact Author L4D2 has been out for several years but for new players (or open-minded veterans who enjoy reading about others' perspectives), this guide is meant to give an ...

Japan Pro Golf Tour 64 - Walkthrough

18 May 2012 |Japan Pro Golf Tour 64, Walkthrough and Translation by "Teary Eyes" Anderson. This walkthrough, translation is not endorsed or sponsored by Nintendo, Media Factory, or Seta. Use at your own risk...

IGN UK Podcast #137: Break a Leg!

18 May 2012 |What a week! We've been blown away by Max Payne, played Dragon's Dogma to death and put bullets through the bad guys in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but nothing could've prepared us for Krupa taking one for the team and breaking ...

The Last of Us Podcast

18 May 2012 |Enter Podcast Beyond, your link to the IGN PlayStation crew that pushes news, opinions and utter hilarity straight to your ears (and subsequently, your brain)...

Diablo 3’s Best Error 37 Jokes

17 May 2012 |Chances are good you picked up a copy of Blizzard's latest productivity-killer, Diablo 3. Chances are even better you've resisted the urge of throwing your mouse out the window upon seeing the dreaded "Error 37" message. And who ...

Game Scoop! Podcast: Episode 245

12 May 2012 |Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly show that attacks your funny bone for massive damage. Your guides this week will be Daemon Hatfield, Greg Miller, Mitch Dyer, and Brian Altano...

Tales of Graces F - PDF Guide

12 May 2012 |Tales of Graces F Walkthrough by Vhayste IGN presents a guide for Tales of Graces F by Vhayste You will need to download the file and use Adobe Reader to open it...

IGN UK Podcast: Behind The Xbox Scenes

12 May 2012 |And now for something a little different.....

Your Retro Reference Guide to Community’s “Digital Estate Planning”

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EA to Piggyback Origin on Popular Kickstarter Games

19 May 2012 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> As Electronic Arts continues to work toward having Origin reach feature parity with Steam -- and ...

What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse: Eight Games Where Danger Lurks After Dark

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Diablo III’s Launch Issues Bring its Always-Online Requirement Back to the Forefront

19 May 2012 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> While it could have gone worse, Diablo III's first few days of availability have been plagued with a ...

Capcom Reveals 3DS Spin-off to Lost Planet Series

18 May 2012 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> With Lost Planet's roots firmly planted on consoles, it comes as a surprise that the series will soon be ...

Activision’s “Project Icebreaker” Could Hurt its Reputation Among Devs

18 May 2012 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> More than two years after Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella first sued Activision, ...

Should We Expect Voice Acting In Every Game? 

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With Infinity Blade Dungeons, Epic Doubles Down on iOS

18 May 2012 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> You may think of Gears of War when you hear the name "Epic Megagames." Or maybe Jazz Jackrabbit, if you ...

Akai Katana Review: A Bleedin’ All Right Time

17 May 2012 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Everyone's favorite purveyor of exceedingly niche shoot-em-ups, Cave, is back again with Akai Katana, a ...

Game of Thrones Review: An Example of Mediocre Interactive Fanfiction

17 May 2012 | <!--Begin feature--> <!-- for syndication --> Consider the following scenario from the Game of Thrones RPG: you get tasked with infiltrating a secure ...

Mass Effect 2: The Engineer

14 May 2012 |Unleash combat drones and hack your enemies with Mass Effect 2's nerdy Engineer class.

MW2 MP Broken?

14 May 2012 |Xbox 360 version plagued by cheaters and 18 person deathmatches. What's Infinity Ward doing about this? Based on our experiences this week...nothing.

NES Stress Test

14 May 2012 |Can Super Mario Bros. withstand subzero temperatures? GoNintendo hopes to find out.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Trailer

14 May 2012 |Ubisoft releases a teaser to its much-anticipated Tom Clancy game.

Blur Beta Key Giveaway

14 May 2012 |Enter to win a chance to play Bizarre Creations' latest speedster three months early.

GDC 2010 Coverage

14 May 2012 |Check out the latest videos from this week's feature packed show in San Francisco.

Red Dead Redemption Trailer

14 May 2012 |New video details life in the Wild West.

Gears of War 3

14 May 2012 |Epic Games confirms the inevitable. Better ready the chainsaw.

Left 4 Dead 2: Realism Versus Here to Stay

14 May 2012 |Thousands of frag happy gamers vote to make experimental Mutation an official part of the L4D2 multiplayer scene.

