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PS4 Hit Resogun Coming to PS3 and Vita

Resogun is one of the best games on the PS4, a voxel-based sidescrolling shooter that shows off the system’s power in stylish fashion. Later this month, it’s jumping back a hardware generation to the PS3 and Vita. Announced today on the official PlayStation blog, the Vita and PS3 versions of Resogun are due to hit…

Ten Awesome Anime Openings and Endings from Fall 2014

I love anime music and look forward to the new songs each and every season. And as there are 50 new anime in the fall 2014 season, we have many new openings and endings to enjoy—not to mention the new second-half themes from last season’s anime that are still on the air. So here are…

McDonald’s Is Releasing a Crab Burger in Japan

Does Sponge Bob know? Should we tell him? Say hello to McDonald’s Crab Croquette Burger. According to Model Press, the burger’s croquette is made with snow crab and mushrooms and served with a tomato sauce and lettuce on Ciabatta bread. Note that McDonald’s Japan is calling the sandwich a burger. Crab croquettes (カニクリームコロッケ) are fairly…

Man Reduced to Tears After Beating Browser Game

One of Japan’s most popular browser games, Kantai Collection held its Fall seasonal event over the past few weeks. Apparently it was quite emotional. In Kantai Collection, players collect “fleet girls” – anthropomorphized WWII Japanese battleships – that they level up and take out on mission maps to defeat bosses and hopefully obtain other rare…

Delayed Elder Scrolls Online for Consoles Gets News and One Screenshot

The Elder Scrolls Online for consoles has been MIA. But today, Bethesda has provided a an update on how things have been going. Above, you can see the single image Bethesda posted on ElderScrollsOnline.com, along with this explanation as to what’s been going on: ….we have been (and will continue to be) steadily working on…

That Anime Crossover Fighter is Actually Pretty Darn Fun

Over the past few weeks, we’ve taken a detailed look at specific aspects of Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, a fighting game where characters are pulled from across some of the most popular anime of the past few years to battle it out. And if nothing else, Fighting Climax certainly delivers on that premise. Good –…

Golden Sega Genesis Transforms into Megatron

There’s certainly more than meets the eye with this toy Sega Genesis. To mark the release of Nintendo 3DS title Sega 3D Re-issued Archives, the game maker is giving away this special “Gold version” Mega Drive (aka Genesis) Megatron Transformer to five lucky individuals in Japan. Of course, it’s not made of actual gold, but…

Turning Stealth Video Games Into Stealth Board Games

Thibaud de la Touanne spent twenty years working in the video game business, most recently with Ubisoft Montreal. He’s left that behind now, though, and is bringing that experience to board games. He’s designed a game calledV-Commandos, a WW2 game which brings mechanics you’re probably used to in something like X-Com (or, you know, Commandos)…

‘Christopher Walken’ Calls Xbox Support

Picture the scene: Christopher Walken gets home after a long day filming. He kicks back, wants to relax with some Destiny on Xbox One, but can’t. Because he’s been “hacked”. So Walken – or in this case, an excellent impersonator– makes the dreaded call to Xbox Support. It’s better that the lady on the other…

The people behind Dragon Age: Inquisition are giving a panel about how they approached storytelling in the game. You can watch a live-stream here; it’s starting right now. It’s hosted by the NYU Game Center and will feature creative director Mike Laidlaw, lead writer David Gaider, and actor Freddie Prinze Jr., who I’m hoping will…

A May 2013 Kotaku article about a gamer learning to drive in part with the help of a video game appears to have been based on a hoax that we fell for. Ugh! We’ve updated the original article. Sorry, folks.

A Survival Game Where You Get To Play As The Dinosaurs

Finally, my life-long fantasy of hunting dinosaurs as a T-Rex can come true. Check out Saurian: Hell Creek. It’s in the early stages of development right now, with some placeholder elements and temporary assets in the footage above, but it still sounds pretty exciting: We are Saurian, an independent game project who’s goal is to…

Gaming Mouse Wants To Feel Your Heart Beat (And Your Skin Crawl)

Mionix, makes of finePC gaming mice, are working on something new. And it falls somewhere between a gaming mouse and…Nintendo’s Vitality Sensor. It’s called the NAOS QG, and is intended to be the first entry in a line of peripherals known as “Quantified Gaming”. The idea being that by embedding sensors in the surface of…

The Old City is a neat exploration game (with a whiffof Dishonored about it) that we first looked at early in the year. Despite a failed Kickstarter, it’s now up on Steam.