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Start Kicking Ass 6/10ths of a Second Faster when Street Fighter X Tekken‘s “Version 2013” Arrives

OMFG, you guys are not going to believe what Street Fighter X Tekken has in store for you with its 2013 Version. New characters? Alternate costumes? A bunch of shit already locked on the disc? Nope, nope, and nope. Get ready because you will be able to initiate unobscured combat 0.666666666667 seconds faster once the…

Don’t Like the Winners from the 2012 VGAs? Get a Second Opinion from Machinima’s IGAs.

The gang from 343 Industries, BioWare and Telltale Games stuck around in Los Angeles a second night to take home more honors, as Machinima’s fourth Inside Gaming Awards handed out its hardware on Saturday, a day after the Video Game Awards. Halo 4 was a more traditional game-of-the-year pick, though The Walking Dead did cop…

Ars Technica compiled a list of eight overrated games. On it: Halo, Gears of War, Super Meat Boy

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: VGA Presto Magix

Cleaning out our work folder I found a bunch of goofy caps from the 2012 Spike VGAs. They weren’t really all that good to post on their own, but they did look like decent exploitables for our latest ‘Shop Contest. So here we go. Remember the Presto Magix? Well, maybe if you’re not pushing 40…

Sunday Comics: Unlikely Hero

Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. We’ve also got a vote coming up on making over the comics page. Look for news on that in an hour. Brawl In The Family by Matthew…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Chin Down, Eyes Up: The Winners

I feel like we were just talking about BioShock Infinite‘s boring box art. Weren’t we talking about its bad box art? We were. So I put the subject to our corps of ‘Shop artists and asked them to come up with something a little more inspired, while still adhering to the chin-down/eyes-up motif demanded of…

Pat Tillman Returns to the Field, in Madden NFL 13

Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals standout defensive back who forsook a $3 million contract to enlist in the Army in 2002, and who was killed by friendly fire in an operation in Afghanistan, returns to the football field as a special offering within Madden NFL 13‘s Ultimate Team mode. Tillman’s appearance in the game is…

In ending its gaming-themed programming, G4 was rumored to become either an ‘Esquire’ or ‘GQ’ channel. Esquire it is.

Bronies Shut Down Their My Little Pony MMO, Blaming Copyright Law

You had to figure this wouldn’t last. Though some publishers have been willing to strike agreements that allow fan projects to go forward, provided no one sells anything from them, many more don’t have the time or the interest in maintaining and monitoring those relationships. So when it came to light last year that some…

Call of Duty is “a Good Game, but I Wouldn’t Advise It for Younger Kids,” Says 8-Year-Old

Towheaded and small-voiced, Felix von Perfall’s countenance seems to define childhood innocence. But look into those eyes. Those eight-year-old eyes have seen war, they’ve seen … things, things no seven-, six- or five-year-old should ever know. “Call of Duty, it’s a good game, but it’s really—I wouldn’t advise it for younger kids,” Felix told WNYW-TV…

The Biggest Winners Helped This Year’s VGAs Tell a Different Tale

If the Video Game Awards are actually an awards show, and not just a keynote for promoting upcoming games, then the big news from last night was The Walking Dead: The Game. Eminently quotable analyst Michael Pachter said before the show that if this title, a downloadable self-published game, took home Game of the Year,…

The Moneysaver: TLC for THQ

Friendly reminder that there are four days left on THQ’s Humble Bundle, offering plenty of titles for just one buck and even more if you pay $5. Or you could pay more and donate the difference to a deserving charity, which in this case might be THQ itself. Most of the savings this week seem…

BioShock Infinite Shoots Up The VGAs With An Explosive New Trailer

At the 2012 Video Game Awards, Ken Levine of Irrational Games previewed the latest trailer from BioShock Infinite, which is now releasing on March 26. This appears to be entirely in-game footage, with 75 seconds of that being straight gameplay and not cinematics. BioShock Infinite: VGAs Trailer

If Samuel L. Jackson Cameoed in Black Ops II, He’d Look Like This

Completing his cameo tour of the year’s biggest games, this is Samuel L. Jackson appearing in what he calls “The real motherf—-ing Black Ops.”

Well how about that. Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead is the 2012 Video Game of the Year.

Half-Life 2 was selected “Game of the Decade” at the 2012 Video Game Awards.

This is All We Know About “Moby Dick Studio”, Alleged Makers of The Phantom Pain [Update]

The Phantom Pain was a world premiere trailer out of left field—not only is that a new series, it’s a new studio. Well, to most folks, anyway. Ever heard of Moby Dick Studio? Me either. [Update] It’s Kojima. [Update] Yeah, we hear you. “Joakim” is a rearranged spelling of “Kojima.” All sorts of things point…

And This is Mace Windu as an Angry Bird

Samuel L. Jackson, host of the 2012 Video Game Awards, is cameoing in some of the year’s most noteworthy games. Here he reprises his Jedi master role in Angry Birds: Star Wars

Dark Souls II Debuts at the 2012 Video Game Awards

Dark Souls II just got a world premiere trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards. It’s coming for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. See for yourself. Looks… tough, and unforgiving. As usual. UPDATE: The game will star a new hero in a new world and will have a new director, as the series’ creator,…

Dark Souls II is Coming

Dark Souls II was just announced at the Video Game Awards. There’s a grab from the game’s trailer. The trailer presents a quest driven by some sort of romnace and graphics that look a great deal sharper than From Software’s previous Souls efforts.