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FarmVille 2 ‘By Any Other Name’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

As the Florist Table event continues to expand in FarmVille 2, we’ve seen the launch of a new series of eight quests called “By Any Other Name.” These eight quests will be available for the next two weeks, and we’re here with a guide to help get you started on completing them. Late Bloomer •…

These Toys Give Us The Best Look At Man Of Steel‘s Villain Yet

With Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie arriving on June 14th, more details of his take on Superman’s world are hitting the internet. Yesterday, among the trading cards, maquettes, and plushes at Toy Fair, we spotted your boy Kal-El and three other characters from the film in these gorgeous new toys from DC Collectibles. They…

Electronic Arts Turned Down the Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden, Says Report

Esquire’s fascinating profile of the SEAL Team Six member who killed Osama bin Laden, and his struggles to adapt to civilian life, churned up this intriguing detail: the shooter wanted to consult on Medal of Honor: Warfighter, but Electronic Arts turned him down. Now, EA didn’t know the shooter (who is not named in the…

In Hungry Oni, Your Meals Are Color-Coded

As far as sharp looking iOS games go, Hungry Oni must be one of the most dazzling I’ve seen all year. And yes, I know it’s only February. (It is only February.) The game is the work of Andrzej Zamoyski, a former Lionhead Studios developer who moved to Japan to make video games. This is…

This iPad App Puts Discworld’s Finest City at Your Fingertips. I’d Wear Gloves.

“There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it’s wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along the wrong way.” That’s pretty much all you need to know about the central city of Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld books, but if you’re still ill-advisedly curious, there’s now an interactive…

Walter White, Wonder Woman and Jon Snow Walk into a Bar: Toy Fair 2013, Day 1

Toy Fair descends onto Manhattan’s Jacob Javitz Convention this week, bringing with it loads of plastic you don’t care about. But Toy Fair also shines a spotlight on the weirdest, coolest collectibles and playthings that you’ll be lusting over for the next twelve months. In these images—taken by Kotaku video editor Chris Person—you’ll see statues…

Nintendo Fan Is Happy With Nintendo’s $620 Answer to His $570 Wii U Problem

On Friday, we brought you the story of Jon, a Nintendo fan who spent $400 downloading old games to his Wii, but, through a mistake of his own and due to Nintendo’s unusually strict digital-downloads policy, found himself with access to none of those games. The lesson: a Nintendo machine isn’t like an iPhone; your…

Galaxy on Fire Strategically Goes Massively Multiplayer

The premiere mobile space sim, Galaxy on Fire and its sequel have pleased countless fans of Privateer-style combat and trading. Now German developer Fishlabs Entertainment prepares to open up the universe to colonization in Galaxy on Fire: Alliances Set in a remote corner of the Galaxy on Fire universe, Alliances is a free-to-play massively multiplayer…

Square Enix Won’t Release Final Fantasy Type-0 In North America, So Fans Are Taking Over

It’s been a year and a half since Square Enix released the PSP role-playing game Final Fantasy Type-0 in Japan, and the publisher has not yet said a word about a possible U.S. release. Enter the fans. A group of dedicated translators are doing their best to release an English version of Type-0, and you…

For Once, a Politician Defends Games, Saying They’re Not the Cause of Violence

The drill is familiar: a lawmaker goes on a newsmaker show, puts on a Real Serious Face, is teed up some opportunity to tell everyone that scary scary video games bear some responsibility for America’s love affair with gun massacres. Well, that wasn’t the drill yesterday on Fox News Sunday. Not for Rep. Nancy Pelosi.…

Parkour-Powered Vector Races Gracefully to Android

Nekki Games’ stylish free-running platformer Vector is one of the coolest games on Facebook. In December it became one of the coolest games on iOS, and now it’s one of the coolest games on Android. Funny how that works. Vector for Android brings the smooth and sexy silhouette parkour action of the Facebook and iOS…

Chinese Actress Claims To Be Super Gamer, Supposedly Plays 5 Different Games Simultaneously

Chinese actress Li Xiao Ran (李小冉）is known for many things in China; she’s famous for her roles on both the big screen and the TV screen as well as her prowess as a dancer. The one thing that she really isn’t known for is being a gamer, and now she’s out to change that. Best…

Eurogamer: LittleBigPlanet‘s developers are teasing something. Note the question marks and the games page. UPDATE: Old

Terrible 19-Year-Old Threatens Suicide To Get Money For In-Game Equipment

Previously we’ve translated a report about a young woman in China threatening suicide after receiving a fake iPhone—well now, there’s a young Chinese man in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, threatening to commit suicide over video game equipment. Late last month, 19 year-old Zhou (same surname as me!) wanted to buy a set of equipment for an…

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Notorious Chinese Hacker Caught After Extorting Game Company

Last Thursday, a notorious Chinese hacker was arrested in Qingdao, Shangdong province. The hacker, a 24-year-old surnamed Zhang, has been plaguing many Chinese internet companies over the last year. iFeng.com reports that Zhang was arrested in an internet cafe in Qingdao, doing the very thing that made him a criminal: using other people’s money to…

These Dragon Age Characters Aren’t Real, But They Damn Well Should Be

I showed you the Mass Effect entries in CGHub’s big BioWare competition last week, so today, it’s only fair that Dragon Age gets its turn. Perhaps because of its less iconic visual design, perhaps because people got all cold on the series after 2, but there aren’t as many entries as there were for Mass…

Luke McMillan has played over 3500 shmups. His genre history is good reading

A Gaming Room For Which The Word “Room” Doesn’t Really Do It Justice

Reddit user ScienceBrah has a personal trainer, and that personal trainer’s name is James. I tell you this only because James has one of the most kick-ass gaming rooms I’ve ever seen. There are so many games—organised properly, thank the Maker—down there he could hand out plastic cards and call it a game library my…

For $25,000, You Can have Your Own Giant RoboCop Killing Machine

This is, as close as we can get in 2013 anyway, a real version of RoboCop’s famous ED-209. It’s reportedly an actual Hollywood prop, built for RoboCop 2, and stands ten-feet tall It won’t move or shoot executives in the face, but then, it’s “only” $25,000, available via an eBay auction. A real executive face-shooter…