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Lawsuit Claims Aliens: Colonial Marines Used False Advertising

Looking at the demos and previews for Aliens: Colonial Marines, it’s difficult not to notice just how much better they look than the final product. Bullshots are one thing—in this case, arguably, Aliens had false advertising. Now there’s a class action lawsuit claiming exactly that according to Polygon. The plaintiff, who cites California civil and…

The puck dropped an hour ago on the Stanley Cup playoffs, and NHL 13‘s official simulation has the New York Rangers winning the whole thing, beating Chicago in six in the finals. Get your bets down now. C’mon. No way you can lose.

Destroy Your Childhood Memories of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Obliterate what you once thought of the Ninja Turtles by watching this gross, NSFW exploration of what ‘scientifically accurate Ninja Turtles’ would be like. Truly, Animation Domination High Def has a twisted mind. I had no idea real turtles were so…unpleasant. Eww. SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE NINJA TURTLES | ADHD [Animation Domination High Def]

Dream Jumpers, a Kickstarter project developed by a group of designers with experience on games like Mass Effect and Fez, looks pretty neat. They want $15,000 to make a co-op hack-n-slash for iOS, PC, Android, and Mac.

SyFy TV tie-in Defiance is running an in-game contest that’ll score the winner a guest spot on the show! Well, a guest shot as a picture of them rendered by the show’s artists. All you have to do is play better than everyone else. TV and MMO cross-media experiments are hard.

Here’s Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon in Action For Seven Minutes

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon— the neon and fuchsia drenched stand alone expansion for Far Cry 3 — is out today for the Playstation Network. We’ll have a review of it later today, but in the meantime, here’s seven minutes of me playing the game just to give you a taste of what it’s like…

A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 90s

By the end of the 90s, the 16-bit era ended and 3D took over. With the PlayStation and 3D graphics cards out there allowing for new possibilities, narrative and gameplay, the 90s produced some of the most attractive characters in video game history. Well-known mascots and protagonists made their transitions to 3D, other, yet to…

Nintendo Brushes Off Wii U Hacker Claims

Earlier today, a group of hackers claimed they’d cracked the Wii U, but Nintendo tells Kotaku they’ve received “no reports” of any unauthorized use of their gaming system. The group WiiKey, previously responsible for one of the Wii’s most popular mod-chips, said today that they’ve figured out how to create a new one for the…

They Changed Fighting Games, Now They’re Making Something New

Tom and Tony Cannon know about building communities. Specifically, communities for people who compete in games where characters pummel each other senseless. Now they want to make a game where avatars live together in (relative) harmony. But they say that Stonehearth—the city-building game that they’re trying to fund via a just-launched Kickstarter campaign—isn’t all that…

LEGO Avengers Assemble To Face Their Greatest… Oh, It’s Just Galactus

You know, the Devourer of Worlds loses a lot of his menace when you can take him out with Rocket Raccoon, Jill Valentine and Chun-Li. His once-menacing silhouette appears towards the end of this CG teaser trailer for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, coming this fall to all platforms that would have it. I remember reading…

Producer of Michael Vick’s Video Game Won’t Give Out His Real Name

In one of the more unusual interviews I’ve seen for a new, licensed sports game, the producer of Mike Vick: GameTime, on iOS, asked that his real name not be used. Might being associated with Vick, the NFL quarterback who did federal time for running a dogfighting operation, have something to do with that? “Not…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Manborg: Separated at Birth?

I’d been hearing about Manborg—the no-budget homage to 1980s VHS action movies—for a while now. But I only realized that it was out on DVD today after I saw this tweet from Irrational Games writer Joe Fielder: Meanwhile, in video game land, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon comes out today, too. The creators behind the…

Free Half-Life 2 Mod ‘Minerva’ Is Enhanced And Up On Steam Right Now

You may have played the Half-Life 2 mod Minerva when it was released a few years ago, but now it’s back, and enhanced, and on Steam, and totally free Minerva is the production of Adam Foster, a designer who got his current job at Valve by making the surreal mod. Says Foster (in an e-mail…

The Moneysaver: Your New Router & Gaming Headset, Plus Infinite Deals

This router is known colloquially as the “Dark Knight.” Sold. If you’re in the market for a new router, or think you should be, we’re here to recommend the ASUS RT-N66U. For the average person, I’d recommend just grabbing an Apple Airport Express or Airport Extreme, setting up your network, and never thinking about it…

Call of Duty: Ghosts Will Be Out This November

Call of Duty: Ghosts—the next game in Activision’s blockbuster FPS series—will be out November 5th, according to a promo poster seen on IGN. Rumors about the next CoD have been spinning for about a week after the console-branded box art (shown above) leaked onto the internet. Retail listings outed the upcoming installment, about which no…

Watch Wil Wheaton Tell A Newborn Baby Why Being A Nerd Is Awesome

How do you explain to someone why being a nerd is awesome? Well, here’s Will Wheaton’s moving take, delivered during a talk at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment expo—where Jennifer Black asked the actor, writer, and starship sidekick to break down why being a nerd is so awesome for her recently born daughter. Wil Wheaton…

Man Tries To Win Xbox Kinect, Loses Life Savings

How much would you spend to try and win a new Kinect? $10? $20? If your answer is $2,600, you are probably Henry Gribbohm, a New Hampshire man who says he lost his life savings trying to win the motion-sensing Xbox accessory. Gribbohm, who went to a carnival and sat down at one of those…

Looks Like There Will Be a Juggalo in GTA V. What Did You See?

I snapped this from the new Trevor trailer for Grand Theft Auto. I spy a Rockstar Games version of a Juggalo. You know Juggalos? The devotees of the Insane Clown Posse? This can only lead to amazing things. Juggalos, you see, are fascinating. (No word on whether the game will include magnets and rainbows.) I…

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The Cutest, Cheesiest Pokémon Prom Proposal Ever

There’s no way the girl being asked to prom in this video could have said no. Ash Ketchum—or, ok, a high schooler dressed up as Ash—commanding the attention of the entire cafeteria, complete with an announcement, a Pokéball and cheesy poetry? No way she could have said no. I wish my high school prom proposal…