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RPG Loves Hellboy, And I’m Cool With That

Darkest Dungeon is a 2D RPG that’s looking nice. And I’m not just saying that because those lines and that colour palette are doing a damn fine Hellboy impersonation. That helps, of course, but the premise also sounds interesting: this is a roguelike (Spelunky, FTL, etc) where you’re controlling four grizzled dudes who don’t just…

Making A Medieval Video Game Looks Really Fun

Developer diaries are normally my enemy, but Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets a pass today, as dudes with medieval swords (and crossbows!) strap cameras to themselves and just go at it, all in the name of making better video game combat. Will it actually contribute to a realistic, enjoyable combat system? Who knows, that’s the –…

Around the world, people use different ways of saying that they beat a game, Gamasutra finds. It’s kind of fascinating. What words do you use?

Starbound Bans “Sexual Predator”

The developers of indie PC hit Starbound have had to call the authorities after it was discovered a sexual predator was using the game to “target children”. “Delaying development to deal with a sexual predator targeting children”, developer Tiyuri wrote on Twitteryesterday. “Just in case anyone is wondering”. Starbound’s Molly Carroll provdied a little more…

Solving One Rubik’s Cube In Record Time Is Impressive. Six Is Magical.

Watch as Rubik’s master Kevin Haystakes on six increasingly larger jumbled cubes — from 2×2 to 7×7 — to set the world record for making sides look the same. I was one of those kids who resorted to breaking his cube apart and putting it together again so the sides all matched. I am not…

Final Fantasy VII’s Boss Music, Played By Floppy Drives

Anything can be an instrument, people—including a whole bunch of floppy drives! Sixteen, in this case, to be exact. (You remember floppy drives, right?) You might recognize this tune as “Those Who Fight Further,” which is the boss theme in Final Fantasy VII. Here’s the original, for comparison’s sake. Pretty close, right? Kudos to MrSolidSnake745…

​What It Feels Like When You Play: Threes

Threes has become a problem for me. Last night, I was seriously torn between making sure my three-year-old ate her dinner and getting a few more rounds of the new iOS puzzle game in before bedtime. I fed her and then I went back to obsessively doing math. ‘Til 2 a.m. Here’s how I feel…

If TV Channels Were Video Games…

TV channels and video game franchises might seem like a weird thing to compare, but the unlikely pairs are exactly what make these wise cracks by Dorkly so clever. It’s the sort of thing where you don’t need to watch anything on the channel referenced to know just what Dorkly is talking about—but its better…

The Universe Will End Before This Minecraft Clock Finishes Counting

“Even the most ridiculous design has a purpose” says the creator of this virtual countdown timer in the building game Minecraft. Well, the purpose of this design is to remind us of our place in the universe with a clock that will run for longer than there will be computers to simulate it. YouTuber spumwack…

$200 Borderlands Vita Bundle Comes To The U.S. This Spring

The new, slimmer version of the PlayStation Vita is coming to North America as part of a $200 Borderlands 2 bundle, Sony just announced. It’ll be out this spring. The bundle will come with the new model of Sony’s handheld, the upcoming port of Borderlands 2 (“and add-on content”), and an 8GB memory card. The…

Easy Cosplay Ideas Using Everyday Stuff

Dressing up like characters from pop culture, while cool, looks like a ton of work. Cosplay doesn’t have to be hard, though. If you’re willing to have fun with it, you can make all sorts of costumes with stuff you have lying around the house. Such is the idea behind the My Half Assed Cosplay…

As Close To A New Game Boy Game As We’re Going To Get

I miss the days of dash attacks, the platformers of yesteryear. I miss Rocket Knight Adventure, and Mischief Makers. Lucky for me, The Joylancer: Legendary Motor Knight scratches that itch. In the video above, I play the “shareware” demo of The Joylancer, a retro-platformer that harkens back to the days of Gameboy and the 16-bit…

TV Guy Gets His Black Men Mixed Up, and Samuel L. Jackson Roasts Him

Didn’t we just go through this with Morgan Freeman? Look, this is even worse. If there is one black guy you do not want to confuse for another black guy, it is Samuel L. Jackson, because he will not let your ass off the hook. KTLA-TV’s Sam Rubin learned this the hard way this morning…

​He Made Halo‘s Energy Sword, and It Looks Really Awkward to Use

Master Chief makes it look easy, doesn’t he? But, it turns out that wielding the famous bladed Covenant weapon from the Xbox sci-fi FPS isn’t all that graceful. Watch yourself, dude. You ain’t no Spartan! In the latest segment of the Man At Arms webseries, Tony Swatton and crew craft one of a video game…

A Japanese Adventure Game Inspired By Snatcher

Here’s a new Kickstarter game that might be worth some attention: Blackmore, an adventure game by some of the folks behind the old Konami adventure game, Snatcher. David Hayter’s in there, too. The game is called Blackmore, and they want $200,000 to bring it to life. The summary, via Kickstarter: Blackmore is a Japanese adventure…

Adam Orth Is Turning His Personal Disaster Into A Beautiful Game

Adam Orth, one of last year’s most notorious people on the Internet, was nervous last week as he was showing me his new creation: a beautiful, unusual game that he says was borne from his 2013 travails. “This is how I chose to, in the words of a famous philosopher, ‘deal with it,’” he self-consciously…

Everything Wrong With The Terminator, In Seven Minutes

The first Terminator movie was pretty good, I think—but if you pay close attention while you watch it, you’ll find lots of silly and ridiculous details in the movie. Maybe its better not to nitpick….or maybe its funnier if we do. Whatever you prefer, the folks over at CinemaSins caught a ton of amusing and…

The Last of Us for $30, 2DS Pokémon Bundle, 4K AV Receiver [Deals]

In case you haven’t heard, The Last of Us is really, really good. If you still haven’t played the game that went all Meryl Streep on the DICE Awards (after picking up Kotaku game of the year honors, no less), you can pick it up on Amazon today for just $30. I might have to…

Final Fantasy Tactics Wasn’t Supposed To Have Casting Times

You know how in Final Fantasy Tactics—the wonderful strategy-RPG released for the PlayStation in 1998—your wizards and summoners all had to deal with charging times? And how if you wanted to cast a spell, you’d have to wait X number of turns before it went through? Here’s a bombshell for you: creator Yasumi Matsuno says…

Watch Dogs Delayed On Wii U

Following rumors, the Wii U version of Watch Dogs has been delayed, Ubisoft announced during their earnings call today. Watch Dogs will be out for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PC this spring—between April and June, Ubisoft says. The Wii U version will come “at a later date.” A few weeks ago, the…