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Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features

Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…

Need some video-game-themed holiday cards? Here you go… A quartet of good-looking gaming greeting cards that you could give as cards or as gifts. Good stuff! Order here. These are via friend of the site Matt Hawkins and the folks at Attract Mode. Need more gaming gift ideas? Check out our Kotaku Holiday 2013 Gift…

EA Sports UFC Offers the First Glimpses Inside the Game

Fight Night: Round Three was a no-doubt-about-it success when it arrived a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360. With the’ Fight Night team in charge, many are looking to EA Sports UFC to deliver the same impact for the new console generation this spring. The studio released the first two in-game screenshots…

The first season of Niantic Labs’ ambitious augmented reality game Ingress draws to a close today with competing events in San Francisco and Buenos Aires. If you’re not in those cities, you can watch a livestream (4:00pm ET-8:30pm ET) at the official Ingress page Ingress comes out of beta today, so anyone can start playing…

Dammit, Bravest Warriors bendy action figures, I am trying to Christmas shop here. Pop Culture Shock Collectibles has teamed up with Frederator Studios to create toys based on shows like Bravest Warriors and Bee & Puppycat. Thismeans that every time I go to WeLoveFine to buy Doctor Who leggings for my wife, I am being…

Mark Ecko’s Graffiti Game Gets a New Publisher and Goes to Steam

Oh awesome. Mark Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, remember that? Didn’t work out exactly as its namesake expected—Mr. Ecko said Atari “shit the bed” with the idea. It’s still the same game, but it has a new publisher and it’s gone up on Steam. Devolver Digital, the publisher of Hotline Miami, made the surprise…

The Best of Kotaku, The Week of December 9

Everyone at Gawker Media is likely currently recovering from the previous evening’s holiday party, as you read this right now. So while we nurse our hangovers, feel free to browse Kotaku Selects for the best content from this week. And don’t get carried away on your holiday shopping this year, or channelate will make a…

Google Buys Company Famous For Scary Military Robots

From privacy concerns to monopolies, some people have been growing increasingly concerned over some of Google’s business practices for years now. Wonder what those types think now the search giant owns a company that makes military robots. Yes, Google has splashed out and purchased Boston Dynamics, the same company who we’ve featured here a number…

Microsoft hopes to start running their original TV shows on Xbox in early 2014, Variety reports today. The details are still hazy.

Battlefield 4 Stunts Are Becoming More And More Hardcore

Locate target. Eject. Deploy package. Return to your vehicle. Sounds easy, but if your vehicle is a moving jet, and the target is a chopper high above you, things get hard. Even if it’s in Battlefield 4. Here’s YouTuber ponylion pulling off this pretty cool maneuver like it’s the easiest thing out there. That’s a…

Thanks For Killing All Of The Animals, Mobile Gamers

Now I am no zoologist, but you don’t know that, so when I say the nearly ten billion animals shot in the surprisingly good Deer Hunter 2014 represents all the animals in the world, you should just take my word for it. After all, I am a zoologist. Not only did mobile gamers kill every…

Bus Simulator Is Better When It’s Almost Broken

Thanks to OMSI 2 I now realise being a bus driver is extremely stressful. You’re in charge of the well being of dozens of people as you all sit in a big metal box hurtling into the unknown reaches of time and space. OMSI 2 is a German omnibus simulator. Not only are key German…

​The Xbox One Game That Will Make It Feel Like You’re Touching Your TV

This week, I played a game that felt like the lovechild of an SNES platformer and a touchscreen puzzle-solving title. Where’s this cute and wonky hybrid showing up? Why, the Xbox One, of course. At first blush, you’ll think you know exactly what you’re getting in Max: The Curse of Brotherhood. It’s a shiny-cute adventure…

Finally, A Game About Having Sex With Your Friends

Clusterfuck is a card game you can play at parties. It’s about sleeping with everyone around you. Easiest way to score an instant win? Have a threesome (in the game). It’s part of Cards Against Humanity’s ’12 Days of Holiday Bullshit.’ Best of all? It’s free. Created by Zach Gage, Doug Wilson, and the Cards…

Angry Joe, the YouTube game critic who weighed in on the wave of copyright enforcement that snagged several of his videos, has offered a followup perspective. So has another YouTuber who believes large “multi channel networks” share in the blame. We’ve added both videos to the original post.

The Year In JRPGs – 2013

From Ni no Kuni to Pokémon, we’re talking all things JRPG on today’s Very Special Edition of Random Encounters slash Burning Questions slash Kirk And Jason Talk About JRPGs For A While. That’s right—today’s column is a podcast. Listen right here: Download the podcast right here Random Encounters is a weekly column dedicated to all…

Hey, North America, This Weekend Is ‘National StreetPass Weekend’

Move over, Christmas. Step aside, Hanukkah. There’s a new holiday to celebrate this December: Nintendo’s National StreetPass Weekend that—hmm—spreads across two nations. Details in the video here: Text explanation, if you prefer: If you use a Nintendo 3DS to check into a Nintendo Zone location in the U.S. or Canada (sorry, Mexico) on December 14…

Turn 10 Studios’ first wave of tweaks to the controversial in-game economy of Xbox One launch game Forza Motorsport 5 go live today. Details here. Things sound better, as it seems much easier now to earn things without paying extra real dollars for them.

​No, People, Bitcoin is NOT an Xbox Game or a New iPhone

Bitcoin has fascinated people for a little bit now. It’s got that futuristic sounding name that sounds cool. Seems like something you should get into, right? But don’t be like the six percent of surveyed Americans who thought that Bitcoin was an Xbox game. Because it’s not. The Atlantic has a write-up of a Bloomberg…

Next Gen Preorders, GTA V Under $40, Great Mobile Games [Deals]

Toys-R-Us is offering up a buy one, get one 40% off deal on a ton of video games, and Thames was kind enough to point out that this includes next-gen preorders. That means you can get two upcoming games like Watch Dogs, Titanfall, or Destiny locked in for about $96. That’s tough to beat. Tons…