It’s Official: Gabe Newell Shares Details About Valve’s Steam Box

With the first of many “Steam Box” computers making its debut at CES, Valve boss Gabe Newell has really opened up to The Verge about his company’s hardware plans, revealing that the range of gaming PCs might be even more ambitious than we would have imagined. Some of the main things he touches on: •…

A New Vegas Mod That Makes Your Favorite My Little Pony Character Into A Companion

You know what the Mojave desert was missing? My Little Pony, of course. My Little Pony buddies, to be precise. Here’s a mod by Kuroitsune and Riven1978 on New Vegas Nexus that allows you to have the MLP protagonists as your companions. Not all ponies are included—for now, there’s only Luna, Celestia, Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack,…

Who Cares What Kind of Game It Is? It’s Called Death Golf.

Coming this Thursday to iOS for $.99, it’s Death Golf. Death. Golf. I have nothing else to say here. Death Golf

The highly enjoyable Far Cry 3 “New Game Plus” overhaul mod has gotten a no-mini-map version.

Watch 15 Years Of Pokémon Graphics Evolve, Slowly But Surely

The Pokémon games gradually become more lovely to look at year by year and system by system, at about the rate that mighty rivers turn into Grand Canyons. But graphical improvements do occur! Here are the six main Pokémon games. See how they’ve evolved… (But, before you do, click and drag the slider on the…

Atlas Raider Rolls the Dice on Social Board Gaming

I miss dice. I miss the days when “social gaming” meant going somewhere and playing a game with people and dice, be it Talisman, Dungeon or just plain old Monopoly. Social game developer CrayonPixel looks to recapture the magic of dice-based board games with Atlas Raider, a new type of board game for the digi-magical…

Razer Edge Tablet Hands On: This Gaming Rig Might Actually Be the Best Windows 8 Tablet

The Razer Edge is a gaming tablet. That much you know. But here’s the thing: It’s so well made—and has such a complete notion of what it is and what it wants to do—that it might not just be “the gaming tablet,” but the single best Windows 8 convertible we’ve seen. The first thing you…

Anamanaguchi’s New Video Is An Insane, Excellent Night Out At The Arcade

I don’t even know what else to say, really, about NYC-based chip-rock quartet Anamanaguchi. Their music more or less speaks for itself. Above, please find the most excellent new video for their most excellent single「MEOW」. If you like video games and good times, you will most likely enjoy this music video. The track is from…

Kickstarter Backers Pledged $83,144,565 To Games In 2012

Ready for some math? 1,378,143 Kickstarter users pledged $83,144,565 to game projects in 2012. There were 2,796 game Kickstarters launched. Of those, 911 were successful. (Note that “games” in this context refers to both video and tabletop games. Kickstarter doesn’t separate them.) That dose of insanity comes via Kickstarter’s cool “The Best of 2012” feature.…

The New Black Ops II DLC Lets You Play As The Zombies

Mark your calendars: on January 29th, the ‘Revolution’ map pack for Black Ops II drops. And it packs a ton of content according to this trailer: not only does it have a number of new maps, but it also features a new game mode that lets you play as the zombies in a mode appropriately…

NVIDIA Project Shield Hands On: A Little Less Weird Than It Looks

Nvidia’s Project Shield is a curious little device, attempting to toss its hat into a bunch of rings at once. It’s taking shots at handheld gaming, console gaming, tablets, and phones. For the most part, it’s holding under the strain, but it’s hard to imagine going out of your way to use it versus any…

You’ll Finally Be Able to Get Those Super-Fancy Final Fantasy Art Books

Maybe you were lucky and got a copy of the boxed set for The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy by renowned artist and living legend Yoshitaka Amano. Or maybe you were out of luck like thousands of other poor sods and couldn’t grab one before they sold out. Well, buck up, poor sods. You’re…

The Best Comics You Read in 2012

2012 was a weird but mostly good year to be a comics fan. If you didn’t buy into the big superhero crossover events, there were still lots of different flavors of illustrated fiction to enjoy. I read a lot of comics last year but these few were the ones that stayed with me. Please share…

Corpse Party‘s Sequel Hits PSN Next Week

The sequel to horrifying-slash-hilarious visual novel Corpse Party will be out on PSP—yes, PSP!—next week, publisher Xseed says. January 15, $19.99, PlayStation Network. You can read more about Corpse of Party: Book of Shadows over at the PlayStation Blog. Or check out the trailer above.

How A Well-Meaning Death Notification Freaked Out The XCOM Designer’s Wife

I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re reading that headline and thinking, “Um, ‘well-meaning death notification?'” But believe it or not, that’s exactly what we’re talking about here. See, Kotaku Game of the Year 2012 XCOM: Enemy Unknown inspires stories. As our own Owen Good recounted in his argument for why it should be our game…

ChefVille ‘The Best of Sushi’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Zynga‘s new motto seems to be “bigger is better,” as every new feature in ChefVille seems to be bigger than the one before. While you’re likely still working on the Healthy Eating event (which expires in less than two days, mind you), there’s already a new sushi-themed event that will unlock the final set of…

Valve Says ‘Piston’ Is Just One Of Multiple Steam Hardware Prototypes

Project Piston isn’t the only one: Valve is showing off a number of hardware prototypes behind closed doors at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, according to a new report. Yesterday, a company called Xi3 announced that it will release a Valve-backed computer built to play Steam games in your living room. Details are still…

Is Trolling Ever Okay?

Ah, the notorious troll. Perhaps you’ve come across one—those people who deliberately try to get under your skin. Sometimes, that means trying to piss you off. In a game, that could mean verbally harassing or annoying you, if not playing specifically to get in the way. That’s the most standard conception of a troll, anyway.…

Razer Prepares to Unleash the World’s First PC Gaming Tablet

At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, gaming peripheral maker Razer debuted Project Fiona, a PC gaming tablet concept with a pair of control sticks affixed to the side. It looked ridiculous, but there was promise there. That promise is realized this year in the Razer Edge, a full-featured, crowd-sourced gaming PC with the form factor…

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