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Sacred 3 Is Coming August 26. This Is What It Looks Like.

My favorite series of Diablo-clones continues on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC this summer. To celebrate, here’s out first look at Deep Silver’s Sacred 3 in action. The Sacred series has always come across as a bit more fun than Diablo proper, an impression that springs from the fact that it doesn’t have to…

Galactic Strongholds Adds Player Housing To The Old Republic In June

Teased earlier this month, Galactic Strongholds is the next major free expansion pack for Star Wars: The Old Republic, allowing players of the MMORPG to set up swanky digs across the galaxy. Every massively multiplayer online role-playing game needs player housing, if only to keep players from having cybersex in public (sorry, EverQuest players on…

Leaked Images Reveal One Of This Fall’s Two Assassin’s Creed Games

One of this fall’s big Assassin’s Creed games, called or code-named Unity, is set at least partly in 18th-century Paris, according to early leaked screenshots obtained by Kotaku These screenshots, sent to me by a source who requested anonymity, show Unity‘s new assassin roaming around what appears to be Paris. You can see Notre Dame,…

Playstation Plus, Infamous, Metal Gear, Watch Dogs, Titanfall [Deals]

Late in the game yesterday we added a Gamestop coupon that basically grants you 15% off anything (consoles and tablets excluded). It’s a killer deal that we don’t want you to sleep on, so we’re going to outline some suggestions for what to put it toward, and gently nudge you to use it before Gamestop…

​Yup, a Witcher Drawing by Hellboy‘s Creator Makes Perfect Sense

The man responsible for the Right Hand of Doom draws Geralt of Rivia. ‘Tis glorious. It’s a rare thing to see Mike Mignola draw anything other than Hellboy nowadays. So the fact that he’s done an alternate cover for Dark Horse’s Witcher comic is extra special. The series tying into CDProjekt’s popular action/RPG series launches…

He’s Making A New Game Boy RPG

The original Game Boy turns 26 next month, but that didn’t stop retro-hacker Furrtek from developing a new game for it. It’s called Airaki, and as the above screenshot shows, it’s a tile-matching RPG. This is actually the developer’s second Game Boy game—the first one, Super Connard (translated by one reviewer as “Super Asshole”) sold…

PS4 Video Sharing Is Getting Some Big Improvements

The mega-success of Twitch. The popularity of top Let’s Play video creators. Sharing your video game experiences has become an increasingly important part of how folks talk about the stuff they love and hate. So, it was a bit of downer when Sony launched the PS4 with recording and sharing options that presented owners with…

The New Oculus Rift Is Very Cool, And You Can Get One This Year

Ask anyone in video games what new piece of tech has them most excited about the future, and there’s a good chance they’ll bring up the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Good news: Later this year, developers (and the rest of us) will be able to own the latest, greatest version. And it really is…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Need For The Stealth Genre • The Oversaturation Point • Being Sexually Attracted To Pokémon TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Metal Gear Solid: Deluxe Edition Oversized Hardcover cover by Ashley Wood. Via CBR

What an 8-Bit Brawler With Adam Sandler Would Look Like

While the sequel to River City Ransom is still in development, the folks behind the 8-bit Cinema series resurrected the classic NES beat ’em up for a crossover clip with Happy Gilmore, an Adam Sandler movie from 1996. Such a weird combination of classic things. Happy Gilmore – 8 Bit Cinema [CineFix, YouTube] To contact…

It’s Villains Galore in The Newest Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer

That is some gorgeous web-swinging, huh? Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis didn’t show up in the first film of the rebooted web-swinging film franchise but someone who looks a whole lot like the Green Goblin appears to be giving Spider-Man hell in this clip. Aside from the Osborns, there’s more scenes with Paul Giamatti in the Rhino mech…

The X-Files Board Game

Coming in July, The X-Files board game: The X-Files board game will focus heavily on material from the first three seasons of the television series, giving fans a chance to start from the beginning of the phenomenon. IDW Games has enlisted top-notch designer, Kevin Wilson (Arkham Horror, Descent, Civilization) to bring The X-Files to the…

Gamebuino, an Arduino game console: Official Site Indiegogo Promotional video:

Titanfall For The Xbox 360 Pushed Back Two Weeks

Originally scheduled for release next week, the Xbox 360 version of Respawn Entertainment’s mech shooter has been pushed back to April 8 (April 11 in Europe) to give port developer Bluepoint Games time to make it better. The Titanfall 360 delay news comes from a post on EA.com from EA Studios executive vice president Patrick…

Concept art by Tony Andreas Rudolph and HSbF6 for a shared universe: Chimera Infantry Rotten Space Marine Nautilus Icarus Mammoth Locust Lost Turbine

Here’s Fox Mccloud and Falco from Star Fox, reimagined by artist Oscar Römer in a somewhat realistic way. Speaking of which, a new Star Fox game with a similar design would be pretty cool. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…

Sony has confirmed to IGN that Stig Asmussen no longer works at Sony Santa Monica. Known by the gamer community as just “Stig,” Asmussen served increasingly important roles in the development of the first three core God of War games.

You Can Save Someone Special In Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes

Note: This article contains spoilers! One of the side ops missions in Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is a little bit different. It’s a short rescue mission, where we have to infiltrate a military base and find someone… special. Well let’s see who that special person is: It’s Hideo Kojima! Those Twitter photos from 2013…

NES Classics, Turned Into Digital Origami

Digital artist Steph Caskenette picked a couple of iconic NES moments from games like the Castlevania, Contra or Metroid, and made them look like it’s all curved paper. Here’s some highlights. Make sure to check the rest over here: NEStalgia by Steph Caskenette [Behance, via Dotcore] To conact the author of this post, write to:…