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Match-Three Puzzles and Word Games Collide in One Phenomenal iOS Title

There’s a new match-three puzzle or word game on iTunes every week. App stores across all mobile platforms are flooded by games from these two genres, and it doesn’t feel like there’s much any developer could do to innovate in either. But what if we combine the two? Developer About Fun does just that with…

The Last of Us‘ latest character reveal introduces Tess, Joel’s criminal partner in the game’s grim future.

Game of Thrones In Minecraft Is Still Pretty As Hell

The folks behind Westeroscraft are hard at work on their ridiculous project to re-create the whole world of Game of Thrones in Minecraft Their latest work: a total overhaul of King’s Landing, the capital city that you can see in the shots above. (Wondering how they got the pictures to look so good? Check out…

Don’t Worry, Devil May Cry Fans: Dante Still Enjoys Pizza And Being Shirtless.

Remember Devil May Cry 3? Remember the intro, when a semi-nude Dante punched the living crap out of a bunch of demons while holding a slice of pizza in his mouth? Apparently Ninja Theory did, and they decided to have a pizza party of their own. The above GIF, captured from the intro of the…

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade is Live and Pretty Disappointing

Sneaking past me onto iTunes this morning, DeNA’s Asian import Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade is now available for free download. Just don’t expect much in the ways of bells or whistles. In fact, there’s no sound at all. Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade is one of those collectible card games I love so much, only instead…

Did a major gaming chain robo-call you yesterday, too? “This is an important message from GameStop!” Spoiler: It wasn’t.

Here’s (Most Of) Team Kotaku Reunited In New York City

Well, most of Team Kotaku, anyway! From left to right, front to back: Stephen Totilo, Chris Person, Yours Truly, Mike Fahey, Jason Schreier, Kirk Hamilton, Evan Narcisse, and Owen Good. The team is usually scattered across the US, but Fahey, Owen and Kirk flew over from their respective cities to celebrate the holidays at homebase.…

Asheron’s Call 2 lives again! … If you’re an Asheron’s Call subscriber, that is. If so, you can now play for free

First Dirty Bomb Gameplay Trailer Shows a Loud, Messy Urban Battlefield

Following up on last month’s trailer, here’s a look at some pre-alpha multiplayer gameplay from Dirty Bomb. The trailer takes us to a smoldering, half-destroyed version of London, presumably one of the levels of Brink developer Splash Damage’s new free-to-play title. We get to see mostly scenes of infantry action, though a few moments of…

The World Won’t End This Month (But If It Did, It Should Look Like This)

As you may be aware, there’s a belief that the Mayans predicted the end of the world this month. They didn’t. But just the thought of the apocalypse has people dreaming up ways they’re going to meet the end of days. Like, say, invaders from space. My take on how the world is going to…

Everything You Need To Know About The New Devil May Cry (In Five Minutes)

After what seems like an eternity on the horizon, Ninja Theory’s Devil May Cry reboot is almost with us. To help you get up to speed on what’s going down, here’s five minutes of footage giving you the rundown on DMC, some of it helpful, some of it… less so.

I Don’t Think Samurai Actually Wore Sneakers

But that’s OK, because these are the samurai of tomorrow, not yesterday. They’re by the toy masters at ThreeA, and while there’s no price yet, that’s irrelevant, because I want one Looks like they go on sale on December 20. They say.. [ThreeA]

Petition to Build the Death Star Gathers Enough Signatures to Rate a Response from the White House

A petition calling on the United States to begin construction of a moon-sized superweapon has achieved 25,000 signatures, which according to the rules of the Obama administration’s feel-good bullshit platform “We the People,” requires a response from the White House. None has yet been made. You might recall all those articles of secession a bunch…

Chun-Li vs Tifa In a Brutal Fistfight. Who Would Win?

Sorry if that sounded like an idle fanfic question. I couldn’t care less what your imagination says. What I do care about is videos going to the trouble of dressing up professional stunt people/fighters and having them go at it… in the name of idle fanfic curiosity. Chun-Li vs Tifa (Street Fighter 2 vs Final…

Cramming A Giant PC Genre Onto a Tiny iPhone Can Work, You Know

There are few more “PC” genres than 4X. So named because they generally involve asking players to “explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate”, they’re normally set in space, and have so many buttons and menus that you can only really play them on the PC. So when I sat down to play Sidius Nova this morning,…

A Hypnotic Timelapse Video of a Supercomputer Being Built

If you’ve never seen a supercomputer in the flesh, the name is a little misleading. They don’t look as clean as it sounds. More often they’re banks and banks of individual units networked together to form a single hivemind, a gigantic mess of cables, stacks and fans. To give you an appreciation of how much…

Their Kickstarter Made $170,000, But Now They’re Out Of Money

In February, the Kickstarter for Code Hero raised over $170,000. Now they’re out of money. Code Hero‘s creators have been somewhat unresponsive recently, and some of the project’s backers have taken to the Code Hero Kickstarter page to complain about the lack of updates. One or two have even hinted at a potential class-action lawsuit…

Looks like Valve is expanding, buying a small indie studio comprised of former Diablo III and Popcap developers.

San Andreas (2004) vs San Andreas (2013), a Visual Comparison

Using official screenshots and stills from the game’s trailers, a Polish fan site has done a cracking job comparing the San Andreas of 2004 to the one we’ll be getting our hands on in 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V As you can see there are… more trees. And shinier cars. But one thing I will…

The Dark Knight Rises Trailer Gets The LEGO Treatment

I like LEGO Batman games, and while I didn’t really love The Dark Knight Rises, I would totally see it in LEGO. Thanks to ParanickFilmz for making this dream a reality, at least in trailer form. (I think I liked the TDKR trailer more than the film, so actually, this works out nicely.) How’s everyone…