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Four Comics That Will Prey On Your Fears This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

The Justice League Can’t Fight Their Way Out of This Terrible Video Game

Look, I’m not gonna lie: I did not have high expectations for Justice League: Earth’s Final Defense. I joked with co-worker Mike Fahey that the subtitle makes it sound like the World’s Greatest Superheroes would lose their fight. Little did I know how right that joke would prove. The iOS game developed by Chinese net…

Panel Discussion Assemble!

Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this

Sound Shapes: The Kotaku Review

Though there’s a smorgasbord of audio pulsing through it, Sound Shapes won’t make a musician out of you. What it does is more esoteric and impressive than that. This new PlayStation Vita game lets you feel what it’s like to live inside a song. At its most basic, Sound Shapes has you playing your way…

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Need For Speed: Most Wanted Lets You Steal The World’s Fastest Cars. Kind Of.

Maybe you’ve had that moment on the highway where you pull up next to a fancy sportscar. You might think that the person driving it is probably some rich jerk, but still wonder how that Porsche or Lambo handles. Need For Speed: Most Wanted lets you take explore that fantasy in a different way. All…

We Should Be Calling The Designer of These Games Some Kind of Genius

You probably don’t know his name. And you might have ignored his games. But Luke Schneider deserves your respect. And your money. Schneider’s turned out more than a dozen games in two years, a feat that’s impressive no matter what you think of his output. And that output from his RadianGames studio has been very,…

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Gamestop Exec Says 70% of Used Game Credit Goes to Buying New Releases

Gamestop CEO Paul Raines knows that his business isn’t exactly a favorite of most developers, who see the retailer’s profits from pre-owned games as a big insult. But, he insists that Gamestop isn’t the bad guy. Used games actually help people learn about the medium, Raines says in a Gamasutra interview: “A lot of our…

To-Do in Los Angeles: Go and Punch a Car Pinata to Celebrate 25 Years of Street Fighter

We’ve already shown you a sneak peek at the awesome art being created to celebrate the quarter-century birthday of Capcom’s legendary fighting game series. And you can drool over a few more pieces in the gallery above. If you go to the Combo Attack Art Show at the IAm8-Bit gallery space, you’ll see all of…

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Dishonored Gets an Incredible List of A-List Actors to Go All Steampunk

Hit Girl from Kick Ass. Roger Sterling from Mad Men. Louise from Thelma and Louise. Princess frikkin’ Leia. The actors responsible for those much-praised performances will all be showing up in Arkane Studios’ highly anticipated alt-reality adventure when it comes out this fall. It’s kind of incredible, really. Publisher Bethesda Softworks let the news of…

Here’s Your First Look at Mass Effect 3’s Leviathan DLC

A new single-player mission finally comes to BioWare’s hit sci-fi series in the form of Mass Effect 3‘s Leviathan add-on campaign, announced today at EA’s Summer Showcase event.

World of Warcraft Loses 1 Million Subscribers, Falls Below 10 Million

1 million less people are playing World of Warcraft than last reported. The latest estimate of subscribers claimed by Activision Blizzard cites a number of 9.1 million—from financial results released today—down from the 10.2 million reported this past May. This marks the first time that WoW‘s subscriber base has dipped below 10 million since January…

Mass Effect 3’s New Single-Player DLC Will Delve into the Origins of the Reapers [Update]

News of Mass Effect 3‘s add-on campaign—rumored weeks ago—has surfaced at EA’s Summer Showcase event. Here’s the description: Mass Effect 3: Leviathan is the first story-driven, single player DLC to be made available since Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut. Leviathan expands upon the events of Mass Effect 3 with gripping and emotional storytelling, compelling new…

Writer of Arkham City Won’t Be Back for the Next Batman Game

Part of what’s made Rocksteady’s two Batman video games such great experiences has been the pitch-perfect stories players encountered in each. The narrative contributions in both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City came Paul Dini, who’s written excellent Batman stories for TV and film as well. But it seems that Dini may not be returning for…

Need for Speed: Most Wanted Sends the Corvette ZR1 Down Some Mean Streets

Early signs seem to indicate that the next Need for Speed game will essentially be a spiritual continuation of the Burnout franchise, especially since it’s being made by the Criterion dev studio that created those games. The hard-driving action in this new trailer—featuring a Corvette ZR1, Koenigsegg Agera R and Hummer H1 Alpha—confirms that and…

See the Glory of Assassin’s Creed 3‘s New Gameplay Engine Right Here

A new trailer spotlights the AnvilNext engine, which will be creating the all-new forest and city environments—and the people you’ll meet there—in the next Assassin’s Creed game.

Army of Two Returns to Take On Mexican Drug Cartels in Devil’s Cartel [UPDATE]

A press release issued today reveals that EA’s co-op paramilitary shooter will be back with a new game from Visceral Games, developed by the division’s Montreal studio. The image above and video below come from Game Informer‘s website Excerpts from today’s press release follows: Electronic Arts Inc. today announced Army of TWO™ The Devil’s Cartel,…

Minecraft’s Convention Heads to Disneyland Paris for 2012

After debuting MineCon in Las Vegas last year, Mojang has announced that they’ll be staging the annual gathering of Minecraft enthusiasts in France for 2012. How do you say “creeper” in French?