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Kid Sneaks Past Security, Hides In Plane, Blames…Grand Theft Auto

“We assumed he was at a friend’s house. We had no idea where he was”. Says the father of a 9 year-old boy who wasn’t at a friend’s house. By the time his parents figured out he was missing, the boy had somehow snuck onboard an aircraft and travelled halfway across the US as a…

Samuel L. Jackson’s Strangest Video Game Cameo

Sam Jackson has been in a number of games, normally reprising a role he’s played on-screen. He has never, to the best of my knowledge, been in a Heroes of Newerth movie. Or TV show, for that matter. Still, the little MOBA-that-could has enlisted his services regardless, resulting in the announcer pack you see above.…

Games This Fast Don’t Need The Ground

CloudBuilt is the kind of game that’s hard to nail down. Which is why its creator has it listed on Steam under “Action”, “Racing”, “Shooter” and “Platformer”. The video above will give you a better idea. As someone who enjoyed Gravity Rush but thought it was a bit plodding, this looks great! CloudBuilt [Steam Greenlight,…

Video Game Determines The Strongest Thing Of All Time

The Gameological Society had a simple idea: take the creatures, beasts and people from Scribblenauts and pit them against each other. See which thing, real or fictional, could kick the most ass. While there were some funny encounters between humans – notably the Democrats vs Republicans – us meat bags were pretty useless. As were…

Illegal PS4 Preorder Scheme Sounds Nasty

SimplyGames, a retailer in the UK, has been in the news this week after it emerged it was trying to strongarm customers preordering a PS4 into spending more money. Here’s what’s happened: customers who originally preordered just a PS4 from SimplyGames were told last week that in order to remain in the “line” for their…

No, Terrible People, It Is Not Funny To Ruin A Kid’s Minecraft Game

I don’t play Minecraft, my kids don’t play Minecraft and I’m not an asshole, so the practice of people trolling children in the game then making a spectacle of it isn’t something I was aware of. Now that I am, ungh. So, yeah, it’s a thing for people to jump into Minecraft games and ruin…

Pokémon Explained In One Very Enthusiastic Musical Tribute

If you’re curious what Pokémon is all about, hopefully you took the time to read Patricia’s great breakdown of the series, its history, and its appeal. But if you don’t have time—or just like exuberant! musical! numbers!—this smurfy mini-musical from AvByte might be just the thing. (Via Laughing Squid)

Brock Is A Major Creep In This Pokemon Anime

If you’ve watched Pokemon: Origins, the TV special that recently aired in Japan earlier this month, you may have noticed two things. One: Origins is a thing that should have lasted more than four episodes. And two: why in the world is Brock, the original rock-type gym leader, so creepy? The first time we see…

Beyond: Two Souls Is Better With A Friend

Hopefully you could tell from my decidedly mixed review of Beyond: Two Souls whether or not the game is for you. And if it is for you, a piece of advice: Consider bringing a friend. Beyond can be played from start to finish in 2-player local co-op. I found that I had a much better…

THQ May Be Dead, But It’s Still Filing Lawsuits

THQ, which went out of business and was liquidated by the spring, still exists in enough of a form to sue the UFC and Electronic Arts, to whom THQ sold the UFC video game license in 2012. A complaint filed a week ago in federal court, reported today by Polygon, alleges, that EA and Zuffa…

Multiplayer Isn’t So Massive Anymore

Bungie seems to have coined the term “shared world shooter” for their newest IP, Destiny, but the general concept might sound familiar. While not everyone may be a fan of huge MMOs, lots of people seem to be into multiplayer gaming and downsized, explorable worlds where you can play with a relative handful of other…

Creepy App Turns Your Friends Into Bloody Corpses

It’s hard to come up with a good Halloween costume…but if you happen to have an iPhone, you have a couple of new options open up to you thanks to Mark Rober. Specifically, costumes that take advantage of the iPhone’s screen to show squicky stuff, like guts or eyeballs. Done the right way, apparently the…

New GTA Online Patch Promises No More Missing Characters

Your missing character issues may be going away—Rockstar says they’ve got a patch coming that promises to fix game progress issues in Grand Theft Auto Online, which has been facing serious problems since it launched last week. You won’t get your zapped characters back, but at least the mass character deletions—widely reported by players of…

Peggle 2 Might Be the Reason Your Grandma Would Want an Xbox One

I had a bit of cognitive whiplash when I saw Peggle 2 this afternoon. Its predecessor is a game that’s everywhere. Your mom or even grandmother probably plays it, or something heavily inspired by it. The browser version of the first Peggle is what helped its viral spread but there I was playing it on…

XCOM‘s Top Soldier Finally Gets To Kick Some Ass

If we can’t see Council Man himself rolling up his sleeves and throwing the hell down, then Central Officer Bradford pistol whipping some bastard-ass traitor in XCOM: Enemy Within will have to do. We didn’t see Base Defense—in which the conflict comes home, literally—in Tina’s preview of XCOM: Enemy Within, this morning, but it’s definitely…

We Made Our Own Ad For Ellen Page’s New Video Game

Sure, video games these days can simulate hyper-realistic alien murder, but what about the life of a young actress? Ellen Page Simulator 2014 hopes to do exactly that, letting you shape the Canadian starlet’s personality, from what dolls she chooses to play with to working up the courage for her first kiss. Okay, Ellen Page…

17 Minutes Of Hardcore Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Action

What’s that you say? You can’t wait for February, when Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII comes out, and you need to watch footage in Japanese just to get your fix? No worries. We’ve got you covered. Via Square Portal, here’s a ton of new gameplay from the next Final Fantasy game, which is out for…

The Wii U Won’t Be Getting Assassin’s Creed IV DLC. Yesterday, Ubisoft detailed the downloadable add-ons coming Assassin’s Creed IV, among which is a cool-sounding standalone adventure that casts the player as an escaped slave. Unfortunately for Nintendo fans, today Ubisoft confirmed to Kotaku that the Wii U version of the game won’t get that…

Final Fantasy VI Is Coming To iOS and Android, VII Could Follow

Square Enix will be releasing a modified version of the beloved Final Fantasy VI, originally released in North America in 1994 as Final Fantasy III, this winter for iOS and Android, long-time Square director and producer Takashi Tokita told Kotaku today. The game won’t be a straight port. “It is basically like a remake of…

Time for a re-do: check out Planetary Annihilation’s ChronoCam, a feature that lets you jump to any point in time, play in slow/fast motion, delete timelines and play in reverse. You might remember this game as the ‘world-spanning RTS’ we were impressed with a while back. More details on how the ChronoCam works here.