When future generations of gamers look back on this period of growth and advancement in our medium, will they be able to tell one military shooter, space adventure or dungeon crawler from another? Probably not.
Are video games creatively narrow, or rich? Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski calls this “the most loaded question I’ve been asked in five years.”
Amid much discussion on whether games will one day be perceived as relevant art, one thing’s clear –it’s on today’s leading creators to break the cycle of sameness. What do games need to truly …

Tim Langdell, the CEO of EDGE Games, which has been at the heart of many controversies regarding trademark rights to the word “Edge” in video gaming, has stepped down from the board of directors of the International Game Developers Association.
The IGDA announced Langdell’s resignation in a brief statement this morning. In an email to Kotaku, IGDA Executive Director Joshua Caulfield said Langdell resigned voluntarily and was not asked to. Langdell provided a lengthy statement explaining his decision, the entirety of which is at the end of this story.
In his statement, …

Not only did Crytek have a life-sized version of their Nanosuit 2 on display at Gamescom, they were also handing out this nifty sales brochure for the battle armor.

The worldwide leader in family entertainment is about to get a great deal more entertaining, as the Walt Disney Company agrees to acquire iconic comic book company Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.
More than 5,000 iconic comic book characters will soon be in the hands of Disney, raising serious questions about the future of Marvel video game titles from Activision, Sega, THQ, and the upcoming MMO from Gazillion Entertainment. Under the terms of the agreement, Disney will pay Marvel shareholders $30 per share for their Marvel stock, plus .745 of …

Mega-retailer Best Buy are having one heck of an Xbox 360 games sale at the moment: buy a 360 game, get a second one for half price.
Best part being it’s not limited to a selection of old, unwanted games. It’s limited to, well, 232 Xbox 360 games, awesome to bad and everything in between. Even upcoming games, like Modern Warfare 2 and Brutal Legend.
Here’s the list. Have at it.
[Best Buy]

PS3 “soul breeding” game Record of Agarest War is being released in Europe by Ghostlight. The publisher has entertained two choices for box art.
The Japanese original and the new, more realistic “Westernized” 3D art. Can you guess which is which? (Don’t let the PEGI rating give the answer away!)
After getting complaints feedback, Ghostlight has decided to go with the original Japanese art.

The Entertainment Software Association released its annual report last week, and it shows a very impressive winning streak against anti-games legislation at the state level in the U.S.
In the ESA’s last fiscal year, state legislatures introduced 43 bills that would have regulated the content or access to video games. No bill regulating sales became law. The most notable failures came in Utah, California and New Mexico.
Not all of the ESA’s relationships with state lawmakers are so antagonistic. The annual report also touts the three states – Alabama, Georgia and Michigan …

MC Hammer once had a house atop a hill off the 680 near Fremont, Calif., and every time I passed it I’d say to myself, “Self, some day I’ll write a Kotaku post about MC Hammer.” That day has come.
MC Hammer, or at least his silhouette anyway, will make an appearance in the achievements for Zombie Apocalypse, the top-down zombie shooter coming to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. If you “rack up a 100x multiplier in any game mode,” you get “Can’t Touch This.” Because, you know, you’re a big …

Yes and no, say some comparison videos that hit YouTube yesterday. In the startup (above) and DVD loading, you see the Slim marginally trails the Phat. But in starting and loading Batman: Arkham Asylum, it’s faster.
DVD Comparison – PS3 Slim vs. Phat

Batman: Arkham Asylum – Game Bootup and Level Load

The Slim’s bootup doesn’t include the jingle and the Spider-Man font splash screen, but the level load also is faster, so the absence of that probably isn’t why the Slim’s faster in …

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