Aussie Cops Say “Leader” Of Sony, Nintendo Hackers Has Been Caught

The Australian Federal Police is claiming today to have rounded up the “self-proclaimed leader” of Lulzsec, the community of hackers behind a string of game company and website attacks in 2011 I say “claim” because American authorities said the same thing in 2011 when they busted Hector Xavier Monsegur. Whether the unnamed man in question…

The Show That’s Like Twilight, But With Way More Sex And Gore

Have you been watching Hemlock Grove? I have. It’s… er, it’s trashy. And cheap. And kinda crap. And yet I’m still watching. It’s quite a bit like Twilight, though with way more T&A and gratuitous blood and stupid acting. Well, okay, more or less the same amount of stupid acting. Perhaps a better description would…

Well that didn’t take long. Here’s Daft Punk’s single Get Lucky, done in the style of a retro video game by YouTuber Floating Point. For comparison’s sake, here’s the original song.

The Goofy Underbelly Of Steam Greenlight

Given that there are so, so many submissions to Valve’s Steam Greenlight crowdsourcing approval system, it stands to reason that there will be some pretty goofy entries. And what do you know, that’s totally the case! It’s hard enough to keep tabs on all the new games on Greenlight, let alone keep up with all…

Hey Look, It’s A Real Voxophone. Like The Ones In BioShock Infinite.

This Voxophone by YouTuber Jesse Demers won’t give you background and exposition, like the ones scattered in Columbia will. Instead, it plays back some of the songs from the game—like Girls Just Want To Have Fun. Here’s what a Voxophone from Infinite looks like, for comparison’s sake: Demers says he made the Voxophone using oak…

Nintendo’s Plan To Make The 3DS Stand Out From The iPhone

It feels as though Nintendo’s 3DS handheld game system has “arrived.” Over the last few months, the library of 3DS games available has reached some sort of critical mass, and it seems there’s a well-made, fun game for just about every type of gamer. But the spectre of the iPhone and Apple’s App store lingers.…

Caliente! Three Unreleased Tracks From Vice City Emerge

Rockstar has unearthed three previously unreleased tracks from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City‘s beloved in-game radio station “Radio Espantoso.” The three tunes are now available on iTunes andstreaming on Spotify. Nice. The songs in question are “The Bull’s Wrong” by Alpha Banditos, “Yo Te Mire” by Tres Apenas Como Eso and “La Vida Es Una…

The award-winning indie co-op heist game Monaco won’t be coming out tomorrow on Xbox Live Arcade after all. It’s been delayed “a little,” its creators say, to fix some unspecified problem. They’ve already submitted a fix. In happier news, it’ll still be out for PC on Steam tomorrow, and we’ll have video of me playing…

Nintendo revealed the launch line-up for the Wii U’s Virtual Console today on Facebook. Nothing surprising here: Super Mario World, F-Zero, Excitebike, and a few others.

You Play This Video Game On A Painting, Using An NES Controller

for(){}; is a clever use of both projector and paintings. The canvas holds the background, and the the elements a player can interact with are projected on top of that canvas—meaning, you can play a video game on a painting. Awesome. This video was uploaded last month, but the installation was put up in Kittredge…

The dust has settled a bit, and opinions about BioShock Infinite are still all over the place. A couple new things worth checking out: First of all, erstwhile Kotaku contributor Tim Rogers has written a typically sprawling, highly enjoyable review of the game over at actionbutton.net. Second, Cameron Kunzelman has been collecting a whole bunch…

The State of Zelda In 2013: Finally Escaping Ocarina‘s Shadow?

A gaming series that’s been around for a quarter of a century winds up in a predicament. Change? Or don’t change? There’s only one answer, of course. Do both. Classic games are not classic music albums or classic novels. The audience for a great old game isn’t satisfied with reprints. They’d like a sequel, please.…

Now This Is Some Serious Warhammer 40K Cosplay

There’s dressing up as your favorite game or TV character, then there’s assembling a massive suit of Warhammer 40K armor. Like, say, this massive suit of Warhammer 40K armor. The outfit, which is based on an Imperial Fists captain in Terminator armor, was created by cosplay and prop-makers Daniel Høgh and Justina Šniukštaitė of Roses…

A Far Cry Villain and a Deus Ex Hero Fight in Real Life

The guy who voiced Adam Jensen hosted The Canadian Video Game Awards this past weekend. In its fourth year, the industry celebration inadvertently became a gathering of first-class voice actors. But, as you can see in the backstage video with Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s Elias Toufexis and Far Cry 3’s Michael Mando, they don’t all…

Troll Your Pals With Pineapple, Onions, and Xbox Live’s Pizza Hut App

Jesus Christ, you can order a pizza from your Xbox 360? Yes, thanks to Pizza Hut and Xbox Live, whose 172.65 megabyte food-downloadin’ app is now available for hungry hungry neckbeards like me and Fahey. The delivery app—demanded five months ago by Xbox Live users in this thread—went live this week. I so wanted to…

This Video Game Script Is Beyond Ridiculous

CNET editor Dan Ackerman shared this picture of the Beyond: Two Souls script today. It’s 2,000 blank pages. The representation of the conglomeration of all the spoken dialogue for Quantic Dream’s upcoming playable drama looks bigger than a stack of PS3s. And not the new Super Slim PS3s. I’m talking the original husky models. Sony…

Batman: Arkham Origins Will Have Multiplayer, Sources Say

The newest Batman game will have a multiplayer mode, we’ve heard from two independent sources. Batman: Arkham Origins, a prequel announced earlier this month, will be the third game in the Arkham series, and the first to have any sort of multiplayer, according to our sources. We’ve also heard details about at least one multiplayer…

The Moneysaver: Witcher, Venetica, Terran Conflict Free After Rebate

The time to click is now, free games, even with rebates, don’t last. Our friends at Deals.Kinja.com have pointed out Newegg’s crazy FREE after rebate sale today, which includes not only things like HDMI cables, but FREE copies of The Witcher, Venetica, and X3 Terran Conflict. Obviously, these will probably go quickly. Go get ’em.…

Bizarre Boyfriend-Maker is Back On The App Store, Slightly Declawed

Fans of boyfriends and strange iPhone chat games may recall Boyfriend Maker, the sometimes hilarious, sometimes genuinely creepy virtual companion app that was released last year for iOS before being summarily pulled from the App Store Developer 36You has brought the game back to Apple devices, albeit with some notable changes. It’s now called Boyfriend…

I Don’t Know What The Heck I Just Watched, But It Still Looks Cool

Nowhere is a game that defies words. That first clip, which shows something a bit like a digital neon cityscape? It’s the same game as this second clip of drones buzzing near what seems to be a planet: Which is also the same game as this third clip, where we explore a pastel-colored surreal landscape:…