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Garden Warfare Introduces You to the Zombies (and Zombie Buttcrack)

Scientist, Soldier, Engineer and All-Star are PopCap’s take on the popular shooter classes in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, coming next year to Xbox One. The Zombies’ Engineer looks like a guy you don’t want to get behind, either. The game will feature online matches of up to 24 players, plus a four-player online cooperative…

Titanfall Delivers Another Trailer, and It Is Breathtaking

There is a good reason Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall vacuumed up a bathtubful of awards when it was unveiled at E3, and you see a lot of them in this latest trailer shown today at Gamescom 2013. This throwdown is from a mode called “Attrition,” played on the Angel City map, and the seamlessness of the…

EA Sports UFC in May? Brian Hayes of EA Canada, developer of EA Sports UFC just said the game is “about nine months away from release.” That would mean the mixed-martial arts title would be due for a May 2014 launch. So far, EA Sports has said only Spring 2014. A first look at gameplay…

Command & Conquer: Episodic, story driven missions will be coming to Command and Conquer next year, Victory Games said on stage today at Gamescom. The missions may be played alone or cooperatively.

Watch Electronic Arts’ Gamescom News Conference Live Right Here

Electronic Arts has news from Cologne, Germany for Battlefield 4, the next Plants vs. Zombies, Need for Speed Rivals, and the first look at gameplay for EA Sports UFC. You can watch it all here live at 10 a.m. EDT. The presentation will also unveil The Sims 4 and deliver news from FIFA 14 as…

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified: The Kotaku Review

In an early mission of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a deer clattered across the pavement of a wrecked college town’s main drag as I took my orders. It paused and looked at me, and I at it. Even before this invasion, that deer’s world was under constant threat from death-dealing technology beyond its comprehension. What…

Adios, Zune: Friendly reminder that, as of Aug. 22, the Zune Marketplace will shut down on Xbox Live, as part of the conversion from Microsoft points to local currency. If you’ve got Microsoft points, they won’t be usable there anymore, in other words. More information is in this FAQ.

Infinite Possibility: Luke Ritson, the guy behind impressive alternative trailers for The Walking Dead and Halo 4, now brings us this—a hype reel for BioShock Infinite if 2K Games was willing to pay the freight for a Johnny Cash song. The usual spoiler alerts are in force for those who haven’t completed the game.

12GB PS3: Best Buy, in the U.S., is now listing a 12GB configuration for the PlayStation 3. This model appeared about a year ago in PAL territories in lieu of a 250GB version under the console’s latest design. It’s going for $199.99. [Update: It has an official page.]

EA Sports’ College Game May Come Back, but Time is Running Out

We’ll soon learn which lone university will bail on EA Sports’ college football video game, ending an 18-year run in which the series featured all of the more than 100 major-division teams every season—a bedrock expectation of any “it’s in the game” claim. The good news is the announcement of who’s in and who’s out…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Psyduck Kid

Last week I thought I had a timely exploitable with the Watermelon Warriors but noooo, y’all wanted Psyduck Kid, the lead image from our Pokémon World Championships roundup. Grievances were lodged; snide, dismissive responses were given and suddenly I was being threatened like I was a games developer or something. Well, OK, here you go.…

Here’s the Roster for ’30 Years of Wrestlemania’ in WWE 2K14

When it announced a special campaign mode this week, WWE 2K14 hinted the game’s roster would be the largest ever by virtue of the fact more than 45 classic bouts would be featured in “30 Years of Wrestlemania.” The question was how many wrestlers would be making repeat appearances to fill out that card. Ten…

Sunday Comics: Effective Anti-fungal Fighter

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics, chosen by our readership. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon in the lower right corner. Another Videogame Webcomic by Phil Chan and Joe Dunn. Published Aug. 16. Read more of Another Videogame Webcomic Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Watermelon Warriors: The Winners

China’s latest fashion trend is dressing toddlers in watermelon rinds, a novel way to both cool and protect your little fruit warrior. We’ve got 20 up-armored finalists in this week’s roundup, plus overall winner toolsoldier! Note: Yes, we will be doing Psyduck kid tomorrow. I suppose that spoils the post theme, but you still need…

Square Enix Puts 3D-Printed Final Fantasy Figures Out of Business

Square Enix consistently protects its trademarks and copyrights. And still people consistently use them without permission. So it’s perhaps not a surprise that an artist selling a Final Fantasy action figure series was shut down when Square’s lawyers told his 3D printer to cease and, yes, desist. CNET has the full story, but what happened…

Free Games: For Xbox Live Gold subscribers, 2010’s Dead Rising 2 and its DLC prequel Case Zero are both free, under the Games With Gold promotion. They’ll be available until the end of the month.

Potato Girl Loves Their Hash Browns: Who knew that Denny’s were such big fans of Attack on Titan? After someone sent the diner chain a picture of “Potato Girl,” calling her “your mascot,” Denny’s Twitter account sent out this scrumptious mash-up. [CrunchyRoll, h/t mr_raccoon]

How Times Change: ‘EA Didn’t Give a S–t About FIFA‘ 20 Years Ago

Today, EA Sports’ FIFA series is critically acclaimed and globally dominant. Internally, football means football, not American football as played in Madden. Twenty years ago, though, the publisher wanted nothing to do with it, according to this retrospective by MCV “EA didn’t give a shit about FIFA,” says the person who was EA’s European marketing…

EA Ends First Amendment Claim to Use Real-World Helicopters in Games

Electronic Arts and the makers of Bell Helicopter, have settled a lawsuit concerning the use of real-world aircraft in Battlefield 3, for which EA did not have permission. The publisher had asked a judge to rule it had a right to the depictions because they were part of a creative work protected by the First…

Gay Wrestler to Make His Video Game Debut in WWE 2K14

In about three hours, 2K Sports will reveal the roster for the “30 Years of Wrestlemania” mode in WWE 2K14. The main roster hasn’t been revealed yet, but 2K has said it will include Darren Young, the openly gay wrestler who this week had one of the most understated coming-outs, especially for a sports figure.…