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If Only Every Online Game Had The Secret World's Fashion Sense
There's something to be sad for giving players a fixed set of armor and equipment upgrades to strive for, that perfect set of stat-enhancing items that let other players know exactly how accomplished they are. That something is "boring." Read more...
Amazon's Potential Jump Into Cloud Gaming, And Other Secrets From The World Of Video Games
A handful of recent job listings may offer some hints as to Amazon's future ambitions in the gaming space. More »
Lying, Stealing And Masturbation: Gamers Confess Secrets Before 'The End Of The World'
Obviously, the world didn't end last night. Still, the possibility spawned the #endoftheworldconfessions hashtag on Twitter a couple of nights ago, and some of these confessions were gaming-related. I compiled a selection of tweets from gamers where they confess to all sorts of silly, crazy, and sometimes disturbing things. More »
Funcom’s MMO The Secret World No Longer Requires Subscriptions
The Secret World seemed like a promising evolution of the MMO formula when it came out this summer. But publisher Funcom has hit a series of stumbles that have left many wondering how they were going to move forward. One crucial step was revealed today with the announcement that subscriptions are no longer required. More »
Grand Gaming Experiment Curiosity Launches, Players Tap Out Dirty Words
Curiosity, the first experimental game from Peter Molyneux's 22 Cans, is an iOS app that invites the entire world to tap away at a gigantic multilayered cube, revealing its secrets pixel-by-pixel. A "life-changing" secret awaits the single player that makes it to the center. Right now it says "Fuckers" on the side of it. More »
Accel World: Awakening of the Silver Wings Is Interesting, But Flawed [Import Preview]
Accel World is a popular anime series based on a series of popular light novels centering around a secret MMORPG fighting game that gives you startling powers in the real world. While this seems like the perfect setting for a fighting game tie-in, its first game is instead an odd cross between a dating sim and a turn-based RPG. Show More Summary
Accel World Starts Strong, But Ends Wrong [Review]
I have made no secret of how much I have been enjoying Sword Art Online—going so far as to call it the smartest anime in years. When fellow Kotaku East writer Toshi Nakamura told me that there was another anime by the same author also about online games called Accel World, I began watching it as quickly as possible. Show More Summary
Insider Trading Allegations Bring More Bad News For Funcom And The Secret World [The Secret World]
Funcom, developer of modern-day MMO The Secret World, is just not having a good year. More »
It's Hard to Be Excited About The Secret World's Next Update With the Lead Designer Gone [Video]
Hey look, it's a video for the changes coming in The Secret World's Issue #2: Digging Deeper update. Plastic surgery, bazookas and an extension of "the Kingsmouth Code" investigation mission — these are things I would have been thrilled about two days ago. Now that lead designer Martin Bruusgaard has been let go, not so much. More »
The Secret World "State Of The Game" Update Promises Continued Content, Despite Developer Difficulties [The Secret World]
It's no secret that The Secret World has been facing some troubled times. Developer Funcom laid off half their staff earlier this month, which would seem to make the promised monthly content updates more challenging to release on time. More »
Sometimes Fan-Made Trailers Are Even Better Than The Official Ones [Video]
Well, at the very least, this fan-made The Secret World trailer is impressive in and of itself. But this isn't the first time we've seen a fan take content from a game and create a fantastically appropriate trailer, sometimes to greater success than the game's own developers. More »
The Secret World Developer Lays Off "Around Half" Its Staff [The Secret World]
Modern-day MMO The Secret World has a great deal going for it. The world is interesting, there are clear plans for regular content updates, and their new raid looks lovely. It even has a free trial now. But unfortunately, what it doesn't have going for it is subscribers. More »
The Secret World Unveils an Ambitious Plan to Beautify New York City [The Secret World]
Though The Secret World has gotten off to a stumbling start, Funcom continues to aggressively roll out fresh new content, like the August 28 release of Issue 2: Digging Deeper and the promised New York City raid, which in the next few months will give the city a real reason to never sleep. More »
The Secret World: The Kotaku Review [Video]
As it turns out, I was born to be a Dragon. More »
The Secret World Log, Supplemental: I Am All the Character Classes [Video]
With Kate on holiday this week's MMO log for The Secret World isn't happening. This is sad. Luckily for everyone involved, I've been playing as well, and I am tired of people asking me what character class I rolled. That's not how it works. Here's how it does. More »
Panorama Shots Wrap This Game Around You [The Secret World]
Reader Daniel, who's playing MMO The Secret World, made these panorama screenshots and asked if we thought they looked interesting. More »
The Secret World, Log Three: The Good, The Bad, and the Buggy [The Secret World]
There are times, when playing a game, that the hours just sail past. The player becomes completely immersed in the content and time loses all meaning, buried in a haze of "just one more quest." More »
Rhythm Thief and the Emperor's Treasure: The Kotaku Review [Video]
It's midnight in Paris, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. A fearsome dictator has come back from the grave, secret treasures of untold power have been unearthed, a girl is in trouble, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Nothing left to do… but dance, dance, dance! More »
Sexy Secret Agent Toys Are The World's Most Dangerous Pin-Ups [Video]
Collectible company Gentle Giant and artist Kevin Dart have teamed up to bring out one of the coolest lines of original toys (as in, not based on a comic, movie or video game) I've ever seen. More »
The Secret World, Log Two: I Am Not Always Good at Staying Alive [The Secret World]
It's not that I'm terrible at combat. On the contrary: I'm pretty good at slicing things up. I've got solid DPS and a couple of powerful heals that make me a force to be reckoned with. It's just that my judgment and self-preservation instincts seem to be more or less entirely absent. More »