NBA Jam Facebook Contest

14 May 2012 |Immortalize your latest one-liner in arcade basketball history.

Your game industry in your words: Week of May 18

19 May 2012 |[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski, Blizzard Entertainment's Jay Wilson, Zynga's Seth Sivak, and many others.] In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and ...

Get a job: SCE Santa Monica and others hiring now on the Gamasutra jobs board

19 May 2012 |In the latest postings over the last seven days, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles in every major discipline, including opportunities at SCE Santa Monica Studios, Monolith Productions, and others. Each position posted by ...

EA to shut down its Dragon Age social game

19 May 2012 |Newsbrief: After shutting down more than a dozen of its online-enabled games earlier this year, Electronic Arts has announced that it will turn off its free-to-play browser game Dragon Age Legends this June. EA shuts down its aging ...

Gamasutra Classics: Behind the scenes of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six

19 May 2012 |[Gamasutra Classics is a weekly article that flashes back to content published years ago, because the most valuable lessons grow better with age. This week, we look back at the origin of the long-running Tom Clancy series, just ...

Dungeon Defenders and DLC Quest highlight this week’s Best of Indie Games

19 May 2012 |This week on "Best Of Indie Games," we take a look at some of the top independent PC Flash/downloadable titles released over this last week. The delights in this edition include a percussion-focused rhythm game for Windows and ...

Report: EA loses lead developer for top-secret AAA social game

19 May 2012 |For the past several years, EA has reportedly been working on an important top-secret project: a big-budget social game that would allow the company's Playfish division to go toe-to-toe with Zynga. That project recently encountered ...

EA’s Origin attracting crowdfunded projects with free distribution

19 May 2012 |Electronic Arts will allow developers with crowd-funded projects to release their PC games through its download platform Origin, without having to pay any distribution fees for 90 days. This program is designed to allow EA to lure ...

Top iPad game apps: Bejeweled HD leads paid charts in debut week

19 May 2012 |[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free iPad gaming applications on the App Store as of today, with Bejeweled HD, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II and Feed Me Oil currently ranking among the ...

38 Studios makes state payment, plans 2013 release for MMO

19 May 2012 |Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios made its first payment for the $49 million loan it received from the state of Rhode Island, and will seek private funding to continue operations. The developer's financial difficulties came ...

How a mod put three-year-old Arma 2 on top of Steam’s charts

19 May 2012 |Woe betide the developer who creates a first-person shooter with potential grand scope for expansion on the theme -- or otherwise -- and ignores the modding community. That's the message that Bohemia Interactive, the studio behind ...

EA still has to face NCAA class action suit

19 May 2012 |A federal judge has decided to a class action lawsuit against EA will proceed

EA support of crowd-funded games is "acknowledgement of hardcore community"

19 May 2012 |EA Origin's David DeMartini tells us that the next 12 months for Origin will be "incredibly exciting"

Kinect’s "next evolution" won’t require Kinect 2, says Kudo Tsunoda

19 May 2012 |Microsoft's Kinect guru believes the future of the peripheral will come from developers learning new tricks

Finding Publisher 2.0

19 May 2012 |Showcasing those who "get it".

Elder Scrolls Online developer welcomes criticism

19 May 2012 |ZeniMax Online's Matt Firor is prepared to deal with hardcore Elder Scrolls fans

38 Studios makes payment to state of Rhode Island

19 May 2012 |$1.125m payment finally made, Copernicus MMO could launch by June 2013

Zynga stock plunges, trading halted

19 May 2012 |Facebook's IPO started today, and Zynga's stock dropped over 13%

EA Origin platform to host crowd-funded games for free

19 May 2012 |EA offers 90 days of free publishing to any ready-to-publish crowd-funded game

Critical Consensus: Diablo III

19 May 2012 |The servers are struggling, but what about the game? Has Blizzard delivered a product worthy of a 12 year wait?

