The past year has seen the unparalleled rise of Minecraft in the capable hands of Notch and his team at Mojang, and a lot of chatter has been circulating lately about the indie developer’s next project. At the GDC earlier today, Mojang unveiled Scrolls, the developer’s attempt to revitalize the card game genre. Head past [...]

Veteran shooter developer DICE revealed its newest gameplay footage for the eagerly-awaited Battlefield 3 at the GDC earlier today, revealing a portion of the game’s single-player campaign set in what appears a conflict in the Middle East of 2014. Readily apparent in the gameplay trailer is the wonders of DICE’s lauded Frostbite 2.0 engine, claimed [...]

Earlier today, Bethesda released for your most eager viewing the first official trailer for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to include actual gameplay from the anxiously-awaited sequel to the famed fantasy franchise. Within its nearly three-minute length, there is packed an extraordinary amount of the sword-slinging and spell-flinging you’ve come to expect from The Elder [...]

With the release of the original Bioshock, PS3 gamers were forced to look on with despair as their Xbox 360 counterparts frolicked through Rapture with Plasmid-fueled destructive glee until a separate developer ported the game for Playstation 3 release one year later. Chris Kline, technical director from Irrational Games, reassures that both PS3 and Xbox gamers will be granted the same release treatment, allaying the concerns of shafted Sony customers.

Rooster Teeth, the highly popular machinima production group, just released the final video of the team-up between their flagship Halo machinima series, Red vs Blue, and Gamestop. The 3-part video miniseries is in itself a comical advertisement for Gamestop’s own Halo: Reach pre-order/advertisement campaign, as each episode holds blatant references towards the Gamestop-only pre-order offer [...]

Treyarch and Activision are holding a “Full Multiplayer Reveal” event this evening for the next installment of the critically acclaimed Call of Duty series, Call of Duty: Black Ops, with all signs pointing to a veritable cornucopia of glorious multiplayer information.

Kotaku reader Sean discovered an imposing obelisk in his hometown of Toronto, an obelisk serving as a respectably original advertisement for Halo Reach and an image vaguely reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Expose yourself to a harbinger of planet-glassing doom after the break!