Prison Architect Creators Respond To Our Prison Architect Critique

The developers of Prison Architect have read our guest writer Paolo Pedercini’s tough critique of their game. They… liked it! And they’ve recorded a video addressing Pedercini’s concerns about how their game does or doesn’t bleed the reality of the real prison system into the game. There’s a lot in the video, including Introversion designer…

Why Seth Rogen Would Be A Worse AI Companion Than Scarlett Johansson

In Spike Jonze’s film “Her,” anyone can buy operating systems that come equipped with artificial intelligence—and this AI is usually so amicable that it’s not uncommon for people to fall in love with their AIs. But if an AI developed the personality of Seth Rogen, like in this video by Paul Gale Comedy? It would…

A million copies in five weeks. That’s what the PS3 version of Minecraft has sold since debuting on Sony’s home console

There Really Is Nothing More Beautiful Than Cars Crashing In Slow-Mo

Here’s a video game fact for you: crashing into virtual cars never gets old; from Destruction Derby on PlayStation to Burnout I’ve always loved smashing into cars. Next Car Game may not even have an actual title yet, but damn is smashing up cars into a pulp a beautiful experience. Which is made ever so…

South Park Creators: ‘I Hope We Don’t Get A F***Ing Four On GameSpot’

The creators of South Park look tired, which makes sense, because they’ve been working on their game for what seems like forever. You can watch them talk a little bit about South Park: The Stick of Truth (out March 4 for 360/PS3/PC) in this short behind-the-scenes video, which is worth watching, because anything with Trey…

​Do You Care About Resolution And Frame Rate In Games?

Lately the internet has mustered a plethora of opinions on whether anyone should care about the finer technical details of a game. How much does screen resolution really matter? Is frame rate the end-all be-all? Some of us at Kotaku have already made our opinions on the matter known—but I thought I’d ask you what…

This is the definitive Tomb Raider launch trailer. Forgot all those other Tomb Raider launch trailers. They did not count. This one, for next week’s Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, is the one to watch.

The NHL Gets An Official Angry Birds Mascot. Of Course It Does.

While the rest of the Angry Birds spend their days desperately trying to recover their stolen young from their piggy adversaries, one has apparently decided he’d rather skip off to North America to play ice hockey. NHL HockeyBird is a bit of a dick. I’m sure his devil-may-care attitude will play well in NHL Stadium…

Tomb Raider For $9, Black Flag for $30, iPad Air [Deals]

Amazon is offering up a Steam copy of Tomb Raider for a measly $9 today. If you still have any $5 editor’s choice gaming credits to your name, you can apply them here as well. It’s not the definitive edition, but it should look just about as good on your gaming PC. Tomb Raider [Steam]…

GameStop Wii U Pre-Order Cancellation An Error, Game Still Coming

[UPDATE 2, 2:58PM:] Good news, everyone! GameStop Italy and our U.S.-based source have both said that this was all a glitch in the system and that Watch Dogs is—or will soon be—available for pre-order for Wii U again in Italy and the U.S. Apologies for making everyone nervous about this and for not getting that…

It cost one video game company $35,000 to be featured in one of Conan O’Brien’s Clueless Gamer segments. Re/Code reports that the late night talk show receives payment from game companies for some of the segments, with confirmation that horror game Outlast paid to be part of a three-game scare-focused spotlight

The Most Popular App On iTunes Is An Impossible, Ad-Riddled Mess

Flappy Bird is a game in which players tap the screen to make the titular Nintendo sprite conversion navigate a series of familiar pipe obstacles. It’s sloppy, frustratingly difficult and covered with in-game ads. It’s also the most popular free app download on iTunes. What gives? That’s the question being asked by Joseph Bernstein, who…

​We Can Make This Lego Batman Set Happen

What’s that up there? It’s a Lego Batcave. Where is it? Under Lego Batman’s Wayne Manor, of course. Awesome, right? It’d be more awesome if a blocky version of Bruce Wayne’s ancestral home actually existed. You can help with that. Right now, this miniature version of the Dark Knight’s lair only lives on a Lego…

​Mighty No. 9 Screens Give New Look at Mega Man Successor

Mighty No. 9—the spiritual descendant of Capcom’s beloved Mega Man franchise—seems like it can’t get here fast enough. But a glimpse at the crowdfunded game assures us that work is proceeding on the side-scrolling action game. Keiji Inafune’s Comcept dev studio gave a peek at the Mighty No. 9 alpha build in images that only…

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