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You May Spend $199 to Unlock Everything in Marvel Heroes Before the Game Even Launches

Marvel Heroes may be a free-to-play MMO, but that doesn’t mean you can’t spend money on it. In fact, Marvel and developer Gazillion Entertainment hope you probably will at some point. They’re giving a head start, too, offering three “Founders Packs” that deliver a bunch of in-game content for free. One costs $199. The $200…

Blasts from the past SkiFree and Rodent’s Revenge are now on iOS devices for $0.99.

The Daily Show Calls Out Scapegoat Artists In The Video Games And Gun Control Debate

Ever since the awful Sandy Hook Shootings happened, there have been attempts—some earnest, some misguided—to link the deaths there to violent video games. And, yes, there is a conversation to be had about the way that pop culture glorifies violence and displays of power. But, as Jon Stewart points out in this stinging and funny…

Give Me One Good Reason to Save Hundreds of Cats from a Raging Inferno

Fair enough, Glass Bottom Games. Coming soon to iOS, Android and possibly PC and Mac from there, Jones on Fire is the ultimate evolution of a game that came to life during BlazeJam, a benefit for those affected by the 2012 Colorado wildfire season. Now it’s about kitties and the saving thereof. This is good.…

These Were My 8 Favorite PS2 Games…

On 7 January 2013, Sony announced they had stopped production of the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Google says that more than 1.5 billion games were sold for the PlayStation 2 worldwide in its 12-plus-change years of success. The PlayStation 2 was everywhere at a time when video games were not everywhere. Not everyone had…

Digital Storm Updates the ‘World’s Most Advanced PC’, Doesn’t Expect You To Buy It

Last March boutique PC maker Digital Storm unveiled the Aventum, a powerful gaming PC with a custom-engineered cooling system. They called it the “world’s most advanced PC”, and models started at nearly $4,000. Now Digital Storm is readying the Aventum II, featuring a copper tube liquid cooling solution and an even more advanced case design.…

Passionate Suikoden Fans Are Swarming Konami’s Facebook Page

A whole bunch of people who really love Suikoden are spamming Konami’s Facebook page to show how much they care. It’s an organized campaign started by the ever-growing Suikoden Revival Movement, a Facebook group started to unite fans of the classic RPG series, which Konami seems to have abandoned in North America and Europe. The…

NCAA Football‘s Cover Does Include Plans for Putting an Actual Human On It

BCS National Championship Game curbstompee Notre Dame finished in first place, overall, in the first round of NCAA Football‘s anything-goes cover voting contest currently running on Facebook. Defending national curbstomper Alabama also is in the list of 32 finalists, and currently is the top vote getter in the second round of balloting, ahead of perennial…

Microsoft’s IllumiRoom Concept Turns Your Entire Room into a Video Game Level

Microsoft and Samsung apparently think that your TV—no matter how big it is—isn’t big enough. That’s the only possible explanation for the two companies’ partnership on the IllumiRoom project, which projects images and colors across the space that you’re playing video games in. Shown off at CES during Samsung’s keynote today, IllumiRoom pairs up a…

Ballplayer Curt Schilling, founder of the notorious 38 Studios got, yep, 38 percent of the vote for the Hall of Fame.

How To Launch Your Game Development Career In 2013

Okay. You need one original idea that no one has ever had before. Try this: Everything we do is a game. Games are systems, and since everything is, like, totally a system, you can almost say life is a game. Find yourself at the kind of party where everyone is “seeking capital”. Raise your glass…

You wanted more cowbell, you got it. Cowbell Hero is now in the iOS app store, featuring 16 licensed songs for $6.99.

Some Guys Who Worked on LittleBigPlanet Want You to Spread the Plague in Death Inc.

What do you do after helping craft some of the cuddliest, most heartwarming games of this past generation? If you’re the guys at Ambient Studios—some of whom worked at Media Molecule on the big-hearted LittleBigPlanet games—it’s making a game about Death and the horrors of the bubonic plague. Death Inc. imagines shuffling off the mortal…

Gameological analyzes a game from Star Trek that was “Angry Birds if you had an orgasm every time you killed a pig.”

This Skyrim iPad Case Looks So Real It Might Be Made Out Of Elf Skin

Etsy user GeekifyInc created this custom case, so you can convert your iPad into one of the most recognizable Daedric items in Skyrim, the Oghma Infinium. You’ll just have to fork over $68.95 if you want to buy it. The original in-game item looks suspiciously similiar to the case. Let’s hope no elves were harmed…

Grant Crime Auto: Ice City Now Available on the Amazon App Store. Wait, What?

I refuse to believe for a single second that any of the reviews under Amazon’s Grant Crime Auto: Ice City listing actually paid $3.99 for such an obvious fake. I cannot afford to have my faith in human intelligence damaged any further. Pointed out by Kotaku reader rh_underhill, Grant Crime Auto: Ice City‘s description on…

This new trailer for SimCity takes you on a spline-reticulating whirlwind tour. Nifty.

Prepare Yourselves For Our Next Live Q&A With Dave Fennoy, The Guy Who Voices Lee In The Walking Dead

Let Dave Fennoy, Lee’s voice actor in The Walking Dead and Gabriel Tosh’s voice actor in StarCraft II, excite you for our next live Q&A. It’s happening tomorrow at 1pm Eastern time.

What Can We Expect from MLB 2K13? Not Much, Probably.

2K Sports isn’t saying anything more today about the surprise resurrection of its MLB 2K series. When asked for an interview, a representative told me today’s news release is all we’re getting for now. So it’s time to speculate on what this game may deliver, and my gut feeling is if we see anything more…

The Fate of the Breakaway Metroid Prime Studio, A Mysterious Square-Enix Adventure and More Gaming Secrets.

Editor’s Note: The mysterious person known as Superannuation shows up every two weeks like a new paycheck, if you had a job that paid you in gaming rumors and secrets, all sourced to publicly available information. This time, he/she/it has info on the people who oversaw some Metroid Primes, the people who made Dark Void,…