He Forged Sephiroth’s Blade, But Aeris Was Already Dead

Not that Aeris’s death stopped master sword-smithTony Swatton from smashing stuff with his newly-forged seven-foot-something long Masamune, which you can watch him make in this video by AWE me. What else would you do with a blade, after all? Of particular note: he compares it to Cloud’s Buster Sword, which he says is way too…

​Classic Tomb Raider, But In First Person

Would that first Tomb Raider game still have been as fun if you couldn’t have seen Lara Croft’s famous figure? After watching this retro-styled fan film, all signs point to yes. “First-Person Tomb Raider” comes to you from Filipe Costa, the same guy who did a first-person Pokémon video a few months back. His re-working…

StarCraft II Mod Brings Back The Best Units And Mechanics Of Brood War

A lot of people still miss the way the first StarCraft handles features like unit control and economy. Three years later, fans are still debating whether or not StarCraft II‘s new units are overpowered. Enter Starbow, an unofficial fan-made mod that aims to recreate the best aspects of Brood War in StarCraft II. It’s not…

Reminder: Don’t Just Correct People, Connect With People

It’s easy to correct someone. Especially if the topic at hand is something you’re knowledgeable and passionate about, it’s almost instinctive. A snap reaction. But it can be just as easy to let glaring errors slide and focus on the positive: that maybe this person committing the ultimate gamer faux pas is actually showing a…

The Playstation Network 14 for ’14 Sale Starts Tomorrow

Not content to just delivery a great month of free games for Playstation Plus members, Sony has announced the 14 for ’14 sale, which is actually a lie since there are 28 games discounted. Normally we would pick the cream of the crop to post, but almost everything on offer is both worth playing and…

Call of Duty‘s DLC Will Turn You Into Michael Myers from Halloween

That quick tease Activision gave this morning of Call of Duty‘s new maps “doesn’t look anything like Call of Duty,” I said. Well, there’s a reason you’re lugging around a fire axe. One map, “Fog” will turn you into Michael Myers, the killer from Halloween. Completing a field order in fog turns you into the…

Assassin’s Creed Liberation On PC, Last Light, Pokemon [Deals]

Aveline’s adventure has been… wait for it… liberated from its original home on the Playstation Vita, and you can pre-order the PC version from good old Green Man Gaming today for just 15 bucks using code GMG25-0YUM5-VKMVU. [GMG] Through January 31st, trade in $20 or more of games, consoles, or accessories to Amazon and they’ll…

Creepy Xbox One Ad Says It’s So Real You’ll Bleed

As a video game aficionado, I often find myself staring at my consoles and wondering, “Why isn’t this more real? Why isn’t this more immersive? Why am I not bleeding right now?” Fortunately for Real Gamers, Microsoft’s latest Xbox One advertisement promises the features we really want, like sweat, blood, and terrifying hallucinations. Because if…

A New Game Mode Is A Great Excuse To Watch More Garden Warfare Footage

The Gardens & Graveyards mode in the upcoming Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is an objective-based multiplayer mode in which the Zombies must capture Plants bases so we can watch five more minutes of gameplay footage from one of my most anticipated Xbox One games. Gameplay on my Xbox One looks bleak now, but the…

Catlateral Damage Should Really Be Called Jerk Cat Simulator 2014

It’s well known that cats are jerks. Now you experience what it’s like for yourself with this first-person cat simulator. Catlateral Damage is just a demo for the moment, but you can play it for free in your browser right now. Originally made for the 7DFPS game jam, Catlateral Damage just has you play as…

Mew-Genics Demonstrates How New Kittens Are Made, More Or Less

The first footage (of sorts) from Team Meat’s upcoming cat breeding sim explores the miracle of kitten birth with 100 percent scientific accuracy, give or take a couple dozen percent. See, when two cats love one another or just feel like having sex, they have sex. Then the mother cat swells up, and new kittens…

Shenmue Fans Sure Are Crazy

We all know that video game fans can be a little… passionate. Fans of the adventure series Shenmue, though? They’re straight-up insane. I say that with nothing but love, of course. Fan insanity makes the world go round. Without crazy fans we wouldn’t have Mother 3, or Project Eternity, or Kotaku.com. If not for rabid…

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In Last Week’s Comics, Angry Gamers Nearly Killed Superman

Modern DC Comics give us such memorable moments as an evil Superman snorting Kryptonite or Batman and Catwoman having sex. The publisher’s New 52 line has also just brought us a three-part story in which the super-villain Mongul has attempted to dominate the Earth by harnessing the rage of gamers. What a plan! The storyline…

SimCity is Finally Getting Offline Play

After insisting a year ago that such a mode was nearly impossible, offline play is coming to SimCity, Maxis has announced. It will be delivered in Update 10 for the game. A timeframe for that update was not included in the announcement. “We are in the late phases of wrapping up its development and while…

It’s official. Confirming the earlier rumor, the Onslaught DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts will release Jan. 28. Activision released the following short trailer detailing the first episode of a four-part Extinction-mode story. It doesn’t look anything like Call of Duty.

Sasuga Minami, the kid’s show host with bad words on her costume, has issued an apology Minami said the language on the outfit was “not on purpose,” adding that she didn’t know or recognize what was written. “I am truly sorry,” Minami wrote, adding, “The onus for this is entirely on me.”