Your FarmVille Clicking Helped Buy Mark Pincus This $16 Million House

Mark Pincus, CEO of the currently embattled FarmVille developer Zynga, hasn’t let his company’s legal and PR troubles stop him from purchasing a baller $16 million pad in San Francisco’s lovely and exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood. These images come via Trulia, as shared by Forbes It isn’t a 25,000-square-foot palace like the one enjoyed by…

The Prettiest 8-Bit Montage of the Olympic Games Around

If you were wondering what the Olympic games might look like in 8-bit form, this montage video is here for you. As a bonus, the chiptunes track is just as pretty as the 8-bit art. Plus, it’s fairly educational, considering it gives you a neat rundown of what activities are considered Olympic sports The 8-Bit…

The Other Far Cry 3, A Baffling PopCap Mystery And Other Gaming Secrets

Editor’s Note: Imagine that there are secrets about video games buried under the soil on which you stand. The mysterious person known as Superannuation wields a shovel; so please step a little to the left and see what Superannuation is digging up just for you… Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3 was originally going to be a…

Steam To Start Selling Non-Game Software

Valve’s popular Steam service is going to expand beyond games, the company has announced. An email from Valve informs us that Steam will soon host a collection of non-game “Software Titles.” Eeeeehnteresting. From Valve: The Software titles coming to Steam range from creativity to productivity. Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular…

This Unconfirmed Campaign Breakdown of Black Ops II Is Making the Rounds

This is going to sound like one of those stories in which a friend of a friend heard something from a janitor’s mother-in-law. This isn’t like last year, when we had the story of Modern Warfare 3 dead to rights in May, six months before the game’s release, thanks to some chatty sources. But we’d…

Nintendo Says They’ve Finalized Wii U Box Art Designs. They Probably Look Like This.

The leak of Wii U box art for a few Ubisoft titles got people wondering if the images seen online were real. Then Ubisoft confirmed the leaked box art was in fact legit. Now Nintendo is chiming in. Here’s what Nintendo sent Kotaku when we asked about the legitimacy of the designs: Nintendo has finalized…

Black Ops II Looks Great In Super Slow Mo

We’ve slowed yesterday’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer trailer to about 1/20th its normal speed. Because most things look cooler in super slow-mo.

There Are Four Glorious Gaming Tees That Need Your Money Today

Thanks to Tee Magnet, we have a pretty nifty round-up of awesome t-shirts awaiting your credit card numbers. Four of those are gaming related. Four of those are awesome. Four of those need your attention. Check them out above and below, and make your choice(s) wisely. Imperial Damacy [TeeFury] Occupied [Shirt Woot!] OOOOOOH! [Qwertee] Rapture…

The Tomb Raider Reboot Could Use a T-Rex

I’m worried that Lara Croft won’t ever get to fight a dragon again. And that she’ll never go back to Atlantis. Everything we’ve seen so far from the gritty Tomb Raider reboot due out next year seems to indicate that the Crystal Dynamics is burning the fantasy trappings off of the action franchise. And that…

Microsoft Says When They Said ‘New Xbox,’ They Didn’t Really Mean New Xbox

Last week on a podcast, Microsoft’s Brian Hall mentioned “the new Xbox” while discussing products that his company will be releasing in the near future. But Microsoft now says he wasn’t actually talking about the new Xbox. Up until now, Microsoft has refused to confirm what we all know: there’s an Xbox 360 successor en…

This Game Lets You Leap Your Way Through A Swinging History Of Jazz

On my iPad’s home screen, the title of Jazz: Trump’s Journey is just one word: “Jazz.” That about sums it up, I guess. Trump’s Journey is a game about jazz, more or less—it’s a two-dimensional platformer starring a gentleman who looks a bit like a cartoon version of Louis Armstrong. His name is “Trump,” and…

They’re Space Nazis But It’s Okay, They’re Not Racist or Anything

One would imagine it would take more than 130 years for humanity to embrace the ideals of an organization calling itself the (insert number here) Reich, but the destruction of the planet Earth does funny things to a civilization. In Miner Wars 2081 the Nazi party rises to power once more, thanks mainly to its…

Turning Up The Gamma and Brightness in DayZ Is Cheating. Or Is It?

In a world lacking morality, these two DayZ players argue over whether turning up the gamma and brightness in a game is cheating. Personally, I don’t think it is. But that’s just me, not wanting to squint at my screen for hours. I already do that enough during the workday.

The People Who Make Persona Are Now Focusing On Persona 5

No more distractions. It’s been four years since the last real Persona, and the people behind the RPG series want to release a fifth one. Speaking in this week’s issue of Famitsu, as translated by Andriasang, Atlus exec Katsura Hashino said the team has submitted illustrations and made progress on Persona 5. No word on…

The Case For Video Games as an Olympic Sport

If archery is an Olympic sport and shotput is an Olympic sport, consider the Olympic prospects of pulling back a virtual slingshot with one’s fingertip, mentally calculating the best trajectory and then letting an Angry Bird fly and smash into some green pigs. Video games, perhaps, should have had a place in the ongoing London…

Zen Pinball 2 hits PS3 and Vita September 4, with a mystery Popcap game-themed table to be revealed at PAX Prime.

Felicia Day Unboxes the Guild Wars 2 Collector’s Edition So I Don’t Have To

I know everyone is disappointed that they don’t get to see my crappy red tablecloth and hear my children babbling in the background, but trust me, this is for the best, if only for the myriad opportunities to dust off “that’s what she said”. It’s Felicia Day! And Guild Wars 2!

Take a Look at the Newest Trailer for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

A new teaser for Square Enix’s rebuilt MMO has surfaced, showing off more of the world and characters that players will encounter when the 2.0 version of the online RPG launches later this year.

Maybe Yoda Was Actually Horrible, Awful, and Totally Evil

Fairly or unfairly, Star Wars creator George Lucas is often pegged as public enemy number one for a variety of reasons. But for sci-fi author David Brin, there’s another baddie: Yoda. Brin, a NASA consultant and a Dreamcast game scribe, has discussed his distaste for both Lucas’ work and the Jedi Master on multiple occasions—such…

PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale supports arcade sticks. How original.