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New Pokemon Trademarks Could Be Anything, Sound Like Fighting Games

So here’s the official word from The Pokemon Company on that mysterious Pokemon image that seemed to tease a Wii U game: “There is nothing to announce at this time. These are merely conceptual images.” Okay. So what are these new trademarks that Siliconera has unearthed, Pokkén Fighters and Pokkén Tournament? Could be anything. We’ve…

Xbox One Kinect Can Be Used For Motion Capture In Your Living Room

Project Spark, the games-creation toolkit for Xbox One and PC, drew a lot of attention at E3 for a deep feature set. That includes all kinds of motion capture, using the Kinect 2.0 sensor. You can mo-cap in your own living room. Team Dakota, Project Spark‘s makers, told a Gamescom audience today that full-body motion…

Moneysaver: No More Cross-Gen Blues [Updated 9/4]

Bridge the gap on the cheap. Update: Best Buy has launched a similar program, but it’s not as good as Amazon’s, and doesn’t feature any games that Amazon’s doesn’t. Sony made a ton of announcements at Gamescom today, including a $200 Vita with cheaper memory cards, and a $200 PS3. One of these revelations was…

League of Legends Hacked, Some (Encrypted) Credit Cards At Risk

One of the most popular online games on the planet has been attacked by hackers. Riot Games, the company behind the huge multiplayer online battle arena game League of Legends, announced today that “a portion” of North American accounts have been compromised Hackers were able to access usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and some names,…

Awesome, PS4 Controllers Also Come In Red and Blue

Black? Boring. Check out these color variations of the DualShock 4 controller; up above we’ve got red, and below, blue. Or, well, technically, they’re Magma Red and Wave Blue. Same thing! According to a Sony press release, they’ll become available in North America later this year for $59, and in Europe for € 59. Here’s…

You Can Smoke Pot In GTA V, According to Ratings Board

We had a hunch it was going to be possible, and, now, the people who rate video games are letting the cat out of the dimebag. You can smoke pot in GTA V, according to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. That same group has offered a bunch of other mild spoilers for GTA V, if…

Here’s what’s going on at Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Cimeas reflects back onSan Andreas and its pros and its cons, Sam G. recalls connections of childhood to Earthbound, GiantBoyDetective has an interesting interaction with a student who is excited to play Saints Row IV

Moneysaver: Don’t Starve, Vita Price Drop, Bureau, Blacklist, Saints

Deal or no deal? (Deal was the correct answer.) Update: The Walking Dead Vita Bundle has also been dropped to $200. Voting on the Best Gaming Mouse in our first Moneysaver Co-Op ends on Wednesday at midnight. Don’t miss out. Moneysaver and Dealzmodo on Twitter We’re going to be tweeting a lot more deals, and…

Ubisoft Clue Hints At a Late-November Xbox One Release Date

If you’re trying to figure out when Microsoft’s next console will come out in North America, today has provided a new clue. Note that the following post is all educated guesswork and observation. This is what we know: The Xbox One will be released in November. When in November? Microsoft hasn’t said yet. We also…

Bam! Pow! It’s A Dramatic New Batman: Arkham Origins Trailer

Among the many exciting bits in this new Batman: Arkham Origins trailer: Alfred (I think?) dressing down a young Bruce Wayne, the Caped Crusader’s first encounter with Future-Commissioner Gordon, and a heck of a lot of punching. Also, while we’ve all griped about the changes in the voice cast, I gotta say that Troy Baker…

Think Your Drive is Brutal? Check Out the Vehicles of Dead Rising 3

Capcom this morning put out a new cinematic trailer [NSFW language] for Dead Rising 3, and if you’ve gotten a good chuckle from improvised weapons like the paddlesaw, just wait the hell until you see the RollerHawg. The A-Team could only dream of being locked in a garage and coming up with something this dangerous.…

Sony Takes Another Shot at Microsoft’s Xbox One

Looks like Sony’s PlayStation people can’t resist mocking the Xbox One every time they’re in a room with at least several hundred people, judging by today’s presentation at Gamescom—a video game trade fair held in Germany. Not only did Andrew House, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, reveal the PlayStation 4’s release date, he also claimed…

A Hyperactive Look At Watch Dogs‘ PlayStation-Exclusive Content

You know what they say: All in a day’s work for a Watch Dog. (Wait, do they say that?) This new demonstration of Ubisoft’s highly promising open-world hacking/driving/shooting game Watch Dogs comes courtesy Sony’s Gamescom press conference. The video is highlighting the exclusive content that the PS3 and PS4 versions of the game will have,…

PS4 Release Date Is November 15 In North America

The PlayStation 4 will be out on Friday, November 15 in North America, Sony announced at the end of their GamesCom press conference today in Germany. November 29 for Europe. It’ll retail for $399, 399 euros, and 349 British pounds. This is pretty much the last missing piece to the puzzle—we now know just about…

PS4/Vita Remote Play Sure Sounds Like The Wii U

Here’s a demo of Assassin’s Creed IV running on both PlayStation 4 and Vita, thanks to Sony’s Remote Play feature that they say will allow us to play “almost all” PS4 games on the Vita, through WiFi. Sounds familiar, no? Almost word-for-word how Nintendo has marketed the Wii U.

Ready at launch: Somewhat a blend of World of Tanks and the upcoming World of Warplanes, the PlayStation 4 will see the free-to-play MMO War Thunder featuring 200 models of aircraft and 100 vehicles in ground battles fought by five nations during World War II. A news release said War Thunder will be a launch…

Minecraft Coming To PS4 At Launch [And PS3, And Vita]

Oh wow, Sony just announced that Minecraft is a launch game for PlayStation 4. The blocky crafting game has been printing ridiculous amounts money on PC and Xbox 360, so this is a natural next move. It’s also coming to Xbox One at some point. UPDATE: And PS3, and Vita, Minecraft creator Markus Persson says…

Watch Dogs Isn’t Out Yet, But There’s A Movie In The Works

Sony and Ubisoft just announced that they’re partnering for a movie based on Watch Dogs, the open-world game that will be out this fall for current- and next-gen systems. Here’s the press release: Today at the Sony Computer Entertainment press conference at Gamescom, Ubisoft® announced that its film and television division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, is…

My God, what colorful explosions. Straight from Gamescom, here’s the unveiling of Resogun, the next game from the makers of Super Stardust HD. It’ll be on PS4, and guess what? It features some incredibly colorful explosions. And a lot of other chaotic business that I’m guessing will make more sense while actually playing the game.

Killzone: Shadow Fall showed off its multiplayer features in this trailer from Gamescom 2013. You can get a look at it here—well, the parts where the camera isn’t inexplicably zoomed out on the crowd, anyway.