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Mood lighting | U.S. Marines take aim in a scene lit like an action game. (Image via Flickr.) These Are The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games The world of video games is full of mighty people-people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy…

I See a Faster Fable in the The Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo

You get exclusive items for Mass Effect 3 if you play the demo of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, but that shouldn’t be the only reason you play it. From the demo, Reckoning looks like it could be a fairly entertaining and worth-while RPG. If you played Fable and thought, “Man, this combat is too slow!”…

Double Fine’s Latest Gets a Launch Date

Double Fine’s latest game, the Kinect XBLA minigame collection Happy Action Theater, now has a launch date of February 1st. It will cost 800 Microsoft Points, or $10.

Would You Let Hissing Cockroaches Crawl On Your Face for a PlayStation Job?

Season three of Sony’s The Tester sees competitors doing completely ridiculous things for a chance at a production associate at PlayStation’s Santa Monica Studio. What sort of ridiculous things? See for yourself. I’ve gone through a great deal of shit in the pursuit of gainful employment over the past several decades, but I can honestly…

‘Retreats’ Delay SOPA Hearings To February

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has issued a statement that due to Republican and Democratic “retreats,” hearings regarding the controversial Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) will resume in February. SOPA’s Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, is scheduled for a vote on January 24th.

Does The Gore in The Darkness II Make You Squeamish?

Ready for a bit of the ‘ol ultra-violence? Featured here are the grossest, gnarliest, and most stomach-churning moments contained in the demo for upcoming video game The Darkness II If you’re an Xbox Live Gold member, The Darkness II‘s demo is available to you right now. PC, PS3 and non-gold Xbox players can grab the…

Uncharted as a Gay Romance? It Kind of Works!

I recently opined that one of the things I didn’t like about Uncharted 3 was that it lacked a delightful love-triangle like the one in Uncharted 2. Turns out maybe there was one, and most of us just missed it. The jokers at “Touchbone Pictures” have put together this parody trailer for Uncharted: Drake’s Devotion,…

Bury Yourself in Soft and Cuddly Plush Worms

After spending the past 17 years trying to kill them it’s a lovely change of pace to be able to cuddle them. Team17 has just launched a new line of plushies based on one of the most adorable war game franchises ever, Worms With such iconic character designs it’s a wonder we haven’t been buried…

Be Advised, Halo 4 Beta Sign-Ups Are Fake

David Ellis of 343 Industries’ Halo team has tweeted: “If you see a page claiming to allow you to sign up for a Halo 4 beta be advised, IT’S A FAKE.” Hear that? It’s a faaaaake

Star Trek Online Free-to-Play Now Open To Everyone

Set your phasers on stupid Trek reference, as Cryptic’s Star Trek Online opens its free-to-play docking bay and invites the world inside following a brief subscriber-only period. To see what players get for free, hit up the official Star Trek Online web page

Katy Perry Is Now Making Video Games

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel like you wish you could just, I don’t know, deck out your Sims sim in Katy Perry gear, start a sim-music career, and go on tour? Well, now you can. EA has announced that the…

Epic’s Bleszinski to Host the Game Developers Choice Awards

The Game Developers Conference has announced that Epic Games head Cliff Bleszinski will be hosting the Game Developers Choice awards, which take place the week of GDC.

NBA Jam: On Fire Edition Will Get Roster Updates, EA Sports Says

EA Sports has confirmed to Kotaku that NBA Jam: On Fire Edition will be getting a roster update. The publisher’s preceding silence on the subject had led some to believe it had abandoned post-release support for the 2-on-2 arcade basketball game. Responding to a Kotaku request for comment, an EA Sports spokeswoman said that’s not…

Six New Challengers Appear for Street Fighter X Tekken, Plus a Vita Version Surprise

With Street Fighter X Tekken due out in early March, now is not the time for a tight trickle of new character reveals. That’s why Capcom has dropped six new fighters on us today, three from their team and three from the opposition. Has your favorite character been confirmed? Well that all depends, now doesn’t…

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Watch the Creepy Live-Action Japanese Horror Movie Made for the 3DS’ Friday the 13th Video Game

On Friday, April 13, Nintendo will start selling Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir for the Nintendo 3DS. It’s a horror game that uses the 3DS’ cameras to haunt the area you’re playing in with various apparitions. The game comes with a 16-page book that is full of augmented reality markers. Point the 3DS at the…

Action-Driven MMO Tera Hits North America on the Best Day of the Year

After a couple years of teasing screenshots and videos, En Masse Entertainment is finally ready to unleash its massively multiplayer online action role-playing game Tera on a lovely day in May. May 1, to be exact, the same day that several decades ago saw my heroic escape from the clutches of my mother’s womb. While…

Get Your Hands on the Original Syndicate This Week, Thanks to Good Old Games

If you’ve never played Bullfrog’s acclaimed cyberpunk masterpiece—you know, the one that EA’s re-animating as a FPS—you’ll get you chance this week. Retro PC Gaming retailer Good Old Games will be making the classic available for $6 starting on Thursday

Wield the Power of the Dragonborn With Voice-Activated Skyrim Shouts

It’s time to stop imagining you have the power to knock folks over with your voice and start putting it to practice. From modders DeadlyAzuril and PsychoHamster comes Thu’uMic, a completely free standalone mod for the PC version of Skyrim Voice control for Skyrim isn’t exactly something new. There was the whole Skyrim Kinect thing,…

You Can Get Your Prestige Re-Up On in Gears of War 3 Today with the Fenix Rising DLC

A while back, we’d detailed the new experience system that the latest Gears of War 3 DLC will be introducing. Well, the Fenix Rising add-on goes live today, so you can start your journey to 3x Gold icons in the new maps of Epic Games’ threequel. Let’s see how fast it’ll take the first Gears…