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High School in NCAA Football 14 is Video Gaming’s Coolest Credit Roll

I had to laugh when, in the high school preamble to NCAA Football 14‘s Road to Glory career mode, I audibled to a draw and watched this skinny white kid slice the defense like Sonic the Hedgehog. “36 YARD TD BY ALEX HOWELL,” said the game. Huh? Alex Howell? He was a walk-on at Auburn.…

The Wii U has just received a system update, bringing it to 3.1.0. Nothing major, but here’s the summary anyways. Version 3.1.0 U available via wireless Internet connection includes the following improvements: Improvements to Standby Functions: The standby functions will now regularly connect to the Internet when the Wii U is powered down to check…

A Pokemon Religion Would Be Pretty Freakin Hilarious

Let’s say you made up a religion based on Pokemon—such an undertaking would probably require you to look at the lore of the game. As far as the Pokemon world is concerned, Arceus is the Pokemon that (possibly) created the universe. A legendary god, if you will. The “Mewsus” Twitter account takes that lore and…

Who Needs A Hero? Let’s Have More Games With Multiple Main Characters

I love a game with a cool, interesting main character. But you know what I think I might love even more? A game with multiple cool, interesting main characters. Why not, right? Modern video games are huge! They’ve got room to spare. I love a hero as much as the next red-blooded American, but it’s…

Check out this lovely tribute to Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP by artist Elizabeth Simins. (It’s full of spoilers, if you haven’t played the game yet.) You might remember Simins from Manic Pixel Dream Girl, the excellent 4-part series about growing up with video games.

Wayne Brady Professes His Love Of Video Games To Man In Sombrero

Despite their many cultural and linguistic differences, Let’s Make A Deal host Wayne Brady and a man in a sombrero bonded over their mutual love of video games. Isn’t that wonderful? It warms the cockles of my heart just thinking about it. (via Let’s Make a Deal)

This Shoot ‘Em Up With A Teleportation Twist Is Perfect On The Vita

Velocity Ultra is a shoot ’em up with a unique twist — your ship can teleport. It’s a nice twist on the normal shmup formula, making you dodge walls instead of bullets. Take a look at the video above to get a taste of the gameplay. The game was brought to Vita in the EU…

Sorry Console/PC Gamers, But The Mobile Deus Ex Is Damn Good

“We didn’t ask for this!” came the cry of PC and console fans, angry with the revelation that the next Deus Ex game would be an episodic mobile adventure. They don’t want to play it on their phones or tablets. It’s a pity, really, because The Fall is nearly every bit the Deus Ex game…

Very Serious Animal Crossing Question

Here’s what I do most nights in Animal Crossing: I play at night, then have my character turn out the lights and go to bed before I turn out the lights and go to bed myself. I’m curious how widespread this phenomenon is. POLL TIME:

These Early Xbox One Designs Didn’t Make The Cut

Polygon brings to our attention a curious reveal from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference today: a bunch of rejected prototypes that the Xbox One team developed prior to the Xbox One design we’re all familiar with. The prototypes pictured above are the result of these early sketches: Seem like a lot? Naw. The Xbox One…

Conan O’Brien Did Not Enjoy The Pacific Rim Trailer

You can’t please everyone, I guess. The red-headed one has watched the trailer for Pacific Rim, and he was none too impressed. Particularly with the robo-bulges

Click for a visual tale. via Brave little princess

Xbox Live to Refund UK Users Pinched by Currency Conversion Mistake

Microsoft is saying some pricing changes seen by U.K. Xbox Live customers trying out the new Xbox Live beta—in which Microsoft Points are converted to local currency—are an error, and these users will be compensated for the difference. The pricing changes, as currently implemented to beta users in Great Britain and elsewhere, amounted to an…

Attack Of The Tiny BioShock Infinite People

As promised back in April, the folks at WizKids/NECA have come through on the BioShock Infinite front, delivering a set of tiny playable figurines that look just like the promotional, only with incredibly sloppy paint jobs. HeroClix players — action figure collectors in general, really — are used to these discrepancies between announcement images and…

There’s So Much Room For Activities In Grand Theft Auto V‘s Open World

Yesterday’s gameplay trailer for Grand Theft Auto V revealed a lot about the game, including the map and all the activities we can do in addition to the main story. Since the whole map is open from the beginning, unlike the previous games, there will be a lot to tempt us away from the main…

Latest sign of our coming robot overlords? Yet another A.I. playing a video game Lots of us here in Kotaku-land like Drop7, the randomized number puzzle game that we think is one of the best iPhone games. So we just had to share Daniel Walton’s video of his Lego Mindstorms NXT robot running up a…

Final Fantasy XV: Everything We Know

The 15th Final Fantasy doesn’t have a release date yet, nor does it even have a release year, but there’s still plenty of information floating around about the next entry in Square Enix’s titanic flagship series. What used to be called Final Fantasy Versus XIII has been in development for over seven years now, and…

Marvelous, Meditative Space RTS Rymdkapsel Hits iOS, Android On 7/25

I raved about the game when it launched on PlayStation Mobile, so I recommend any non-PSM gamers who are equipped with iOS or other Android devices set aside $4 for July 25. That’s when you can buy and enjoy the minimalist real-time strategy game Rymdkapsel on those other mobile platforms. For now, study up on…

The Good News is There’s a Rambo Game. It’s the Bad News Too.

The good news is that First Blood gets its due. We knew this when Fahey showed us screens of Hope, Wash. The bad news is that Rambo: The Video Game looks like something for the PlayStation 2. It just looks terrible. Which, of course, means day-one purchase for me. Make no mistake, I’m a big…

Kingdom Hearts Looks Just As Delightful As You Remember

Man, this new Kingdom Hearts 1.5 trailer brings back memories. I can’t believe it’s already been 11 years since Square’s action-RPG first came out. This trailer, of course, is for the HD remake of Kingdom Hearts that will be out for PS3 on September 10 Really, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 is kind of a dumb name,…