Game Industry Legends: Yuji Naka

19 May 2012 |Sonic creator on his legacy, why current Sonic games stink, and his desire to make big AAA games again

Research: Parents Can’t Rely Solely on a Game’s Rating

19 May 2012 | A new study out of Iowa State University, seemingly the nexus of anti-video game research, has found that children who play prosocial games are more inclined to be helpful ...

U.S. Six Strikes Copyright Infringement Scheme Delayed Again

19 May 2012 | And it's one, two, six strikes you’re out at the old ball game - but the ball game has been delayed. And when I say ballgame, I mean the agreement between rights ...

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Meets with GAME Australia Creditors Next Week

19 May 2012 | The Australian arm of UK games retailer GAME made headlines on Monday when it told customers that it couldn’t honor its pre-orders for Diablo III. As one might ...

U.S. State Department: A Circular 175 Memorandum for ACTA Was Never Issued

19 May 2012 | In February the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request to the State Department asking them to release documents related to the ...

Origin Offers Free Distribution for Crowdfunded Games

19 May 2012 | Everyone is getting in on the crowdfunding bandwagon. Electronic Arts announced today that it will make life a little bit easier for anyone that successfully funds a game ...

Comcast To Test New Pricing Tiers for Broadband Users, Temporarily Suspend Caps in Some Areas

19 May 2012 | Comcast says that it will soon raise the monthly cap of 250GB that customers currently suffer under to 300GB as part of a new tiered pricing plan, according to a CNET ...

Woman Sues Capcom Japan for Work-Place Bullying

19 May 2012 | A Japanese game developer who worked on Dragon's Dogma at Capcom is claiming that she was bullied by her fellow employees to the point where she considered committing ...

Japan Bans ‘Complete Gacha’ Mechanics in Games

19 May 2012 | The government of Japan has decided that it needs to ban 'complete gacha' mechanics in video games, particularly those used by companies like Namco Bandai, Gree and ...

HMV and Microsoft raise Big Money for UK Cancer Charity

19 May 2012 | UK retailer HMV and Microsoft managed to raise over £19,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust as part of a 5-aside Soccer Challenge at Wembley. Koch Media, Warner Bros, and ...

More 38 Studios Woes

19 May 2012 | Things are going from bad to worse for 38 Studios and its employees. On Thursday a company representative hand-delivered a check for the $1.1 million payment May 1 to the ...

Latest Amazing Spider-Man trailer showcases the ‘web rush’ movement and combat system

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Redesigned Wii U tablet shown off by TT Games QA guy

20 May 2012 | A QA tester at TT Games (Lego Harry Potter, Lego Star Wars, et al.) has tweeted an image of a Wii U tablet that appears to have undergone a redesign since we saw one out in the wild during last year's E3.Most importantly, the ...

Diablo 3 app for Android checks server status

20 May 2012 | Those dying to play Diablo 3 online don't need to sit by their PCs to see if the servers are up and running anymore. A Diablo 3 server-checking app, aptly named "Diablo 3 Server Checker," is now available for free (ad-supported) ...

Diablo 3 app for Android checks server status

20 May 2012 | Those dying to play Diablo 3 online don't need to sit by their PCs to see if the servers are up and running anymore. A Diablo 3 server-checking app, aptly named "Diablo 3 Server Checker," is now available for free (ad-supported) ...

Zynga shares close at record low following lackluster Facebook IPO

20 May 2012 | Facebook went public yesterday, and its unexpectedly less-than-stellar performance on the trading floor has had powerful ramifications for its social soul sister Zynga, which finished the day's trading at a record low of $7.16 a ...

Zynga shares close at record low following lackluster Facebook IPO

20 May 2012 | Facebook went public yesterday, and its unexpectedly less-than-stellar performance on the trading floor has had powerful ramifications for its social soul sister Zynga, which finished the day's trading at a record low of $7.16 a ...

