This is Codemancer, AKA Programming 101: The Game. Basically, it’s a turn-based fantasy game designed to teach how programming works to kids or, well, pretty much anyone, with a combat system based on writing simple programs. It’s on Kickstarter, but it’s already funded, so expect to see it on PC in July next year.

DayZ Standalone has sold two million copies as of last night. This is notable because A) it’s still in alpha, B) it only came out mid-December, and C) it was never part of a sale. Very, very impressive.

Track: She’s My Baby | Album: Change Of Heart | Artist: Kingswood Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Giant Titanfall Action Figure Dropping On Your Wallet

threeA is one of the best toy companies on the planet. threeA has the license to make big, expensive Titanfall figures. This will only end well. You can see the first Titan/pilot pairing here. The Atlas stands an enormous 20.5″ tall, with a 6″ pilot scaled to accompany it. The pilot is unpainted in these…

The Sadness Of The New Tony Hawk Game

Oh, Tony. Your name was once synonymous with good games and even better soundtracks. Seeing your brand reduced to this, even after all the recent heartbreak, is just…sigh. Below is a clip of Tony Hawk’s Shred Session being played by, well, Tony Hawk himself. It’s a free-to-play mobile game. That’s an endless runner. Well. Skater.…

Elder Scrolls Online’s Grind Begins Before You Even Start The Game

Australian retailer JB Hi-Fi – never a bastion of serious business – has a sticker for The Elder Scrolls Online that is as funny as it is foreboding. And yes, Americans, that $88 pricetag is correct. That works out to be USD$81.50 by today’s conversion. Josh Whittington [Twitter]

The Next Call Of Duty Stars…Kevin Spacey?

UPDATE – Looks like Spacey is actually in the game. Way more here. There was a bunch of Call of Duty stuff teased earlier today that, yawn, was about as interesting as watching people complaining about Call of Duty. This little trailer, though, is interesting If there’s one thing that could revive my interest in…

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Ars Technica writes about the best strategy to use in RPS…well, assuming you’re playing best out of three, and assuming your opponent hasn’t also read the same article.

Blu-Ray Is Dying

It was once the future! A shiny (sort of) new physical media that would let us store so many gigabytes of data on our discs that we wouldn’t know what to do with it all! So it may surprise you to learn that Blu-Ray is already on the downward slide. Sony’s latest financial results are…

If Michael Bay Designed Yoshi

We haven’t been too impressed with how the Ninja Turtles look in the upcoming Michael Bay-produced movie. We aren’t the only ones, either — illustrator Shmorky tried to imagine what Yoshi would look like if Michael Bay redesigned him. via Shmorky To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Community Manager Fired After Calling Donald Sterling ‘A Victim’ [UPDATE]

Game studio Turtle Rock (Left 4 Dead, Evolve) has let go of their community manager following a controversial tweet in which he called disgraced L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling “a victim” who “has the right as an American to be an old bigot in the security of his own home.” Sterling, who has owned the…

Small Massachusetts Town Lifts 32-Year Ban On Pac-Man

Just in time for the arrival of next-gen consoles, residents in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts are going to be able to play Pac-Man publicly for the first time in over three decades. According to a report from local newspaper The Patriot Ledger, Marshfield residents voted to overturn a 1982 bylaw that banned coin-operated arcade…