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Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: A pair of reader reviews covers recent downloadable titles. Contributor GiantBotDetective breaks down just why he’s so massively excited for Rayman Legends to come out later this year. Then, Zarynx recounts the time he got to meet legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto. NotGoodForYou also offers…

Zen Studios brings its pinball platform to Steam on May 10, with a free download for Pinball FX 2 and six expansion packs priced at $9.99 each — Star Wars, Marvel, Marvel: Vengeance and Virtue, Marvel: Avengers Chronicles, the Pinball FX2 Core Collection and Zen Classics.

If You’re In NYC Tonight, Check Out Some Art and New Video Games

NYU’s fourth annual No Quarter exhibition of new indie games takes place tonight in downtown Manhattan and is well worth attending if you can get in. Learn more and/or RSVP here Going there ensures you’ll be able to play some interesting new games. (Like this one from the 2011 No Quarter.) As a bonus, you’ll…

The MOGA Pro Should Have Led The Android Gamepad Invasion

Last October peripheral maker Power A made a bid for the Android gamepad market with the MOGA, a pocket-sized controller with a flip-up clip for holding your smallish Android gaming device. The idea was that this odd little controller, paired with a smart phone, was effectively its own handheld gaming system, a Google-powered Game Boy.…

Grand Theft Auto V‘s Michael Looks Hideous in San Andreas

Rockstar is making another pretty game, judging from the trio of character trailers released on Tuesday, and why is the internet here if not to destroy pretty things? Youtube user NDstudio69 shows us what Grand Theft Auto V’s “Michael” trailer would look like in 2004’s San Andreas. Let’s hope the other two trailers will get…

Air Hockey With Minecraft Blockiness Is Pretty Chill

With a little bit of experimenting, someone just found out that if you stack minecarts in Minecraft, you can create an endlessly sliding object that never actually stops. Build an ice rink around it, invite some friends and you got yourself your own hockey game. Sethbling built a rink for two players, but this would…

South Korea’s Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards Are Unexpectedly Sad

Yu-Gi-Oh! is fun. The trading card game from Konami is fun, too. So why is Korea’s version an out-of-the-blue bummer? Recently on 2ch, Japan’s largest forum, one member uploaded photos of a Korean Yu-Gi-Oh! pack. Let’s have a look. Here’s the pack (obviously). Okay. Alright. Business as usual, until… You get to the missing child…

Googlehas hired industry legend Noah Falstein (Sinistar, Fate of Atlantis) to be its “Chief Game Designer”. And won’t say why. Google Glass games? First-party Android development? Bigger/better search engine tie ins?

The Internet Reacts Stupidly/Hilariously To GTAV’s New Trailers

Continuing the trend begun last year, the internet has followed Rockstar’s release of three new Grand Theft Auto V trailers with a collection of some of the worst – and by that virtue the best – comments from YouTube. Collected on the Tumblr linked below, they are like diamonds, shining through the mud. Grand Theft…

Iron Man As Assassin’s Creed (And Dragonball, And…Daft Punk)

Aussie artist BossLogic has done these insane mashups of Iron Man, turning Tony Stark’s mechanical alter ego into an Iron Assassin, Iron Mega Man, an Iron Saiyan (hey, that sounds awesome) and even Iron Punk. Oh, and also Iron Gundam, Iron Magneto, Iron Wolverine, Iron Superman, Iron Predator… You can see more of his amazing…

Nobody Wants The Next Xbox To Be “Another Way Of Looking At Facebook”

Speaking with Edge, former Lionhead boss and Microsoft exec Peter Molyneux wins some brownie points for his hopes on what the next Xbox will offer. Peter Molyneux on the next Xbox: “I don’t want another way of looking at Facebook” [Edge] To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on…

Aliens: Colonial Marines Dev In Trouble, Owe Pizza Restaurant Money

Timegate studios, the co-developers of the awful Aliens: Colonial Marines, are in serious financial trouble. Filing for bankruptcy protection in a Texas court, they owe a lot of people a lot of money. Some of the people on their list include Epic Games (for the Unreal Engine), online service Agora Games and a video game…

Wow, Rome’s Most (Allegedly) Debauched Ruler Looks Just Like Joffrey

On the left, the Emperor Caligula, one of the most famous – and notorious – rulers of ancient Rome. On the right, Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in the Game of Thrones TV series. It’s a cute likeness if the physical likeness is all you see. But Caligula has long held a reputation – one that,…

Yup, This Is Street Fighter’s Biggest Fan

Um. Literally? …yeah, sorry about that. But pun aside, this fan’s usage of Street Fighter characters is genius, no? Even Blanka could playfully be said to be fulfilling a role: he’s powering the fan while E. Honda does his hundred hand slap and Ken does his hurricane kick . Clever job, BL1TZEN. Now all this…

Here’s a neat new trick. You can run the Unreal Engine 3 real-time tech demo Epic Citadel in a web browser. Get a “Nightly” version of Firefox. Then go here. This HTML5 FAQ explains more. How high can you get the framerate?

Getting Caught Up In WoW Almost Cost Man of Steel Star His Role

Despite the jokes about telling our parents that NO we can’t pause the friggin’ game to take out the trash, the truth is, the inability to pause a live game is a real problem. Real enough that even Man of Steel’s star, Henry Cavill, has grappled with it. Actually, he almost didn’t get the role…

A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 00s

The first years of the new millennium brought us the seventh generation of video game consoles, and with that came a whole new family of attractive men and women. With new evolutions, this decade introduced the start of increasingly realistic-looking characters. In this decade, we finally started to see male protagonists who aren’t weird action-hero…

Sega: The Aliens False Advertising Lawsuit Is “Without Merit” [UPDATE]

A class action lawsuit claiming that Aliens: Colonial Marines used false advertising is happening. Today, SEGA—publisher behind the title—has responded with a comment. “SEGA cannot comment on specifics of ongoing litigation, but we are confident that the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend it vigorously,” SEGA told Kotaku. The plaintiff seeks damages for…

X-COM Makers’ Mobile Monster Mash Conquers Hearts And Wallets Alike

There’s quite a lot of extra content available for purchase in Haunted Hollow, the spooky new iOS strategy board game from Firaxis, creators of XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Between new creatures to add to your arsenal and special item unlocks, you could spend upwards of $17 on the free-to-play game, but that’d be stupid — the…

The Ass Nintendo Doesn’t Want You To See

There’s new Fire Emblem DLC out today. The Summer Scramble pack. It adds a beach map to the game as well as “many conversations between the parent characters who normally do not support each other in the main game”. Yet it also takes one thing away. When the pack was released in Japan, it featured…