The Week in Games: The Walking Dead Begins a New Season

Retail console releases may be done for this year but there still are marquee names waiting for their closeup as we finish off 2013. Chief among them is the next season of The Walking Dead, which arrives Tuesday along with Terraria on the PS Vita. Here’s the week in games. Tuesday, Dec. 17 The Walking…

Here’s Stan Bush Rebooting His Iconic Transformers Anthem, ‘The Touch’

Fahey wasn’t too fond of the remixed “The Touch” thatplayed during the credits for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron last year, the credits only offered an excerpt. Today, Stan Bush released the entire thing. Does the additional context make it better? I’m kinda still with Fahey on this. Bush’s title track from the 1986 film is…

3DS XL Back Down To $150 Black Friday Pricing

Target has the 3DS XL in 4 different colors for $150. You can grab the Limited Edition Mario and Luigi 3DS XL for the same price, but that one is in-store only. [Target] This post is brought to you by the Commerce Team, a dedicated group of deal hunters and product enthusiasts. We operate independently…

Steam Machine Beta User Trying to Find All 300 of His Lucky Brethren

Just 300 people in the U.S. were selected to participate in the Steam Machines beta, which shipped boxes to folks beginning on Friday. They know which number they are in the beta by looking at the row of 300 ventilation holes on the top of the unit and finding the position of the single countersunk…

Sunday Comics: World of Spycraft

Welcome to Kotaku‘s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics in video gaming. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published Dec. 11. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Picture Worth $735: The Winners

Our subject this week was the guy who bought a picture of an Xbox One off eBay for $735, and it will close out 2013 as one of the year’s most-entered ‘Shop Contests. I waived the usual 20-finalist limit just to get all the good ones in—and there are 37, including overall No. 1 Docherty…

Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features

Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…

EA Sports UFC Offers the First Glimpses Inside the Game

Fight Night: Round Three was a no-doubt-about-it success when it arrived a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360. With the’ Fight Night team in charge, many are looking to EA Sports UFC to deliver the same impact for the new console generation this spring. The studio released the first two in-game screenshots…

The first season of Niantic Labs’ ambitious augmented reality game Ingress draws to a close today with competing events in San Francisco and Buenos Aires. If you’re not in those cities, you can watch a livestream (4:00pm ET-8:30pm ET) at the official Ingress page Ingress comes out of beta today, so anyone can start playing…

Dammit, Bravest Warriors bendy action figures, I am trying to Christmas shop here. Pop Culture Shock Collectibles has teamed up with Frederator Studios to create toys based on shows like Bravest Warriors and Bee & Puppycat. Thismeans that every time I go to WeLoveFine to buy Doctor Who leggings for my wife, I am being…

Mark Ecko’s Graffiti Game Gets a New Publisher and Goes to Steam

Oh awesome. Mark Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, remember that? Didn’t work out exactly as its namesake expected—Mr. Ecko said Atari “shit the bed” with the idea. It’s still the same game, but it has a new publisher and it’s gone up on Steam. Devolver Digital, the publisher of Hotline Miami, made the surprise…

This Week in the Business: ‘The Leading System of This Generation’

What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “The leading system of this generation.”—Research firm DFC Intelligence asserting that Sony’s PS4 will indeed be the number one selling console of the new generation, but the company doesn’t see PS4 surpassing the lifetime numbers of Wii or PS2. QUOTE |…

Microsoft hopes to start running their original TV shows on Xbox in early 2014, Variety reports today. The details are still hazy.

Battlefield 4 Stunts Are Becoming More And More Hardcore

Locate target. Eject. Deploy package. Return to your vehicle. Sounds easy, but if your vehicle is a moving jet, and the target is a chopper high above you, things get hard. Even if it’s in Battlefield 4. Here’s YouTuber ponylion pulling off this pretty cool maneuver like it’s the easiest thing out there. That’s a…

Thanks For Killing All Of The Animals, Mobile Gamers

Now I am no zoologist, but you don’t know that, so when I say the nearly ten billion animals shot in the surprisingly good Deer Hunter 2014 represents all the animals in the world, you should just take my word for it. After all, I am a zoologist. Not only did mobile gamers kill every…