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From Poverty to PlayStation…One Game Dev’s Climb Toward Success

Shawn Allen is a restless game developer. And a hungry one. Growing up on welfare will do that to you. But growing up on welfare isn’t enough to hold Shawn Allen back. In fact, soon, you might finally play one of his games. Allen is 30 and when I ran into him several months ago…

Late Notch. On November 7, Markus Persson, the man behind Minecraft, will do something few indie developers have had a chance to do: go on a late night talk show. Notch will be on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show, which airs on CBS from 12:37AM-1:37AM. Congrats!

Whoa, Someone Built A Machine That Finds Shiny Pokémon For Them

Finding Pokémon in rare, shiny colors is a time consuming process. The average person probably won’t even attempt it. But what if there was a machine that found shiny Pokémon for you? Maybe that sounds ridiculous, but someone actually built such a thing. The video above shows the handiwork of dekuNukem, who built what they…

New Humble Bundle, Ghosts For $45, Dexter, Breaking Bad [Deals]

In addition to a slew of great deals today, we’ve got a brand new Humble Bundle for you featuring Warner Bros. games and including the first two Arkhams As always, check out The Always Up To Date Pre-Order Discount Guide for even more ways to pre-save. Dexter: Complete Series [Blu-ray] | $220 We’re going in…

Four New PS4 Commercials Hype Up Next Week’s Launch

We are officially ten days away from the PlayStation 4, and to mark the occasion, Sony’s got a bunch of new sizzle reels for their upcoming next-gen console. Today we’ve got four new commercials, all PS4-centric, all super-hypey. I think the most interesting is the look at Remote Play—for me, that feature could be a…

See LSD Guru Timothy Leary’s Unfinished Video Games

What happens when one of the most influential figures of 1960s psychedelic counterculture turns his eyes to video games? We went to the New York Public Library to find out. Timothy Leary became a household name in the tumult of the 1960s as an all around anti-authoritarian who advocated psychedelic drug use as a means…

Wrestling Game Or Greatest Super-Hero Game Ever?

One of the WWE series’ longstanding virtues is its deep character creation toolkit, which fans have used to create all sorts of wrestlers who don’t appear in the main game’s roster. Such as Captain America, and Wolverine, and Spider-Man. Touring the Community Creations tab of WWE 2K14‘s online menu I found more than 7,000 custom…

How To Get The Jungle Ghosts Achievement In Call Of Duty: Ghosts

Every Call Of Duty has its required stealth mission, and the “don’t get caught” achievement to go with it. The Jungle Ghosts achievement is somewhat frustrating to get, but check out this video and you’ll ghost right through it. Of course, the other requisite achievement is the “do something difficult on veteran”. Piece Of Cake…

Call of Duty: Ghosts for $45

We’re going in hot. Grab today’s mega-release of Call of Duty: Ghosts for the Xbox 360, PS3, and even Wii U for just $45 on its release day. Keep that wallet frosty. [Newegg via eBay] PC gamers can pay $3 more to get the [Steam] version from GreenManGaming using promo code GMG20-P6Y1F-KC19F [GreenManGaming] Follow Kotaku…

The Story Behind GTA V‘s Michael and Trevor, Summarized In One Minute

Previously … on Grand Theft Auto V … There’s a slow burn as this game gets to the point of why three characters as disparate as Michael, Trevor and Franklin would or should come together to pull off some astounding heists. That’s where the good ol’ Lore in a Minute series comes in to help.…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DocSeuss asks the big, perennial question “What Are Video Games?” It’s a rambling but entertaining answer. Isaac Davis writes a Last-Gen Hero essay about the kinds of rewards that turn a game into something deeper and richer. And Aestevalis sounds the Last-Gen Hero trumpet for…

The Perfect League of Legends Champion Is None Other Than Hank Hill

Following the way Riot Games spotlights their League of Legends champions, YouTuber Crazy Boris made a similar flash animation for the main character of King of the Hill, Hank Hill. Hank might be an introverted man without any emotion, but with a Texas-shaped propane attack, other League champions have all the reasons to be worried.…

PS4 Launch Game Looks Phenomenal In Slow Motion

This is the PlayStation 4, folks, flexing its muscles. The game you’re seeing is called Resogun. It’s an arcade shooter coming out on launch day (November 15) for the PS4. It’s not just meant to be a game. It’s meant to be a showpiece. The game comes from the Finnish studio Housemarque which previously made…

Rise and shine, sleepyhead! You missed some interesting stuff overnight. Star Wars Bloopers Turned Into Hilarious Star Wars Trailer This Was The Generation Of Increasingly Silly Game Names Science Is Turning Disabled Kids Into Awesome Cyborgs So What If I Think Pirate Ships Are Beautiful. Shut Up.

Whoa, Mega Charizard Y and male protagonist Calem from Pokemon X & Y just got a hundred percent more realistic and detailed thanks to the talented deviantART artist Charlie Romeo So much so that at first it seems more like Monster Hunter or Final Fantasy fan art, and not something inspired by a Nintendo 3DS…

You Might Wanna Download All Of Jimmy Fallon’s Favorite iPhone Apps

The iPhone 5S is out, and Late Night host Jimmy Fallon didn’t hesitate to show off some of his favorite new apps: Photobama, Miley Cyrus Fly Catcher, Axl Rose Relaxation Tapes and Wax Alan Rickman. Needless to say, all of these are incredibly useful apps that’ll make our life much better. New iPhone Apps: Photobama,…

PC Point and Click Fans, Get Ready For A Christmas Treat

The Kickstarter campaign which intended to revive Charles Cecil’s Broken Sword adventure game series ended successfully a bit over a year ago, so it’s about time we know more about when the follow-up will actually be here. Released as two episodes, the first part of The Serpent’s Curse will arrive to PC on the fourth…

Velocity Ultra, the teleporting vertical shoot-em-up for the Vita which we rather liked, is making its way to PC. The port is being handled by Curve Studios of Stealth Bastard fame, and will include customizable controls and graphics enhancements. Expect it to pop up on Steam around late December.

One Man’s Harrowing Quest For Toilet Paper, As Told By A ZombiU Short

Admit it. You would brave the undead-filled streets for some toilet paper, too. Zombie apocalypse? Pfft. This ten-minute short, created over six months with (amazingly enough) a budget of only £250 (about $400), tells the story of Ron, a lone survivor in the ZombiU universe whose priorities might seem skewed at first, but really—would you…

PC Classic Gets A Gentle Glove Slap To The Face

One of the best PC games ever made is Sid Meier’s Colonization. A big part of that is the way it simulates the great unknown: as you venture westwards, unless you’re playing on the boring “real” map, you’re truly venturing into the great unknown. Few games have managed to copy that success, most recently Paradox’s…