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The Secret World: The Kotaku Review

As it turns out, I was born to be a Dragon. In the old adage about a butterfly flapping its wings in China to cause a hurricane in Texas, the Dragon are the ones who put the butterfly into position and tell it when to flap. They are agents of chaos, slipping into and moving…

Wii U’s Touchscreen Features Prominently in FIFA 13‘s Shooting, Passing and Tackling

Touchscreen shooting, passing, tackling and free kicks lead the list of GamePad-specific features for FIFA 13‘s Wii U version, which Official Nintendo Magazine has published in its latest edition. Touching the GamePad screen will tell your players who to mark or tackle and where to pass the ball. You’ll also be able to place your…

“Epsilon Program,” the fake Scientology-like religion last seen in GTA: San Andreas, has come to life on Twitter. Fact!

Try Your Hand At Meth-Making In Cooking Mama: Breaking Bad

The latest riff on Breaking Bad comes from Juan David Gómez, who has made this Breaking Bad-themed riff on Cooking Mama in which you’ll smash up sudafed, combine various chemicals, and cook at the proper temperature to get a good batch of sweet blue crystal. Not featured in the game: Betrayal, chemotherapy, shattered families, axe…

If The Star Of This New Resident Evil 6 Footage is Ada Wong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right

But seriously though, the star of this new Resident Evil 6 footage is Ada Wong. Also: sorry, that was Fahey’s joke. This clip is of Ada Wong’s side-story in action. There’s also a new video of the multiplayer mode “Agent Hunt,” which I’m assuming has nothing to do with the Mission Impossible films. I really…

Google Outlaws App Clones on Google Play

Scammer programmers love to pass off clones of successful games as the real thing. Google’s trying to stop them. New language in the tech giant’s Developer Program Policies call out “impersonation or deceptive behavior”: Don’t pretend to be someone else, and don’t represent that your app is authorized by or produced by another company or…

No, NBA Live 13 Has Not Been Secretly Canceled

Yesterday, Electronic Arts mentioned just three console and/or PC releases coming up between October and the end of the year, and NBA Live 13 was not on the list. Given the series’ troubled history, an E3 reveal widely judged to be a flop, and near silence from EA Sports since then, sports gamers took this…

Here’s A New Trailer For The Next Set Of Pokémon Games

Hot off Nintendo’s presses, here’s the latest trailer for Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, which will be out for DS on October 7.

There’s Already A Special Edition of the Ouya, And It Looks Good

The Rubik’s Cube-sized $99 Ouya game console is supposed to come out in March 2013. We thought you’d only be able to get it in silver, but, no, there’s a darker option. Today, the Ouya folks have revealed a special edition version of the console. You’ll have to donate $140 to their Kickstarter to get…

John Carmack and Gabe Newell Are Very Excited About This Virtual Reality Gaming Headset.

A guy with the terrific name Palmer Luckey wants to finally make a great virtual reality gaming head-mounted display. Some guys behind some terrific games think you should help fund it. This is the Oculus Rift, a VR headset that we heard about in June at E3 when Doom co-creator and master programmer John Carmack…

Here’s All Of Chrono Trigger In Five Minutes

Reader Dan Hobart has been cutting long Super Nintendo games into digestible five or six-minute “abbreviated” video versions. They’re fun to watch, especially if you haven’t played some of these games in a while. Above: Chrono Trigger in five minutes. Here are a few more: Seiken Densetsu 3 abridged. Secret of Mana abridged. Super Metroid…

Everything You Know About Playing Tetris Won’t Help With This Clever New Puzzle Game

“It’s just like Tetris, right?” That’s what I was asked when someone peeked at my iPad screen while I was playing Slydris, the new game from Luke Schneider’s RadianGames imprint. The answer is no and yes. Slydris operates on the same falling-block template pioneered by Tetris and, yeah, you’re still aligning the tumbling shapes into…

There’s a Dreamy Difference Between High and Low Kingdom Hearts 3D Review Scores

There is a pedigree of role-playing fan out there that inherently ‘gets’ the Kingdom Hearts series. To these magical people each new entry in the series is another skein of thread being woven into a glorious tapestry of fantastic fiction. And then there are the game reviewers. Having reviewed several Kingdom Hearts titles myself, I…

This is Why Some Smart People Think You’ll Be Playing Grand Theft Auto V By April

There is no release date for Grand Theft Auto V. There are no confirmed platforms for the game. All we have is one trailer and two screenshots, but some of the people who follow the business of the publisher of Grand Theft Auto, Take Two Interactive, are convinced the game will be out before the…

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Square Enix Is Working On A ‘Hardware-Free’ RPG

The creators of Final Fantasy are working on an action-role-playing game that will be platform-agnostic, according to a new report. According to the latest issue of Japanese gaming mag Famitsu (as translated by Andriasang), Square Enix producer Ryutaro Ichimura (best known for working on multiple games in the Dragon Quest series) is heading up an…

Medal of Honor: Warfighter‘s Dramatic Single-Player Story Needs More Attitude

“The name’s Preacher. I fight wars. I’m a Warfighter.” And then he leaps through the title screen dual-wielding machine guns. Sadly this does not happen in the single-player story trailer for Medal of Honor: Warfighter “What’s wrong, Daddy?” Well, honey, Daddy’s afraid that people are only going to pick up his game for the preorder…

The New Side Stuff In Pokémon Black and White 2 Might Be What Hooks Me This Time

Pokémon Black and White had one goal: to recreate the feeling of wonder and awe many of us felt over a decade ago when first setting out to be the very best on our Game Boy bricks. So, the setting was new: Unova, a locale based on the urban metropolis of New York. Naturally, the…

John Schappert, #2 at Zynga, who hyped Zynga, but sold its stock, no longer oversees games there, Bloomberg reports