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So, Call of Duty just teased this thing, which means we can look forward to a lot more about Ghosts at the next Xbox’s big shindig on Tuesday.

Deathstroke is a playable character in Batman: Arkham Origins, according to this preorder offer (of course) from Amazon. Click this link and then on the Arkham Origins box in lower right to see it. [via TheSlanted]

Police Blotter: His Face Fought the Law and the Law Won

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, but also potentially tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. Faces of Resisting Arrest WEST PALM BEACH,…

Horrid Friday the 13th NES Game Gets This Special Edition Figurine

Friday the 13th, the 1989 game, is widely considered to be one of the worst video games of all time, certainly one of the worst ever made for the NES. So of course it rates a special edition figurine—Jason Vorhees in the strange purple getup he wore for the final, deeply unsatisfying boss battle. Figures.com…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Roboshop

Next week we should have plenty of absurd things and derpfaces coming out of the Next Xbox reveal, so it’s premature to parody that right now. We need a more timeless exploitable, something like—oh, yeah, this bigass statue of Robocop. Here we go. The statue, remember, was a Kickstarter initiative to place a tribute to…

Just in time for Mega Man 5‘s release on the 3DS Virtual Console, Capcom’s offering the game’s soundtrack (57 songs in all) on the Capcom store.

Sunday Comics: The Eyes Have It

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. Brawl In The Family by Matthew Taranto. Published May 14. Read more of Brawl In The Family Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…

In case you were wondering, that incredibly rare instruction manual from the Nintendo 64 video game ClayFighter: Sculptor’s Cut ended up selling for $1,377

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ridiculous Rift: The Winners

Oculus Rift isn’t even in production and the VR device already has been put to that most basic of human needs—vigilante executions. If experiencing the guillotine in full stereoscopic view isn’t intense enough, feast your eyes on this week’s set of ‘Shop Contest winners, led by arniejolt! Acnyc2000 (This means “Will there be cake after…

Ouya Will Be at E3 … in the Parking Lot

Ouya, the crowdfunded Android gaming console, will be in Los Angeles during E3, but it won’t technically be *at* E3. That’s because its booth will be in “a parking lot directly across from the Convention Center’s South Hall.” Is it this one? That’s according to a message sent to Ouya developers by the company’s head…

Valve was at work on a set of augmented reality glasses when several employees were let go back in the winter. Two of them are continuing to work on the project, with the company’s blessings. The Verge has video of it in action

New Jersey’s state senate voted unanimously for a program that will print up a bunch of pamphlets about the dangers of scary, scary video games and send them home with schoolchildren. The bill, sponsored by Democrats, now moves to the state Assembly.

Madden Special Edition Includes ‘Sunday Ticket’—Even Without DirecTV

Yesterday, EA Sports announced a $100 “Anniversary Edition” for Madden NFL 25 that will include a code offering buyers access to DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket—the channel that lets you watch any team outside of your local market—even if they aren’t subscribers to the satellite TV service. There’s been a bit of confusion as to what…

Patton Oswalt’s Amazing Star Wars Episode VII Rant, Brought To Life

The totally improvised, 7 1/2 minute filibuster from an episode of NBC’s Parks & Recreation last month, in which Patton Oswalt outlines his vision of Star Wars: Episode VII (with Marvel crossovers) could not possibly have been more perfect, could it? Well, yes, it could, actually … YouTube video uploaded by iZacLess To contact the…

Days before the next Xbox’s unveiling, NBA Live‘s social media decides to come out of hibernation. It had been totally silent since NBA Live 13‘s abrupt cancellation in September.

Like Sands Through the Hourglass, So Are the Fake Games of Our Lives

This week, Days of Our Lives joined stock photography services in the business of presenting unrealistically attractive people playing bullshit video games. What is this, Angry Birds X Call of Duty for the Xbox 360? Furthermore, what the hell is that guy playing the game on? A Curtis Mathes console TV from 1976? To contact…

EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’

At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn’t developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports’ Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as “crap” and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. “The Wii U is crap.…

The Joker gets three skins from The Killing Joke in an eponymous skin pack from Injustice: Gods Among Us; this is the Red Hood. The two others depict Joker at the beginning (in tourist photographer attire, when he shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon) and the end of the famous 1988 graphic novel.

Madden Again Seeks to Put Up More of a Defense

Around this time each year, Madden bombards us with the annual list of improvements they say they’ve made to the defense. And when the game gets arrives, I’m still usually playing it as I have for years: by calling a play and letting the CPU deal with it. But one new move does look useful…

Gran Turismo 6 Comes to PS3 for the Holidays

Gran Turismo 6 is headed for the PlayStation 3 this holiday season. The game will feature 1,200 cars in its fleet at launch, along with seven new racing locations for a total of 33 tracks (with dozens of layouts.) There are plans for additional cars and tracks as downloadable content after release. The UK’s Silverstone…