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The Vultures Circle To Pick At The Carcass Of Used Game Sales

Responding to a report last week that claimed Microsoft would be taking a cut from all pre-owned game sales on the Xbox One, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick chimes in with the inevitable follow-up. It’s equally hard to imagine used game sales surviving attitudes like this. Even if they technically make it past this generation of…

Predator Action Figures! You Son Of A B**ch!

Many companies have released many takes on the Predator franchise over the decades, but sadly, none has ever given us what we really wanted: little plastic renditions of the entire assault squad from the first movie. So thank you, djblizzard, for finally delivering the goods. The custom toy builder has made his own squad of…

Kick Down Doors, Shoot Terrorists, Just Like The 90s Never Ended

Once was a time you could actually play games that involved planning an attack against terrorists/criminals, then swiftly executing it. SWAT, Rainbow Six, they were good times. Times that were seemingly long gone as games like Rainbow Six become more about shooting than planning, but nope, Door Kickers is bringing them back. And using just…

This Week’s Cosplay Is So Furry Even Ezio Can’t Resist

I don’t normally showcase too many furries here on Fancy Pants, but I’m making an exception today. Actually, two exceptions. One for some amazing Guild Wars cosplay (Charr), the other for what is easily the best Skyward Sword costumery you’ll ever see. Also, that Zant? Spell-binding. To see the larger pics in all their glory…

The Future Meets The Past: Playing N64 Games In Virtual Reality

Reader Chris, who was kind enough to share with us some footage of Skyrim running on the Oculus Rift, has been kind enough to humanity to build Nintendo 64 game support for the virtual reality headset. He’ll be opening a beta in July, but for now, check out some footage of N64 games like Goldeneye,…

Red Dead Redemption Movie Is Looking Just About Perfect

A group of fans are putting a Red Dead Redemption movie together, and smartly, they’re not doing the obvious. They’re instead drinking from the same inspirational well as the series’ developers (especially from the first Red Dead), combining a love for Spaghetti Westerns and a bit of the old ultra-violence into something that’s as much…

The History, And Evolution, Of The Star Wars Logo

It’s one of the most iconic logos in all of pop culture, right up there with – ahem – Disney’s branding, but for the longest time, Star Wars enjoyed a mish-mash of logos and title fonts, a mess that, believe it or not, wasn’t locked down by Lucasfilm until the last minute. Changing names from…

Screw Racing, This Driving Game Is About Getting Stuck In The Mud

One of the best things about driving games on the PC is that they’re not all about racing sports cars. There’s stuff like Euro Truck Simulator. And now this, Spintires, which is basically a game about trying to keep trucks on the road on some of the world’s worst roads. It’s a hardcore all-terrain simulation,…

For $900,000, They Want To Build A Crysis Suit For FPS Gamers

This is far from the first idea for force feedback clothing we’ve seen over the years, but it is the most ambitious. What you’re looking at here is the ARAIG Exoskeleton (As Real As It Gets). It’s made up of three layers (a hardware decoder, undersuit and exoskeleton), and is designed to accurately provide feedback…

This is What Happens When Two Mute Video Game Characters Go on a Date

Much has been inferred or made of a continuity overlap between Portal and Half-Life. Here, Chell and Gordon Freeman are able to tell us what they really have in common—without saying a word. YouTube Video uploaded by MikeNgary To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @owengood

Oh, By the Way, Don’t Count on a Curtain Call for Video Games’ MVP

Getting an Internet signal inside LA’s Orpheum Theater is always a crapshoot. For years, it’s been both a daydream and a nightmare that I’d be liveblogging Electronic Arts’ E3 keynote as Andrew Wilson or Peter Moore finished EA Sports’ segment and then, pretending to forget something, turned and said, “Oh, by the way.” Then the…

EVE Online says it has taken down its Tranquility server cluster—housing the MMO itself and companion game Dust 514—because of “a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack.” Tranquility has been down for 16 hours. At this time, not even EVE‘s web site is reachable. Follow EVE‘s Twitter for more. [Update] The outage is over. “At…

Police Blotter: Sorry I Slashed Your Throat, Bro

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes comically stupid, sometimes tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime. The Most Gears Apology, Ever GLASGOW, Scotland—The teenager accused…

Steam Sends Indies Who Got Publishing Offer Back to Greenlight

Shortly after opening their Steam Greenlight campaign for the game Paranautical Activity, the two-man studio Code Avarice got a phone call that would have made any indie’s day: It was Adult Swim, offering to publish their game on Steam. Yeah, well, not so fast. As Code Avarice’s Mike Maulbeck and Travis Pfenning explain in that…

The Future has Arrived: Print Your Own Mechwarrior Toys

You can’t buy this six-inch tall, posable Atlas battlemech from any toy or collectible maker, and it isn’t a Comic-Con exclusive. It’s exclusively from the 3D printer of a Mechwarrior fan. The Atlas has (by my count, anyway) 11 points of articulation, and creator Valcrow says that from the torso up, just two parts were…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Rolling Wonder

Maybe I was a little hard on the “X-Box,” a cozy, if insane, contraption being sold for $2,500 in Youngstown, Ohio. It does come with an A/C unit, though I’d be glad to ditch that for a wet bar (and just open the fridge if it got too hot.) Anyway, I know how I can…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Dog Duty: The Winners

Without a doubt, Call of Duty Dog stole the show at Microsoft’s big Xbox One reveal, and not for all the right reasons. The law of unintended consequences dictates that one of them is appearance in the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest. Who’s a good ‘Shopper? Who’s a good ‘Shopper? Yes you are, Sciteach! Yes you ARE!…

Dark Souls II Coming March 2014, Says E3 Sign

This big billboard going up over the L.A. Convention Center, as spied by reader Norm the Alligator, pegs Dark Souls II for an early spring 2014 release. Does this mean it’s coming to PS4/Xbox One? To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @owengood

MIT’s OpenRelativity engine, designed to model Einstein’s special theory of relativity in a video game, now is being released as an open-source toolset. It is available for download here.

Oh Man, You Are Not Gonna Believe What You Can Do in Watch_Dogs

We may be coming to the twilight of the current console generation but these old dogs can still learn some new tricks, as this making-of video for Watch_Dogs shows. That’s right, hero Aiden Pearce will be able to walk with his hands in his pockets. This is actual gameplay, folks, NOT PRE-RENDER. Skip ahead to…