All the Preorder Deals, Xbox One With Game, SanDisk Storage [Deals]

Prepare your wallet and your backlog, here are a whole bunch of PC pre-order deals. Get a $5 Amazon credit with the following games. Several of the games are cheaper from Green Man Gaming in the second list, but the Amazon deals will be around longer and some people have trouble with GMG, so we’re…

Batman: Arkham Knight Will Be Out On June 2

The new-gen-only Batman game Arkham Knight will be released on June 2, 2105 after having been delayed out of a fall 2014 release, according to a source privy to announcements being made at a GameStop conference today. The game’s publisherjust confirmed on Twitter, too. Batman Arkham Knight is meant to be development studio Rocksteady’s final…

U.S. Military Using Xbox 360 Controller For New Laser Gun

Controlling military hardware with video game input devices isn’t new. Drones, bomb defusal robots and other battlefield equipment have steered by Xbox 360 gamepads for a while now. But the newest weapon using a Microsoft-made controller might be one of the most powerful ones yet. It’s a laser on top of a truck that shoots…

‘I just quit my job while taking a shit. It’s great.’

Some strong praise for The Sims 4’s multitasking features from Reddit user CrazyWood.

How The Sims Has Changed Over The Past 14 Years

A big question many gamers have had since The Sims 4 launched last week is how the latest installment compares to the other three core games in EA’s longstanding series. Now, one Sims fan has attempted an answer in the most literal way possible: by playing all four on one PC at the same time.…

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Getting To Know World Of Warcraft‘s Orc Warlords

You probably know that the Warlords of Draenor expansion for World of Warcraft is launching in November, but do you know who the Warlords of Draenor are? Blizzard’s five-part “Lords of War” video series should clear things up. We’re taking the Dark Portal back in time in November, to a Draenor ruled over by some…

One Of The Most Difficult Things In Diablo III

Torment VI is no longer the hardest setting in Diablo III. With Greater Rifts—tiered dungeons—added, everything beyond Rank 25 is harder. So completing a Rank 40 Greater Rift is quite difficult. Yet, some folks can complete them in under 8 minutes. You have 15 minutes to do the run, every mob has billions of HP…

The Set of Friends, Perfectly Recreated in The Sims 4

Someone’smade the cast and apartment from friends and it’s like the sequel we all hope will never happen, except Chandler, Monica and the gang are all perfectly preserved in digital amber. Ross is still struggling though. It never works out for Ross. (via Lucy) This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, bringing you original reporting,…

Japanese Pop Group Causes Super Smash Bros. Criticism

There’s a new Super Smash Bros. for 3DS commercial for Japan. The ad introduces the game’s Mii Fighter function—how you can create your own fighters for the game. To do so, customized Miis of Japanese pop group AKB48 appeared in the ad. Online in Japan, some were not happy about this. AKB48 is probably the…

Street Fighter II: The Official Curry

In Japan, “Dhalsim curry” recently went on sale. Dhalsim, of course, is the fire-breathing fighter from Street Fighter II. Curry, of course, is delicious. Website Gigazine tried out the curry, which it described as extremely hot, causing the site’s reviewer to break out in a sweat. As you can see, the box says the curry…

LEGO Team Fortress 2 Sentry Gun Is Just As Tough As The Real Thing

This is two-foot tall replica of the engineer’s sentry gun from Team Fortress 2, created from hundreds of LEGO bricks. ZaziNombies did a good job on this one, and the mounting doesn’t even look like LEGO. Now do the level 3 version of this with the twin-mounted gatling guns. That’d look badass. LEGO Sentry Gun…

How To Defeat Dark Souls Bosses with a Guitar Hero Controller

I know what you’re thinking. Dark Souls is a bit easy. If only there was some way to up the challenge. [Crash zoom to Guitar Hero controller in the corner.] This is crazy man Bearzly (and by that I mean crazy awesome) who’s been playing Dark Souls using the Guitar Hero controller. You can see…

Sadly, Japan Doesn’t Have Horror Themed Road Signs

But, just think if it really did have creepy children signs like this. Earlier today the above image from Twitter user @ Asu_Hiyama began making its way through Japan’s expat community. The sign appeared to feature the silhouette of a young girl, and @Asu_Hiyama stated it was spotted in the mountains in Saitama Prefecture. Looks…