SimCity Social ‘Rock Royalty Part 1’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Aside from Motley Crue songs, we don’t normally associate doctors with rock and roll. SimCity Social has done just that this week with the launch of the Rock Royalty event. This event is split into three pieces, each of which contains quests to complete over the next two weeks. We’re here with a complete guide…

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My Experience With The Walking Dead Was Ruined By A Bug

Zombie adventure and critically-acclaimed GOTY candidate The Walking Dead has made waves all year for its top-notch writing and ability to make people feel feelings. One of the game’s feelingest feelings, by all reports, comes during the last few minutes of Episode Five (out of five—the game is structured episodically). Psyched to feel those feelings,…

Demons, Baby Eating And Black Magic: The Insane Conspiracy Theory Email Sent To Game Developers

On January 8th, a group of game developers got a strange email in their inbox. The email was titled “Conspiracy Theory (GAMES DESIGN COMPANIES.)” It was a strange letter that informing the devs that DEMONS have been CODING to each other via games. Demons that do black magic and eat babies, to be exact. This…

The Miiverse: A Place For Weird Questions, Weirder Answers.

The Miiverse is a place for amazing art and devoted fandom. It’s also an outlet for off-topic questions nobody has thought to ask, and bizarre topics nobody had thought to bring up elsewhere. Today’s Miiverse Moment is a look at some of the weirder off-topic and random statements that get thrown around on Nintendo’s social…

Waking the Cat is Normally a Bad Idea. This is the Exception.

If three decades of cat ownership have taught me anything, it’s that a cat at rest should be let stay at rest as long as feline-ly possible. Cats are at their cutest when unconscious. Wake them and they begin scratching things, poking their nose into the kitchen, and filling the designated boxes (and anything remotely…

End of an Era: Jay Mohr Won’t Host the DICE Gaming Awards This Year

Comedian Jay Mohr won’t be hosting the annual video game awards show at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas this year. He’s hosted the awards every year since 2006, merrily insulting part of his audience full of gaming industry professionals and snarking about video games for over half a decade. The new host will be…

The 480th Argument Against Locking Content in Video Games

Many years ago, someone decided that games would be more fun if you couldn’t play all of them right away. Want to race on all the tracks of a racing game? Beat the easy ones to unlock the cooler ones. Want to fight as every fighter in a fighting game? Play a while and unlock…

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You Can Ride On The Back of An Enemy Mongoose In Halo 4 And Other Myths Confirmed

Defend the House keeps it coming with new Halo 4 myths confirmed and/or busted. My particular favorite in this latest episode is that you can ride on the back on an enemy mongoose vehicle. Sort of. If you try to jump on the back when an enemy is at the wheel, it will shock you…

Gamesindustry.biz suggests a $400 price point, and an October/November launch for Orbis and Durango, respectively.

DmC: The Kotaku Review

New Coke lives on only as a joke. But, imagine if you will, a reality where that reworking of the ubiquitous soft drink was actually good. You won’t have to think that hard about such a plane of existence. All you have to do is swap New Dante for New Coke and, bam, there you…

Somebody, Stop Me From Cuddling This Chocobo, Please

Artist Jenna Antonelli built this Chocobo, from the Final Fantasy series, as a commission piece. Whoever you are that paid for it, you are a lucky man/lady. The whole thing was sculpted by hand. Blow one of these images up to see the detail on the feathers and you’ll appreciate just how much work that…

Beijing’s Smog – It’s Like Living in Silent Hill All the Time

If you’ve read any international news regarding China recently, you’ll definitely have read about the environmental disaster that is Beijing’s air. Over the weekend and heading into the week, Beijing’s been covered in a terrible haze of “smog”, causing issues with traffic, air travel, and most importantly health. The Air Quality Index, an index used…

This Pokémon Nerd Hero Is Way Good at Drawing

One of my favorite things is watching people draw. I’m not very good at drawing, but there’s something relaxing about watching people who are. Late last year, Japanese celeb Shoko Nakagawa appeared on a variety program and was able to show off how talented she is at art (and how other celebrities aren’t!). Nakagawa, who…

Magazine with Scandalous Photo Goes on Sale in Japan

Young Magazine is a weekly manga that features serialized comics, like Initial D. Aimed at young males, the publication also features pin-up bikini photos. This week, the magazine features a questionable image of Tomomi Kasai, a former member of Japan’s biggest girl group AKB48. In the photo, Kasai is topless, and a young boy covers…

Over a thousand workers at a Foxconn supplier went on strike, demanding better pay.

Chinese Copycat Shooters May Have Met Their Match; Call of Duty Online Goes Into Testing in China. [UPDATE]

Chinese online games have been able to get away with imitations for a long time because there was no other option. Poor intellectual property rights and stringent barriers to entry have long kept popular international titles at bay, but now it seems the grace period for poor Chinese imitations may be gone and it starts…

Pepsi Marinated Chicken Wings? We’ve got Cheesy Lobster in China too.

Sitting in what’s often called a trashy cafe in Beijing’s Wudaokou district, a friend of mine asked me a question, “你知道为什么中国网游那么简单吗？” (Do you know why Chinese online games are so simple?) Confused and halfway through a soggy “homemade” microwave potato chip I asked, “Why?” My buddy smiled at me and said, “Because they’re designed to…

Battle Royale Won’t Be Getting an American TV Show Anytime Soon

Battle Royale, the manga and the film, follows a high school class put in a deadly game of kill or be killed. Due to its violent subject matter, no American distributor would initially touch the 2000 film, especially with the school shootings happening at the time. But in the wake of The Hunger Games, there’s…