Creepy App Turns Your Friends Into Bloody Corpses

It’s hard to come up with a good Halloween costume…but if you happen to have an iPhone, you have a couple of new options open up to you thanks to Mark Rober. Specifically, costumes that take advantage of the iPhone’s screen to show squicky stuff, like guts or eyeballs. Done the right way, apparently the…

New GTA Online Patch Promises No More Missing Characters

Your missing character issues may be going away—Rockstar says they’ve got a patch coming that promises to fix game progress issues in Grand Theft Auto Online, which has been facing serious problems since it launched last week. You won’t get your zapped characters back, but at least the mass character deletions—widely reported by players of…

Peggle 2 Might Be the Reason Your Grandma Would Want an Xbox One

I had a bit of cognitive whiplash when I saw Peggle 2 this afternoon. Its predecessor is a game that’s everywhere. Your mom or even grandmother probably plays it, or something heavily inspired by it. The browser version of the first Peggle is what helped its viral spread but there I was playing it on…

XCOM‘s Top Soldier Finally Gets To Kick Some Ass

If we can’t see Council Man himself rolling up his sleeves and throwing the hell down, then Central Officer Bradford pistol whipping some bastard-ass traitor in XCOM: Enemy Within will have to do. We didn’t see Base Defense—in which the conflict comes home, literally—in Tina’s preview of XCOM: Enemy Within, this morning, but it’s definitely…

We Made Our Own Ad For Ellen Page’s New Video Game

Sure, video games these days can simulate hyper-realistic alien murder, but what about the life of a young actress? Ellen Page Simulator 2014 hopes to do exactly that, letting you shape the Canadian starlet’s personality, from what dolls she chooses to play with to working up the courage for her first kiss. Okay, Ellen Page…

17 Minutes Of Hardcore Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Action

What’s that you say? You can’t wait for February, when Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII comes out, and you need to watch footage in Japanese just to get your fix? No worries. We’ve got you covered. Via Square Portal, here’s a ton of new gameplay from the next Final Fantasy game, which is out for…

The Wii U Won’t Be Getting Assassin’s Creed IV DLC. Yesterday, Ubisoft detailed the downloadable add-ons coming Assassin’s Creed IV, among which is a cool-sounding standalone adventure that casts the player as an escaped slave. Unfortunately for Nintendo fans, today Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that the Wii U version of the game won’t get that…

Puzzle & Dragons How To: Five Tips For Attaining Puzzle Mastery

Millions of mobile gamers around the globe have played GungHo Online’s role-playing hybrid Puzzle & Dragons, but how many are playing it right? We asked the developer for some tips and tricks to help survive the game’s unique brand of match-three madness. Puzzle & Dragons starts off easy — collect colorful creatures, take them into…

Final Fantasy VI Is Coming To iOS and Android, VII Could Follow

Square Enix will be releasing a modified version of the beloved Final Fantasy VI, originally released in North America in 1994 as Final Fantasy III, this winter for iOS and Android, long-time Square director and producer Takashi Tokita told Kotaku today. The game won’t be a straight port. “It is basically like a remake of…

Time for a re-do: check out Planetary Annihilation’s ChronoCam, a feature that lets you jump to any point in time, play in slow/fast motion, delete timelines and play in reverse. You might remember this game as the ‘world-spanning RTS’ we were impressed with a while back. More details on how the ChronoCam works here.

Good Thing GTA V Isn’t A PS4 Indie

Good thing GTA V isn’t a little indie game. Because, when put up against Sony’s objectionable content guidelines for self-published games on PlayStation 4, it seems like Rockstar wouldn’t be able to do most of the stuff in the game. [via Twitter]

Today’s Deals: Xbox One Games, Tomb Raider, Razer, Logitech

I hate retailer-exclusive pre-order content, but I love pre-order discounts. Put in your order for a selection of Xbox One and/or Xbox 360 upcoming releases and get $10 Microsoft credit. It’s like buy six get one free. Free shipping. Xbox One Skylanders SWAP Force Starter Pack + $10 Gift Card ($75) Battlefield 4 + $10…

The Most Messed-Up Archie Comic Ever Comes Out Today

Sharing milkshakes. Fun little love triangles. Bumbling high-school principals. This week, that’s all done. Zombies are going eat the brains out of Reggie, Mr. Weatherbee and those polar-opposite Archie-lovers Betty and Veronica. Sound cheesy? It’s not. It’s actually damn creepy. For decades, the Archie comics universe has stood for all that wholesome and humorous about…

Online Store Offers Free Games To Furloughed Government Employees

Today in Dumb Yet Hilarious Publicity Stunts, here’s online gaming store Good Old Games honoring the U.S. government shutdown with a special sale. GOG, which specializes in selling digital versions of classic games, is marking 50% off government-themed titles like Capitalism 2 and Tropico Reloaded for the next 24 hours. Also, Theme Hospital, because healthcare.…

I’d Much Rather See This Version Of Thor: The Dark World

The only thing that could possibly be better than a completely LEGO-ized version of the upcoming Thor movie sequel, is a version of Thor: The Dark World where everyone is LEGO except Tom Hiddleston’s Loki. Put together by TT Games to remind everyone that LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is coming October 22, this Thor: the…

BioShock Creator: Please Stop Making Elizabeth Porn

Look here, you nasty pervert horndogs. Ken Levine has seen all that filthy porn people are making with Elizabeth, from BioShock Infinite, and he wants you to know That’s Not Cool. “It’s like coming across a picture of your daughter,” he says. The BioShock creator was in a Reddit AMA yesterday, responding to a fan…

Don’t Shoot Yourself Is Pretty Good Advice

Trapped in a bullet hell of your own making, it’s natural to consider taking the easy way out. Don’t Shoot Yourself would rather you didn’t. If 100 Bullets wasn’t already taken I might suggest a name change for this unique take on the mobile bullet hell shooter. The player is trapped in a closed space…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Nightshift Nurse goes back and remembers the games that made buying new gaming hardware a must. Pink_Zapper_Helmet wants us to reconsider the kinds of games that make it onto greatest-games-of-all-time lists. And Stefan Terry thinks about the role of randomness in game design. And you…

This Is What Video Games Are: A Dispatch From a Crowded Gaming Expo

“Sometimes I’m tempted to just, like, lie,” laughs a colleague across a table from me. We’re talking about preview coverage: The unusual condition of being slotted in front of a monitor in a noisy expo hall, shoulder to shoulder with fans waiting their turn, a well-used headset shifted off one ear so you can hear…

Square Enix’s Next Dragon-Flying Game Is Headed West Next Year

Good news for people who like dragons and dragon flying and dragon fanfiction: Square Enix just announced that they’re bringing the action-RPG Drakengard 3 to North America and Europe next year for PS3. It’ll be $50. Drakengard 3 isn’t out in Japan just yet, but a western release was probably inevitable, as both previous Drakengard…