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Small Massachusetts Town Lifts 32-Year Ban On Pac-Man

Just in time for the arrival of next-gen consoles, residents in the town of Marshfield, Massachusetts are going to be able to play Pac-Man publicly for the first time in over three decades. According to a report from local newspaper The Patriot Ledger, Marshfield residents voted to overturn a 1982 bylaw that banned coin-operated arcade…

Turning The Game Boy Into Art

Ok, Game Boy, you’re 25 years old. Let’s turn you into awesome things. Back when Nintendo’s iconic video game handheld was an actively thriving platform, the Game Boy morphed into a variety of cool shapes and sizes. Luckily for us, artist André Farinha has plenty of Game Boy hardware, enough to modify it into an…

Sir, your game is ready today. The highly enjoyable first-person survival game Sir, You Are Being Hunted is officially out of early access andavailable on Steam today. It’s worth checking out – for more, watch our own Leo Wichtowski put the game through its paces.

Fetch Quest Fatigue: check out this write-up on The Witcher 3, where CD Projekt Red talks to PC Gamer about quests and how The Witcher 3 is going to try its best to have an open world like Skyrim without all the “unimaginative busywork” that can come with that sort of game.

Your PC Must Be This Beefy to Play Wolfenstein: The New Order

When Nazis take over the world, Xbox 360s all around the weep in agony. Wolfenstein: The New Order will ship with a hefty four discs for Microsoft’s last-gen game console. You’re going to need a decent chunk of space on PC and PlayStation hardware, too. Bethesda’s letting players know the requirements they’ll need to run…

Watch A Mariachi Band Perform Zelda Music At A Wedding

Geek nuptials can be wonderful when they’re done right. And what better way to celebrate a marriage than with a mariachi band playing Zelda music? Watch as a new wife surprises her Zelda fan of a husband with a big band version of the Gerudo Valley theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.…

The Best Way To Find Meth Labs: Arrest Everyone

YouTuber Things We Play takes a look at DEA simulator, where you look at a neighborhood and try to figure out which run-down house is hiding a methlab. It’s apparently not so easy. The game is another Ludum Dare entry by Siewart for the most recent competition. You can play it for yourself here, along…

Superman Isn’t Too Happy With The Lego Movie‘s Ending

You don’t just sideline the Man of Steel, guys… The Lego Movie may have had a lot more depth than folks initially expected but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have some puzzling plot holes. This new, all-stop-motion video from the How It Should Have Ended folks is basically touching on the “But, Superman…” problem that…

American Tanks And Dynamite Have Trashed Minecraft Denmark

If you missed the news, two people at the Danish Geodata Agency recreated a one-to-one model of Denmark in Minecraft. It was a pleasant story that got a lot of attention. And then the vandals showed up and trashed the place. Users of Reddit and MinecraftForums posted images of tanks invading. And this report describes…

In Defense Of Zombie Games

Even in video game terms, this week has been chock full of zombie news. Sony and Microsoft, the dueling juggernauts of the console market, both offered up fresh and appropriately gory details about their respective (and exclusive) open-world games about killing the living dead—H1Z1 and State of Decay. Personally, I’m excited for both games. And…

Even Superpowers Can’t Separate Seattle From Its Dark Past

Flames coursing around my arms, I look at the Seattle police officer standing before me. He puts his gun on the sidewalk and raises both hands in the air, shaking his head. I can accept his surrender or not. But I can’t stop thinking about the murder of a Native American woodcarver by anon-duty SPD…

John Carmack’s Former Employer Says He Stole Their Tech

Doom co-creator and all-around genius John Carmack left the company he helped found last year, and now the people he used to work for say he took their technology with him. Last summer, Carmack left id Software for the virtual reality company Oculus Rift, which was purchased by Facebook earlier this year for $2 billion.…

Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8 Bundle, Humble Weekly, Criterion Sale

Microsoft actually offers some great pre-order deals, and this Watch Dogs offer is no exception, and includes the PC version as an added bonus. Pre-order on any of the two platforms to get a $15 Xbox gift card. No charge until the game ships. [Microsoft] Watch Dogs pre-order with $15 Xbox Gift Card | One/360…

The Next Gorgeous Game That’s Coming To PS4

Move out of the way, Infamous: Project Cars has got your number. Though we’ve seen the racing game in action before, today Sony has released a number of screenshots of Project Cars which show us what the game will look like running on the PS4 specifically. “Both the cars and tracks [in the game] are…

After a “rocky start,” the sci-fi MMORPG Defiance is marking its one-year anniversary by going free-to-play, developer and publisher Trion Worlds announced today. Coming alongside the premier of the second season of the related SyFy show, the change will go into effect on June 4th on the PC and July 15th on the PS3. No…

Screenshots From The Next Episode Of The Walking Dead

Telltale revealed new screenshots from “In Harms Way,” the upcoming Season Two, Episode Three of The Walking Dead: Previously: Clementine As A Little Sister You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated to the best gaming images, videos and GIFs online.

Here’s The Trailer For The Big Simpsons Lego Episode

On Sunday, The Simpsons will team up with Lego to turn Evergreen Terrace into a world of plastic bricks. Here’s the first trailer. Looks cool! I’m stoked. By the way, before you chime in with comments about how The Simpsons hasn’t been good for a decade—I’ve been watching every Sunday since new episodes were on…

‘You Smell Like S***’ And Other Thoughts From The People Of GTA V

If you’ve played any GTA V, you’ve probably heard at least some of these lines. Take a look at the people who say them, and what you might have missed. Redditor speedyturtle is going around and collecting all the idle chatter of GTA V‘s residents, setting them on some lovely Instagram-style photos of the NPC’s…

I Can’t Get Over How Dumb The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Look

The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look stupid. Really, really stupid. We’ve already gotten glimpses of the remade turtles in Michael Bay’s TMNT reboot—in theaters on August 8—but today’s new trailer takes “dumb-looking turtles” to the next level. I mean, come on. Come on. Come on. COME ON. This whole gritty, doofy, straight-out-of-Avatar look is…

All The Tracks In Mario Kart 8

In the latest bit of Mario Kart 8 news, Nintendo has compiled a helpful list of all the tracks that will be featured in the new game that’s out later this month for the Wii U. As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been talking about a Mario Kart lot lately, mostly just because the game looks…