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Hitman: Absolution Site Wants You To Threaten Your Friends With Really Tacky Insults [Update: Square Enix Apologizes]

Look, it’s already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making, what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook friends. It’s pretty tacky. As spotted on Rock, Paper, Shotgun,…

When Dragons and Unicorns Fight, Everybody Wins

A crazy mix of arcade and defense gameplay with a sweet sense of style, Digital Harmony’s Dragons Vs. Unicorns is available for free in the iTunes App Store today. It’s not as cool as Dragons Vs. Unicrons, but it’ll do nicely.

Someone Made An Entire Song Out Of Random Wii U Noises. It’s Pretty Catchy.

From the snapping noise a Wii U game case makes to the menu music, this Wii U song by YouTube user jimmy incorporates a whole bunch of sounds the Wii U can make. And the result is great. But it does kind of get awkward in the middle there.

There’s a demo for PS3 role-playing game Ni no Kuni going live on the PlayStation Network today. Go check it out!

Reddit says that back in August, Valve registered three movie site domain names. Wait… three? (via PCGamesN)

It’s A Desperate Fight For Survival In The Opening Hours Of Tomb Raider

You’re a young woman, crash-landed on an uncharted island in the south pacific. You’re wounded, it’s pouring rain; there are wolves everywhere. Your shipmates are scattered to the wind, and you’re starving to death. There are scores of people already inhabiting the island, evil men who are hunting you and your friends for some unknown,…

Cut the Rope Creators Peel the Lid Off Pudding Monsters

With Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope Experiments, UK developer ZeptoLab created a pair of the most popular games on any mobile platform, along with one of the most beloved mobile mascots, the candy-munching OmNom. If anything can build on that success, it’s pudding. Due out later this month, Pudding Monsters looks to be…

Ubisoft’s Weird Alice in Wonderland Cameos

Ubisoft’s two big holiday releases don’t just share numerals and second words starting with “cr”. They also both begin, bizarrely, with almost exactly the same quote. Yes, of all the books, movies, TV shows and historical figures that are out there for developers to lift quotes from, both Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed III…

Remember that Microsoft Killer Instinct trademark? Seems it’s been knocked down by a TV show with the same name.

Now That’s How You Ride a Chocobo

The magnificently-named Randis Albion takes the humble chocobo and toughens it up in this beautiful piece, which he’s hoping will get him a meeting with legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. You can see the full image below. Go Chocobo Go! [CGHub, via Super Punch]

Let’s Share The Horror of a Bizarre 1993 Street Fighter II Comic

There’s been a ton of media based on Capcom’s Street Fighter II series. Some bad movies, some good anime, some decent comics. This is none of those things. It’s a terrible comic. But terrible in a great way. Bad art, bad romance, bad fight scenes… if I’d been 13 when I read this, as I…

The proposed LA Game Space has hit its funding goal. Congrats!

Because Conan The Tiny Barbarian Just Wouldn’t Have The Same Ring To It

Earlier this year, I killed some time with Tiny Barbarian, an adorable little platformer made by indie dev Michael Stearns. Good news for me, and hopefully Michael too: evolving from its “download for free” roots, it’s being turned into a bigger thing With a new engine, more features and just promising to be an all-around…

Star Wars: Battlefront III “Mediocre”, Snipes Former Lucasarts Developer

Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis raised some eyebrows last week when he said that the mythical Star Wars: Battlefront III, the dead game that just will not die, was “99% done” at his studio when publishers pulled the plug. It was a weird thing to say, since surely things like quality assurance and other testing…

Metal Gear Rising Slices Out Its Own PlayStation 3

There’s a special Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance PS3 to mark the game’s release in Japan. Priced at ¥31,960, the bundle comes with a 250GB PlayStation 3, a special Rising DualShock 3, a download code for a customized PS3 wallpaper, a download code for a limited edition Cyborg Ninja customized in-game suit and a copy of…

Someone Turned Skyrim Into a Samurai Battle Movie

Kotaku reader Geo “Tyrannicon” Paradissis is back with another of his “Great Battles of Skyrim” series of machinima videos, this time transforming the nordic fantasy landscape into… a giant samurai showdown. With dragons. Of course. Skyrim: Battle of the Samurai (Machinima Interactive Film Festival) [YouTube]

Man Finds Old Game Boy Camera, The Spirit of 1998 Trapped Within

When Reddit user 80sArcade found his old Game Boy the other day, it had a Game Boy Camera still attached. Within, 14 photos from 1998. You don’t often get that kind of gaming time capsule from so long ago, mostly because the Game Boy was about the only system outside the PC to have a…

Wait, There’s a Company of Heroes Movie? And Tom Sizemore’s in it?

Nobody tells me anything any more. Seems back in March a Company of Heroes movie was quietly announced by Sony. That movie, a direct-to-DVD thing that is actually tied to the famous PC strategy title (somehow), will be out on March 19. It’s got Tom Sizemore in it. And Neal “I was in Band of…

What Happens When You Put The Binding of Isaac in Team Fortress 2? Utter Madness.

Glorious, glorious madness. You just gotta love mash ups that put two insane games like these together. This mod recreates the dungeon layout of The Binding of Isaac in a TF2 map, including locked rooms and even some horrifying bosses. My favorite part has to be how the players go deeper into the “basement” in…

Let’s Rank The Grand Theft Auto Games, Best to “Worst”

We did it with Halo, so let’s do it with another of the world’s biggest game series, Grand Theft Auto. And by “it”, I mean rank the games from “best” to “bottom of the list”. Why? You might be new to the series. Or diving back into it. These games take a long time to…