Eight Words I Never Expected Hear From the Head of Xbox

“I don’t need another military space marine game.” Whoa. Okay. In an interview with IGN, big boss of Xbox, said that while the company was committed to its core first party franchises Microsoft is also working on something new. “I think new stories, new characters give us a new canvas to try new things… I…

​Seven Minutes Of Excellent Cosplay From This Year’s New York Comic-Con

There are a lot of people in costumes having fun in this montage from New York Comic-Con 2014. Let’s join them, shall we? Beatdownboogie brings us a video filled with the impressive costumes and posing hi-jinx that happened on the west side of Manhattan this year. I’m partial to the Cesar Romero version of The…

Your Best Deal on the Master Chief Collection, and 75 Years of Marvel

Preorder The Master Chief Collection from Dell to get a $25 Dell gift card. That’s not as universally useful as say, an Amazon or Target credit, but since Dell sells games you can find a use for it, and there won’t be a better offer. [Master Chief Collection] Don’t want the Dell gift card? Preorder…

The Most Popular Doctor Who Game Finally Gets The Most Popular Doctor

How has Doctor Who Legacy lasted a year without this fellow in its roster? Launched last year with a mere two Doctors’ worth of content — Matt Smith and David Tennant — the pleasantly free-to-play mobile puzzler Doctor Who Legacy has slowly been adding various incarnations of the Time Lord on a regular basis. And…

The Witcher 3‘s Intro Is All about Geralt’s Fearsome Ex-Girlfriend

Here’s the opening cinematic for The Witcher 3. That lady wielding all the bad juju? She and Geralt were a thing once. The last part of CD Projekt Red’s action/RPG trilogy has been a long time coming but the developers have been promising a bigger scale and more intense story than in previous entries. This…

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All the Deaths from the Original Star Wars Movies, in Three Minutes

How many people became one with the Force in the Episodes IV-VI of the Star Wars films? Have a look at this montage of death scenes from the original trilogy and find out. This video from Digg keeps a running tally of all the on-screen deaths from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return…

How To Level Up Alt Characters In Time For Warlords of Draenor

Leveling in World of Warcraft is much easier than it was in vanilla WoW days. We have heirloom items that level with us, the dungeon finder, PvP with experience points. But there’s still a lot we can do to make leveling even more quicker (and fun) and GOM TV’shere to share all of it in…

Victorian Era LEGO London Is Massive

Doing LEGO builds for themes that never had official sets must be the hardest. But a UK-based group called Bricks to the Past‘s large-scale LEGO display of 19th century London is amazing without acknowledging that. Here’s the full build with the London Docklands and its warehouses on the east side and some cozy stores and…

Dreamfall Chapters: Book One Builds A World and Little Else

I am a huge fan of The Longest Journey franchise, so you can bet the moment the Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters went online I threw my money at it. And now that the first chapter is out, let me say that it’s not the most exciting opening, but it does do some serious world building.…

Tokyo Ghoul Builds an Emotional World of Horror and Violence

This past summer’s anime Tokyo Ghoul may ostensibly be a dark and twisted horror story about superpowered monsters who feed upon humanity; but beneath its surface, it’s so much more. Good – Ghoul Society Tokyo Ghoul takes place in a world quite similar to our own but with one major difference: Humanity is not at…

The U.S. Military Is Developing a High-Tech Sandbox

Dubbed the ARES Sandtable, this U.S. Military prototype uses a Kinect, a projector, software, and sand to recreate real-world environments like never before. Below, via Military.com, you can see what traditional military sandtables look like: Traditional sandtables can take up hours to set up, while the AREAS table might make it possible to do the…

Richarizard Nixon And Other U.S. Presidents As Pokémon

Now that’s an unexpected combination. And if the drawings weren’t enough, artist Brandon Dayton added new pun names too for these Pokémon Presidents. Makes me wonder who the others, the ones not included here, might be as Poképrez. There’s more on the artist’s Etsy site and you can also get all of them as prints.…

Why These Chinese Sanitation Workers Dress Like Spider-Man

You might think this is just some gimmick. But it’s more than that. Much more. The Spider-Man outfits are a reminder these two men are risking their lives. Website Zhangjiakou Online and ShanghaiIst are reporting that sanitation workers Liu Jiancheng and Zhang Chengqing have recently changed uniforms from this: To this: Not just because Spider-Man…

Let’s Rank Fatal Frame, Best to Worst

The Fatal Frame series is one of the creepiest survival-horror game series out there and certainly my personal favorite of the genre. But as with all series, some games are better than others. So let’s rank them, shall we? A few notes before we start. These are not Kotaku‘s picks for the pecking order of…