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Five Comics That Will Shift Your Realities 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…

One of Batman’s Best Stories Comes to Life in a New Animated Movie

I’d known about the upcoming animated adaption of The Dark Knight Returns for a while now, but that awareness receded somewhere into the back of my brain somewhere. Like Old Bruce in a bathrobe. But this new trailer—via MTV Geek—is like “the rain on my chest,” a baptism. A baptism of remembering. It makes sense…

Star Wars: The Old Republic Is Going Free-To-Play This Fall

BioWare’s massively multiplayer online RPG Star Wars: The Old Republic will go free-to-play this fall, publisher Electronic Arts said today. EA later said in a press release that The Old Republic will go free-to-play this November. The game will be available for $15 starting August 7, a price that also includes a month of free…

Bethesda-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Rumor Resurfaces, But No One’s Talking [UPDATE]

In April, we fielded a rather confusing rumor that involved game developer Sergei Girgorovich supposedly telling a Russian news outlet that he had sold the rights to his development team’s acclaimed post-nuclear-apocalypse-horror-first-person-shooter series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., to Bethesda, the people who brought us the acclaimed post-apocalyptic first-person role-playing game Fallout 3. But a Bethesda rep no-commented and…

It’s Much Easier to Play A Game When You Can Tell What The Buttons Do

Over the years, I’ve dabbled in a hefty number of video games. I’m pretty used to sitting down and picking up a new system reasonably quickly. It’s part of my job, after all. I may not be good at it right away (or ever), but I can navigate myself around a world and figure out…

Rekindling My Lust for Adventure, One Page at a Time

My earliest days as a computer gamer were spent scouring static scenes with my mouse pointer, waiting for that telltale shape change that indicated the item or bit of scenery that would lead me to the next static scene. These were adventure games, and they were the closest gaming came to delivering a cinematic experience…

Lawsuit Says Zynga Insiders Knew Stock Would Tank When They Cashed Out

The folks behind Words with Friends have yet another problem on their hands: a new lawsuit charges Zynga’s top-level employees with insider trading. Law firm Newman Ferrara, one of five to announce that it would investigate Zynga for violating federal laws in the wake of news that insiders dumped half a billion in stock three…

The Shell Game Has Nothing On This Wooden Robot With Three Arms

The shell game, or cups and ball game, is largely considered to be a scam. A practice only the shadiest of street gamblers produce under the guise of an actual, winnable game. But it’s not. Not even this wooden robot will give you a fair shot. It’s probably got some sort of mechanized magnet, triggering…

Mickey Mouse Is Wreaking Havoc in Grand Theft Auto IV. With a Smile.

The mod scene around Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV continues to impress and amuse. Sonic The Hedgehog and the Portal robots were cool, but Mickey Mouse? We’re veering into the realm of social commentary. Or we’re veering into an alternate world where Kingdom Hearts = Disney + Rockstar. The mod was created by YouTube user…

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The Most Magical Match Three Puzzler My Wife’s Played in Ages

Most match three puzzle games forego a deep and involving story in favor of getting players right into the stuff-swapping thick of it. Owloh’s WizSchool: Magic Book Puzzle layers on the lore and colorful characters to create the a truly engrossing puzzle adventure. I downloaded WizSchool on my Transformer Prime tablet on Friday afternoon, lured…

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11 Great Video Game Wedding Invitations

It’s summer, so chances are that you’ve either been planning a wedding of your own or attending the nuptials of some dear friends. We’re sure that the requests for attendance that you’ve gotten in the mail have been pretty swank, but the invitations we’ve gathered here offer up awesome video game homages sometimes in playable…

All of This Paper Forms the Blueprint For One Video Game

It required 100 meters (328 feet) of calculator paper to map out the sidescrolling video game Beeing You can see it here, stretched out before you, courtesy of Gonzalo Oxenford, one of the game designers who sketched the layout for their bee-themed sidescroller by hand. Each level map can be rolled up. So you can…

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One Stranger Made a World of Difference to a Fifteen-Year-Old’s Journey

Since the year before I got married, it’s become an annual ritual, an immutable part of my life. For one week every summer, my husband’s family all get together in a bunch of little apartments down by the beach, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The horde of us are about thirty strong, these…

The Xbox 360 demo for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is now live in North America. The PlayStation 3 version drops tomorrow.

This Prototype Legend of Zelda Cartridge Can Be Yours for a Mere $150,000

Why spend $15 on a box-less copy of The Legend of Zelda for the original Nintendo Entertainment system when you can spend $150,000 on a mustard yellow NES cartridge adorned with a faded label with the game’s name typed on it? It’s collectible craziness available right now on eBay. Now I can understand paying a…

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance: The Kotaku Review

There are moments in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, when, caught up in a storm of hectic keyblade slashing and chromatic aerial theatrics, you might not notice the ticking timer on the bottom of your screen. Until it hits 0. Then, abruptly, as if the game has decided you were having too much fun,…