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I Can Relate To Too Many Of These Dumb Ways To Die In Video Games

When you think about it, there really are a ton of dumb ways to die in video games. Megasteakman uploaded this song yesterday to poetically put all of those death scenarios into one video. How many can you relate to?

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Why David Petraeus Will Never Be a Strategy Game General

David Petraeus would not have gone down in history as a great general, even if he had been able to keep his zipper zipped. Certainly not great enough for the retired Army four-star general and former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to merit appearing in a strategy game. It is true that…

Knightly Adventure Comes to Android Just in Time for the Holiday Update

Free-to-play cross-platform action role-playing game Knightly Adventure has been capturing the hearts of iOS and Facebook players since its November 8 launch. Now developer Pangalore takes on Android, with the help of a little holiday spirit. Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a witch, right? Okay, so maybe the timing on the new premium Witch character…

Captain America Reminds Iron Man That He Knows How to Actually Fight in This Week’s Nintendo Download

Look, I know that the Iron Man movies ushered in a new wave of Marvel cinematic dominance. But Tony Stark isn’t in charge of things in that superhero universe. Captain America is. He’s got actual battlefield experience and a rank in his codename. In this brave new era of Nintendo embracing all things online, full…

For the Honor of Grayskull, She-Ra Has the Power, Not That She Deserves It

How does one improve upon the most powerful game in the universe? By unleashing the most powerful game update in the universe, featuring Princess Adora and her magical horse. Princess Adora of course transforms into She-Ra, the marketing product of a much simpler time, when capturing the hearts of little girls was as easy as…

The Year’s Worst Bullshots, aka, Screenshots That Lied To You

It was back in 2005 that Penny Arcade first coined the term “bullshot”, giving a definition to the practice of doctoring video game screenshots to make them look better than the game actually is. You’d think the intervening seven years, the rise of the video trailer and a growing awareness of the practice would have…

Total War’s Studio Will Soon Be Making Warhammer Games

Sega and Creative Assembly have announced today that the British development house, famous for its Total War strategy games on the PC, will be expanding to take on a number of Warhammer video games. Sega says “a new high-calibre development team has been set up at Creative Assembly’s UK studio to work alongside the existing…

That is One Giant, Over-Sized Game Boy You’ve Got There

This is a Game Boy made by MaboroshiTira. It doesn’t work, in so much as you can’t put a regular cartridge in it and play it. Because, uh, it’s made of cardboard. Its buttons do press in, though, which is a bonus, because really, just looking at this thing is pleasure enough. MaboroshiTira [DeviantArt, via…

Want To Play FIFA Against Snoop? Sure Thing, But He Prefers Madden

Considering that Snoop Dogg’s Ask Me Anything on Reddit is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on the internet, I’m truly thankful he talks about video games enough to justify me posting about it in Kotaku The Ask Me Anything wound up earlier today, and it is an absolute must read, mainly because—unlike…

This Video Game Bug Is Truly Terrifying

Ack! With this new horrifying glitch, Phantasy Star Online 2 has discovered a new level of hell. Character skins can accidentally change… for the worse. The much, much worse. *shudder* Players discovered this bug (and others) after a recent update, and it causes the skin of non-playable characters to, under certain conditions, turn a truly…

How Adventure Time’s Creator Beat Up On Small Kids (In a Video Game)

Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward tells Edge magazine about his favourite games. Others listed include Altered Beast and, awesomely, Klik & Play My favourite game: Pendleton Ward [Edge 248, Christmas 2012]

Steampunk Princess Peach is in Another Manor House

Should Nintendo ever work up the courage to really mess with the setting of Mario games, there are worse ideas they could have than to have the plumber fighting his way through some Dickensian clockwork castle. And if he did, well, the lady he was trying to rescue would need to dress the part as…

There’s a Lady Killer Stalking These Lands

I’ve been featuring a ton of Assassin’s Creed III art here lately, so it’s about time I showcase some from its handheld stablemate Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation These images are the work of Nacho Yagüe, a senior concept artist at Ubisoft Toronto. You’ll see not only a selection of his work on the first Vita…

Shooters, Let Me Play As A Rookie Moron, Please

Far Cry 3 does something interesting with its protagonist Jason, presenting him not as a bloodthirsty killer with military training, but as some kid, thrust into a situation well outside his abilities or understanding. When you jump off a cliff, he screams. When you cut open an animal for its skin, no matter how many…

League of Legends Using Neuroscientist to Stop Players Being Vicious Jerks

League of Legends might be one of the biggest games in the world, but it’s not without its share of problems. Chief among them the fact many of its players are hostile, anti-social assholes. That’s something developers Riot Games are trying to address, and according to lead producer Travis George in an interview with Gamasutra,…

Journey’s Soundtrack has Been Nominated For a Grammy

The nominations for the 55th Grammy Awards have been revealed, and for PS3 gamers there’s quite the surprise: Austin Wintory’s wonderful score for PSN title Journey has been nominated for Best Score Soundtrack. That’s not some weird term for an obscure category nobody will ever hear about; it’s the category for the best original score…

A Portal 2 Movie Made Entirely Out of LEGO

As promised, LEGO movie-maker extraordinaire Kooberz has finished the first part of his epic re-telling of Portal 2 via the wonders of stop-motion animation. This opening part runs for over five minutes. The amount of work that must have gone into this makes my head want to go lie down independent of the rest of…

Assassin’s Creed III Used to Have Scalping

Thomas Deer is a cultural liaison officer at the Kahnawake Language and Cultural Centre. He helped Ubisoft out on Assassin’s Creed III, and did one hell of a job making sure it became easily the best representation of Native Americans in a video game. According to this report in the Montreal Gazette, Deer “was brought…

The Real Hobbit (and Dwarves) Meet Their LEGO Counterparts

The entire cast of The Hobbit, from hobbits to dwarves to wizards, have had a photoshoot where they were snapped, in full costume and make-up, with their respective LEGO minifigs. Ian McKellen looks so impressed I really hope they let him keep it. The Hobbit Cast & Their LEGO Minifigs [The Hobbit]