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New Nintendo Direct coming Wednesday at 10am Eastern. “Focused on the latest information on 3DS,” Nintendo says.

Dear Psy, Please Be My Candy Crush Saga Friend

While the rest of the world spent the weekend studying South Korean superstar Park Jae-sang’s latest video in preparation for their upcoming parody/tribute/stupid thing, Kotaku‘s mobile editor (hi) was inspired to play Candy Crush Saga forever. It’s nice to know I’m not alone in my obsession. It’s right there at :35 of the music video for…

Sick of grizzled face-down, eye-up heroes? Want to play as a small, cute animal protecting smaller, cuter animals from the dangers of the world? Say hello to Shelter, an in-development game where you play as a mother badger protecting her litter. It’s coming soon from the makers of last year’s very pretty release Pid

DayZ Creator Takes Two Months Off To Climb Mount Everest

The lead designer of DayZ is going off to climb mountains. In a post today on the blog for the zombie survival game, which was originally built as a mod for the first-person shooter Arma 2, DayZ designer Dean “Rocket” Hall writes that he’s taking a two-month sabbatical to go climb Mount Everest in Nepal.…

We Need Better Video Game Publishers

Over the past eight or so years, we’ve all seen a worrying increase in the number of Western game development studios going bankrupt. We’re told this is due to the economic climate and that modern games cost more to make. Much of that is misdirection and plain old-fashioned bullshit. I should know. I’ve been in…

Stunning Minecraft Video Shows All The Castles of Westeros

The creative minds behind the Westeroscraft community —the same guys who made this insane replica of King’s Landing— made their next move to recreate the whole world of Westeros from Game of Thrones in Minecraft After putting up galleries and videos of the main cities, they have released this timelapse video showing every single fort…

EA has announced that three of their Facebook games, The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society, will be going offline on June 14

games.on.net has spotted a few-days-old entry for The Elder Scrolls: Arena in the Australian Classification Database. Arena, of course, being the name of the very first game in the series.

Looks like Microsoft is planning to break into the touch-enabled watch business

Game of Thrones Finally Gets Its Lightsaber Battle

It’s funny, last week, watching the swordfight that takes place in the episode, I was thinking of Star Wars, because the slow (yet heavy and deliberate) way the combatants were moving reminded me of the battles between Luke and Vader in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Guess I wasn’t the only one.…

There is an Elder Scrolls universe mod for Crusader Kings II. Oh my. It’s in its early stages, but you can get it here

Man Arrested, Accused Of Threatening To Shoot Up His School Via…MMO

18 year-old Thomas Frongillo from Oxford, England, has been arrested and charged with “threatening to commit a crime and threatening a bombing or hijacking” after being accused of leaving hostile messages in an online game run by Jagex, the publishers of Runescape. While the game in question is not disclosed in a report on The…

Someone’s Got A NES (Sort Of) Working Inside Counter-Strike

What you’re seeing in the video above is the Sourcemod Entertainment System (SMES), a server plugin for Counter-Strike that lets you start up a video game and play another video game inside that video game. According to creator skwumpy, it works like this: you can pick up a cartridge in the game world, insert it…

Brace Yourselves For More BioShock Infinite Cosplay

There are a select few games (or series) that you see saturate the cosplay community. Final Fantasy is one. Zelda another. And Assassin’s Creed. You can now add BioShock Infinite to the list. Or at least cosplay for Elizabeth, as it seems people’s love for the character – combined with the fact her costume isn’t…

The Sweetest Thing You’ll See Today Is A 90-Year-Old Grandmother Losing It Using The Oculus Rift

Here’s what happens when the 90-year-old grandmother of Imagimind’s Paul Rivot has an Oculus Rift headset strapped to her head. To be fair, that’s about how I’d react using the thing, and I’m up to my eyeballs in video games every day. Lord only knows how many receptors she had left unfried after this. My…

Amazing Optical Illusion, Using A Single GIF, Takes You On A Journey To BioShock’s Rapture

OK, so given the nature of this trick, you could use it for anything. Pictures of whales. Or Sealab. But the post in question used it for the first BioShock, and that’s about the best use I can think of. Reddit user supergalacticcaptain posted it over the weekend, with simple instructions: you stare at the…

The DRM-Free Version Of Shadowrun Returns Sounds Kinda Lame

UPDATE: As of December 2013, the DRM-free version is now public and available to all. Games simply not being completed isn’t the only hazard people face when pledging money to Kickstarter campaigns. Other problems can arise, like pledges being made during a pitch running into licensing agreements made with Microsoft. When Harebrained first asked for…

What An Assassin’s Creed Fighting Game Could Look Like

Benoit Perreault is a UI designer at Eidos Montreal. Before that, though, he worked at Ubisoft, where in his spare time – as in, this wasn’t an actual Ubisoft project – he cooked up this concept for an Assassin’s Creed fighting game. Envisaged as a downloadable arcade title, and uncovered by NeoGAF user Mama Robotnik,…

Here’s Gears of War‘s Top Designer Going Bald for a Good Cause

I may be bald, but Cliff Bleszinski is both unemployed and bald. But I wouldn’t worry about the former lead designer of the Gears of War series. He’s been doing alright for himself since leaving Epic Games, and this weekend he pulled in enough dough—$15,000, the highest contributor in this fundraiser—to make good on a…

College Athletes are More Than a Number, and Everyone Knows It

For many sports fans, a number is as identifiable as a name. Growing up far away from a professional team, those numbers didn’t really imprint on me until I covered football for four years at college. Ever since, I remember uniform numerals not with a name, but as a name. No. 85? Carl Reeves, one…