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The Video Game Based On The Fables Comics Stars Badass Bigby Wolf

In a smart move, Telltale’s video game series based on the Fables comics won’t try and adapt the overall arc of the modern-day epic. Instead, as the developer tells IGN, it’ll focus on one character: Bigby Wolf. Fabletown’s resident detective will be the focus of an episodic series called The Wolf Among Us, and is…

Metal Gear Solid V Is Official – FOX vs. XOF [UPDATE: Trailer added]

Just announced at the Game Developers Conference by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima himself… the next Metal Gear Solid. V: The Phantom Pain The game was officially revealed with an amazing trailer running in realtime on the studio’s new FOX engine. The game was running on a PC build, Kojima said, not saying which…

A Game Where You’re A Hole In The Ground

It started as a joke. Ben Esposito’s Kachina began development as part of the MolyJam, an event where developers made games based off of ideas from the Twitter account that parodies Fable creator Peter Molyneux. In the video above, Esposito—who also worked on The Unfinshed Swan—shows the unusual game to Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez and explains…

Beloved Solid Snake Voice Actor Says He Wasn’t Asked to Be in Metal Gear Solid V

We don’t hear from much from Snake in the Metal Gear Solid V videos shown today. But what we have heard from the main character of Hideo Kojima’s fan-favorite series sounded different. There may be a reason for that. It appears that actor/screenwriter David Hayter, who’s done the English language voice for Solid Snake in…

Four PS4 Controllers, Under Glass, From Almost Every Angle

We’ve seen leaked images of the PS4 controller. We’ve seen Sony people hold the PS4 controller in their hands. But not until our intrepid Kirk Hamilton hustled into the Sony area of the Game Developers Conference today have we been able to see the PS4 controller… in the wild? Well, it’s in a glass box.…

Final Fantasy V Comes to iOS Tomorrow, and It Looks… Like This.

I’m not quite sure how I feel about the look of Final Fantasy V on iOS. I mean, original character designer Kazuko Shibuya returned to polish up her original designs and make everything all pretty for the game’s mobile debut, so in a way this is true to her vision. On the other hand, it…

The PS4’s Camera Can Do Some Cool Tricks

Today at the Game Developers Conference, Sony senior staff engineer Chris Norden gave a presentation designed to introduce the PlayStation 4 to developers. The talk was mostly technical, but they shared new details about the PS4, including how the augmented reality features will work. The AR will use the PS4’s camera, the PlayStation 4 Eye,…

QWOP Creator Ponders: What If A Game Remained Free So Long As You Didn’t Suck At It?

Sound crazy? The idea comes from the Game Developers Conference, during an “Indie Soapbox” where developers took the stage to talk about indie game development. Ben Foddy, who is behind the ever-ridiculous QWOP, had some out-there ideas about how people pay for games—but that’s what makes them rad. Take the idea of not having to…

The Moneysaver: Snag Darksiders and Red Faction for $1

The THQ/Humble fire sale is back as part of Humble’s new weekly deal. If you missed it last time, you can grab Red Faction: Armageddon and the first Darksiders for $1 right now. Bump your contribution to $6.77 or more to nab Red Faction: Guerrilla and Darksiders 2, which were not included in the previous…

Metal Gear Solid V Is Official – FOX vs. XOF [UPDATE: Trailer added]

Just announced at the Game Developers Conference by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima himself… the next Metal Gear Solid. V: The Phantom Pain The game was officially revealed with an amazing trailer running in realtime on the studio’s new FOX engine. The game was running on a PC build, Kojima said, not saying which…

Spec Ops Writer on Violent Games: ‘We’re Better Than That’

Walt Williams, lead writer of last year’s subversive (and flawed) shooter Spec Ops: The Line, began his talk at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco with a bit of flair: “It’s going to maybe sound like I’m being critical of violent games,” Williams said, “but I want to say right off the bat that…

This Almost Makes Up for Europe Waiting Over a Year for Persona 4 Arena

Japan was playing the Persona fighting game in March of 2012. In North America we got our chance in August. Europe has to wait until May 10, but if they preorder at Game they’ll score this awesome 12-inch vinyl copy of the arrange soundtrack for their troubles. Man, I would have totally waited until May…

Ghost Recon Breakfast Cereal? An XCOM Switcheroo? Plus: More Gaming Secrets.

We’ve got an all-new layout, but the same great gaming scoops and rumors from that mysterious figure known as Superannuation. What did Superannuation dig up this time? Tons of things that you’re probably not supposed to know about yet… Two weeks ago, Ubisoft filed a bevy of trademark registrations vis-a-vis “Ghost Recon” and basically every…

I’d Pay Good Money to Play This Impressive Destruction Demo

When Nvidia wants crap to break apart, it breaks apart good. This is is a real-time dynamic fracture demo shown at GDC, running at 30 frames-per-second on a single Geforce GTX 680 graphics card. Ever wish you could spend money on a tech demo? [Thanks, Zak!]

Minority Media’s Papo & Yo—the semi-autobiographical magical realist platformer that was my favorite game of last year—will be available on Steam on April 18th. If you wanted to play Quico and Monster’s story but don’t have a PS3, you can finally experience what’s so charming about the game.

Watch Cliff Bleszinski Talk About How Video Games Changed His Life

The man best known for helping create Gears of War had a spotlight talk at PAX East this past weekend and he talked about his relationship with video games. It’s a poignant monologue where Bleszinski talks about getting teased for his love of Nintendo as a kid, how games helped him cope with rough moments…

Meagan Marie, a former games journalist who now works at a game studio, is no longer going to keep quiet about all the sexist crap she has to put up with. She expresses her courage in a great blog post that may be full of examples of awful past experiences but is also brimming with…

Who among you went out and picked up Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel? What do you think so far? Go join the voices talking about video games and life in Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog.

Tired of Games That Look Like Every Other Game? Maybe Apotheon‘s For You.

Side-scrolling indie action game Apotheon is looking a lot better since last we saw it. We saw it at PAX East in Boston this past weekend, where it appeared to be shaping up as promising mix of Metroid and… Mount & Blade? You’ll be able to play Apotheon on PC by the end of the…

Behold Studios teams with Paradox Interactive to bring the glorious meta role-playing game Knights of Pen & Paper to PC, Mac and Linux asKnights of Pen & Paper +1 Edition. Roll to save versus awesome.