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Google’s Top Ten Video Game Searches Of 2013 Are… Interesting

Quick, what do you think were the biggest games on Google this year? Grand Theft Auto? Call of Duty? League of Legends? Google has released their annual top-ten search lists for 2013, and the video game results are a little bit odd. GTA V is up there, sure, and so are a few other big…

Can you spot all the video game references? This nifty comic from artist Mario Zucca for Beutler Ink looks back at the year in pop culture. There’s plenty of hidden and not-so-hidden game references in there; see if you can spot ’em all. The full comic is below. Click “enlarge” to enlarge: [via Geekologie]

That Ain’t Right

Has the YouTube ContentID fiasco gotten absurd enough yet? This one’s via Twitterand there appear to be more and more like it, with creators seeing their own work deemed by YouTube’s copyright bots as the property of someone else. Cavanagh is disputing the claim, which is being held by a company called IndMusic. Hopefully this…

Assassin’s Creed IV’s Freedom Cry Add-On Is the Good Kind of DLC

People like to rag on downloadable content. It’s a boondoggle, detractors say. A crass way to get extra cash for a chunk of a game that should’ve just been included on the disk. That’s true in many cases. But Assassin’s Creed IV: Freedom Cry is the better brand of add-on, one where developers’ experimentation with…

Here Is Joel From The Last of Us Doing The Banderas… As A LEGO

You’ve seen Joel from The Last of Us doing the stupid-yet-somehow-kind-of-endearing Banderas meme—now, thanks to LEGO The Last of Us creator Brian Anderson, here’s a video of Joel from The Last of Us doing the stupid-yet-somehow-kind-of-endearing Banderas meme as a LEGO. Good work, Antonio

Marvel Heroes Readies $130 Worth Of Heroes And Villains For 2014

Earlier this year, Marvel Heroes gave unto the players of its free-to-play MMO the ability to purchase and play as Squirrel Girl. In 2014, along with the likes of Juggernaut, Magneto, Dr. Strange and Venom, Marvel Heroes adds Moon Knight as a playable character. If that’s not worth spending $130 on an “Advance Pack”, then…

Learn To Type With Phrases Like ‘Hot Tits’ And ‘Rectal Poetry’

Typing of the Dead: Overkill is amazing already. It’s a game where you kill zombies by typing words like “Brains”. Apparently that wasn’t enough, so with Filth of the Dead, they’ve added in what appears to be all of Urban Dictionary. Between the weird things that normally come up (“wafer thin mint”, “electric boogaloo”) and…

Merry Christmas, from the Deer Hunter 2014 holiday update.

Here’s YouTube’s Reply To Angry YouTubers About This Content ID Mess

YouTube is responding to gamers and YouTubers who are upset about the Internet video giant’s extraordinarily aggressive new copyright sweeps. We’ve got a a copy of the e-mail they’re sending out below. You won’t see an apology here. You won’t see a change in policy. You’ll see support for the Content ID system that’s been…

The Most Ridiculous Victim of YouTube’s Crackdown is a BASIC Game

YouTube’s content ID match system may be the best way to keep copyright holders happy but it continues to cover everyone else in embarrassment. The latest example: This guy just got flagged for a playthrough video of a game. A game he programmed. In BASIC. This is “the action surfing adventure” Surfshooter, according to its…

​Kotaku‘s Game Of The Year Nominations

The year is finally over. The games have all come out, and boy did we play them. Now, it’s time to decide which one wins the honor of being named Kotaku’s Game of the Year. Here’s how we’re going to do GOTY stuff in this, the year of 2013. The GOTY conversation will be split…

No Minecraft On Nintendo Makes No Sense [UPDATE]

Is there a bigger no-brainer in gaming that isn’t happening right now than Minecraft‘s absence on all Nintendo gaming machines? Today, Minecraft comes out for PS3: It’s already out on Xbox 360: It’s coming to Xbox One: It’s coming to PS4: Minecraft is big on iOS, too! Check out the top of these charts, released…

iTunes’ Top Selling, Top Grossing, And Simply Top Games Of 2013

Every December the editors of Apple’s iTunes face the monumental task of selecting two games out of the thousands released during the year to receive top honors as the Best of 2013. This year they chose ridiculously well. I cannot link you to iTune’s Best of 2013 feature — you’ll have to go into iTunes…

The Sequel To 2012’s Amazing Walking Dead Game Is Here. It’s Depressing.

The Walking Dead Season Two—Telltale’s follow-up to their fantastic episodic adventure series—kicks off today with its first episode and it’s even more depressing with Clementine as its lead character Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this kind-of-review. In season two of Telltale’s depressing The Walking Dead episodic series, an older Clementine is without her…

The Next Star Wars Game Is… A Free-To-Play Online Space Game

Video game publisher Electronic Arts might have the rights to make real Star Wars games, but Disney is still milking that social/mobile/free-to-play online cow. Today they officially announced Star Wars: Attack Squadrons, an online space game set in the iconic sci-fi universe. To quote Disney: “Star Wars : Attack Squadrons is a free-to-play online space…

Humble Bundle, iPhone Games, Ouya, Link Between Worlds [Deals]

In addition to the rest of the great deals today, there’s an all-new Humble Bundle for PC and Android featuring Little Inferno and Anomaly 2. [Humble] If you’ve been curious about the Ouya, the little Towerfall console that could, you can get one of the first real discounts on it from Amazon today, and did…

Game of Thrones In Minecraft Continues To Blow My Mind

It’s hard to watch videos from Westeroscraft—the stunningly ambitious project to re-create the entire world of Game of Thrones in Minecraft—and not be impressed. This one is Gulltown. It’s tremendous. You can log in and explore the full map via the team’s website, or just watch and drool and wish you lived in Minecraft world…

The next season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead begins its release today with episode 1 on Steam and PS3. Xbox 360 follows with a release tomorrow, iOS users will have to wait until later this week. Expect our impressions to go up later today. via Twitter

The Definitive Video Game For The Least Popular Gaming Machine Around

Tearaway, I write in today’s New York Times, is a system-defining game for the PlayStation Vita. It’s as perfect for Vita as Super Mario 64 was for the N64 and Brain Age was for the DS. Some music is made for violin and unimaginable for trumpet. Other pieces are best on piano, worst on drums.…

Garden Warfare Looks Like Battlefield with a Plants vs. Zombies Mod

Here’s a look at about 6 minutes of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare‘s “Gardens & Graveyards” multiplayer, which PopCap calls “a remix of Rush and Conquest gameplay modes from Battlefield but with a PvZ spin.” The similarities end there, because I’m not sure Rush or Conquest features carnivorous plants that can tunnel underneath you to…