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Over at Dead End Thrills, screenshot specialist Duncan Harris has turned his eye on the striking sci-fi fantasy Remember Me. Head on over there for some screenshots so high-res they look like concept art.

This Killer Metro: Last Light ‘Trailer’ Is More Like A Short Film

Video game trailers can be crass, they can be dumb, and they can be misleading. They can also be pretty damned cool. This trailer for Metro: Last Light is pretty damned cool. It’s called “The Mobious,” and it takes a long, freeze-frame tour through a bunch of the sorts of scenes you’ll see throughout the…

Game of Thrones‘ Most Horrifying Scene, Now Safe For Kids!

Game of Thrones is a lot of things—fantasy drama, water-cooler provocateur, softcore porno—but it is most certainly not a kid’s show. Someone should really invent a filter, like those gore-filters they have in video games. And hey, what do you know, someone did! (Spoilers after the break!) SPOILERS FOR THIS WEEK’S GAME OF THRONES FOLLOW…

40 Persistent (And Lucky) Fans Will Get To Go To Sony’s E3 Conference

You know how Nintendo is inviting fans to go to Best Buy and try out their E3 games? Well Sony’s all, “Eff that, how about you guys just come to our actual E3 press conference?” In a new post at the PlayStation Blog, Sony has invited fans to come to the LA Memorial Sports Arena…

All The Stuff Superman Returns Got Wrong

If you look beyond its cardinal sin of being a kinda lousy movie, 2006’s Superman Returns got plenty of other stuff wrong, too. Or, “wrong,” as the nitpickers at

Nintendo’s Fart Fixation

Nintendo loves farts, and they would very much like you to know it. That’s right! Farts! The flatulence in question is tied to the upcoming Game & Wario, a Wii U game that very few people seem to care about. I mean, I’m sure some people care about it, but it’s not really garnering the…

Company of Heroes 2 has begun its open beta, which will run through June 18. To sign up, head over to the game’s Steam page.

The Great Game of Thrones Spoiler Has Finally Been Released

Do you hear that great whooshing sound? That is the sound of a massive spoiler being released into the atmosphere. We’ve kept it caged for so long, and it’s finally out there. Fly free, spoiler! SO, OKAY, FOR REAL, IT IS TIME TO TALK ABOUT LAST NIGHT’S GAME OF THRONES AND SO HERE COME SOME…

Gunpoint: The Kotaku Review

Good things often come in small packages. Gunpoint is just such a good thing, in just such a small package. Like the diminutive buildings you’ll spend the game circumnavigating and infiltrating, Gunpoint itself is an intricate array of interlocking circuits and gears, finely tuned and waiting for you to bend it to your will. You…

Team Fortress 2 Gets Its Very Own TV Commercial

During Sunday’s episode of Venture Bros., Valve’s long-running multiplayer extravaganza Team Fortress 2 got its very own television spot. Not bad, for a nearly 6-year-old game! Watch it here: There are also some new Venture Brothers-themed items in the shop, and every Adult Swim item is on sale.

Looks Like The Next Walking Dead Game Features A Dude Named… Vince

Three (Fast) Facts You May Not Know About Xcom: Enemy Unknown

Did you know that while developing last year’s Game of the Year-winning Xcom: Enemy Unknown, the team at Firaxis played the original X-COM every week and made new hires complete the entire game? I did not know that. Here are three “fast facts” about XCOM from the people who do Lore in a Minute.

Artist Elizabeth Simins has completed the final chapter of her wonderful four-part series Manic Pixel Dream Girl, in which she takes a long look back at her life growing up as a girl who plays video games. I recommend reading the whole thing from the top, and you can read the final chapter on its…

This Portal-Themed Bedroom Is Outrageous And I Want To Live In It

Have you ever wanted to live like an Aperture Labs test subject? You have? Well then, you might want to consider living in a ridiculously cool custom-made bedroom like this one. The room, designed by a gamer/interior-decorator/accountant/wizard named Lauren, has been a labor of love, and man, does it show. She details her work at…

How Razer’s New Ultrathin Gaming Laptop Compares To A MacBook Air

Despite the company’s marketing tagline, Razer’s new Blade ultrathin gaming laptop isn’t really “thinner than a dime.” It’s thinner than a dime… that’s been placed on its side. That said, it’s still a pretty darned thin gaming laptop. (And you know what, it’s sort of a cute tagline. After all, a laptop truly thinner than…

Time To Call Out Iron Man 3‘s Biggest WTF Moment

You know what, it’s hard to argue with some of the stuff in this (spoilery) Iron Man 3 video from How It Should Have Ended. Specifically, how it calls out the movie’s biggest WTF moment. I liked the movie a good deal, but I had the same question at the end: Why on Earth did…

I’d Collect The Hell Out Of These Game of Thrones Magic Cards

What’s remarkable about these Game of Thrones characters re-imagined at JermTube as Magic: The Gathering cards isn’t so much how convincing they look, it’s how much thought was put into making them read like functional Magic cards. Here are two more sets of ten, click to embiggen: You can download them individually here, here and…

Acapella Can’t Make The Metal Gear Solid Theme Kick Any Less Ass

Not all music can survive the a cappella treatment, let alone the “Geekapella” treatment. Goofy dudes (Max and Sam) singing geeky music, sort of in tune and sort of out of tune… a lesser theme song might lose some of its dramatic heft. Not Metal Gear Solid No, when the heroic theme entered at 2:22,…

The fine folks at Lore In A Minute have tackled the seminal puzzle game Myst, which you may recall actually features some remarkably convoluted backstory. I keep meaning to replay this game…

What Are Your Used Game Habits Like?

There’s been a lot of talk of used games lately. But for all the theorizing and opinion-lobbing about the impact used games may or may not have on the video game industry, it can be tough to tell just how much of a part they play in our readers’ lives. So tonight, I’m gonna turn…