Deals: Next-Gen Battlefield 4 And Ghosts, Black Flag, Two Souls

Better late than never, I blame the DMV. Ready for next-gen? Because the deals are. Come in and pre-order Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty: Ghosts for current and future console at a reduced dollar-to-lens flare ratio. PS4 Battlefield 4 ($49) | Use code EMCWXXM77 PS3 Battlefield 4 ($49) | Use code EMCWXXM76 Xbox One…

Kate Upton and Snoop Dogg Made an Amazing Hot Pockets Ad

Take Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend.” Change the song so that it’s about Hot Pockets, and then get Snoop Dogg and Kate Upton to perform it. Add lots of pot and Minecraft references, and throw in some other cameos in there for good measure. What do you get? Why, you get this nonsensical yet glorious…

Square Enix Gets Into Crowd-Funded Gaming, With a Tantalizing Twist

Square Enix, international conglomerate behind everything from Final Fantasy to Tomb Raider would like to help your best game ideas get some crowd-funding. Oh, and they might let your game star some of their characters. Whoa. Slow down there. Eidos characters. You ain’t going to be remaking Final Fantasy VII Consider this today’s least and…

Saints Row Does Relationships Better Than Most Video Games

If you find yourself discussing the merits of relationships represented in video games, you’ll probably find a lot of people bringing up BioWare games as examples to follow. The Saints Row series doesn’t seem like a serious suggestion considering, well, how unserious those games are. And yet if you look beyond the dick jokes and…

Gabriel Knight is coming back: Jane Jensen’s classic point-n-click adventure game is getting an HD remake on PC, Mac, and iPad next year, journalist Geoff Keighley reports. First bit of concept art is right here.

You’re An Escaped Slave In Assassin’s Creed IV’s Freedom’s Cry DLC

A while back, Ubisoft said that Assassin’s Creed IV would have an add-on campaign focused on Adewale, the former slave who serves as first mate on Edward Kenway’s the Jackdaw. The trailer above offers the first glimpse at the Freedom’s Cry expansion and, as you can see, it’s going to be markedly different than the…

Curt Schilling is Selling His Nintendogs DSes in Bankruptcy Auction

Curt Schilling’s ill-fated games studio took down the state of Rhode Island with it, so it’s not much of a surprise he’s in personal bankruptcy, too, selling off all sorts of crap. Discerning video gamers will be interested in items No. 8 and No. 9 in this auction guide, but don’t overlook that pink Christmas…

Beyond: Two Souls: The Kotaku Review

In Beyond: Two Souls, you‘ll do some things you rarely get to do in video games. You’ll control a young, frightened girl as she hugs a stuffed animal and tries to fend off nightmares. You’ll decide whether to accept beer at an awkward high-school party, and you’ll try to pick music that’ll impress a group…

Adventure Time, LEGO and Linux Combine Into The Perfect PC Life Form

Harnessing the power of the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi microcomputer, the versatility of LEGO bricks and incredibly good taste in television animation, Michael Thomas has created an amazing tribute to Adventure Time‘s unsung hero, Beemo. Who wants to play video games? With a tiny computer and a tiny screen, Beemo or BMO springs to life,…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: GiantBoyDetective gives his opinion on the newly re-mastered The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. And Voltaire Crescent negotiates a surrender of sorts in his latest Crystal’s Call diary entry about his FFXIV adventures And you can always go join the voices talking about video games…

Playing Video Games Forever is Hell for This Ninja

If you’re already a bad-ass ninja that kills demons, then getting transported into a ninja video game where you need to kill an endless stream of demons would be a piece of cake, right? Nope. Turns out it would suck. A lot. This stylish animated comic from artist Chad Sell shows us that ninjas do…

Ninja Gaiden‘s cyborg vs. zombies spin-off is coming to PC. Tecmo Koei announced this morning that the Steam version of Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be launching day-and-date with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions in early 2014. Thank goodness. Ninja Gaiden and PCs go together like … you know.

The Chaos Of Battlefield 4 Looks Peaceful in Timelapse Video

Recorded and sped up on a PC, in spectator mode, YouTuber derbestefan‘s video shows a completely different Battlefield Sixty-four players are fighting each other on the beta map, without interruption. Skyscrapers are collapsing. Snipers on the rooftops are doing what they always do. Still, all of it is peaceful and calm. Timelapse on Siege of…

5 Minutes in BioShock Infinite‘s Rapture Shows a City Before the Fall

We’re goin’ back to Rapture … Rapture … with Booker and Elizabeth in Burial at Sea, the first downloadable extension to BioShock Infinite, and if you have to ask why they ended up there and Booker is a Sam Spade caricature, you probably have not finished the game. It’s nice to see Rapture looking so…

Found by Redditor Hulk_Pants in Egypt, this GTA V bootleg has everything on its cover (even Patrick Brown’s art and the helicopter on the top left side!). According to him, it is GTA: San Andreas for the Playstation 2, with modded Trevor, Franklin and Michael skins. That’s just too much effort for a bad knockoff!…

Your Complete Fall 2013 Anime Guide

As we continue through October, we have come to the end of the summer season and are beginning the fall one. But with 49 new anime in the pipeline, how do you know which ones to watch? Check out the trailers and brief blurbs about each to see which of them catches your interest. [*Note:…

Some of the best gaming stories from our overnight shift: Civilization‘s Crazy Ten-Year Game Is STILL GOING What Some Male Gamers Want Female Soldiers To Look Like Fine Art: Why You Should Always Wear Helmets In Battle The League Of Legends World Champs Looked Incredible

The PlayStation 5 Probably Won’t Be a Console, Says Tekken Producer

This fall, the PlayStation 4 will finally be released. Enjoy that physical media playing game console thingy! As one game producer says, it could be the last of its kind for PlayStation. In a recent interview in Famitsu, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada of Namco Bandai talked a bit about the future of the PlayStation, its…

North Korea Still Sucks at Photoshop [Update]

Can someone please help the North Korean government out? The propaganda ministers stink at Photoshop. Please get them to sign up for a class at their local community college. Or maybe Dennis Rodman can help. As frightening as North Korea can seem, honestly, the country’s inability to master the art of Photoshop should leave doubts…

I Am in Love With This Game’s Colorful, Vivid Backgrounds

I admit, I am one of those who is constantly annoyed that, constrained only by the limits of our imagination, we continually produce “realistic” looking games that have a color palette dominated by browns, grays, and blacks. So I am ecstatic whenever a game like Arcadias no Ikusahime comes along. The backgrounds are beautifully rendered…