To: Ash From: Crecente Re: Right Now, Mrs. Bashcraft Will Start Reading Kotaku No, not me. I wasn't the one diagnosed today with carpal tunnel syndrome, Lucy was. Lucy is our 15-year-old border collie. She's been having a lot of trouble with one of her front paws lately so Trish took her to the vet today....

As you may already know, Assassin’s Creed II’s Ezio will possess a few new skills his crusades-era predecessor did not, including the ability to swim and, thanks to Leonardo da Vinci’s Ornithopter, the gift of flight. But it’s not just his newfound mastery of the elements that...

Agnostic mountain climbers today don't know how good they have it with global positioning devices, high altitude helicopter rescue parties and 457 kHz standard avalanche beacons, something I realized while playing Deep Silver's Cursed Mountain. Step into the shoes of Eric Simmons and his missing brother...

There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter's notebook but didn't turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? Games I Didn't Touch: I saw the fall line-ups for a trio of publishers in New York this past week. Majesco, Sony and Ubisoft were showing more than 30 games between them....

Adventuring within the guts of Mario and Luigi's arch nemesis Bowser may not be what you were expecting of the newest Mario & Luigi RPG, but Bowser's Inside Story has the intestinal fortitude to go there. The follow up to Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time and Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga takes...

Xbox 360’s upcoming Games on Demand service will be offering full retail game downloads from the comfort of your couch once the rather sizable NXE update happens in less than two weeks time. The service will offer slightly older games like Mass Effect, BioShock and Assassin’s Creed, but...

Would you like to work for the Gawker Media empire, slaving away on the technology that powers our informative web sites? Then have we got the job for you, tech guy or tech gal! Here's the official description from HR! Got a list of things you think need fixin' on our sites? Well so do we, actually!...

There are, perhaps, few more disconsonant scenes than of the austere silence of the library and the boisterous play of video games, but a growing movement is starting to put the two under one roof. Libraries around the country, from the Library of Congress, to university and community libraries, are...

It was a tough quarter for Sega's parent company, Sega Sammy Holdings, as the company announced losses of 10.293 billion yen ($108.85 million USD). It also revealed sales data on recent games The Conduit and Virtua Tennis 2009. Sega Sammy pulled in $639.4 million during the quarter, including video game...

According to the Gears of War website, it looks like we’ve stumbled into a free Xbox Live weekend for Xbox gamers out there with Silver accounts. More specifically, if you aren’t currently paying for Xbox Live Gold service but do in fact own Gears of War 2, Microsoft is letting you get in...

Harmonix continues to jam as much Pearl Jam into Rock Band as they possibly can, with the band's 9th studio album, Backspacer, available for download on the day it's released. Pearl Jam is releasing their 9th album without any major record label assistance on September 20th, but they've got a pretty...

Prepare for very nice graphics. And prepare to die. A Boy And His Blob, beloved NES platformer only some of us on the team have played, has inspired a Wii successor from the makers of the crushingly hard Contra 4. Oh yes, you will struggle in this one too, it seems. The guy from the company that's publishing...

Sony Online Entertainment's The Agency, the massively multiplayer spy role-playing game announced in 2007, may have hit a bit of a development snag, losing key personnel that includes the studio's director and executive producer. Eurogamer reports that producer Matt Wilson, art director Corey Dangel,...