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Spy Hunter Get Reborn For Vita and 3DS October 30th

Get ready to have the theme from Peter Gunn suck in your head all over again. Warner Bros. Games just divulged that the previously announced reboot of the car combat classic will be hitting shelves in portable form on October 30th. It’ll be playable at Gamescom for those attending. The rest of us can take…

Fewer People Finished Mass Effect 3 Than Mass Effect 2

I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t wait to finish Mass Effect 3. Sure, I wanted to close out the battle against the Reapers, but I played to complete the campaign in BioWare’s threequel to see where all the characters I’d grown to know wound up. Oddly, many other people who bought Mass Effect…

EA partners with weapon and gear makers for Medal of Honor Warfighter. Gameological Society doesn’t think that’s smart.

Five Hong Kong Crime Movies You Should Watch Before Playing Sleeping Dogs

The best gangster movies I’ve ever seen didn’t come from Hollywood. They’ve emerged from the Hong Kong film system and make the relationships between police and lawbreakers feel more seductive and complex than most of the similarly themed films in the West. I’ve written before about how Sleeping Dogs might be the game to finally…

Talk Amongst Yourselves is where you should go to talk about games. And life. And egg creams.

Phil Fish told Kotaku a Tweet about Zynga wanting Fez for mobile was “not a joke.” He turned them down.

The New Red Dawn Movie Channels a Little Bit of Homefront

If you played Homefront, the new trailer for the remake of 1984’s Red Dawn is going to seem like déjà vu all over again. When THQ’s ambitious but shallow 2011 first-person shooter first started its hype machine, the comparisons to the 1980s Cold War action movie rampant. Part of that is because the movie and…

2012 Has Been a Great Year For a Little to Mean a Lot in Video Games

There isn’t much to Sound Shapes. That’s what makes it great. I’m not talking about the campaign, which is great and I certainly could’ve used more of. No, I’m talking about the experience that the new Vita game delivers. From the way you play it—pretty much just rolling and jumping—to the environments you play through,…

Talk Amongst Yourselves is where you should go to talk about games. And life. And cherry lime rickeys.

A person claiming to be an ex-Zynga worker trashed the company at Q&A site Quora. No word from Zynga if they’re legit.

You Can Now Pre-Order the Ouya Console

If you contributed to $95 or more Ouya’s record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, then congratulations! You’ll be getting one of the shiny, Tegra-powered game consoles when they come out next year. But if you didn’t contribute to the crowdfunding and still want to see what all the fuss if about, you can pre-order the Android box today…

See How Dishonored Will Let You Improvise Some Really Cool Kills

The malleability of the combat system in Dishonored is one of the things that has me most lookingf forward to the upcoming alternate-reality adventure from Arkane Studios The trailer above shows how you can mix and match abilities and gadgets to pull off sneaky, surprising kills. Can’t wait until October.

Pitfall! on iPad Is What You Expect and a Little Bit of What You Don’t

If you’re old like me, you played the original version of Pitfall! on the Atari 2600 way back when. Sequels to David Crane’s iconic side-scrolling adventure have come and gone but none have quite captured the tense feel of the 1982 release. Yet, the 30-year-old classic seems like it’d be great as a mobile gaming…

You’ll be able to see Black Ops II‘s multiplayer played from Gamescom next week via livestream

It’s Donkey Bane Vs. Bat-Jumpman in This Retro Remix

Artist Julien Bazinet likes Donkey Kong. He likes other things, too, like Doctor Who, Aliens and Sesame Street. And when you can render graphics as exceptionally as Bazinet, well, there’s certainly nothing from stopping you from implanting those latter things into Donkey Kong. The results are pretty great. I especially like the randomness of the…

Hybrid Experiencing Launch Day Woes on Xbox Live [Update]

Hybrid—the gravity-defying action title developed by Jeremiah Slaczka‘s 5th Cell’s studio—is supposed to be launching today on Xbox Live. But the experimental shooter doesn’t even appear to be available to download. According to Joystiq, Hybrid has been pulled from Xbox Live Marketplace due to server issues. Slaczka posted the following message on the game’s forums:…

BioShock Developer Loses Two Key Members

Two senior-level members of Irrational Games—the highly regarded development studio behind BioShock and the upcoming BioShock Infinite—have left the studio, according to Gamasutra Director of product development Tim Gerritsen and art director Nate Wells are both leaving Irrational. Gerritsen, an industry veteran who was at Prey developer Human Head before coming to Irrational—was a forward-facing…

Nintendo Says They’ve Finalized Wii U Box Art Designs. They Probably Look Like This.

The leak of Wii U box art for a few Ubisoft titles got people wondering if the images seen online were real. Then Ubisoft confirmed the leaked box art was in fact legit. Now Nintendo is chiming in. Here’s what Nintendo sent Kotaku when we asked about the legitimacy of the designs: Nintendo has finalized…

The Tomb Raider Reboot Could Use a T-Rex

I’m worried that Lara Croft won’t ever get to fight a dragon again. And that she’ll never go back to Atlantis. Everything we’ve seen so far from the gritty Tomb Raider reboot due out next year seems to indicate that the Crystal Dynamics is burning the fantasy trappings off of the action franchise. And that…

Take a Look at the Newest Trailer for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

A new teaser for Square Enix’s rebuilt MMO has surfaced, showing off more of the world and characters that players will encounter when the 2.0 version of the online RPG launches later this year.