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New Rap Video Is Full Of Old Video Game References

There’s Donkey Kong in this video. Zaxxon. Kuribo’s shoe. And is that a Castlevania reference? Check out bay area rapper Vocab Slick’s new video, “Somethin’ Slick'” and see how many nods to classic video games you can recognize. This is the explicit version of the song, mind you, so put on headphones in case anyone…

Meet The Man Who Keeps Making Up Fallout 4 Rumors

There’s this interesting Bethesda memo floating around. Maybe you’ve seen it on a fan-run gaming site or your favorite message board. It’s all very exciting. In the memo, which started circulating last week, a reputed Bethesda executive writes to employees about exciting upcoming games like “Fallout 4” and “Elder Scrolls VI.” The executive also drops…

$10 In Free Android Credit, Huge Amazon Digital Sale, Double Humble

Amazon is continuing its assault on your Android device with $10 in free Coins for downloading five free apps. Whether you keep the apps or not is irrelevant; the $10 is yours to use as you see fit on the Amazon App Store. If you haven’t yet downloaded GTA: San Andreas from Amazon, they’re still…

​The Most Diverse Video Game Cast Is Getting Even More Varied

Not just one old person. A few of them. Not just one shade of brown person but lighter and darker tones. Not just able-bodied people. People in wheelchairs, too. A whole new crop of character models are coming to SpyParty and, when it eventually comes out, the cat-and-mouse game might wind up looking more like…

The fourth episode of The Wolf Among Us comes out on May 27th, developer Telltale Games just announced. It’s called “In Sheep’s Clothing,” and it’s the penultimate episode. The season started to get really good in the last episode, so let’s hope that it stays that way!

A Drone Ballet Straight Out Of The Cyberpunk Future

Drones have a lot of potential applications — blowing stuff up, fictional delivery services, flying cameramen. But Cyberpunk ballet dancer? That’s a new one to me. Watch as the Japanese dance troupe elevenplay coordinate their movements with three aerial drones. The end result is a kind of hypnotic, futurist, Butoh dance; one where the humans…

Cookie Clicker Has Another Tiny Game Hidden Inside

It’s the game that just keeps on giving. Cookie Clicker released a beta version of its newest feature, which adds randomly generated dungeons and a tiny hero to venture through them in search of more cookies. I tried out the beta, but there are still bugs to be worked out. One of the heroines, Chip,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: An Amazing New Super Mario 64 World Record! • Happy Birthday, Pac-Man! • The Power of “Show, Don’t Tell” • Watch Dogs and the Conundrum of the Gaming “Hype Train” Follow them here.

Minecraft Comes To Xbox One, PS4 and Vita This August

And if you already have a last-gen version of the hit construction adventure game, the new-gen upgrade will cost only $5. For those who don’t own the preceding console ports, the full cost of PS4 and Xbox One Minecraft will be $20. The new-gen versions will support bigger worlds and save transfers but there are…

The Metro Games Are Coming To PS4 And Xbox One

4A Games’ grim post-apocalyptic shooters are finally getting the next-gen treatment they deserve with Metro Redux, series publisher Deep Silver announced today. Redux features re-mastered and updated versions of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light and is coming out for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. They’ll also come to PC for any gamers…

New Disney Infinity Trailer Has a Pretty Big Spider-Man Tease

Hey, who knew Hulk could parallel park? So far, the only Marvel characters confirmed for the next Disney Infinity game are members of the Avengers. That’s the cinematic version of Marvel’s flagship super-team we’re talking about, the one where Spider-Man isn’t a member. (He swings with the most recent iteration of the team in current…

Unnecessary Censorship Makes Diablo III Inappropriate

“Already, Belial’s sh** has fallen upon Caldeum”… and other bad news from Tyrael in this funny but also disgusting censored version of Diablo III, put together by Unnecessary Censorship Oh, and our follower friend, the always polite Kormac, finally loses it completely in the clips below: Part 1: Part 2: Unnecessary Censorship – Diablo 3…

Frankenstein And Joan of Arc Duke It Out In This Online Battle Game

If you like the sound of “Joan of Arc and Robin Hood cooperating to hunt down Little Red Riding Hood,” then Crytek has the game for you. The studio behind Crysis just announced a new Dota-esque online multiplayer game called Arena of Fate that lets two teams of five band together and duke it out…

If Dragon Ball Characters Were Real

It’s always good to see unique takes on popular shows or games. Angel5art‘s piece on DeviantART features realistic, western Dragon Ball Z characters. And man with all these details, Goku and co. look really stunning. Here’s the full image, with a crazy version of Vegeta added at the bottom: DBZ by angel5art [DeviantART] To contact…

The New LOTR Game Made Me Fight Dirty

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is a revenge story. Sauron has returned to Mordor and a mystery wraith with a grudge has resurrected you to kill him. But from everything I played in a recent demo, it seems like the orcs and other creatures of Mordor should want revenge against me. In the roughly one hour…

Evolve will release on October 21 this year for PC, Xbox One and PS4. 2K and Turtle Rock Studios also revealed four new playable hunters, which you can read my impressions of here

Amazon’s MAYhem Sale Discounts Over 1000 Downloadable Games

Amazon is at it again with an absolutely massive sale on downloadable PC and Mac titles across all genres. Over the course of the next 10 days, you’ll see discounts on over 1000 titles, and several custom bundles as well, many marked down to their lowest prices ever. As always, here are a few choice…

Evolve Feels Different Every Time I Play It

I have played roughly six rounds of Evolve and it’s been a different experience every time. By now many of you get the basic premise: Evolve is a cooperative multiplayer first-person shooter. You play either as one of four humans on a team of hunters going up against a fifth player, the monster. Last week…

Dark Souls Has Never Looked So Peaceful

Dark Souls II is lonely and beautiful without enemies and action. The newest entry in Andy Kelly‘s series ‘Other Places’ takes us to Drangleic, the kingdom where the events of Dark Souls II takes place. With the music from Majula Temple, the whole clip becomes really haunting: Other Places: Drangleic (Dark Souls II) [ultrabrilliant, YouTube]…

Here Is The Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past Mobile Game

The Uncanny X-men: Days of Future Past game is now available for your favorite mobile device. It’s a side-scrolling beat ’em up with no in-app purchases. I posted details and 20 minutes of gameplay below: *No Internet Connection Required and No In-App Purchases Play as Wolverine, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Cyclops or Scarlet Witch as Marvel’s…