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Steam’s Future Is Filled With… Bollywood Dancing?

Yes, someone’s made a game about bollywood dancing. It’s going on Steam, thanks to Greenlight. The people have spoken! Of course, diversity is still the name of the game with this fresh group of community-approved Steam games. We have a charming puzzle game about chemistry. An adventure game which aims to teach children about being…

Dialogue? In my rabbit brawler? Overgrowth’s latest alpha update vid details the new dialogue system prototype, which shows what creating new levels and scenarios will look like once the game is out. Lots of technical stuff, but there’s a little bit of rabbits beating each other to pulp for all to enjoy.

Let’s Play Dress-Up with the New Lightning Returns Trailer

Good thing mizz Lightning has the time to stay fashionable in between going on missions to save the world. Otherwise, we couldn’t spend all this time looking at her fabulous outfits The latest and shiniest Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII interactive trailer from Squeenix has you help Lightning pick out a dress for her next…

“We’re fans of Warcraft 1, Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3, and we’d love to replay those games for sure.” J. Allen Brack of Blizzard, talking about making the first three Warcraft games compatible with modern PCs. “We actually have [several guys] who are working on a side project to do something like that.” [via Polygon]

Beating Up Hellish Cannibal Mutants in the Moonlight Sure Looks Fun!

It’s just a normal day in the world of open-world horror-survival game The Forest. Wake up, admire the scenery, get friendly with some critters, cut some wood. Craft a grotesque effigy to attract nightmarish mutants from the forest’s depths. Y’know, the usual. The Forest has been approved for distribution on Steam and its alpha version…

Veteran Game Dev Risks Health for 80-Hour Charity Gaming Session

You probably shouldn’t try this at home. Leave it to the professionals—like Billy Joe Cain. Cain’s been in the gaming industry for about twenty years, during which he worked on games for Origin Systems and Electronic Arts. He also set up a world record (several of them, in fact) playing the 1980 arcade game Defender—a…

Here’s What You Can Watch on the Xbox One In Between Games

Yesterday we showed you what you can entertain yourself with in between play sessions on the PS4. Now, it’s the Xbox One’s turn. Microsoft is calling this the “first wave” of their Xbox One applications, with more following for both their new console and the Xbox 360: Amazon Instant Video Crackle CWTV ESPN FOX NOW…

One Guy Loves SNES Battle Music So Much, He’s Making More Of It

Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy VI. Secret of Mana. All SNES classics with wonderful soundtracks. Mark Reichwein from Japan agrees, but he is taking his love for classic video game music one step further… by actually composing more of it. Reichwein is a great fan of boss battle music in particular, which is why he’s making…

Marth Joins The Smash Bros. Fray, Promptly Seduces Princess Peach

Can’t blame her, honestly Marth, the Hero-King and swordsman of Fire Emblem, is quite the looker, if you can look past the headband Yep, Marth and his trusty headband will once again be present for another round of Smash Bros. brawls, in his third appearance in the series since Melee. Nintendo’s released a few screenshots…

What the Hell Does Rhubarb Have To Do with Duke 3D?

That and many other questions will not be answered tonight by the Geekapella crew’s latest work, an a capella rendition of “Grabbag,” AKA the Duke Nukem 3D theme tune. Complete with silly dancing. We’ve featured these guys before, but this video takes the cake in terms of sheer, insane randomness as far as I’m concerned.…

The Licensed Rambo First-Person Shooter Looks Kick-Ass. No, Really!

Here’s the gameplay trailer for the aptly named Rambo: The Video Game, currently in development at the Poland-based Teyon. Yes, it’s a licensed title, but… it actually looks pretty darn good! The game comes out on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 early next year and has you play through the events of the first three…

The Sea Giving You Trouble? No Problem, Just Shrink The Moon

First-person puzzle game Scale, where you solve problems by shrinking or growing stuff, is coming along nicely. By “coming along nicely,” we mean “becoming more and more insanely awesome,” in this case. Just look at the video above. Look at it. Swimming is no longer an acceptable way to find treasure underwater. Incidentally, Scale‘s Kickstarter…

Foxconn wants to dabble in mobile gaming. The controversial Taiwanese company, eager to move beyond parts manufacturing, recently announced that they would be releasing several mobile games. Their first game, developed jointly with NetDragon (Dungeon Keeper Online, Transformers Online), will be out within six months Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing…

PC Point and Click Fans, Get Ready For A Christmas Treat

The Kickstarter campaign which intended to revive Charles Cecil’s Broken Sword adventure game series ended successfully a bit over a year ago, so it’s about time we know more about when the follow-up will actually be here. Released as two episodes, the first part of The Serpent’s Curse will arrive to PC on the fourth…

Velocity Ultra, the teleporting vertical shoot-em-up for the Vita which we rather liked, is making its way to PC. The port is being handled by Curve Studios of Stealth Bastard fame, and will include customizable controls and graphics enhancements. Expect it to pop up on Steam around late December.

One Man’s Harrowing Quest For Toilet Paper, As Told By A ZombiU Short

Admit it. You would brave the undead-filled streets for some toilet paper, too. Zombie apocalypse? Pfft. This ten-minute short, created over six months with (amazingly enough) a budget of only £250 (about $400), tells the story of Ron, a lone survivor in the ZombiU universe whose priorities might seem skewed at first, but really—would you…

FlatOut developer Bugbear Entertainment’s Next Car Game is now on Kickstarter. The group aims to raise $350,000 to create what they call “Destruction Racing Perfection,” with a next-gen console port of the game promised should the campaign manage to gather $1,500,000. You can take a look here

Blasting Through Doom’s Levels as Duke Nukem? There’s a Mod For That

What do Duke Nukem, B.J. Blazkowicz, and Doomguy have in common? They’re all stars of a pretty sweet-looking Doom mod, that’s what. As you can see in the above trailer, the aim of Samsara is to take locales and/or characters from the FPS games of old—Duke3D, Heretic, Hexen, Marathon, Chex Quest, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D, and…

A Game Where You Fight Giant Monsters… And Diabetes

No, it’s not Captain Novolin. This one actually looks decent. A bit different, but decent. Over at Kickstarter, a group called Game Equals Life is attempting to gather money for what at first glance might look like an edutainment game, but actually isn’t. You’ve got a hero, see. A mage with a bitchin’ cannon. Their…

Tactical RPG Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is getting an enhanced remake on January 30 in Japan. Titled Disgaea 4 Return, the remake puts the fully patched PS3 game and all its DLC on the PS Vita, throwing in a new scenario and a sixth level of magic. Thus far, there have been no mentions…