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Why Batgirl Would Make the Batman Video Games Better

Warning: mild spoilers follow for plot points in Batman: Arkham Origins So, Barbara Gordon didn’t become Batgirl in the latest Bat-game. It was a longshot, sure, since this was a prequel focused on Bruce Wayne’s maturation into the role of Batman. But, after playing the freshly released Batman: Arkham Origins, I came away thinking that…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Voltaire Crescent talks about when repetition is good in gaming… Voltaire Crescent talks about when repetition is good in gaming… Vol… (sorry) Marsh Naylor nominates the ever-expanding evolution of Travelers’ Tales’ Lego games as a Last-Gen Hero. And then he shares some great cosplay pics…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss calls Uncharted 2 a Last-Gen Zero and explains why he thinks it’s a failed jump across the gaps of video game creativity. NotGoodForYou takes a look at indie zombie shooter Contagion. And Peter Tieryas thinks that Heavy Rain is a Last-Gen Hero, saying that…

New X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer Brings All the Time Travel Feels

Man, I wasn’t expecting all this emotion in the clip for the upcoming X-Men prequel/sequel movie. And where are the damn Sentinels? Along with a bunch of other folks who’ve played X-Men on-screen in past movies, we get glimpses of new characters like Bishop and Blink, too. Despite loving the Chris Claremont/John Byrne storyline that…

Obamacare, Facebook or Unreal Engine: Guess Which Uses More Code

Computer code. It powers damn near everything in our lives at this point. But we really only ever think about it when it breaks. So, let’s think about how many lines of code make CryEngine 2, World of Warcraft and the Curiosity Mars Rover. There’s a swank infographic over at Information Is Beautiful that shows…

This one is real, not a fake. Weeks after someone tried to dupe unwitting folks with a bogus app, GTA V’s iFruit companion app is out now for Google Play

Strikingly Beautiful PC Game Will Surely Have Some Very Sad Robots

There aren’t any humans to be seen in this new trailer for upcoming PC release Reset. Mankind may be dead, for all we know. Whether people have survived into this harshly beautiful future or not, the robots (or mechs?) seem kind of depressed. Bummer. This is the first look that developer Theory Interactive has offered…

Mexican Standoff Has A Surprising Twist

A surprising twist… or twenty. Screw it, this Freddie Wong sketch with Key & Peele has ALL of the surprising twists. It’s a few days old but we just spotted it and couldn’t stop laughing.

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Rathorial offers high praise to Red Faction Underground as a Last-Gen Hero, noting how it let the player controller the pace of the story. This outgoing generation’s greatest RPG? It’s Mass Effect 2, according to Cimeas. And 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors gets…

In GTA Online, It’s Never a Good Idea to Get in a stranger’s Car. Weird things happen in the virtual version of Grand Theft Auto Online. So, yes: people may not think twice when it comes to getting into a car that a stranger just drives up and gets out of. Stay safe out there.…

SNL Star Re-enacts the 90s X-Men Cartoon All By Himself

Yesterday, after watching Professor X fire Gambit, a bunch of folks who professed their love for the Ragin’ Cajun said that their love affair started during the run of X-Men: The Animated Series in the 1990s. SNL star Taran Killam might be one of those people. Or he might love all the X-Men from that…

Rockstar Delaying GTA Online Stimulus Package Until Bugs Get Fixed

Been waiting for the first chunk of that $500,000 in-game cash infusion that Rockstar promised as a make-good for the bumpy launch of GTA Online. You’re going to have to wait a while longer. The makers of Red Dead Redemption don’t want to throw all that money out in the world until more bugs get…

Batman: Arkham Origins: The Kotaku Review

Troy Baker’s Joker voice is one of the best things about Batman: Arkham Origins. But it’s also a disturbingly reverent impersonation of Mark Hamill’s take on the Clown Prince of Crime. Therein lies the conundrum of the latest video game featuring the Dark Knight. On multiple levels, this game is about finding one’s voice. Players…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss opens the airlock and lets Mass Effect 2—a Last-Gen Zero in his mind—get sucked out to die in the cold vacuum of space. Stormborn can do more than just fancy pictures. He’s nice with the words, too, as this post on your possible career…

The Xbox One’s TV Commercial Is Full Of TV and Games

Hype season has begun. We are less than a month away from the debut Xbox One and the spot above is one part of how Microsoft will be trying to sell their next-gen console to TV-watching folks around the world. The fusion of television watching and high-end gaming sits at the center of the “Xbox…

Somewhere beyond the sea, Somewhere waitin’ for me. You’ll be able to go back to Rapture on November 12 when part one of BioShock Infinite‘s Burial at Sea DLC comes out for consoles and PC.

When Batman Runs Out Of Money, Things Get Desperate

Why would the World’s Greatest Detective need to do endorsements? He’s rich, right? Not after, as The Warp Zone points out here, appropriating billion of dollars of cutting edge military-grade prototypes for personal crime-fighting use, he isn’t. And watching Batman become a spoke-vigilante for McDonald’s and Coke Zero is pretty damn funny.

Professor X Hilariously Tears Gambit A New One. He Deserved It.

Look, I’m a Gambit hater. The weird headgear, the terribly written accent, the douchey pick-up artist vibe… none of it is worth putting up with for the nominally useful powers dude brings to the X-Men. Never liked him. So it is with great relish that I present to you Charles Xavier giving Remy LeBeau the…

Who’s in love with the Big Bad Wolf? Sometime this fall, The Wolf Among Us—Telltale’s new adventure game based on the long-running Fables series from DC Comics—will land on PlayStation Vita and iOS devices. See what Kirk Hamilton thought of the Xbox 360 and PC versions right here

They Couldn’t Make Star Wars 1313. They Made This Strategy Game Instead.

What do you do when the beloved video game studio you worked at gets closed down? You get to work on that side-scrolling ancient Rome strategy game you’ve always wanted to do. And not just any side-scrolling ancient Rome strategy game. Super Roman Conquest has a pretty clever twist that’ll change how you look at…