How To Make A Cool Sports Game When You’re Not EA Or 2K

Pixel Soccer is a game currently in development at Super Rock Games, an indie studio in London. It is speaking directly to my interests. Chief among those being football and the classic Sensible Soccer series. Pixel Soccer is basically an attempt at remaking that vintage “arcade” approach to the sport, only instead of using tiny…

Game Of Thrones Action Figures Are Works Of Art

These aren’t official figures. Those are coming, and they look OK. No, these figures are sadly one-off pieces for an art show, and that’s a damn shame. Because I want all of them. They’re the work of artist Mick Minogue, and will be appearing at a Seattle art show. Each one was carved, and painted,…

Reports: German Version Of South Park Delayed Because Of Swastikas

The new South Park game has swastikas in it. For the German version of the game, publishers Ubisoft said they were removing them, so as to comply with the nation’s constitution, which forbids displays of the Nazi symbol. Only…Ubisoft might have screwed that up. Users are posting on Steam’s forums that the German (and Austrian)…

​Batman: Arkham Knight Won’t Have Multiplayer, Will Have Kevin Conroy

Sounds like the newest Batman game, Arkham Knight, won’t just ship without a last-gen version; it also won’t include multiplayer. However, it will feature longtime Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy, reprising his role as Batman. The latest Game Informer has got all sorts of tidbits of information about the game, which will feature the Scarecrow…

Be The Goat: Goat Simulator will be available for purchase on April 1st. Until then, you won’t be able to play as a goat who can mess up human parties by running around with an axe in your mouth—sorry! For now you can still pre-order the game here. (Via Indie Game Mag).

South Park Censorship Makes Cute Australian Animals Cry

Remember, it’s not just the European version of the new South Park game that’s been censored. As reported last year, the Australian edition has been too, though the results are similar. If a little sadder Americans reading this, fear not. There is no scene featuring a crying Bald Eagle/Hot Dog/Cowboy, as the US version is…

​This Month’s Xbox One Console Update Changes At Least 15 Things

The March firmware update for the Xbox One will do a lot more than improve party chat in advance of the launch of the system’s big multiplayer March 11 game Titanfall. It’ll also tweak a bunch of other things on the console. Microsoft officials were kind enough to provide us with a list. We’ve numbered…

​What’s New With Diablo III‘s Big 2.0.1 Patch

Maybe you’re curious what’s new with Diablo III‘s chunky new 2.0.1 patch? I haven’t been keeping up on the nitty-gritties of what’s changed in the new patch, so I found this video to be helpful to the point where it made me want to play more Diablo III to see how all the new tweaks…

Everything Interesting Gabe Newell Said In His Reddit AMA

It’s not often the head of one of the most powerful gaming companies in the world pops over to Reddit to speak with the masses, so today was a bit of a treat. If you weren’t following the AMA featuring Valve boss Gabe Newell (and some other Valve guys like Erik Wolpaw and Greg Coomer),…

​Metroid Prime On Oculus Rift: One Step Closer To Being Samus

Of all the various and surprising things we’ve seen turn up recently running on Oculus VR, this one might be the one I’d be most likely to play: Metroid Prime, done up in virtual reality. In the video above, frequent Rift-er Chadtronic takes the classic Metroid Prime through its paces in virtual reality. I’d love…

One Finger Death Punch Is The Most Violent ‘Rhythm’ Game I’ve Played

One of the very first games I ever made a video for at Kotaku, One Finger Death Punch is a really simple, fun game that plays similar to a rhythm game, but replaces musical notes with deadly ninjas. It just got greenlit and it’s on sale for 20% off! Here’s the video I did back…

Tower of Guns Is A Game About A Tower…Made Of Guns

There’s something to be said about making an honest game, and Tower of Guns is the definition of that: Honest. It’s a game that makes no bones about what it is, and doesn’t get mired down trying to be anything it is not. In the video above, I play a bit of the indie roguelike…

Superman Is One Of The Reasons We Have a Video Game Ratings System

Remember the Superman game on the Atari 2600? That slightly obtuse piece of superhero wish fulfillment is part of a chain of careers and events that resulted in the formation of the ESRB. What does the big, red S have to do with the folks who put the letters E, T and M on video…

Barack Obama’s Most Unusual State of the Union Speech

With all those recent classic movie remakes he’s a bit late, but in Dorkly‘s latest illustration Barack Obama announces… something special: This means a next-gen Q*bert right? Dragon’s Lair, finally in HD? But more importantly, next time please reboot the 1990s! State of the Reboots [Dorkly] To contact the author of this post, write to:…