Game of Thrones gets June 8 UK release date

20 May 2012 | Game of Thrones, the latest RPG from Cyanide, is set to take over the UK and Ireland on June 8 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Based on the world first penned by George R.R. Martin, players guide two playable characters ...

PSA: EA shutting down Dragon Age Legends servers June 18

20 May 2012 | Electronic Arts and BioWare's social soiree in Ferelden will be coming to an end on June 18, 2012, according to the official Dragon Age Legends website. E-commerce for the title ended yesterday, meaning that while the game it ...

SOL: Exodus flying to all digital distribution systems, European retail this summer

20 May 2012 | Space combat invigorater SOL: Exodus is heading to European boxed retail this summer and all digital distribution systems shortly. Developer Seamless struck a deal with publisher Iceberg Interactive to the bring the game to ...

‘Tekken: Rise of the Tournament’ coming from Ong-bak director Prachya Pinkaew

19 May 2012 | A prequel to 2010's straight-to-video/Netflix Tekken film has been announced by Crystal Sky Pictures CEO Steven Paul during this week's Cannes Film Festival in France. Tekken: Rise of the Tournament is set to be directed by ...

While You Were Sleeping

23 August 2011 |Sleeping can be fun — necessary even. But what if stuff happens when you’re sleeping — game stuff? What are you supposed to to do then? Thankfully we have a solution — While You Were Sleeping, a quick round ...

Talk Amongst Yourselves

23 August 2011 |This is where Kotaku readers go to talk about the stuff we’re not already posting about. Think of it as the official unofficial Kotaku community forum. (more…)

Finally! Video Game Clothing That’s Stylish And Perfect For Daily Wear

23 August 2011 |Deus Ex: Human Revolution is already getting great reviews, though it doesn’t release until tomorrow. And now a Deus Ex clothing line has been announced for what promises to be a blockbuster game. (more…)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s Review Scores Are Perfectly Natural

23 August 2011 |In the year 2000, Ion Storm unleashed the perfect marriage of futuristic shooter and skill-based role-playing in Deus Ex, a game so unique that even its own sequel couldn’t replicate its success. Can any follow-up possibly do ...

The Gaming Tragedies That Didn’t Kill Us (But Nearly Broke Us)

23 August 2011 | My proudest moments as a tap dancer are displayed in my parents’ house in the form of sparkly, obnoxious trophies. (more…)

On The 8th Day Atlus Gave Us A Good Reason To Buy Devil Survivor Again

23 August 2011 | With only one more day before the 3DS remaster of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor comes out, Atlus gives fans one more day to consider replaying one of the best role-playing games of 2009. (more…)

The Rare Angry Birds Theme Guitar Remix Spotted In The Wild

23 August 2011 | When musicians decide to take video game music and make it better, the results are almost always fantastic. (more…)

Death Of PC Gaming Scheduled To Be Disproven On August 26

23 August 2011 | We’ve heard it said time and time again, PC gaming is not dead, but sometime just saying something isn’t enough. This Friday, PC peripheral maker Razer plans to prove it. (more…)

Aliens: Colonial Marines Shows Why It’s Smart To Wait 25 Years To Make A Movie Game

23 August 2011 |While we’ve known for a while now that Gearbox’s upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines makes extensive use of original concept art from the movie it’s based on, 1986′s Aliens, it’s still a surprise to see ...

The Trailer For Dark Souls Comes With Fair Warning

23 August 2011 | The new trailer for Dark Souls comes with a simple warning: Prepare to die. (more…)

Jagex reveals Runescape shake-up

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Wasteland 2: Brian Fargo’s Kickstarter triumph

19 May 2012 | The InXile founder on how crowd funding has connected him with fans and liberated him from draconian publishers. ...

Diablo III review

19 May 2012 | You may think you know Diablo, but you don’t know it with this level of polish. Diablo III benefits from great ...

Places: Catherine’s Stray Sheep bar

18 May 2012 | We duck in for one at the watering hole that doubles as a purgatorial stopover on the way to maturity. This ...

