Ghost Recon Breakfast Cereal? An XCOM Switcheroo? Plus: More Gaming Secrets.

We’ve got an all-new layout, but the same great gaming scoops and rumors from that mysterious figure known as Superannuation. What did Superannuation dig up this time? Tons of things that you’re probably not supposed to know about yet… Two weeks ago, Ubisoft filed a bevy of trademark registrations vis-a-vis “Ghost Recon” and basically every…

I’d Pay Good Money to Play This Impressive Destruction Demo

When Nvidia wants crap to break apart, it breaks apart good. This is is a real-time dynamic fracture demo shown at GDC, running at 30 frames-per-second on a single Geforce GTX 680 graphics card. Ever wish you could spend money on a tech demo? [Thanks, Zak!]

This “Pegformer” Delivers One New Way to Move, Many New Ways to Die

When developer First5 Games were looking for a fresh method of movement for their new platforming game, they found inspiration in those old Wacky Wall Crawler toys you’d get for a quarter out of supermarket vending machines as a kid. You know, the ones with all the sticky legs? I used to tear off their…

Minority Media’s Papo & Yo—the semi-autobiographical magical realist platformer that was my favorite game of last year—will be available on Steam on April 18th. If you wanted to play Quico and Monster’s story but don’t have a PS3, you can finally experience what’s so charming about the game.

Watch Cliff Bleszinski Talk About How Video Games Changed His Life

The man best known for helping create Gears of War had a spotlight talk at PAX East this past weekend and he talked about his relationship with video games. It’s a poignant monologue where Bleszinski talks about getting teased for his love of Nintendo as a kid, how games helped him cope with rough moments…

Meagan Marie, a former games journalist who now works at a game studio, is no longer going to keep quiet about all the sexist crap she has to put up with. She expresses her courage in a great blog post that may be full of examples of awful past experiences but is also brimming with…

Who among you went out and picked up Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel? What do you think so far? Go join the voices talking about video games and life in Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog.

Tired of Games That Look Like Every Other Game? Maybe Apotheon‘s For You.

Side-scrolling indie action game Apotheon is looking a lot better since last we saw it. We saw it at PAX East in Boston this past weekend, where it appeared to be shaping up as promising mix of Metroid and… Mount & Blade? You’ll be able to play Apotheon on PC by the end of the…

Behold Studios teams with Paradox Interactive to bring the glorious meta role-playing game Knights of Pen & Paper to PC, Mac and Linux asKnights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition. Roll to save versus awesome.

New GTA V Screens Show Off Sunsets, Scuba Diving and Stormy Skies

A bunch of new images for Grand Theft Auto V popped up on Rockstar’s official site. What do you think is going on in these scenes?

Before Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Comes Plants Vs. Zombies Vs. Facebook

While the promised sequel to the world‘s most popular undead floral combat simulator is still slated for a summer release, Popcap is sowing the seeds of something more social with Plants Vs. Zombies Adventures, a Facebook game that explores the original title’s tower defense roots. Where Plants Vs. Zombies was a corridor-based defense variant with…

A certain man named Cary Walkin has programmed an RPG. It’s called Arena.Xlsm. And it’s a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. If you own Excel, you might wanna give it a try. [via BoingBoing]

Japanese Video Games Where You Can Play As A Badass American

The influence of American action movies in Japan has been huge. Shortly after the success of all the 1980s Hollywood action flicks with dudes like Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Chuck Norris, Japanese gaming created an entire library of different action titles with one common feature: Kill everything on the screen. Oh, and blow up everything, too.…

Ubisoft just submitted something called “Far Cry Classic” to the Korean game rating board. What could it mean?! [GRB Thanks Sang!]

Here’s some new footage from the recently announced Heroes of Might and Magic-like, Age of Wonders III. For a pre-alpha, it looks surprisingly complete — not to mention good. The game is slated for an Autumn 2013 release for PC, with a Mac version planned later on.

More Cool, Amazing, and Totally Odd Japanese Cosplayers

Last weekend, Osaka’s Den-Den Town, the city’s geek district, held a street festival. Previously, Kotaku showcased some of the unusual cosplay on display during the event. There was more. Much more. Here are some of the other wonderful and wonderfully strange outfits on display. Some of them are based on Japanese internet memes. Some, obviously,…

In an interview, DICE has confirmed to VideoGamer that Battlefield 4 is not coming to the Wii U.

In Soviet Russia, There Was an Arcade Game That Quizzed People on…Road Signs

Back in 2009, a museum dedicated to Soviet arcade games opened in Moscow, Russia. Recently, Japanese site Osoroshian.com took a tour of the museum, snapping loads of photos in the process. The museum houses over forty arcade games that were licensed for manufacture in the USSR during the 70s and 80s. Many of the arcade…

Tim Schafer: The Game: Part Deux

You’re Tim Schafer. You’re hosting the Game Developers Choice Awards. But, since you’ve shaved your beard, put on a tux instead of a t-shirt, and left all your jokes at home, the bouncer thinks you’re an impostor and refuses to let you in. That’s the premise of Host Master Deux: Quest for Identity Schafer hosting…

Latest Japanese Schoolgirl Trend: Fake Dragon Ball Attacks

As covered on Kotaku yesterday, photos of schoolgirls doing faux manga style martial arts moves have been popping up on forums and threads in Japan. Those photos, however, are just the tip of the iceberg. Numerous Japanese teens, it seems, are uploading photos of themselves doing the Kamehameha attack from popular manga and anime series…