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The Moneysaver: Beyond: Two Souls, Free Mass Effect 3, Pizza

Pre-orders, free stuff, and a Pizza Compass. Newegg is the MVR (most valuable retailer) of the day with discounts and pre-orders galore. Grab upcoming Playstation 3 exclusive Beyond: Two Souls for $8 off with code EMCXRXN226, and Shin Megami Tensei IV for the 3DS for the same discount with EMCXRXN225. A couple other Newegg highlights:…

This video shows how Resident Evil: Revelations will work on the Wii U’s two screens. It’s interesting to see it in action, since the game was initially released as a (very good) 3DS game before being up-scaled to set-top consoles. So, you’ll be able to play the Wii U version of the game much the…

Ray Harryhausen, the Artist Who Released the Kraken, is Dead at 92

The man responsible for the fantastical elements and chilling creatures of film classics like Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans passed away today. The official Facebook page for the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation has a detailed obituary that details highlights from the master artist’s biography and credits. With simple clay and…

Assassin’s Creed Designer Patrice Desilets Says Ubisoft Fired Him [UPDATE]

Patrice Desilets left Ubisoft. They snagged him back. And now he’s gone again, Kotaku has learned. Ubisoft confirmed news of the departure in a statement to Kotaku today, and when contacted later, Desilets said he was fired and plans to “fight Ubisoft vigorously.” The designer best known for designing the first two Assassin’s Creed games…

The Entire Intro To Star Wars, Remade In Minecraft

If the original Star Wars movie was shot in Minecraft, a) we’d be living in an era of time travel (please let us know when Half-Life 3‘s coming out. Thanks.) and b) it’d look like the video above. One out of two ain’t bad. Check out the start of A New Hope, Minecraft-style. The short…

Princess Peach Will Kill You In Precisely Seven Levels

The Ring girl crossed with Princess Peach is a terrifying thought. Consider your childhood memories—and every console connected to a screen—forever ruined. Or at least ruined for the next seven days, after which you realize you were being ridiculous. C’mon, guys, seriously. The Ring girl isn’t real! …Right? Um, I’ll be in my bunker for…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: A pair of reader reviews covers recent downloadable titles. Contributor Zarynx pens a rather touching piece about how the young children in her family interact with video games and each other. And PocoGrandes opens up a spot for folks to talk about the TV shows…

Moneysaver One-Shot: The Headphones You Should Own And Can Afford

Hear the savings. Looking for the current Moneysaver roundup? Click here A quick search will reveal that reviewers, audiophiles, and consumers all rain praise on the Audio Technica ATH-M50 Headphones. At $102 today, they’re sitting at their lowest price ever. Our friends at Lifehacker put them in their Five Best Headphones write-up, while The Wirecutter…

How My Game Cuts Down On Online Gamer Obnoxiousness

Playing online games often exposes one to the worst of humanity. Within this den of scum and villainy you’ll find twelve year olds who act like four year olds, dudes that would be the worst drinking buddies, and silent, useless teammates that clearly have no f***ing idea how to play this damn game. Of course,…

That’s One Way Of Interpreting Supreme Executive Power, Saints Row IV

Yes, that’s the President of the United States of America, kicking a guy in the nuts and punching an innocent-seeming woman into a car. Don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for him. Coming to the Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 on August 20, Saints Row IV weaves together two completely ridiculous storylines into one.…

The Kingdom Hearts ‘Remix’ Hits PS3 On September 10

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 will be out on September 10, the folks at Square Enix said today. The PS3 exclusive features an HD remake of the original Kingdom Hearts and the PS2 game Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories. It’s also got cinematic scenes from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and extra content from Kingdom Hearts Final Mix.…

The Nazis Won World War II in Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The New Order by MachineGames, will arrive for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC at the end of the year, Bethesda just announced over at GameSpot. (Versions for next-gen consoles are also coming.) That’s the debut trailer. The game is set in 1960 but, yes, Nazis will still be the bad guys. That’s…

The Skyrim Version of Iron Man Doesn’t Need Any Stinkin’ Technology

You’d think that a high-tech superhero concept like Iron Man wouldn’t work in Skyrim. You’d be wrong. Machinima user Tyrannicon dropped Iron Man into Skyrim and the results are funny and inventive. The Skyrim version of Tony Stark does all right for himself, even though he’s limited to a forge and magic spells (and Fus…

Sector 17 Is Lonely, Sad, Hectic and Fun, Judging by the Trailer

Last Jungle In Sector 17 is a top-down shooter with RPG and tower defense elements currently in development. It stars spacecraft pilot Ryder and his AI buddy Johnny trying to survive against an overwhelming enemy on a deserted space station. Depressing! Gameplay looks fun, though. A prototype is coming “soon.”

The Theater 2013 Might Be Simple, But It’s Still Terrifying

The Theater 2013 packs quite a punch for a free one-man horror game—especially considering that it was made in 24 hours, and consists of walking through a corridor for five minutes. It really shows how important a good atmosphere is to the experience. It can be grabbed here, or you can watch a full playthrough…

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger Trailer Sings Us the Story of Silas Greaves

As we know, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger wants to return Techland’s first-person shooter series to its roots. This trailer shows just that. We get to see Silas Greaves, the bounty hunter serving as this chapter’s protagonist, shoot his way through the Wild West. Cue guitar ballad. Gunslinger is coming out on May 21.

School Janitor Wins Internet with Amazing Zelda Drawings

Most janitors are satisfied with keeping things clean. This junior high school custodian might be, too, but also has a hankering to do something else: Draw incredible pictures. Spotted on a school cafeteria whiteboard, these awesome drawings depict things like Link from The Legend of Zelda. Here’s Midna and Wolf Link from Twilight Princess. These…

Reader Kenneth Eaton likes Shadow of the Colossus and likes the films of Studio Ghibli. Put ’em together andyou get this, which I would watch a million times over, if only it actually existed.

Real Majora’s Mask Is Too Beautiful To Actually Wear

Artist Camille Young – who we’ve featured before here – is the master craftsperson behind this amazing 1:1 replica of Majora’s Mask from the Zelda game of the same name. It was made for the upcoming Grace & Ritual exhibition being put on by the crew at iam8bit, and which opens this Friday. Grace &…

Of Course There Are Infomercials In The Star Wars Universe

While commercial influences in the original trilogy are non-existant, the prequel films saw fit to properly introduce the Star Wars universe to the notion of canonical enterprise. Namely, with giant advertisements and billboards. So this clip, bizarrely, isn’t entirely out of the realm of possibility. Mashing together several infomercials, it gives us a rare glimpse…