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Witcher 2 Mod Kit Enters Open Beta, Gets Hot-Blooded Trailer

CD Projekt Red’s RPG The Witcher 2 is getting a mod kit—although, to be fair, it has had one for a while, it’s just going into open beta. Still, it’s a good excuse to listen to some metal and toss a dwarf off a cliff.

Been trying to forget about Shaq Fu? Tough luck. Siliconera says that Shaq.com’s owners have filed trademarks for “Shaqfighter,” in the categories of “video games, online games, computer game software, and action skill games.”

Booker Cosplay Can’t Catch This Fire Emblem Hotness

I love it when games without traditionally large cosplay followings turn up amazing costumes. We’re seeing a bit of that this week, from a fantastic Dishonored outfit to a Fire Emblem piece Nintendo could/should have used to advertise the game. Traditionalists, fear not. Somebody is dressed up as a character from Final Fantasy. Three people,…

Halo Wedding Ring Ends In Tense Warthog Escape

Reader Mike is getting married next year (congratulations, Mike!), and he is one organised man. He’s already got his wedding ring picked out. You might like it. He took his idea to custom ring joint Boone, who through the magic of lasers were able to put a detailed recreation of Halo’s original…Halo on both the…

FIFA is a beautiful representation of the beautiful game, but that all falls apart once you hit the series’ sluggish and confusing menu screens. So hats off to Brazilian fan/designer Rodrigo Bellão, who has a nice and clean idea for improvements.

Your Body Is Ready For An E3 Fighting Game

Expo fighter is a fighting game set on the stages of gaming’s single biggest news event, E3. Meaning you can take your battles away from forums and Facebook timelines and let your bias run wild exactly how it should: with Reggie swinging his mighty fists. We first took a look at the game last year,…

Oh God. FreeCiv, the open source “tribute” to the classic strategy series, now runs on HTML5. Meaning it can run in browsers. And on your phone. Play here. Thanks PC Gamer

Borderlands 2 PC Case Mod Is Just Absolutely Perfect

Inspired by the weapon and ammo caches in the game, CrazyLefty has turned his PC into something the wastelands of Pandora could be proud of. The colour scheme is spot-on, but it’s the cel-shading effect that really sells it. Not sure how well it’d word with obsessive-compulsive fans though. I can see people needing to…

Play The Monster In A Horror Movie, Scare The Crap Out Of Your Pals

Damned sounds like every second horror movie you’ve ever seen. Only instead of helplessly watching the four people trapped in the haunted house get eaten/torn/slashed to death, you can take control and try and get them out. Or take control of the monster trying to kill them. Either or! The developers call it a “randomized…

An Elegant Nintendo 64 For A More Civilized Age

Reader James’ modded Nintendo 64 is not a machine for the 1990s. Its modern touches make it a damn fine retro gaming solution for the discerning modern gamer. Preserving the main case, he’s heavily modified the console’s functionality. Gone are the switches, replaced with remote-controlled power operation. Gone are the four ports at the front,…

Looks like Android phones and tablets are getting their own version of Apple’s Game Center, according tothis report on Android Police

It Seems Easy, But Tiger’s Greatest Feat is Damn Hard in a Video Game

In no rec league could I ever throw a no-hitter. Alone on a basketball court I’d need half an hour to score 69 points—and a trampoline to dunk. But I can do all of those things in my living room. If video games give us the conceit of doing the impossible, only now has one…

Tim Schafertells Game Informer that his studio, Double Fine, still is trying to buy back the rights to Stacking and Costume Quest from the dissolved THQ, and also Brütal Legend from EA and Iron Brigade (formerly Trenched) from Microsoft. “We can still make more of those games,” he says.

An enterprising Grand Theft Auto IV modder just added the Millennium Falcon to the—wait … wait … Oh, my! What have you done? Oh my! It’s BACKWARDS! You flea-bitten furball! Only an overgrown mop-head like you …

Moneysaver Recap: Best Deals Of The Week

It’s dangerous to pay full price, read this. We’re experimenting today with a sort of “best of” from this week in deals. We’ll be pulling from all the Moneysaver roundups and One-shots from the past seven days, as well as Dealzmodo and Deals.Kinja What did you buy this week? What were your favorite deals? Tech…

EA Sports’ former executive producer on NCAA Football testified that the game “generally tried to make the players perform as their real life counterparts, short of their name and likeness.” EA and the NCAA are defendants in a potential class-action suit over the unauthorized use of college players’ likenesses.

Real-Money Profit from Diablo‘s Fake-Money Exploit Going to Charity

The illicit, real-money profits made from a gold-duplicating bug in Diablo III have been confiscated and will be given to charity, the game’s publisher said yesterday. Blizzard says that just 415 players—all of whom have been sanctioned—used the exploit in this way. Earlier this week, a glitch in Diablo III‘s latest patch update allowed players…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Ridiculous Rift

Well, the big idea I had was already grabbed up midweek. That would be the mashup of Electronic Arts and Star Wars. So I’ve got to pull the ripcord on Plan B: People looking ridiculous while being guillotined in or riding a roller coaster with the Oculus Rift. The two exploitables I have to offer…

Moneysaver: What Do You Want To See?

Would you kindly leave some feedback? Looking for the current Moneysaver roundup? Click here. We’re coming up on two months since rebooting the Moneysaver, and we want to take a moment and dedicate a post to suggestions and requests. Today is your opportunity to give feedback, ask questions, tear things apart, etc. We want to…

Watch a Dishonored Designer Explain His Job to His Proud Mom

We hope your mother has enjoyed her Mother’s Day so far, and if you’re a mother, that you have as well. In the spirit of the day, Bethesda offers this video of one of Dishonored‘s developers explaining to his mom what he does for a living. No, no, this isn’t uncomfortable like, say, a porno…