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The PS4 Had Better Hit Europe In 2013…

…Otherwise this full-page ad in Britain’s Metro newspaper is going to look very silly indeed. While a 2013 release for the United States is a certainty, there have been fears that, like was the case with the PS3, Europe would get Sony’s latest console a few months late. Hopefully this means that isn’t the case.…

The Rap Anthem For Call Of Duty Dog Is Finally Here

Nerd rapper Adam Warrock has worked around the clock to bring you “MOCAPPED DAWGZ (NEXT GEN ISH)”, a track partly about the Xbox One’s reveal, but mostly about sticking white balls on man’s best friend “MOCAPPED DAWGZ (NEXT GEN ISH)” [free tunes] [Adam Warrock]

A Giant Nemesis Head Will Not Be Your Home’s Romantic Centrepiece

I’ve got a lot of toys and statues on my “good bookshelf”, but I’m also a man with small kids, and who has normal people around to his house to visit. So no, I won’t be buying this giant, hideous Resident Evil bust. Even though deep down I kind of want to. Recreating RE3’s Nemesis…

Game Of Thrones Characters Are Bad 90s Stereotypes

French artist Mike Wrobel has recast the stars of Game of Thrones as stars of sterotypical 90s fashion, with wonderful results. Joffrey’s Zapper might be a few years late, but everyone else is perfect, from Jon Snow’s flannel shirt to Jaime’s “Bad Boys villain” outfit. Game of Thrones 90s era [Mike Wrobel, via Brandon Boyer]

Next-Gen Call Of Duty, Last-Last-Gen Engine

The next Call of Duty game, Ghosts, will be the first to appear on an entirely new generation of hardware. Despite this, it’s still built on an engine that’s over ten years old, though the game’s developers would like you to think otherwise. Sure, the engine has been heavily modified since then – Modern Warfare…

Don’t Expect Those Xbox One Exclusives To Come To PC

Not that you should have, given Microsoft’s puzzling disdain towards the market, but just in case you were thinking those promised Xbox One exclusives were coming to PC, you can stop. Shacknews asked Microsoft if any of those 15 titles would come to the PC, and the response they got from Matt Booty, general manager…

Happy Wedding Anniversary, Here’s An Epic Gears Of War Family Portrait

For my first wedding anniversary, I went out to dinner. Fancy joint. I thought I’d done a good job. Nope. Turns out I did a terrible job. For Xioo’s first anniversary, he had artist Edward Chua take an existing Gears of War mural he’d done and alter it so that the piece featured he, his…

This Song Argues That “Gif” Is Pronounced “Jif”

Is it Gif? Or is it Jif? Someone should write a song! Oh look, someone did. That someone is musician Jonathan Mann, who recorded this song “Don’t Say GIF” after GIF-inventor Steve Wilhit set the internet ablaze by announcing that his invention is meant to be pronounced “Jif,” like the peanut butter. Is it gif?…

You Can’t Lose In This RPG, Though You’ll Likely Travel Someplace New

Unrest is a most unusual game. There are no fail states, for one. The story continues if you fail. It’s also an RPG that takes place in ancient India—which, I don’t know about you, but that’s not a place I’ve ever visited in a game. The Kickstarter video promises a lot of unconventional ideas, actually.…

Gran Turismo Boss Enters Car Race, Quietly Uses Video Game To Help

Not many game developers are able to practice what they preach, mostly because a lot of the stuff they preach involves stuff that doesn’t actually exist. Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi, however, takes his motor racing seriously. Very seriously. So seriously that, schedule permitting, he sometimes races expensive sports cars. Over the weekend the…

If Only a Game With Pixel Batman and Pixel Wolverine Actually Existed…

Let us once again reflect on the beauty that comes with limitation. These blocky renderings of world-famous superhero characters manage to convey just what works about each character design, despite the lack of detail that Cyclops, Superman or Spider-Man are usually drawn with. And they leave you craving the next logical step, which would be…

Metro: Last Light PC Performance, Benchmarked

When the Metro 2033 was released in 2010 it contributed to raise the PC graphics bar making good use of the latest DirectX 11 rendering technologies such as depth of field and tessellation along with high resolution textures. Before that little was known about the developers of Metro. 4A Games was founded by Oles Shiskovtsov…

BioWare Is Sorry They Accidentally Banned All Those SWTOR Players

In the war between MMO developers and shady players looking to exploit the system, the innocent often get caught in the crossfire. Such was the case yesterday, when somewhere under 150 honest, hard-playing Star Wars: The Old Republic players had their accounts banned from play. BioWare is sorry, you guys. Several tipsters emailed us last…

Which would you rather play? I think I’d go for Ghost Dog, because not only is the idea of a Call of Duty Dog game fantastic, this mock cover by Redditor Auto_aim1 is also excellent.

You Could Kill A Super Mutant With This Homemade Fallout Weapon

The Shishkebab is one of the more ridiculous melee weapons in Fallout—I mean, it’s a freakin’ flaming sword! And GreekGadgetGuru built one like it, in real life. The thing looks crazy dangerous. If you’re the impatient type, skip to 2:50 in the video to see the thing in action. Now, compare his creation with the…

Classic Video Games With Real-Life Backdrops Are Delightful

Video games from the 8-bit and 16-bit era mixed with real life environments look awesome, and it’s a technique that lets anyone’s creativity shine. It’s something that Kotaku has covered before but it would be a mistake to not share the new ones. These superb photo edits are the recent work of acefecoo on deviantART.…

A new Retro Game Music bundle is underway, where you can get a bunch of classic game music for minimal bucks. Myst, The 7th Guest, Jazz Jackrabbit and Duke Nukem join a list of other notables, some of which have never been previously released.

Watch Donkey Kong Scare The Crap Out Of Children

To celebrate the release of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, Nintendo spent a lovely spring afternoon scaring the crap out of children. The video (above) is quite fun. The game is good, too: Donkey Kong Country Returns was one of my favorite games for the Wii, and the 3DS version is even better, mostly because…

Xbox One Game Boxes Look Sharp

What Luke Plunkett wants, Luke Plunkett gets. This is what the official box for an Xbox One game looks like. You like? This is via official Xbox One hype man Major Nelson

Your Xbox One Games Can Be Suspended (Or Terminated)

Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One will bring console gaming to the present this year by allowing users to suspend the games they’re playing. Save points can be a thing of the past on these consoles. Games don’t really have to be turned “off”. We reported as much about the Xbox One a…