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Sony 7.1 Headset, PC Pre-Orders, PSN Update For Real This Time [Deals]

The Sony 7.1 Wireless Headset was a surprise top 5 contender in our Best Gaming Headset vote, and today you can grab a refurb. model for just $50- an easy impulse price point. And yes, it does work with the Playstation 4. [Groupon] Dark Souls II Collector’s Edition [PS3] | Back in stock Dark Knight…

Ruining Dark Souls II Is Funnier Than It Should Be

Dark Souls II has a lot of changes in it, and watching fans try to parse them out on Youtube is always a fascinating process. But what would happen if the game was so different it was utterly ruined? Hilarity, that’s what. I’ll admit — I’m currently halfway through my second play through of Dark…

Bravely Default‘s Success Is Good News For JRPG Fans

Nintendo announced last night that Bravely Default, the excellent role-playing game released last month for 3DS, sold over 200,000 copies in three weeks in the United States. Sales numbers can sometimes be misleading or difficult to properly contextualize, and while that’d be peanuts for an AAA console game, it’s a great number for a handheld…

In a look back on Elder Scrolls Online’s beta, Zenimax Online Studios writes about how player feedback helped them address issues related to combat and early progression, and properly prepare for the game’s April 4 launch by setting up overflow servers. Have a look at the blog post to see all the changes.

You Can Change This Free Game If You’re The First To Beat It

Aran Koning has participated in several game jams, and apparently he enjoys them so much that he came up with an idea that amounts to a new game jam every day, at the whim of the internet. The initial version of the game was just a red dot that you had to move to the…

​Life in Grand Theft Auto Sure Is Hell for NPCs

You live in a big, crazy metropolis. You’re going down the street for groceries or to meet some friends for a drink. Then a dude runs down the street, yanks an old lady out of her car and starts shooting stuff up. This keeps happening. All the time. What the hell?! One character in a…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Theories and Speculation On A Nintendo/Apple Collaboration • Games Are More Than Entertainment • Out There: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Leaked Images Show What Could Be Amazon’s Video Game Controller

The rumors about Amazon’s entry into the game console/set-top box gained a ton of credibility this morning, as shots of a gamepad bearing the online giant’s logo hit the web. Seen on The Verge, the images come from Anatel, a regulatory division of the Brazilian government analogous to the FCC in the U.S. With a…

How Solid Snake And Big Boss Have Changed Over 27 Years

It took 27 years and a lot of plot twists for the main character of the Metal Gear series—whether it’s Big Boss or Solid Snake—to become something more than just a bunch of pixels or polygons. Here’s a cool, lengthy infographic from Halloween Costumes, lining up all the main games, and in-game models from 1987’s…

Final Fantasy XIV’s 2.2 update is upon us. The changes are outlined in this eight-minute video, but the gist is this: new dungeons, new quests, a raid that’s supposed to be hard (the hardest the game has ever seen), and a way to swap armor stats that looks similar to Guild Wars 2’s transmutation system.…

​New Crazy Taxi Game Doesn’t Seem Nearly Crazy Enough

Sega’s just announced a new Crazy Taxi game. For mobile. Now what do you think that’s going to look like? If you guessed something that looks a whole lot like an infinite runner, then congratulations. This ride’s on us. Crazy Taxi: City Rush will be hitting the App Store and Google Play later this year…

Blizzard’s holding a fan-art contest at DeviantART to celebrate the upcoming release of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls This piece, made by Jian Guo, summarizes the storyline of the game in a really unique way. But head over to the site to check out all the submitted fan art. Most of them are really well-made.…

What Avatar Should Have Looked Like

We’ve come a long way since the realistic dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Here’s YouTuber (and talented 3D artist) Really3D, with a slightly modified, cost-efficient version of the computer graphics from Avatar Avatar, Performance Capture Reinvented [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Here’s some fresh gameplay footage from that new cyberpunk, squad-based Syndicate tribute, Satellite Reign, which got funded via Kickstarter last Summer. I’m happy to report that this time there’s significantly less purple. And it looks quite shiny for a pre-alpha, too! Not to mention fun. Vid’s above, have a look.

Diablo III action figures by Samo Kramberger

Titanfall pilots out and about in London

Apprentice and Dmeter by Simon Goinard.

Limited edition The Heroes’ Guides to the Elder Scrolls Online: Limited edition of 10,000 created and produced in conjunction with Dark Horse Comics, exclusively for the Bethesda Store. 272 pages of original writing and illustrations spread across three books, all collected in a heavy-duty clamshell including a miniature lithograph in a numbered portfolio.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon soundtrack

Invada Records will release the Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon soundtrack on free record day: The record comes as a double vinyl LP in neon pink with artwork by poster artist James White (Blade Runner, Drive, The Thing) and is limited to 1000 copies worldwide.

Beautiful Death: The official death by death countdown to Game of Thrones Season 4.