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She’s So Good At Soul Calibur, She Doesn’t Need To Look At The Screen To Win

If there’s a gaming equivalent to trick shots, not looking at the screen while playing would be one of them—and one that’s all the more impressive when you’re playing against another person. Watching Kayane here—one of the top Soul Calibur V players in the world—defeat her opponent without actually looking at the screen is pretty…

ChefVille ‘Jed-Thai Master’ Quests: Everything you need to know

The Thailand event in ChefVille has expanded this week, with players asked to upgrade their Terrific Thai Station and Thai Gardens to unlock a new series of Thai dishes. There are three new quests to complete in Madeline’s “Jed-Thai Master’ series, and we’re here with a look at how to finish them off, thanks to…

The Ouya goes out to backers on March 28. And Kellee Santiago, co-founder of thatgamecompany has joined Ouya, too.

The F-Zero Miiverse Board Falcon Punches Its Way into My Heart

Oh Captain Falcon; you know how devoted your fans are, yes? Is it any surprise that they’ve recreated your likeness again and again online? Are you at all shocked that the F-Zero Miiverse board is one big Captain Falcon love-in? Today’s Miiverse Moment is a showcase of some of the best art the F-Zero Miiverse…

See the Cool Tech That Makes This Game’s Hand-Made Objects Go Digital

It costs money to make things in a video game. The software needed to achieve an eye-catching aesthetic aren’t cheap and the manpower to run them costs money, too. So, when it came time to make their upcoming project Rustclad, the folks at Skull Theater took a different approach: they’re making most of the objects…

Burt Destruction‘s Difficulty Gets in the Way of a Good Joke

Full disclosure, I know one of the guys who worked on Burt Destruction, which landed on Android and iOS stores a couple weeks ago. Jeff Reitman is the CTO of RunWilder Entertainment, the game’s maker. He and I performed in some stand-up comedy showcases together back before I joined Kotaku, and Jeff was a favorite…

A Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate demo and Fire Emblem DLC light up this week’s Nintendo Download

Kingdom Of Hyrule Decommissions Actual Rupees, Switches To Paper Curency

Enormous jewels that people have to hide in pots? Or worse, bury in the grass, outside? That’s not how you manage an economy, Hyrule. In fact, it’s the fastest way to ensuring your Kingdom one day winds up at the bottom of the ocean. A switch to paper currency like proper nations (or even polymer…

One Man’s Quest To Create Virtual Worlds Yields Spectacular Results

We’ve seen a ton of projects play with the idea of building gorgeous worlds, using randomly generated landscapes—sometimes even paying tribute to Minecraft—but having much more sensitive building and editing tools in a world looking much more realistic, like, say, a sandbox RPG or FPS, is certainly new and refreshing. The engine behind the demo…

Epic Games cofounder Mark Rein just bought a stake in the Carolina Hurricanes. The arena is 10 minutes from his office.

Everyone’s Favorite Reverse Tower-Defense Game Gets A Real Sequel

Anomaly: Korea wasn’t really a sequel to Anomaly: Warzone Earth, a “reverse tower-defense” game released in 2011 in which you maneuver tanks and convoys around a battlefield and direct them to blow away alien towers. (Lots of people loved it.) This one really is a sequel. The folks at development studio 11 Bit have just…

Yoshi’s Unlicensed Adventure Available on Android, At Least Until Nintendo Figures Out How to Remove It

If you’re a Hungarian Android developer looking to cut game design corners by co-opting an existing character, you might want to go a little more obscure than one of Nintendo’s most beloved characters. Spotted by the keen eyes over at NeoGAF, Era’s Adventures is a real game you can purchase on Google Play for $1.99.…

Don’t You Forget About This Fan-Made Remember Me Trailer

A video game about memory manipulation. Simple Minds’ hit 1985 single. A pairing of Capcom’s Remember Me and “Don’t You Forget About Me” seems so stunningly obvious that a tweet from writer Jordan Garland must have come from the collective unconscious of us all: YouTuber Nixemus took that idea and made it happen and the…

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Is The Next Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft Confirms. Now, About That…

The worst-kept secret in gaming is no longer “secret,” as Ubisoft has revealed the cover art for the next Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. The game stars a new pirate assassin and turns its focus to the Caribbean, mixing open-ended ship-based exploration and combat with land-based adventures on a number of Caribbean islands.…

Something’s Starting Up with Final Fantasy XI

How mysterious! A tweet from the official Final Fantasy XI account read, “The heck is this… Is something starting up…?!” Included was the above image. Back in 2011, former Final Fantasy XI Hiromichi Tanaka mentioned that Square Enix was considering a straight port of FFXI to the PS Vita. But at that time, it was…

Get a Good Look at the PS4 User Interface

Today, screenshots showing the PS4’s user interface have popped up online. 2ch, Japan’s largest online bulletin board, is pointing to a series of images on Japanese site Game no Hanashi The images looks like the user interface Sony showed at its recent event in New York City, and depict the user home page, which lists…

Um, This Sure Is A Lot Of Ass Cheek For A Nintendo-Licensed Product

Nintendo is about as family-friendly as video game companies can get. This goes double for the company’s merchandise, which normally begins at t-shirts and ends with plush representations of cute little Mushroom Kingdom characters. So it’s strange to see this figure of Tharja from Fire Emblem Awakening on the 3DS turn up, not only because…

Watch A Virtual City Be Built Before Your Very Eyes

You’ve probably heard the term “procedurally-generated” thrown around gaming in the last few years. It’s fancy tech, which at its most basic level means something that’s built randomly each time you ask it to be built, but it’s certainly more complicated than that, as content still needs to follow certain rules. The best way to…

Minecraft + Goats Screaming Like Humans

It’s been inching its way through the rest of the internet all week long, so it was only a matter of time before “goats screaming like humans” made its way into video games. You can see the original clip (itself based on an old Usher joke vid) here—1:23 might be the funniest thing I’ve ever…

See If You Are The World’s Greatest Fart Engineer

Hide the Fart is a simple Korean browser game that’s all about, well, hiding your farts. You play as a guy at a bus stop, where he’s stood right next to another guy. Decorum forbids just farting, so you need to time your releases to coincide with passing traffic. The real challenge comes from the…