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Metal Gear: Ground Zeroes, 2DS, Logitech G930, Tales of Xillia 2 CE

Get $5 off your Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes version of choice today. Get a $5 Amazon Digital Games credit for any of the following pre-orders: Watch Dogs Deluxe Edition [Download] ($70) | Amazon Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth [Online Game Code] ($50) | Amazon Watch Dogs [Online Game Code] ($60) | Amazon Evolve…

12-Page Preview Of The DmC: Devil May Cry Art Book

Courtesy of Udon Entertainment, enjoy this 12-page preview of the DmC concept art book: DmC: Devil May Cry depicts a duplicitous world where nothing is ever as it seems and the line between good and evil is constantly blurred. Spurred into action by the promises of a trusted relation, Dante bursts into this new world…

How We Made The Last of Us‘s Interface Work So Well

Editor’s note: The following is a guest editorial by Naughty Dog UI designer Alexandria Neonakis. If you’re a professional in the video game industry and you’d like to write about some of your experiences, contact [email protected] When I started at Naughty Dog in November of 2012, the studio never had a dedicated UI (user interface)…

Gravity Changes When You Go Underground

Daniel Linssen took the theme of the latest Ludum Dare game jam — “Beneath the Surface” — quite literally. In this game, you hit a key to go through the walls and floor, where gravity reverses and launches you back out. The game is playable on the Ludum Dare site here, along with hundreds of…

Harmonix Is Bringing Back One Of Their Best Music Games On Kickstarter

Before they made people boogie in living rooms with Dance Central or shred plastic guitars with Rock Band, the people at Harmonix made Amplitude, a fantastic, underappreciated rhythm game for the PS2. Folks have been asking for more Amplitude for a long, long time now. Those fans might be getting their wish. The catch is…

Bound By Flame hits PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 4 on Friday. Focus Home Interactive’s hack-and-slash action role-playing game is flying low under the radar — I had to look it up when I posted The Week in Games on Sunday. Strange, as it seems like the kind of game I’d really dig.…

The Norwegian Military Is Testing The Oculus Rift To Drive Tanks

Virtual reality and gaming technologies have been used by militaries across the world for training and therapeutic purposes. But the Norwegian military has taken VR-assisted combat to the next level with this Oculus Rift-supported rig used to pilot tanks through dangerous combat situations. According to a report from the Norwegian TV station TuTV, the country’s…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Closure: What You Need To Know • Why I Love Visual Novels So Much, And How I Got Into This Insane Genre • Gameplay, Story, And You: The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts • Seven Quick Reviews TAY Classic—TAY Open…

The Oculus vs. Zenimax Battle Is Heating Up

Oculus and Zenimax are still going at it—this morning, the company behind Oculus Rift released a statement in response to Zenimax’s claims last week that Doom co-creator John Carmack had stolen “technology and know-how” when he left Zenimax for Oculus last year. Though the battle hasn’t gone to court yet, neither side seems willing to…

It’s Not Often You See A Group So Large In DayZ

Looks like it is possible for 30 people to gather without getting killed in DayZ after all. It was one of those rare occasions, organized by the DayZ Flashmob group on Steam, and they were lucky indeed that no one brought an M4 or grenades to the party. And you might wonder what they did…

Learn How To Kiss With Spider-Man And Gwen Stacy

During this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, real-life couple Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone took the stage to demonstrate how real kissing gets done, unless I am completely missing the point. In other news, my wife is never going to trust my kisses again after I get finished emulating this skit all over her…

Redditor LPain01 took some amazing screenshots of the World of Warcraft zones, using the Free Far Sight tool to double his in-game view distance. They really have an RTS feel, but I don’t even want to think about that. Look below for shots of Pandaria, The Barrens, Durotar, Nagrand, Grizzly Hills, Stormwind and more. Dayshot…

Telltale’s Borderlands Game Sure Is Looking Pretty

Folks got all excited when the makers of The Walking Dead games said they were working in the Borderlands universe. Judging from a few new screens from Tales from the Borderlands, that excitement was warranted. The glimpses below offer a look at new protagonists Rhys and Fiona, as well as already known Borderlands vault hunters…

A Behind The Scenes Look at Mortal Kombat Motion Capture

Make-up artist Tanea Brooks has released a set of pictures that show actors and actresses dressed up as Mortal Kombat characters, doing motion capture for the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection With the collection, Midway’s initial plan was to release HD remakes of the original games with new actors, and even though that’s not what happened…

Pens, Paper And Envelopes: The Making Of Hearthstone

Everybody loves Hearthstone. Everybody is talking about Hearthstone. Everyone is playing Hearthstone. But when Blizzard veteran Eric Dodds said he wanted to make a digital card game instead of an MMO, some people within the company were a little puzzled. That all changed when he showed them what he built with a pen, paper and…

There’s already been a Persona 4 animated series. Now there’s another one, adding in the extra content seen only in the Vita re-release of the game.

EVE Online’s Real-World Monument Has Already Been Vandalised

The real, physical monument to EVE Online players hasn’t even been open for a week, but already it’s been vandalised. A player tweeted over the weekend that they’d visited the monument and scratched a player’s name off the landmark. That player is Xenuria, someone with a…controversial past in the game. While well-known (and a well-known…

Steam’s Store Is A Hot Mess

Steam is great for so many things. Online play, copy-protection, update management, silly sale prices. You know what Steam’s not great at? Being a store. I’m not talking about knowing knowing what game you want to buy, opening up Steam and buying it. That’s easy, and not even Steam’s gross design and cluttered UI can…

This Is What The Internet Sounds Like

The “cloud” isn’t some silent, nebulous power. The computing power necessary to run everything from Steam to Xbox Live to your phone’s email comes from data centres, and while they lookcool, they sound like the internet is built on steam pipes and diesel. British sound artist Matt Parker took a trip to a data centre…

Exactly The Colorful 3D Platformer I Was Looking For

Whenever I get to feeling nostalgic about the 3D platformer-saturated days of the Nintendo 64 and PS1, Gears for Breakfast’s upcoming PC game A Hat In Time arrives to cheer me up with a new trailer and fresh screens. I’ve yet to get my hands on A Hat in Time, unlike the completely smitten Patricia…