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A Retro Video Game Exhibit To Make Your Inner Collector Green With Envy

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Videogame History Museum has a cool exhibit set up showcasing old and rare video games and video-game collectibles. The VGHM tends to turn up at events like GDC and E3, and it’s always fun to go through their exhibit and check out the most interesting, obscure…

I’m Not Crying. This Charming Gameplay Trailer for Rain Is Very Wet. That’s All It Is.

So there’s been a veritable drought of information about Rain, the clever precipitation-centric adventure shown off at last year’s Gamescom. But a new look at the Sony Japan and Acquire-developed game just surfaced and it looks absolutely lovely. The parts where the lead character is stumbling around because the player can’t seem are poignant and…

It’s An RPG… And An RTS… And A Zombie Survival Game

This is State of Decay, a new Microsoft-published Xbox Live Arcade game that might be one of the most ambitious digital titles I’ve ever seen. It’s an RPG, and also an RTS, and also a zombie survival game, and also a simulator, and if you’re confused by all this, I know exactly how you feel.…

Some Resident Evil 6 PC Players Say Bugs Are Making the Game Unplayable for Them

The PC version of Resident Evil 6 has gotten some lovely updates since the title hit desktops last year, like the free upcoming crossover with Left 4 Dead 2. But players who’ve been trying to kill the bio-organic weapons in Capcom’s action game have been complaining of crippling bugs that stop the game from running…

The Next Penny Arcade RPG Has A Killer World Map

Gotta love the world map, that humble little collection of icons that offers up a treasure trove of discoveries and possibilities. Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4, out this spring, has a killer, old-school-styled world map that I really want to dig into. I saw the upcoming RPG at PAX East this…

Ouya Tries To Dispel Fears That The Console’s Nintendo Emulators Will Promote Piracy

Yesterday on the unofficial Ouya console forums, forum administrator Ed Krassenstein announced that several emulators will officially be available on or near the launch (March 28) of the Android-based console. The additions of said emulators to the upcoming console have been in discussion since as early as July of last year (here, here and here).…

For those of us who enjoyed the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon, here’s a bummer of an update: With the show abruptly cancelled—save for a few web extras—they’re not even going to reveal the fate of two of the series’ main characters. That’s despite five years of the creators saying we could expect them to.…

Here’s that Borderlands 2 limited edition diamond plate loot chest for sale on Think Geek

The People Behind The Witcher And Cyberpunk Are Making Two ‘Smaller’ Games To Support One Of Them

The folks at CD Projekt Red aren’t just busy working on The Witcher 3 and their new Cyberpunk game—according to a corporate report posted to their site last week, they’re also planning to release a mobile game and two smaller games tied to one of their products. Here’s a translation, provided by CD Projekt, which…

15 Things You Should Know About Dishonored‘s New DLC

We haven’t talked a lot about Dishonored since it came out last October, which is really too bad, because I think Dishonored is a fantastic game Good news for anyone who agrees with me: we’re getting downloadable content in just a few weeks that will tell a new story in the grisly world of Dishonored.…

Six Reviewers Find Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon Eerily Charming

Mario is king, no doubt ‒ but not in this game. In Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, Mario’s brother Luigi is the star. And while he might not have the strength and speed of Mario, he sure managed to convince these reviewers that he’s really got what it takes. The 3D aspect, the atmosphere, the puzzles,…

Metro: Last Light Is At Its Best As A Stealth Game

I got to play about an hour and a half of Metro: Last Light at PAX East this weekend. What I played felt like two different games. The first game was a stealth game, at least in the way I decided to play it. You could always opt for guns-blazing if that’s more your thing.…

The First Free-to-Play Pac-Man Arrives With a Tournament Twist

Realizing that while we’ll always hold the original in the highest regard, no one wants to buy plain-old Pac-Man anymore, Namco Bandai has set the original arcade game free on Android, with a competitive way to get players to pay a little extra. Pac-Man + Tournaments is the original arcade game with a little something…

Here’s A Video Of That 15-Minute Transistor Demo I Played At PAX East

In all its Supergiant Games glory, here is that 15-minute PAX East demo, thanks to TotalHalibut. Listen to that music, listen to that awesome voice acting. And take in all the art.

The Moneysaver: Free Peggle Deluxe

In honor of PAX East, PopCap is giving away the popular and painfully addictive Peggle Deluxe for free. Peggle runs on both PC and Mac, and the code you’ll receive receive in your e-mail is good for 5 activations. The pinball-meets-pachinko mix of happy accidents and total chaos allows you to take credit for events…

Transistor Is The Sexiest Game I Played At PAX East

Transistor—Supergiant Games’ latest project since their incredibly compelling Bastion—is a sexy game. Not because there’s any actual sex (or at least none that I know of!). And not because of any of the other traditional definitions of the word. This isn’t a typical kind of sexiness where short skirts and muscular men automatically mean sexy,…

Recent years have seen fewer games include multiplayer, according to the Penny Arcade Report Did you notice?

The First Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Gameplay Trailer Is Equal Parts Exciting and Terrifying

Temples hidden deep within uncharted jungles, dramatic pirate ship battles, 20 seconds of GameStop pimping at the end — the first gameplay trailer for Black Flag shows everything I look for in a blockbuster action-adventure, and one thing I do not. It’s not the sharks so much as the container they come in. While I…

Ready, set, annotate! Here’s a view of the PAX East show floor. I shot this on Saturday and figured it’d be a good image for all of you to tinker with as you explore the wonderful world of Kotaku image annotation. This is possible thanks to our new layout. Click on the image and add…

Super Metroid Screenshot, Remastered Into HD In Photoshop Looks Stunning

DeviantArt user Elemental79 did a crazy job converting a screenshot from the classic SNES game Super Metroid into HD using only Photoshop. He recorded the whole procedure in this speed up video to show us how much work something like this needs. He already did the same treatment with Doom, with similar, awesome results and…