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DOTA 2 Forgets Halloween, Remembers Christmas

Valve works in mysterious ways. Last year, they held a big DOTA 2 event for Halloween, then didn’t do it this year. People got angry. Last year, they didn’t do anything for Christmas, because Christmas got stolen. This year, they are. Go figure! What it means is that DOTA 2 players are in for a…

People Might Actually Be Able To Emulate The PS4 And Xbox One

You might think emulators only exist for retro consoles, and for the most part that’s true, but we might some day be seeing PS4 and Xbox One games – regardless of the legality of the move – on a PC near you. For the last decade or so, emulating new console games has been almost…

College Players Can Get a PS4 From a Bowl Game, But They Can’t Be Paid

The Military Bowl is no one’s idea of a major college football bowl game. It’s a shitty bowl, in fact, inviting five-loss teams to stage background-noise football two days after Christmas. Despite that, every player from Maryland and Marshall will receive a PlayStation 4 for showing up this year. Sports Business Journal looked at the…

The Most Surprising Mii That I Ever Met

I StreetPassed with this person some time in the last two days. I’ve never met a Mii this… creative. Meet any unusual Miis? Share below, please! To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @stephentotilo.

A Link To The Future: what if A Link To The Past had the wall-merging mechanic that appears in the newer Zelda, A Link Between Worlds? Well, then it might look a little like this awesome GIF by johanvinet. (Via Tiny Cartridge)

Lego Mecha Pokémon. LEGO. MECHA. POKEMON.

What would be cooler than commanding fierce beasts to battle against other beasts, as you do in Pokémon? Easy. If the beasts were lego mechs instead—mechs which can be piloted. Does anything else need to be said, really? Check out these “Poke-Mecha” of the final evolutions of the original three starters Stormbringer, originally posted on…

Watch GTA V’s Trevor Try To Dispose of A Dead Body In Real Life

However deranged Trevor might be, he’s just a fictional character. But if he wasn’t? What if he was a real person that roamed our streets? It would be kind of amazing. And by amazing I mean slightly horrifying. Check out these series of pranks by Nathan Barnatt, where he pretends to be a Trevor. Trevor,…

Podcast: Fallout 4, Phoenix Wright, Zelda: Link Between Worlds

Is The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds really all that amazing? When will we actually see a Fallout 4 announcement? Are we suffering from a glut of lawyer simulators? It’s been a long three months since our last podcast, but Kirk and I are back for a quick talk about what we’ve been…

2013 Was A Very Good Year For Facebook Gaming

Facebook gaming is far from dead — it’s just getting started. 2013 saw impressive growth in both audience numbers and diversity of Facebook game developer, making for one exciting year for free browser-based entertainment. According to Facebook’s AJ Glasser (that name sounds familiar), the lists here were compliled (baring the Staff Favorites) based on a…

Nothing Stops The GTA V Train. Not Even 10 Dump Trucks.

What better way to demonstrate the brute power of GTA V’s unstoppable train than to line up 10 of the largest dump trucks in a row and see what happens? YouTuber omenz321‘s video shows that it’s not easy to carry out such a thing, but at least the devastation scenery completely makes up for the…

Everything We Know So Far About The Impressive-Looking No Man’s Sky

Dropping out of the sky like a meteorite during the VGX, No Man’s Sky is the game that’s seemingly captured the imagination of every video game enthusiast on the planet. But, aside from the amazing trailer, there’s not a whole lot known about Hello Games’ cosmically ambitious game. Here’s the info we’ve found scattered about…

Fez has sold one million copies, across all platforms, developing studio Polytron said today in a thank-you messageto everyone who bought, stole, or said they were boycotting it.

Pay Attention, Steam: You Can Now Return These Digital Games

The convenience of digital downloads comes with a price: you might not have to deal with physical media, but you normally can’t return the stuff you purchase on major distribution platforms like Steam either. But increasingly, other smaller services are willing to treat digital games a bit more like physical ones. Today, DRM-free distribution service…

Rockstar Teases Grand Theft Auto V DLC For 2014

GTA V DLC is coming at some point next year. “For those ready to jump back into the story of Grand Theft Auto V, we have big plans for substantial additions in 2014 continuing Michael, Franklin and Trevor’s action, mayhem and unexpected adventures in Southern San Andreas,” Rockstar writes in a blog post today For…

Nintendo eShop Credit, Wii U Bundles, LIVE Gold, 4KTV [Deals]

A slew of Nintendo discounts headline today’s Kotaku Deals segment. Also, stop not buying Persona 4 Golden, it’s only $17 right now (choose Amazon as seller on the right). $20 Nintendo eShop Prepaid Card ($16) | Best Buy $50 Nintendo eShop Prepaid Card ($40) | Best Buy Nintendo Wii U Deluxe Set with The Legend…

We’ll Be Playing Halo On Xbox One Come December 24, Sort Of

So it’s not what immediately comes to mind when you think of the Halo franchise. Spartan Assault is stillas close as you can get to playing Halowithout a first person view, and it’s the first Halo coming to the Xbox One. just in time for Christmas. Featuring more than 30 missions that bridge the gap…

Reality Show Investors Rip Oculus Accessory, but They Have a Point

When we first saw it used in games like Minecraft and Team Fortress 2, the reaction was, more or less, “Cool!” And it is cool, to go running around in Skyrim on the Virtuix Omni. Unfortunately, it’s got to be a lot more than cool to get even $2 million in investor money. This is…

Work on making Battlefield 4 the game it was supposed to be continues. The latest update for BF4 is targeted to fix some of the PC version’s stability issues and various other bugs.

These Indie Devs Are Releasing Free Art, And You Should See It.

The developers of Kentucky Route Zero recently released a free interactive play that takes place in the KRZ world, written by one of the game’s characters. It’s a great creepy play, and a good way to get a feel for the mood of the full game. If you don’t know it, Kentucky Route Zero is…

We’re used to LEGO video games based on movies. Here’s a video game based on a LEGO movie. Maybe it’s leaning on the first full movie trailer a bit too much, but that’s only because that trailer was awesome. If the game manages to channel even a tenth of that awesome, it’ll be one-tenth as…