Waiting Around? Don’t Play Games On Your Phone; Just Play Games On The Traffic Light Instead

On the one hand, it seems a bit ridiculous. Who needs a game embedded in their walk light? Is the humble button not good enough anymore? Whatever happened to just waiting patiently for the light to turn? And yet on the other hand, the planner behind this German intersection may indeed have been onto something.…

I Want To Play With This Hilarious Set Of Hungry Hungry Koopas

Just look at that mouth. Those teeth. That shell. Adorable. This close-up is part of a Hungry Hungry Koopas set created by artist Donald Kennedy, who plans to sell it at El Paso Comic Con (and, if it doesn’t sell well, on his website later). Lots more pictures below: (via TinyCartridge)

See A Bunch Of New Pokémon Black And White 2 Features In These Commercials

Here are a set of new commercials for Pokémon Black And White 2, the latest games in Nintendo’s popular monster-catching series. Seems like Nintendo is really playing up the new: understandable, considering they have the same names as the last two games, and considering they’re on a system that has been obsolete for almost two…

Call of Duty In The Skin of Minecraft On A Star Wars Map Is A Thing You Can Play

Guncraft is a first-person shooter stylized much like Minecraft and its boxy facade. It’s a multiplayer game whose players create the customizable maps, and can fully mod the game to their heart’s desires. The PC game is currently in open beta, which you can sign up for, or help get on Steam One of said…

Holy Cow, There’s An Elephant Loose In Liberty City

May they never, ever stop making mods for Grand Theft Auto IV. I’m serious! Never stop. This latest one lets players assume the role of a giant elephant, stealing cars and riding motorcycles around Liberty City. Good thing there are no mice in GTA IV. Though there are peanuts…. We can only hope that the…

Two Comics That End at Beginnings This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Who Needs Sonic? Get a Look at Knuckles the Echidna’s Collected Comics Adventures Right Here

Sure, Sega’s blue mascot has had a long run of comics of his own from Archie Comics. But his frenemy Knuckles saw action on his own, too, with exploits that unfurled an oddly touching interpretation of the animal-verse. A new collection of Knuckles comics hits stores next week. Here’s a first look at the continued…

Black Mesa, Nine Other Games Get Greenlit On Steam

Highly-anticipated Half-Life remake Black Mesa will come to Steam thanks to the Greenlight program, Valve said today. So will nine other games, with more to come. Here’s a list of the first ten titles that have been accepted on Steam’s Greenlight: Black Mesa Cry of Fear Dream Heroes & Generals Kenshi McPixel No More Room…

One Year after DC Comics’ New 52 Reboot, The Same Old Problems Linger

I shouldn’t be feeling déjà vu when I read a issue of Green Lantern that introduces a new hero. The last thing that should happen when Superman and Wonder Woman kiss after an emotional adventure is me yawning. Yet, here I am, struggling to stay excited 12 months after the exhilaration of a line-wide reconfiguration…

Time Travel, Lasers and Dinosaurs Add Up to the Video Game of One Man’s Dreams

Evan’s Note: It’s hard not to want to love Super Time Force. The next release from Capybara Games features a ridiculous sci-fi premise, one that has players spawning hundreds of versions of themselves on-screen in side-scrolling shoot-em-up action. Then the game got a hilarious animated trailer that took the piss out of old cartoons like…

Why Did Resistance Never Get As Big As Halo? Maybe It Changed Too Much.

Resistance started out as a Halo clone. It was to be Sony’s answer to Microsoft, the PlayStation’s own sci-fi shooter and killer app. It was to sell millions and earn its own base of rabid fans. That never happened. While Resistance did okay, it never quite became the blockbuster Sony and developer Insomniac were hoping…

Meet the Brand-New Dead or Alive Competitor. She’s My Favorite.

With her two-toned hair, spunky attitude and part-time job at a diner (free food!), Mila might be my favorite Dead or Alive fighter yet. The up-and-coming MMA fighter makes her debut in Dead or Alive 5 Considering Mila’s admiration for Tina’s father, she seems to have a thing for giant balding men with beards, so…

Resident Evil 6 To Get Three New Multiplayer Modes As Paid DLC

If you’re worried that Resident Evil 6 won’t feature enough content for you, fret not: Capcom has announced that they will be releasing three additional multiplayer modes for the game. All three modes will be timed exclusives for the Xbox 360 The fact that the three modes share names with three TV shows/movies is likely…

There’s More Information Than You Think Buried In Your World of Warcraft Screenshots

It turns out that there’s a lot more information captured in a World of Warcraft screenshot than most players would ever think to look for. A user at OwnedCore unearthed the invisible watermarks, which then spilled forth onto Reddit. The gist is that a screenshot taken inside World of Warcraft with its screenshot function includes…

It Took an Astounding Amount of Work to Make You Lose Yourself in Dishonored

From its beginnings in London of the 1600’s to the bizarre magical/industrial city of Dunwall we’ll hopefully come to know and love, some incredibly talented people have been working their asses off for years to make sure Dishonored doesn’t feel like they did. It’s fascinating to watch how the design of Dishonored transformed during the…

Watch American McGee’s Gritty Take On Red Riding Hood In Action With Akaneiro

Spicy Horse, the developers behind Alice: Madness Returns, have released a first gameplay look at the action-RPG Akaneiro: Demon Hunter In much the same way that Spicy Horse took the tale of Alice in Wonderland and turned it into a dark fantasy where Alice brandished a large butcher knife for the majority of the game,…

The lead designer of The Secret World says that he and many others got laid off by Funcom

Tekken Tag Tournament 2: The Kotaku Review

Fighting games are prom. Seriously, think about it. All the parties involved get gussied up in their best finery and enter a space that lets them reconcile grudges and/or crushes with as much flair as possible. So the best thing, I’ve found, is to start with the dance that you know how to do. My…

The American Civil War Flares Up Once Again, This Time On iOS

Civil War: 1863, a new game from Scottish studio Hunted Cow, achieves that rarest of strategy gaming feats: balancing accessibility with depth and challenge. On first glance, you might see hexes and the Civil War setting and freak out that this is a serious strategy game, one full of numbers and variables and weird icons…

Farewell to the Wii, A Great Gaming System After All

I will not speak ill of the Nintendo Wii, even though others have done so for years. My Wii was a very good gaming console. A weird one, yes. It somehow managed to be popular while remaining niche. Its games were fun, but, often a bit ugly. Its best games came out in the middle…