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The Xbox 360 Version Of Battlefield 4 Has A Crazy Recommended Install

Look, it’s pretty clear that Battlefield 4 – a game designed to sing on powerful PCs and next-gen consoles – was always going to struggle on current-gen hardware. So if developers need to go to extremes to find a workaround, well, they gotta do what they gotta do. The Xbox 360 version of the game…

The Latest ‘Clues’ We Might Get A Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Remake

We’ve gotten remakes for some of the older Pokemon games…but not for third gen, Ruby and Sapphire. It’s not for a lack of passionate fans, though—so passionate in fact, they’re willing to read into anything that might confirm a game they love is being made. Cue Pokemon X & Y, which released last Saturday. Since…

Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate celebrates Halloween with 28 costumes for $25. Along with a free “Haunted Lorelei” stage on both the paid and free Core Fighters versions of the game, fans can purchase a massive costume pack that gets every fighter in the game geared up for tricking and/or treating. Some are better than…

Xbox One Game Tweet Backfires Badly

Next-gen kicks off this November. That means there are a ton of developers out there busting their butts off to get launch games out on time—and Ryse: Son of Rome, an Xbox One exclusive developed by Crytek, is no different. Today, the Ryse Twitter account boasted about feeding the developers working on the game through…

Remembering a Miracle in the Early Days of Sports Video Games

The score was 4 to 3, two outs in the ninth, when I woke up on the couch. No one was on base. “I don’t need to see this,” I said. “Nah, stick around,” Dad said. I had two games that day, the World Series on TV, and Hardball! on my Commodore 64. If the…

Zebras Made My PS3 More Beautiful

One of the key games used by Sony to demonstrate the graphical prowess of the PlayStation 3 prior to its North American release, Majesco’s safari simulator Afrika came out three years after the console launched and wasn’t very good. It’s dynamic theme, on the other hand, is exquisite. This was originally to be a post…

Double Fine’s Newest Game Lets You Run Your Own Space Station

Shades of Theme Hospital in the newest game from Double Fine, Spacebase DF-9, which tasks you with running your very own space station and trying to prevent everyone from dying. You can play the new space simulator on Steam Early Access right now. It looks… amazing. And if that trailer hasn’t piqued your interest, check…

Check Out The 2DS’ Single Giant Screen

New hardware means a few surefire things here on the internet. Someone will blend it. Someone will microwave it. And naturally, someone will take the hardware apart and dive into its guts. The 2DS is no exception! Behold, the handiwork of Rose Colored Gaming: What you see in the middle there is the 2DS screen—yes,…

Steam Early Access Is Making Games Better

Early Access on Steam gives us the opportunity to buy games before they’re even finished, but more importantly they allow us to take an intimate look into how games are created. Before Steam began selling games as Early Access, Notch set the standard by selling Minecraft in early alpha, to a huge success. Now this…

Bee and Puppycat Will Become A Series…If They Can Raise $600k

Hooray! It seems that the two videos we got earlier this year of Bee and Puppycat—the charming and kind of eccentric cartoon by Natasha Allegri, character designer and storyboard artist for Adventure Time—aren’t all of what we get to see of the show. Well, not if Frederator Studios can raise enough money on Kickstarter. The…

Stores Say They’ll Honor Next-Gen Watch Dogs Bundles

Amazon says they plan to honor all PS4 Watch Dogs bundles this November—without Watch Dogs, which has been delayed until spring of 2014. If you pre-ordered the console, Amazon says you’ll get it. No word on what you’ll get instead of Watch Dogs, if anything. “For those of you who pre-order the Watch Dogs PlayStation…

The Best (and Possibly Worst) of The New Pokémon Designs

New Pokémon games means new Pokémon designs—that’s practically a given. The real question is, are they any good? Let’s look at some of the highlights, shall we? Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled on the new Pokémon, you shouldn’t keep reading. Aside from the new Mega Pokémon, the Pokémon that’s caught most people’s…

Motion Controls, The Most Popular And Most Broken Idea Gaming Ever Had

It was an idea so good that it vaulted Nintendo into first place last-gen with a console using last-last-gen technology. It was an idea so flawed that a Kotaku reader—the moment this series of best and worst features of the outgoing console generation was announced—shredded it. Motion controls… boy did they mostly suck. If you…

GOOOAAAAAL! Looks like Microsoft’s efforts to get into the original series business are ramping up. Deadline Hollywood reports that a soccer reality show called Every Street United is the first unscripted show greenlit by the Xbox Entertainment Division. The series will travel the world looking for the best amateur footballers in various countries. (That’s a…

Attention Skylanders parents, you’re going to Toys R Us tomorrow morning. Swap Force launched this past weekend with some important elements and travel powers unrepresented. The twelve new figures going on sale tomorrow morning exclusively at Toys R Us should help fill in the blanks.

The New Xbox Holiday Value Bundle, Cheap Headsets For All 3 Consoles

Finally a great Xbox 360 Bundle. We frequently see Playstation 3’s deeply discounted and bundled with games like Grand Theft Auto V or even better a year of Playstation Plus, but compelling 360 packages are harder to find. The new 360 Holiday Value Bundle packs in Tomb Raider (which I loved), along with Halo 4.…

Activist: Congress Going After Violent Games is ‘Virtual Gun Control’

Considering how violent video games have been scapegoated by gun-rights hardliners, this defense seems to come from an unusual source. But a man who sued the District of Columbia—and won—over a handgun ban says lawmakers scapegoat video games because they can’t win on the gun debate. “It seems to me that going after shooter video…

There’s a Breaking Bad Version Of Cookie Clicker. Now I’m Dead.

This is getting out of control. I want my life back. This new clicking game has two buttons to click, and penalties to avoid. These games just keep coming, soon they’ll have 3D graphics and objectives and plots, and we’ll have lost our entire civilization to them. I’m not going to stop though. I played…

Ubisoft Has No Answer On Fate Of Watch Dogs PS4/Xbox One Bundles

News of the big Watch Dogs delay left us with one big question: what happens to people who shelled out money to pre-order the Watch Dogs PS4/Xbox One bundles, expecting to get both game and console this November? UPDATE (4:24pm): Amazon says they’re honoring PS4 bundle pre-orders, minus the game. Original post follows: Earlier this…

Watch Dogs Delayed Until Spring 2014

Ubisoft’s open-world game Watch Dogs has been pushed back to spring of 2014, the publisher just announced on their blog. “Our ambition from the start with Watch Dogs has been to deliver something that embodies what we wanted to see in the next-generation of gaming,” the company wrote. “It is with this in mind that…