Brian Eno, Of All People, Explains The True Beauty Of Retro Games

The appeal of 8-bit music, retro graphics and other art forms defined by their limits, beautifully explained by prolific musical artist and producer Brian Eno in his 1996 diary “A Year With Swollen Appendices.” Originally posted on volume xii, via Business Insider

The Moneysaver: Mass Effect Trilogy $20, Battlefield 4, Arkham Origins

Ladies and gentlemen, there will be deals. And we’re off. Pre-order discounts available on Arkham Origins and Battlefield 4, while Mass Effect Trilogy is down to $20 on PC. Console owners can get Mass Effect 3 for $8 as well. Don’t miss our first deal on the Haswell i7-4770K, or the sweet price on the…

Their $5 Gaming Chair Turned Out To Be A $150,000 Antique

A Colorado couple found out that the chair that they’d been gaming on was a vintage Eames chair. According to Fox Philadelphia the chair, an antique Eames LCW manufactured by Herman Miller and designed by Charles and Ray Eames, is estimated to be worth 150,000 dollars. The couple had bought it for five bucks, used…

Don’t you wish you had someone to give you advice when you feel like you can’t help but run into walls? Well, now you do. It’s called me and it’s run by Ask Kotaku. Or…wait, yeah. Something. Clearly I am qualified. So email me questions! Tina at Kotaku dot com. Oh, and if you’re running…

Hopefully The Xbox One Is Nothing Like Hal 9000

The Xbox One will always be watching, waiting—and GrittyReboots rolls with that premise with this video, where the new Kinect is terrifyingly like Hal 9000. Of course, while this take on the Xbox One is funny, the Xbone experience will be nothing like this….hopefully! Xbox One: A Space Odyssey [GrittyReboots]

Check out this week’s episode of Spike’s All Access Weekly, where our own Tina “Needs a Clever Nickname” Amini discusses the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and what to expect when you’re expecting the most exciting E3 in ages.

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2012 Promises?

E3 is just around the corner and, for the fifth year in a row, we’re taking a look back at the big three’s big E3 promises. What came true, and what didn’t? After looking at both Sony and Nintendo, it’s finally time to examine Microsoft. While Microsoft talked about a lot of games at their…

Someday Our Xbox 360s Will Be Retro. And This is How We’ll Feel.

One of my new favorite YouTubers, LaserFrog, knows that the Xbox 360 will someday be a retro console. He imagines this beautiful but somewhat sad future. “Ah, remember the 360? Crazy to think it used a disc drive. Don’t know how we ever got past those dark ages!” So good. I’ll cherish my 360, and…

The awesome remastered version of Spelunky—which was an Xbox 360 exclusive last year—is coming to PC, PS3 and Vita this summer, according to developer Mossmouth

Now You Have No Excuse For Not Playing Final Fantasy Tactics

Way before Game of Thrones became the hottest thing on television, some of fiction’s best politicking and betrayal could be found in Final Fantasy Tactics, a strategy-RPG originally released for the PS1, then PSP, then iOS and Android (in Japan). It’s one of the best games out there. And I guess there’s a team at…

It’s The Wizard Of Oz Meets Pokemon? That Actually Makes Sense.

Coming June 19 to iOS from Little Box Apps, Monsters Invade: Oz gives Dorothy a little something to keep her occupied as she eases on down the road — collecting, battling and evolving monsters. I suppose in a way The Wizard of Oz is a lot like Pokemon. Dorothy travels the yellow brick road, picking…

As compensation for its “longest downtime in quite a while,” EVE Online is giving active accounts 50,000 unallocated skill points. Trial accounts got an extra week. “If you hear of someone doing or planning something bad, even if it’s your friend, we do have the PLEX for snitches program,” publisher CCP said.

This Infamous: Second Son video shows off how motion capture is evolving for the PS4. That is a whole lot more dots than we used to see, no?

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The Next Deus Ex Is A Mobile Game

Teased earlier this week, Square Enix has lifted the veil on Deus Ex: The Fall, a first-person shooter for iPhone and iPad that picks up where James Swallow’s novel The Icarus Effect left off. From the YouTube video description: We are back in 2027 — a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but…

After Getting Laid Off From Zynga, These Guys… Partied?

A year ago, sketch-centric guessing game Draw Something became an inescapable phenomenon, pulling in millions of people each day. That success led to a surprising $210 million acquisition of dev studio OMGPOP by Zynga. On Monday, many of those creators were victim of a harsh 520-person culling as Zynga desperately tries to re-structure.But, were those…

Hacker Ports Xbox 360 Game to PC, Calls It ‘Justice’

Some Russian hacker, unilaterally deciding that PC gamers have the inalienable right to play the 2011 Xbox 360 game The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile (pictured), just up and ported the thing, saying “This is not piracy, this is restoration of justice.” According to a translation of the GameDev.ru forums, the hacker, named Barabus, said “the authors…

Free Copy Of Saints Row IV With Purchase Of This $99 Dubstep Gun

What an amazing deal! Not only do you get a 12-inch replicaDubstep Gun with lights and sounds for $99, you also get a Johnny Gat memorial statue, a Dubstep Doomsday Button and a copy of Saints Row IV for good measure. Neat! The coolest (and possibly cleanest) Saints Row collector’s edition in game history, ladies…

Kinect-Enhanced Doodle Jump Lands On Xbox 360 This Summer

It’s been two years since Lima Sky announced it would be bringing mobile sensation Doodle Jump to the Xbox 360 as a Kinect-powered downloadable game, and the thought tickles me just as much today as it did back then, only now there are pretty screens to temper my amusement. They’re pretty sharp screens as well,…

The World Is Yours In This Massive PC Strategy Game

If you’re new to the world of grand strategy games having picked up the gateway drug that is Crusader Kings II, may I suggest you look into this, Paradox’s big follow-up game, Europa Universalis IV. It’s lacking in Crusader King II’s intimacy, but shifts its weight by letting you control just about any faction of…