Deals: Sleeping Dogs Definitive, Fox Searchlight Collection, 2DS

Sleeping Dogs, a great example of what open world games can and should be, is getting the definitive treatment. This upgrade packs in all the DLC (and to be clear, there was a ton of content in the base game already), and a preorder nets you a free upgrade to limited edition artbook packaging. [Sleeping…

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Another Microsoft-Published Xbox One Launch Game Is Coming To PC

Xbox One launch game Ryse is coming to PC this fall, according to the folks behind the game, though not via the game’s original publisher Microsoft. There’s a little bit of a curious pattern developing here with Xbox One launch titles. A third-person action game set in ancient Rome, Ryse was developed by Crytek and…

Get ready for some indie-friendly gore, PS4 gamers. Sony just announced that Surgeon Simulator is coming to its current-gen console on August 12th. I wonder how the game’s famously difficulty controls are going to work on the DualShock 4…

Streak about to be broken? Nintendo has released a new handheld—or iteration of an existing handheld—in North America in each of the past five years. Nothing announced for this fall, which means 2014 might break the streak. Unless… anyone want a 2DS XL to be announced by December? A 3D XL Lite? Game Boy 2?…

Lara Croft’s Manor, Remade As A Counter-Strike Map

It’s a pretty big map to play CS:GO on, but definitely a fun one. The level takes the maze, the pool, the training area, and all the colorful locations from Lara Croft’s various manors from the Tomb Raider games, and mixes together in the form of a Counter-Strike map. There’s no butler though, so we…

What’s All This Source 2 Engine in Dota 2 Stuff About?

Short answer: loads of new things have appeared in the Dota 2 update and everyone’s pointing at all the ‘2’s. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK The new files have appeared in the alpha release of Dota 2′s Workshop Tools and will make it possible to “create, play, and share custom maps and game…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: School Trips to Game Worlds: A Space Station for All Subjects • Koda’s Top 10 Summer 2014 Anime Openings • Game of The Week — Island Paradise (And Some Monsters. And Yo-Yos): StarTropics • Video Games As More Than Gameplay TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Nintendo Finally Brings 1986 Video Game To America

It’s taken more than 25 years but a NES game made by Nintendo itself will finally be coming out in North America. You may have seen or heard homages to The Mysterious Murasame Castle in Nintendo games but the real deal comes to the 3DS this week. Get ready, but this sucker looks hard. Originally…

LEGO Steampunk Diorama Is All About The Rusty Vehicles

Logan‘s Steampunk-themed “SWAT team bust” diorama is not a typical LEGO build. He named it “The grand arrest of Professor Filius Bertram” and that arrest includes coal-powered airships, a tank and something that looks like a tripod. Very cartoony. The Ghibli-style house is cool, but the best part of the whole build are definitely the…

Aladdin And Princess Jasmine Are Coming To Disney Infinity

Seeing how the movie came out 22 years ago, Aladdin isn’t exactly “a whole new world” at this point. Disney Infinity certainly took its sweet time bringing the nineties-era classic back in video game form, though. Today, Disney finally revealed its plans to bring Aladdin and Princess Jasmine to the Disney Infinity Toybox 2.0. Don’t…

Square Enix is Bringing Back Its First Game. It’s Not What You Think

When game companies Square and Enix merged in 2003, JRPG fans were on edge as to what masterpiece the new juggernaut was sure to make. They made a game. And now, 11 years later, they’ve brought it back. It’s not the game you think it is. The first game that was developed and released in…