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A Huge Marvel Universe Mystery Gets Revealed in Secret Wars #3

A question debated by geeks for decades gets answered in this week’s issue of Secret Wars. Spoilers ahead. (One more time: spoilers follow! Hover over the top left of each image and click on the magnifying glass icon to expand it.) At the heart of the Secret Wars miniseries lies an unexpected conundrum: just who…

Ultra Street Fighter IV was pretty broken when it launched, but Sony’s trying to patch it back to health. An update is rolling out in North America today, and the full patch are below: Reduce interface lag within menus Addressed disappearing projectiles Fixed Decapre’s teleport animation Fixed Rolento’s audio glitch (during victory screen) Fixed missing…

All The Juicy Details Hidden In The Fallout 4 Trailer

The first trailer for Fallout 4 manages to cram quite a few things in a span of three minutes, ranging from references, to potential gameplay mechanics. Lets take a closer look, shall we? In case you’ve somehow missed it or need it for reference, here’s the Fallout 4 trailer in full: Okay! Lets get right…

PlanetSide 2 for the PlayStation 4 is still a thing that is happening, and it’s happening June 23. Daybreak Game Company details the upcoming console launch of the free-to-play massively multiplayer online shooter over at the PlayStation Blog.

The Official Big Bang Theory LEGO Set Looks Awkwardly Cozy

Having made it through a previous round of LEGO Ideas vetting, Alatariel and GlenBricker’s Big Bang Theory set is now a real product, including all you see here for a mere $59.99 later this year. For those unfamiliar, the LEGO Ideas Project is a website where LEGO builders can submit their ideas in the hopes…

Developer Sees Game Announcement, Realizes He’s Making The Same Game

Perception, where you play a blind person who taps a cane to see around them, was revealed last week. Soon, an email went around indie studio Tiny Bull. “Panic started to spread among the team,” said CEO Matteo Lana. Why? Tiny Bull had been making Blind, a game with the same premise, for more than…

Today, Superman Feels Like an Actual Human Being

A Man of Steel who can’t fly. No heat vision. Cape torn to shreds. Yup, Action Comics #41 is the best Superman comic to come out in years. This week marks the start of what publisher DC Comics is calling the New DC Universe, an initiative where they’ll be debuting big status quo shifts, new…

Honest Trailer For Heroes Of The Storm Rips The Game To Shreds

“Prepare for Blizzard’s new game…inspired by a mod for one of their old games, that created an entirely new genre of game that got more popular than any of their other games, causing Blizzard to develop a new game ripping off the other games that ripped off their old game.” Ah, the wonders of video…

Riot Games has hired Graham McNeill as a writer for League of Legends, the author just announced. McNeill is an accomplished fantasy writer who’s done lots of work in the Warhammer universe, so this is an exciting development for League fans who’ve been patiently waiting to see some better storytelling in the game Contact the…

The Fallout 4 Trailer Is Excellent

Fallout is back, and, as expected, it’s headed to post-apocalyptic Boston. You can watch the first (great) trailer right here. As we already know thanks to an accidental early website leak, Fallout 4 is official, and it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It’s been seven years since Fallout 3, the first and only…

Awesome Star Wars X-Wing Drone Takes It To The Sky

Hard to get a glimpse of the propellers in French enthusiast Oliver C’s X-Wing drone. It is a completely rebuilt and customized quadrocopter that now looks like the iconic fighter from Star Wars The creator took it to a test flight to see how it performs and made a short video (with the Death Star…

Fallout 4 Announced For PS4, Xbox One, PC

Inadvertently leaked on the official website an hour ahead of its scheduled announcement, here’s Fallout 4, coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC. UPDATE (10am): And here’s the official trailer: Here’s the box art: It’s been seven years since Fallout 3, the first and only Fallout game released by Bethesda Game Studios so far. The…

Akira Uchida, creator of Love Plus and Rumble Roses, left Konami this past March. He’s now at Osaka-based developer Yuke’s, which is famous for its wrestling games.

Vehicles Make A Massive Difference In Skylanders: Superchargers

Adding land, sea and air vehicles to the mix gives this fall’s Skylanders game an exciting new twist. More importantly, it gives children toys they can actually play with. This is Hot Streak. It’s one of the 20 vehicles being introduced in Skylanders: Superchargers this September. Like previous Skylanders figures, Hot Streak will be placed…

A follow-up to yesterday’s testy Konami story: The game company issued a statement and said it would like to continue the Momotaro Dentetsu series in the future, but didn’t yet know what form it would take.

The Evolution Of Dragon Ball Characters

The folks over at Dragon Ball World compiled a cool infographic of the main characters from the youngest appearance—but not necessarily first—to their oldest. Above is Vegeta and here’s the rest —Gohan, Goku, Krillin, Yamcha and Piccolo—below. The new movie Resurrection F (“Fukkatsu no F”) is included as well, and you can clearly see the…

The Witcher Looks for the Most Power at an Electronics Shop

This video is from PlayStation Poland. It is titled “The Witcher Is Looking for the Most Powerful Power.” But does Geralt actually find it? Hrm… The Witcher 3 was released on PS4, Xbox One, and, heh, PC. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft

13 Random Russians That Look Like Famous Celebrities

Have you ever seen someone and thought, “Hey, that person looks familiar”? And not just familiar, but famous. A while back Russian site Big Picture uploaded photos of people who resembled some of the entertainment industry’s biggest names. Recently, there were reposts on websites Caak, English Russia, and Sfora So, yes, here are snapshots of…

The Khans Are Coming To Crusader Kings II

Crusader Kings II—one of the best video games ever made—has had a ton of great expansions and post-release content over the years. But none of it has been quite as exciting, at least to me, as this. Ever since CKII launched, one of the most defining features of the game has been the slow, inevitable…

The Witcher 3, As Told By Steam Reviews

Before The Witcher 3 officially released, much of the talk online was about downgrades, or disappointment about the graphics. Now that people have had a chance to actually play the game, however, the discussion around The Witcher 3 is very, very different. There are over a thousand reviews on Steam right now, and almost all…