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Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey has five new screenshots to its name—actually stills from the adventure game’s upcoming twenty to thirty minute vertical slice demo, which will be shown off in the coming months The shots star Kian Alvane, one of the game’s playable characters. Check ’em out below.

A Group of Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim Modders Are Making An RPG

An open-world fantasy RPG, predictably enough. The group, Druid Gameworks, is working on a Skyrim-esque PC RPG which wants to put more emphasis on player choice. Unwritten: Echoes of Twilight, as they call it, eschews the Elder Scrolls series’ main-quest-side-quest structure in favor of a more exploration-based system, where you basically unlock different quests and…

Do You Love Breaking Bad Enough To Build A LEGO Mosaic?

Well, this guy does. Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White is looking quite brooding and mysterious on his LEGO portrait, done by Andy Bauch of HippoBricks.com. Bauch says constructing the portrait took 10 hours and required 2000 LEGO pieces, with the end result, a thirty by thirty inch mosaic mounted on a one-inch wooden frame, weighing…

It’s raining expansion packs. GOG, still celebrating its fifth birthday, has made the expansion packs for five classic Bullfrog games available for free. So, owners of Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper, Magic Carpet, Populous, or Populous: The Beginning, know that another small part of your childhood has now been restored.

Here’s four more deliciously noir screenshots for Contrast, the indie platformer where you’re a shadow on the wall… well, most of the time. Check them out below. The game itself will be arriving on November 15 for PC, PS3, PS4 and Xbox 360.

The Birth of Mega Man’s Successor

In four days, Mighty No. 9’s Kickstarter will come to an end and soon, development for Mega Man’s spiritual successor will be in full swing. But the Kickstarter isn’t where the story of Mighty No. 9 began. In this special, zeroth episode of the project’s making-of documentary, which takes place during the weeks leading up…

The Best Game Trailers Are Set To 80’s Power Ballads

After Saints Row 4, Stan Bush’s “The Touch” makes yet another appearance in a video game context—this time, the Shadow Warrior reboot’s launch trailer. And it is glorious. Indeed, Shadow Warrior is out and available, ready to be enjoyed by the blood- and old school FPS-hungry masses. It can be found on GOG, Steam and…

Backers Livid Over Carmageddon Kickstarter [UPDATE: Dev Responds]

Good news, everyone: Carmageddon, the classic and highly violent crash racing series, is finally back. Its newest game, Reincarnation, is heading to Steam Early Access next year. However, not all fans are happy. In an update to the game’s Kickstarter project, which concluded last year, developer Stainless Games announced that the Early Access version of…

Wind Waker’s Link Enters The Smash Bros. Fray, Knocks a Few Heads In

Call him Toon Link, Young Link, it doesn’t matter; Link is one badass swordsman in any shape or form. This new batch of screenshots for Super Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS shows off what his Wind Waker iteration will look like in action. Here’s seven Wii U shots, in addition to the one on top: And…

The new Scribblenauts is out, so grab your dictionary and go on some wacky adventures with your fave DC heroes, or make some insane superheroes of your own with the game’s editor—the PC community already seems to be having lots of fun with that. Above’s the launch trailer, and here you can find our impressions.

A Mega Man… Board Game? Sure, Why Not

Collectible card game purveyor Jasco Games is planning to launch an officially licensed board game based on Mega Man, in which you “take control of your favorite hero, and battle Dr. Wily and his forces of evil robots.” The game’s prototype was present last month at tabletop gaming convention Gen Con, where initial sculptures for…

No, This Next-Gen RPG Isn’t Called “Wonder F**k”

Level-5, known for the Professor Layton series, is inching closer to releasing their next big multi-platform project, Wonder Flick. However, some people are not quite sure about the name. Over at NeoGAF, in a thread discussing the game’s most recent trailer, forumgoer Log4Girlz pointed out that the font used in Wonder Flick’s title card allowed…

The Death Star’s Trenches, Through the Eyes of the Oculus Rift

If you think about it, flight simulators, with their fully-realized cockpits and scenic locations, are a perfect fit for the Oculus Rift. So are space sims, for the same reason. Developer Boone Calhoun, realizing this, promptly went to work on an Oculus Rift demo of the Death Star trench run from Star Wars Here’s one…

Super Smash Bros. Melee Is Great. But Why Is It Great?

The aptly named Really Freakin’ Clever webseries is back, this time focusing on the second entry in Nintendo’s all-star brawler franchise—Smash Bros. Melee While I agree with the notion that having all these celebrated and massively nostalgic characters in one place is a hell of a selling point, it’s important not to overlook Melee’s rather…

China’s Capital Makes For One Big, Beautiful Toy City

The stereotype is that Beijing is all smog. That, of course, is not true. For instance, there are little toy people going about their business. Little toy cars hurrying to their destinations. And don’t forget the little toy skyscrapers, defiantly reaching into the sky as the music swells in the background. Of course, the video…

Got Twenty Minutes? Here, Kick Some Zombie Ass on YouTube

Hellraid, the game which attempts to mix the combat of Dead Island with the setting of Dark Messiah (or Heretic, or Hexen), has a prequel that you can play right now. The catch? It’s an interactive movie. Don’t worry though, it’s lotsa fun. Techland released the choose-your-own-adventure series on YouTube as a lead-up to the…

Mega Man Creator Keiji Inafune Will Answer Your Questions Tonight

Wanna know more about Mighty No. 9, or the history of one of gaming’s legendary franchises? Well, you’re in luck. Kotaku’s next live Q&A will star Keiji Inafune, father of the original Mega Man and its spiritual successor, who also worked on countless other games, including the Onimusha and Dead Rising series. The Q&A is…

It’s just a few stills, but this indie RPG already looks promising. The Last Hero’s creator submitted an annotated image album to Reddit in hopes of generating some attention for his side-scrolling RPG, which is currently waiting to be funded at IndieGoGo. If you dig hand-drawn pixels, give this one a look.

Apparently, The World’s Most Realistic FPS Will Be Free To Play

For eight years, a group of modders have been working on reworking DICE’s Battlefield 2 into a much more realistic and much larger-scale multiplayer shooter. In August, their journey came to an end, and the 1.0 version of their mod, Project Reality, was released. Now, the same group is working on a full game. The…

What Beats Mortal Kombat In Doom? Three Mortal Kombats in Doom!

We’ve mentioned the mod that lets you play Mortal Kombat inside Doom before. Well, here it is again: in this video, the creator showcases the third Mortal Kombat game being played during a Doom multiplayer match. Silly? Maybe. Amazing and indicative of just how much modding can do? Oh very much yes. According its creator,…