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Valentine’s Day Game Sales, New Titanfall Pre-Order Options [Deals]

Amazon has discounted a slew of PC games in honor of Valentine’s Day, including knocking the excellent Tomb Raider down to a paltry 7 bucks. If you somehow haven’t played this yet, and don’t plan to pony up for the definitive editions, then pull the trigger now. Pre-ordering any PC game at Amazon nets you…

Thousands Of People Are Playing A Single Game of Pokémon Together

Being a Pokémon master takes time and patience—beating a game in the franchise usually takes at least a couple dozen of hours. Now imagine trying to beat a Pokémon game while thousands of other people also control your avatar. Now imagine that these thousands of people will do whatever they want to your avatar, as…

How To Battle Other Players In The Elder Scrolls Online

My painfully slow leveling pace kept me from participating in this week’s player-versus-player frolics in The Elder Scrolls Online beta, but fear not! Rev3‘s Tara Long made it, and she gives a full accounting direct from the battlefields of Cyrodiil. From what I am seeing here, it reminds me a bit of the PVP zone…

Norway Mass Murderer Demands Better Video Games in Prison

Anders Behring Brevik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. Since he said that he used Call of Duty to practice his aiming and World of Warcraft to hide his plans, video games have been became part of the story of his horrific crime. Now, 18 months into a 21-year prison sentence, he’s demanding that…

13 Minutes Of Hilarious Gameplay From South Park: The Stick of Truth

Oh my goodness. Here I am, sitting in the Gawker Media offices on another Friday morning, just trying to get through the day, when suddenly Ubisoft releases 13 minutes of footage from South Park: The Stick of Truth and now I can’t stop giggling at my desk and this is all quite embarrassing. Stick of…

The Pokémon Company makes Mythical Pokémon Diancie official. Three days after the Serebii report, like clockwork, the latest pocket monster movie star is confirmed. They also confirm theonce-hiddenPokémon will be coming to Pokémon X and Y at a later date, but won’t tell us when or how because they’re mean like that.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Five Anime of Winter 2014 You Should Be Watching • Video Games Should Stop Trying To Be Movies • An Open Letter To Square Enix On Mobile Games TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

There’s a huge festival for indie games in New York City this weekend. It’s called IndieCade East and it begins today, running through Sunday. If you’re in the area and you want to play cool indie games, you should check it out! Three days of indie games and panels. Event details here. | Pricing.

The Veronica Mars movie is actually happening—which is still kind of hard to believe. It’ll be out on March 14, and tickets go on sale today, so don’t forget to snag them, because Veronica Mars is pretty much the best show ever.

Pop Culture’s Greatest Hits, Now In Pixelated Form

A 16-bit recreation of some of the most dramatic punches in pop culture history? Well, artist Aled Lewis just made a collection of those. From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, and most of them look just like something from the SNES era. Hell, I’d play an Ace Ventura beat ’em up. Here’s our picks,…

The Evil Within Starts Scaring Folks This August

Shinji Mikami’s long-awaited return to classic survival horror comes out during the dog days of summer, on August 26 for North America and August 29 for Europe. If you’re someone who’s been disappointed by the increasingly action-heavy take that Resident Evil has taken, then the next game by Mikami—who created the seminal Capcom series—should be…

Forget Free-To-Play Dungeon Keeper, Play The Classic For Free Instead

Once upon a time there was a Dungeon Keeper game that everyone loved. It had no arbitrary timers, no microtransactions, and it’s mere mention did not cause spontaneous vomiting. Today through Sunday, that Dungeon Keeper is free on Gog.com. Can you feel the love? Classic gaming hub Gog.com is celebrating Valentine’s Day weekend with a…

Now that’s a video game tattoo done right. Dhalsim from Street Fighter, becoming one with its owner’s leg. Hopefully it looks just as cool from angles other than the one in the photo. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we can…

I Wish Skyrim Had Towns That Looked So Idyllic

Look at the colors. So peaceful. So pretty. Well, until they burn a witch or two. In their most recent dev diary, the folks behind alt history RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance gave several demonstrations of what normal day to day town life looks like in their game. Have a look: While I adore Skyrim, aesthetically…

A Hacking Game Where You Hijack the US Government

Anyone remember Uplink? Yeah, this game is like that, only not thirteen years old. Disrupt, as it’s called, is a deceptively simple-looking game, much like Uplink. It’s mostly text-based, as you can see in the trailer below: In-game, you’re a hacker who manages to gain access to the government’s NexOS, which gives you the ability…

That retro 3D roguelike-ish beat ’em up about dystopian robot love is now on Kickstarter. They aim to collect $20,000 to finish development on Heart&Slash. Interestingly, the top reward at $10,000 is a copy of the finished game’s code in C#, delivered six months after its Q1 2015 release. Haven’t seen that before.

It’s Like Taking Drugs and Looking at Cats

LSD plus cats is LSDcats. The internet doesn’t get much trippier than this. Thank goodness, because I don’t think our brains could take it. Since late last month, Twitter account @LSDCats has been uploading “trippy pictures of cats.” Deep breaths, let’s dive in: Just say “no” to doing drugs and looking at cats. LSDCats [Twitter]…

I’m Most Excited About A Nintendo Game Nobody Has Heard Of

I don’t mean that in a hipster sense. I mean it in a sense that this is a game Nintendo hasn’t marketed as strongly as perhaps it could have. At least to me This isn’t a Zelda game. Isn’t a Mario game. There’s no Yoshi, no Luigi, no Donkey Kong. Yet unless you’re from Japan…

7680×1440 Titanfall Screens Are Just Being Silly

So, that big expensive rig the PC gamer team put together is getting some use. They’ve posted some screenshotsof the Titanfall beta running on the PC, and those who think 1920×1080 is a big resolution to play games at, haha, well. The 7680×1440 screens (taken at max settings) are what happens when laugh maniacally at…

What Happens When You Study An RPG World Like It Was Real

Chrono Trigger is an upcoming book by Michael P Williams. It’s…all about Chrono Trigger, looking at parallels between Crono’s world and ours, a study of the institutions of the game’s world (its laws and religions), how the game’s characters fit (and defy!) genre conventions and, yes, a poke at the aches and pains of a…