Five ways to fail on Kickstarter

18 May 2012 | Consultant, author and futurist Scott Steinberg on the things to get right if you want your project to succeed. ...

The Friday Game: Zoom

18 May 2012 | Wanderlands is back with a geometry-warping puzzler inspired by Peter Molydeux. Wanderlands is a Melbourne-based ...

Telltale’s The Walking Dead sells one million

18 May 2012 |read more

Brian Fargo: “I’ve never felt more pressure in my life”

18 May 2012 | But InXile founder is loving his direct relationship with fans in development of Kickstarter success Wasteland 2. ...

Epic to unveil Unreal Engine 4 at E3

18 May 2012 |

Japan outlaws ‘complete gacha’ mechanic

18 May 2012 |read more

Tomb Raider Series: The Evolution of Lara Croft

20 May 2012 |

Square Enix profitable due to FF XIII-2, Deus Ex and smartphones

20 May 2012 |

50 Funniest Mario Memes you Will Ever See

20 May 2012 |

Diablo 3 AoE Wizard Damage Build

20 May 2012 |

The Finest Diablo 3 Cosplay You’ll Ever See

20 May 2012 |

10 Classic Video Games We Wish We Could Play Right Now

20 May 2012 |

GTA 5 Vehicle List Leaked

20 May 2012 |

Diablo III Hit With Game Breaking Bug

20 May 2012 |

FPS Then vs FPS Now [PIC]

20 May 2012 |

Thousands of video gamers furious as they are unable to play Diablo III after huge demand brings dow

20 May 2012 |

Kinect In the Operating Room

20 May 2012 | colinneagle writes with an excerpt from Network World: "Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London began trials of a Kinect-driven camera last week that would sense body position, and by waving his or her hands, the surgeon can sift ...

Kinect In the Operating Room

20 May 2012 | colinneagle writes with an excerpt from Network World: "Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London began trials of a Kinect-driven camera last week that would sense body position, and by waving his or her hands, the surgeon can sift ...

EA To Provide Free Distribution To Kickstarter Games

19 May 2012 | New submitter The God of Code writes "EA has announced that they will be waiving all Origin distribution fees for crowd-funded games — like those from Kickstarter — for the first 90 days. 'The public support for ...

Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios Struggling Financially

19 May 2012 | medv4380 writes "38 Studios, run by Curt Schilling, is having a hard time paying its bills and employees. The gaming community hasn't been happy with the company since the issue with an Online Pass for Single Player Content, which ...

Curt Shilling’s 38 Studios Struggling Financially

19 May 2012 | medv4380 writes "38 Studios, run by Curt Shilling, is having a hard time paying its bills and employees. The gaming community hasn't been happy with the company since the issue with an Online Pass for Single Player Content, which ...

NVIDIA GeForce GRID Cloud Gaming Acceleration

16 May 2012 | Vigile writes "NVIDIA today announced a new technology partnership with Gaikai, an on-demand gaming company that competes with OnLive, to bring GeForce GRID to the cloud gaming ecosystem. GRID aims to increase both the visual ...

Diablo III Released

16 May 2012 | Almost 12 years after the launch of its predecessor, Diablo III has now been released. The game went live last night with over 8,000 midnight launch parties across the world. 2,000,000 players showed up for the beta test prior to ...

ZeroTouch Sensor: Ready For Large Televisions and Gaming

16 May 2012 | An anonymous reader writes "Researchers Jon Moeller, Andruid Kerne, and a team from the Interface Ecology Lab at Texas A&M University showcased the latest ZeroTouch multi-finger sensing technology at ACM CHI, in Austin. ...

GAME Australia Now Also In Administration

15 May 2012 | Fluffeh writes "Yesterday the Australian Division of GAME saw an email from their Marketing Manager confirming that the 95-store chain has gone into voluntary administration. PriceWaterhouseCoopers partner Kate Warwick said, ...

Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing

11 May 2012 | TheGift73 writes in with this link about IE 9 coming to an Xbox 360 near you. "Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently ...