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Dragonborn Is The First Skyrim DLC That Actually Feels Like An Expansion

When Skyrim first came out, Bethesda had lofty promises for the game’s downloadable content. Skyrim‘s DLC will feel like expansion packs, the developers assured us. Reality has told a different story. Skyrim‘s first DLC, Dawnguard, was a disappointing add-on filled with boring, samey quests. The second DLC, Hearthfire, was basically Barbie’s Playhouse with dragons Third…

Robot Unicorn Attack Goes Retro

The Erasure-powered glory of Robot Unicorn Attack has seen many different iterations, from the original Adult Swim flash game to the mobile app, heavy metal to Christmas to a Facebook evolution. Now PixelJam takes us back to the very beginning with Retro Unicorn Attack Some might say that Adult Swim is beating a dead horse…

Oh. Aero Porter is a Yoot Saito Game. That Explains Everything.

I used to love SimCity so much that I bought SimEverything, which is why I didn’t just play SimTower but studied a game guide in a bookstore in order to discern how to best manage the game’s elevators. Elevator management! The joy. I liked my GameCube enough that I gave Odama an honest try, despite…

How To Access Skyrim‘s New ‘Dragonborn’ Content That Releases Today

New Skyrim DLC releases today. We’ll have impressions up for you in just a short while, but in the meantime you might want to know how to actually access the content yourself. Game Front is here to the rescue, explaining everything you need to know in the video above.

Hitman: Absolution Site Wants You To Threaten Your Friends With Really Tacky Insults [Update: Square Enix Apologizes]

Look, it’s already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making, what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook friends. It’s pretty tacky. As spotted on Rock, Paper, Shotgun,…

When Dragons and Unicorns Fight, Everybody Wins

A crazy mix of arcade and defense gameplay with a sweet sense of style, Digital Harmony’s Dragons Vs. Unicorns is available for free in the iTunes App Store today. It’s not as cool as Dragons Vs. Unicrons, but it’ll do nicely.

Someone Made An Entire Song Out Of Random Wii U Noises. It’s Pretty Catchy.

From the snapping noise a Wii U game case makes to the menu music, this Wii U song by YouTube user jimmy incorporates a whole bunch of sounds the Wii U can make. And the result is great. But it does kind of get awkward in the middle there.

There’s a demo for PS3 role-playing game Ni no Kuni going live on the PlayStation Network today. Go check it out!

Reddit says that back in August, Valve registered three movie site domain names. Wait… three? (via PCGamesN)

It’s A Desperate Fight For Survival In The Opening Hours Of Tomb Raider

You’re a young woman, crash-landed on an uncharted island in the south pacific. You’re wounded, it’s pouring rain; there are wolves everywhere. Your shipmates are scattered to the wind, and you’re starving to death. There are scores of people already inhabiting the island, evil men who are hunting you and your friends for some unknown,…

Cut the Rope Creators Peel the Lid Off Pudding Monsters

With Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope Experiments, UK developer ZeptoLab created a pair of the most popular games on any mobile platform, along with one of the most beloved mobile mascots, the candy-munching OmNom. If anything can build on that success, it’s pudding. Due out later this month, Pudding Monsters looks to be…

Ubisoft’s Weird Alice in Wonderland Cameos

Ubisoft’s two big holiday releases don’t just share numerals and second words starting with “cr”. They also both begin, bizarrely, with almost exactly the same quote. Yes, of all the books, movies, TV shows and historical figures that are out there for developers to lift quotes from, both Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III…

Watch E.X. Troopers in All its Alien Bug-Stomping Glory

E.X. Troopers is a spin-off title to Capcom’s Lost Planet series—though it may not seem like it at first glance. Unlike the realistic graphical style of the main series of games, E.X. Troopers is presented entirely in a manga-esque style. The game’s cutscenes even come complete with panel frames and written onomatopoeic sound effects. The…

Does Call of Duty Camo Work in… Tokyo? Let’s Find Out.

You know in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, when Lt. Price and Cpt. MacMillan wear those “ghillie suits“? The camo outfits look like they’re wearing grass and foliage. Those come in handy while sneaking about the Russian wilderness. They’re less handy when in urban jungle known as Tokyo. Or are they? Japanese site Rocket…

Remember that Microsoft Killer Instinct trademark? Seems it’s been knocked down by a TV show with the same name.

Internet Defends Man Accused of Reading Porn in Public. Things Get Ugly.

“This guy is like totally reading a dirty magazine on the train,” the high school student’s tweet read. Accompanying the tweet was a photo a man, his legs pressed close as he read a magazine. The tweet, and the visible photo of his face set off a flurry of comments online in Japan. This man…

When Tekken Lets Its (Plastic) Hair Down

The latest entry in Kotobukiya’s bishoujo line of cute figures is Emili “Lili” de Rochefort. She joins Julia Chang, Alisa Bosconovich, among others in the bishoujo line. The figurine will be out next April in Japan. If this is your thing, there’s more in the above gallery. TEKKEN美少女 リリ (フィギュア) [Hobby Search] Kotaku East is…

PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida is busy playing with his new Wii U. If you have any words of advice, here’s his Twitter

What Headphones Anime Characters Are Wearing

Female characters wearing large headphones is a trope in Japanese anime. The headphones make the characters’ heads look smaller, thus, by anime standards, appear “cuter”. Tropes aside, the headphones are often based on real products. But which ones? In the past few years, on anime sites, music sites, and anime music sites, audiophiles and casual…