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Sacred Citadel, a neat-looking side-scrolling brawler, drops today for XBL, Steam and PSN. Check out the launch trailer here. We’ll have more on the game soon.

The Amazing Fake Websites Of Law & Order

Law & Order is enjoyable in its way, but it’s no secret that the long-running crime show has a… spotty relationship with the internet. When they’re not slamming video games, they’re painting the web as some booga-booga monsterland filled with the weirdest, most ridiculous websites a person could imagine. This outstanding supercut from Slacktory assembles…

Our friends at io9 have taken an exclusive closer look at Tom Cruise’s futuristic motorcycle from the upcoming movie Oblivion.

This New Superman Movie Trailer Is Pretty Amazing

Here’s a new, rather long trailer for the upcoming Superman movie Man of Steel. What kind of cruel world takes away Russell Crowe and gives a boy Kevin Costner as a father?

Buy Toothpaste, Get New Buildings In SimCity. Because Advertising.

Move over, Nissan Leaf®. We’ve got some new brands in town: Crest® Toothpaste and Oral-B®. According to EA, specially marked Crest® and Oral-B® products come packaged with a SimCity code for downloadable content called “Attractions Set.” Here’s what is included in the set: Giant Garden Gnome, Dolly the Dinosaur, Llarry the Llama, MaxisMan Statue and…

BioShock Infinite vs. Dishonored: The Comparison We Had To Make

A beautiful city with a seamy underbelly. A girl in danger. Weird magic. Beheadings. Junk food. Am I talking about the recently-released BioShock Infinite, or am I talking about the just-updated Dishonored? Could be either one. We’re now a few weeks out from the release of BioShock Infinite, and folks have really begun to analyze…

This Super Mario Warp Pipe Lamp Is Ready to Light Up Your Life

Yes, this Mario figure on this lamp (found on Etsy) is the key to making a gamer-friendly lighting fixture. But the thing that makes it awesome to me is that rugged-looking pipework. The no-nonsense iron reminds that being Mario is rough work. Sure, you start in the sewers and wind up in the colorful Mushroom…

I Hope Mewtwo’s New Form Has A Magical Girl Transformation Sequence

There’s a new, mysterious Pokémon that looks suspiciously like Mewtwo. We don’t know much about it, though judging by appearance alone, it’s hard to fault anyone for thinking the Pokémon is a new Mewtwo form. And if that’s the case, I hope Mewtwo transforms into the new Pokémon like in this short video by alypkm.…

Good news, Mac users: The dark, charming, and surprisingly emotional game Little Inferno is now available on your platform of choice. You can buy it through Steam or direct from Tomorrow Corporation. (Via.)

The Dallas Morning News reports that Pat Summerall, the CBS broadcaster who was the longtime play-by-play voice of EA Sports’ Madden NFL series, has died. He was 82.

The Evolution Of DC Comics’ Characters In Video Games

Injustice: Gods Among Us, the latest fighting game based on the DC Universe characters, just hit the shelves today in North America. This gave us a great opportunity to ride back in time and see DC Comics characters featured in video games evolve from large dull pixels to realistic entities. Since these games are almost…

Check out the first track from from FZ: Side F, the Fez remix album from the game’s composer, Disasterpiece. The album will be out on April 20, and you can pre-order through Bandcamp. The actual soundtrack is pretty good times, too

Woman Buys Old Nintendo Game For $7.99. Turns Out It’s Worth $15,000.

It’s the archetypal jackpot story of flea markets, pawn shops and antiques roadshows. Someone pays a few dollars for a long-forgotten box at a swap meet and then discovers they have a five-figure rarity on their hands. That describes a North Carolina woman today, who purchased one of the rarest video games ever sold in…

Forget Far Cry 3, I Want a Full-Length Blood Dragon Movie

What might be the best standalone game expansion ever created just got the greatest live-action movie tie-in, even if it is under five minutes long. CorridorDigital, I just want to hug you. This live-action short for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is exactly what I wanted to see every time I went to the theater…

Hey, Did You Notice These Things About BioShock Infinite?

We like to talk about video games. A lot. Sometimes we do it on camera, like on The Gameological Society‘s The Digest video series. But, even then we can’t get all our thoughts and observations in. So we’re kicking off a new feature called: Did You Notice? Think of it as a sort of commentary…

Three New JRPGs Are Out Today

The deadest genre just continues to get deader as three—yes, three!—new Japanese role-playing games hit U.S. shores today. There’s Pandora’s Tower, an action-RPG that might just be the last big Wii release ever. End of an era. I’ve spent a couple hours with Pandora’s Tower, and I think it’s fun so far, although I wish…

Your New 2560×1440 Monitor

The Moneysaver is delving further into PC hardware, and the top seems like a good place to start. We can definitively say this is the best deal available on a monitor for your gaming, your video editing, and for reading Kotaku. Jump in and save. The Monoprice 27″ IPS LED WQHD 2560×1440 Monitor will make…

Farewell, Skyrim

Yesterday, with minimal pomp and circumstance, Bethesda announced that there will be no more official expansions for Skyrim. Just like that, the era of the Dovahkiin drew to a close. This is a good time to end it. It may have been somewhat unexpected that, a few months after releasing the Dragonborn DLC, Bethesda would…

Dungeon Hunter 4 is now available for in-app purchase-tolerant Android gamers everywhere free in Google Play.

Bethesda says this Vine teaser released today isn’t about Fallout. Any guesses as to what they’re hinting at?