Nerd Vandalism Is Serious Business

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Here’s a humorously long list of banned questions for Hotline Miami 2, straight from the developers’ gamescom booth. It might have been a slightly less time-consuming to put up a list of allowed questions. Maybe next year! In any case, the full list is below.

Bad News for the PS Vita: No Monster Hunter 4 Anytime Soon

Remember how popular Monster Hunter was on the PSP in Japan? And how it became a system seller for the Sony hardware? And how the PSP was pretty much the machine Japanese people used to play Monster Hunter? Remember that? This time around things are different. Monster Hunter 4 is coming to the 3DS, and…

An updated version of Game Dev Tycoon is hitting Steam next week, on August 29 New features include a longer storyline, new artwork, balance changes, additional gameplay elements, and several bug fixes. You can read more about the update on the developers’ blog and, if you’re interested, here’s the store page

Side-Scrolling Platformers Are Also Awesome on the Oculus Rift

When you think about the Oculus Rift—with its lenses that extend into your peripheral vision and motion sensors that mimic your head movements—you probably think it’s an accessory made for first-person games and nothing else. The makers of Super Mega Mega have done their best to prove this idea wrong. Super Mega Mega is a…

Joker Plastic Surgery? Permanent Duck Faces? I’m Not Sure Which!

In Asia, making “duck faces” is considered cute. And in South Korea, it’s cute enough for plastic surgery. This is “lipline surgery” or, as tipster Sang points out, literally “liptail surgery” (입꼬리 수술 or “ipkkori”). Recently, Reddit posted an image of someone who seems to have undergone the procedure, adding that this is a “new…

All The Flamboyantly-Colored Samurai You Could Ever Want From a Game

Historical accuracy is obviously not the forte of the latest expansion to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. Well, unless there really were pink samurai running around stabbing Spartan pikemen. And each other. Produced under a partnership with Spike TV and titled Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior, the expansion to Torn Banner’s PC multi-player hack n’ slash promises to deliver…

Ready for Gran Turismo 7? Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi said his studio has conceived a PS4 version of their PS3 game Gran Turismo 6. However, Joystiq reports it will take some time to get out (surprise!), and it’s possible the game might be what’s eventually Gran Turismo 7. The keyword here is “eventually.”

Controversy Over the Chinese Pacific Rim Translation

Pacific Rim is a smash hit in China. People love it, even if the subtitles are iffy. There is one subtitle translation in particular that has made the evening news in China. The on-screen subtitle for Elbow Rocket, Gypsy Danger‘s rocket-powered punch, reads “Pegasus Meteor Fist” in Chinese. No biggie, right? It was changed, so…

Just in case Gone Home wasn’t scary enough already: check out this disturbing rendition of the game’s audiologs by Orthogonalus. Jeeze, I dunno that I could handle a whole game like this!

Bodybuilding Forum Freaks The Heck Out Over Random Dude’s Love Life

Conventional “wisdom” often tells us there are people who are in our league, and people who are outside of it—and unless you reach a certain level of attractiveness, you probably can’t hope to date people outside of your range. To be clear: I think that’s all hogwash; I’m just repeating what some people believe when…

The Next Batman Is… Ben Affleck? What?

Ben Affleck will star as Batman in Man of Steel 2. Ben Affleck. This is not a joke. Both The Wrap and Varietyare reporting the news. Daredevil is playing Batman. Last month’s Comic Con revelation that the Caped Crusader will appear in the sequel to Zack Snyder’s Superman flick was huge news—particularly the part where…

Here’s How This Xbox One Exclusive Will Do Microtransactions [UPDATE]

Hopefully the news that next gen will have microtransactions in it isn’t actually, uh, news to you: the practice of charging money for an in-game bonus has practically become an industry standard. Of course some next gen games will have it! Still, we haven’t heard the specifics of what some next gen games will try…

This Developer Wants To Jump-Start Africa’s Game Industry

Ghana is not known for its game industry, but that could change. In the BBC interview above, Ghanaian game developer Eryam Tawia of Leti Games talks about his desire for Africa to be a strong presence in the game industry, one that reflects African heroes and history. Honestly, I hope he’s successful. If the rise…

Sounds Like Zelda: Wind Waker HD Comes With A Lot Of Changes

The Wii U remake of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker has a bunch of new tweaks and features, if previews out of Germany are to believed. Reporters and attendees at GamesCom this week got to play the first-ever HD Zelda, which comes out for Wii U in October. They say it’s different. Much different.…

How ‘Limited’ Will Smash Bros. On 3DS Actually Be?

Kotaku super-user Giant Boy Detective pauses from his weekly efforts to nominate characters for the next Smash Bros. to calm concerns that the 3DS version of the next Smash is going to have problematic limitations. He has no inside knowledge. Just some math.

Maybe Pacific Rim Should Have Ended Like This

Sure, there wasn’t anything wrong with Pacific Rim’s ending (don’t worry, I’m not about to spoil it)—but really, the whole thing could have been much simpler. Heck, why not throw in some absurd cameos while we’re at it? That’s what HISHEdotcom would do, anyway. If I could change the ending, I’d probably kill genericbro Raleigh,…

You Must Know About This Wild PC Game

Not many games have you helping a frog obtain a Wi-Fi password. But this seems all very normal in the world of Jazzpunk, a bizarre first person adventure game unlike anything I’ve ever played. Imagine if Gravity Bone, the freeware first person spy adventure were expanded into a full game, but along the way was…

I Need This Haunting Game About a Runaway Slave to Get Finished

I told myself I wouldn’t let this unfinished game make me cry. But it did, because it made me put a crying baby on cold, wet ground and run away from it. All in the name of freedom. The game in the video is called Thralled. It’s still in very early stages of development—I played…

A Retro Borderlands 2 Would Look Rad. Here’s Proof.

I don’t know about you, but if I had the chance to play a Borderlands game that looked like this conceptual piece by Olsonmabob I’d do it in a heartbeat. The art style is fantastic. Sure, it wouldn’t be an FPS anymore, but that may just make it more interesting! Like a Metal Slug or…