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You Loved Wing Commander. Now Meet Wing Commander‘s 21st-Century Successor

Somebody needs to get the President, Mitt Romney and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a room and show them the next game from the creator of Wing Commander. Because the awesomeness on display in Star Citizen is a brilliant argument for why mankind needs to be in space. Star Citizen isn’t anywhere near done…

This is a Game About Collecting Garfield Trading Cards — Just Collecting Them

There is no crazy trading card battle system woven into Garfield Collections. It’s just a game about buying, selling and collecting virtual trading cards. I am not sure how that makes me feel. Developer DeckDAQ wants to bring collecting and trading into the digital age, so instead of collecting and trading real items, Garfield Collections…

Borderlands 2 Update Hints That The Game’s First DLC Pack is All About Pirates

Achievements and trophies added in yesterday’s patch for the PC and PS3 versions of Borderlands 2 hint at a new piece of downloadable content called “Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty.” Gamers on NeoGAF and other big message boards are reporting the details. Here are the three trophies, as posted on both GAF and PS3Trophies,…

The Walking Dead’s Episode Four Finally Broke My Resolve

Spoilers for previous episodes follow, as well as minor episode four spoilers. For all my positivity and knack for comforting others, for all my efforts to preserve any sense of morality in a dark, dim world full of death, nothing I do seems to help for more than a moment. Last night I played as…

After an extended period of iOS exclusivity, Square Enix’s mobile RPG Chaos Rings is now available for Android devices

Human Hands Can Actually Touch This Mass Effect 2 Sniper Rifle

Prop builder Zander Brandt specialises in turning video game guns into real-world playthings. Wonderful playthings. And his latest work is no exception. It’s an M-97 Viper sniper rifle from Mass Effect 2, and what I like about it—like most of Zander’s work—is how well-crafted it is. He builds practically the entire thing out of wood,…

You’re One…Ugly Predator Pumpkin (Amazing, Too)

I was planning on getting a pumpkin, carving out a face. Maybe something fancy, I thought. Show what I can do, you know? Then I saw this, and now I think, hey, why bother? It wins every pumpkin carving contest until the end of time. This is the mind meltingly wonderful work of the wizards…

Thank Two Lovely Programmers for the HD Kingdom Hearts Remix

In the upcoming issue of Famitsu, Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura apparently talked up the forthcoming HD Kingdom Hearts collection, Kingdom Hearts: HD 1.5 ReMIX. There are some interesting details. According to Nomura, Square Enix decided to do the HD version of Kingdom Hearts prior to the HD version of Final Fantasy X (which seems to…

Tetsuya Nomura Wants You To Wait a Little Longer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII Info

Didn’t see Final Fantasy Versus XIII at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, did we? Nope! Well, Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura is here to say the game is still being worked on. “We’re continuing work on Versus,” Nomura apparently said in an upcoming issue of Famitsu “Because all staff is hard at work on the game,”…

Will You Be Friends with Utada Hikaru? She Wants To Play Animal Crossing.

By day, Utada Hikaru is one of Japan’s biggest popstars. By night, she is, too. But recently, she’s been taking time off from her music career. In her downtime, she’s probably focusing on her other career: Kickass Nintendo gamer. And the next game Utada has in her sights is Animal Crossing: Jump Out on the…

GoG launches a pay-what-you-want Divinity series bundle with an advertised value of $32.

White Dudes and Asian Ladies Are a Thing in Television Commercials, It Seems!

A white dude brings his Asian-American girlfriend to a poker party. A white dude hits the town with his Asian girlfriend. A white solider talks to his pregnant Asian wife as she undergoes a sonogram. This white dude-Asian lady combo seems to be a thing of late in Western advertising—a familiar ad trope, if you…

When Mother Nature Lashes Out at Nerdy Cars

Recently, a typhoon rampaged through Japan, leaving destruction in its wake. Destruction like this in Naha City, Okinawa: a nerd mobile flipped on its roof. That looks to be a Suzuki Swift—but it’s hard to tell. I’ve never seen one upside down and covered with Clannad stickers. A first! 台風１７号：北部で４２００世帯に避難勧告 [沖縄タイムス] Kotaku East is your…

Final Fantasy XIV Wants To Be the Standard for MMORPG Console Gaming

Square Enix is busy readying the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIV. The Tokyo-based game company isn’t just working on making sure the PS3 version is up to snuff, but it’s also aiming for it to become the standard for MMORPGs on home consoles. In the upcoming issue of Famitsu, Square Enix seems to have…

In Taiwan, There Are Pole-Dancing Strippers…for the Dead

“This is hard work but I need to make a living,” 18-year-old En En told AP. She earned the equivalent of US$100, but picked up some tips after letting men cop a feel. En En wasn’t just pole dancing at a strip club. She was dancing to appease the dead at a religious ceremony in…

In the latest issue of Famitsu, Shuhei Yoshida apparently said that there are lots of unannounced PS Vita titles. Noted!

What Bayonetta Loves More than the Wii U. For Instance, She Loves Her Fancy Outfit.

Bayonetta is one of the most iconic, memorable characters to appear this console generation. Whether it’s her glasses or her bodysuit, she’s iconic! No wonder cosplayers love dressing up as her. And since her debut in 2009, that’s exactly what cosplayers have done: Bayonetta often shows up on game and geek events throughout Japan, with…

Hey Readers! There’s a new indie Story Bundle as well as a Humble eBook Bundle. Both support charity and are DRM free.

This Poor Old Xbox Has Seen Better Days

Part of a nice gallery of Instagram photos over on Attract Mode, this pic shows one of two possible uses for an old Xbox machine in 2012. The other being, of course, an Xbox Media Centre. But that’s way less fun. A PICTURE OF FLAT SHADED POLYGONS, ON A FUZZY ARCADE MONITOR, WITH AN IPHONE…