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Save On Gone Home, Vita Memory Cards, And All Your Pre-Orders
I was just chatting with Chris Person about Game of the Year contenders, and Gone Home was certainly a part of the conversation. If you haven’t played it yet, you’re missing out, and it’s $10 today on the official site. [Gone Home] Last Day to vote on your favorite gaming keyboard Tell us what you…
By Shane Roberts Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Great New Comic You Should Buy Tomorrow Is ‘Pretty Deadly’
Time was, there were loads of rootin’, tootin’ cowboy comics on spinner racks everywhere. But none of those books were narrated by a dead bunny. That’s only the tiniest piece of the macabre brilliance inside the first issue of Pretty Deadly, an acid-trip twisted fairy tale western which comes out tomorrow. Along with romance and…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
The Best Starting Pokémon, According To Science
It’s the agonizing choice and neverending debate of a generation: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle? Picking one of the Kanto starter Pokémon is usually a gut choice, based on past experience or which one looks cooler. But what if there was a way to know, objectively, the best one? Well, now we do, thanks to science.…
By Owen Good Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Target Apologizes, Making Good On Cancelled PS4 Pre-Orders
Last Friday, we reported that Target was canceling PlayStation 4 preorders that had been bundled with delayed games like Watch Dogs and Driveclub. It looks like the retailer is taking action to make good on the console part of those preorders, as well as giving $100 gift cards to make it up to those affected.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Holy Crap. Has The Famous Glitch, Missingno, Returned In Pokémon X & Y?
Hold on to your butts, this one is a doozy. Earlier today, an image with a screenshot of a trainer standing in front of a boutique in Lumiose City, a location in Pokemon X & Y, started floating around. It seemed to show something kind of incredible: Missingno, that classic glitch from Pokemon Red and…
By Patricia Hernandez Published October 22, 2013 -
CultureInside Arby’s Test Kitchen: A Snacktaku Special Report
Every year, Arby’s executive chef Neville Craw and his crack team come up with upwards of 1,200 potential new sandwiches. Around 50 of those are developed until release-worthy. Only five or six make it to stores. One of those is the Smokehouse Brisket sandwich. Earlier this month, Arby’s invited me to its Atlanta headquarters to…
By Mike Fahey Published October 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedApple Exec Accidentally Calls Batman ‘The Black Knight’
Today at Apple’s big presser, marketing VP Phil Schiller accidentally called Batman the Black Knight. What he meant, of course, was the Dark Knight. Unless he was referring to Martin Lawrence.
By Jason Schreier Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Playstation 4 Bundles In Stock On Amazon, Go! [Update: Sold Out]
Amazon has the Battlefield 4 and Killzone Bundles in stock and they won’t last. These are launch day bundles, and a $10 discount compared to buying the items separately, with free shipping and no tax depending on your state. Playstation 4 Battlefield 4 Bundle w/ 1 Year of Plus | $500 Playstation 4 Killzone ShadowFall…
By Shane Roberts Published October 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedTitanfall Comes Out March 11, 2014
One of next year’s biggest games will be out sooner than you think: Titanfall hits Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC on March 11, 2014 in North America. (March 13 in Europe.) Titanfall is the first game from Respawn, the studio founded by Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella when they were…
By Jason Schreier Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Indie Game Without an Ending Removed from Steam Store
Dark Matter, the indie game accused by customers of releasing unfinished last week, has been pulled off of Steam until it gets a proper ending, and Steam users say they’re getting refunds if they ask for them. A report by Gamasutra also says the development studio, which blamed Dark Matter‘s abrupt conclusion on the fact…
By Owen Good Published October 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedNuclear Throne Is Like An 8-Bit Borderlands
Not only did Vlambeer make another great shoot-em-up, they’re also live streaming the game’s development twice a week while the game is in early access. Check out the gameplay above and learn the meaning of “explosive revenge.” The team is streaming development twice a week ontheir twitch channel, and you can find more details ontheir…
By Steve Marinconz Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: PinkZapperHelmet wants us all to play a disarmingly cute but hellishly difficult puzzle game, General McFist shares a sad and personal story about living with brain seizures and how that affects game habits, and PyramidHeadcrab discusses the problems with definitive “best of” lists And you…
By Tina Amini Published October 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedBattlefield 4‘s Story Trailer Punches A Dog Right In The Face.
Man, remember the Battlefield 3 single-play story, with the train and the…that rat? There was definitely a rat. And a building collapsed. That’s all I got. Battlefield 4 looks much more memorable. I certainly won’t forget the guy straddling and punching a dog at 1:36 in this trailer. Maybe it’s a dig at everyone’s favorite…
By Mike Fahey Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Downloading the “GTA V PC Torrent” is 18GB Worth of Bad Ideas
About the only thing I can see that’s wrong with this diabolical plot is the fact suckers have to download an 18GB torrent before the malware is unleashed. Otherwise, there’s a bogus torrent of Grand Theft Auto V‘s nonexistent PC version that’s claimed several victims of late. It bears mentioning one should not download this.…
By Owen Good Published October 22, 2013 -
UncategorizedFrom MMO to movie star. Funcom’s supernatural MMORPG The Secret World makes its big-screen debut in IRL, a Swedish film about a troubled teen who finds happiness in a virtual world. Check out an interview with director Erik Leijonborg at thegame’s official site.
By Mike Fahey Published October 22, 2013 - Uncategorized
Good morning America! You missed some pretty cool stuff while you were asleep. League Of Legends Player Says He Makes Almost $1 Million A Year Some Of The World’s Best Cartoons Are Hidden Inside Video Games Even Sony Thinks An $1850 PS4 Is “Bad For Gamers” Xbox Fight Leads Man To Bite Penis “Like A…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 22, 2013 - Kotaku East
Sunday Without God Brings a Strange New World to Life
Sunday Without God is one of those anime that got my viewership not through reviews or word of mouth but on simple concept alone. Halfway through, I put it on my list of the five anime you should be watching this past season—a spot it still deserves based on its excellent world building and thematic…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 22, 2013 - Kotaku East
This Generation’s Best Final Fantasys Weren’t Named “Final Fantasy”
This console generation saw only a few Final Fantasy games during its time in the sun but luckily two of them were amazing. Of course, I am not talking about Final Fantasy XIV—decent as it is after its relaunch—or any of the Final Fantasy XIIIs. No, I’m talking about Lost Odyssey and The Last Story…
By Richard Eisenbeis Published October 22, 2013 - Kotaku East
64 Year-Old Woman Sues Over Destroyed Virtual Item Worth $28,000
In the online game Lineage, you can “enchant” in-game items to enhance them. If you’re unsuccessful, though, the item perishes. In South Korea, one gaming granny tried to enchant an extremely rare sword, but failed. So she sued the game’s maker. According to Inven (via tipster Sang), a 64 year-old woman sued NCsoft earlier this…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 22, 2013