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The first two (free) DLC characters for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Kat and Emmett, will be arriving in 2013

Zynga Brings Ruby Blast to iPhone Today, Bubble Safari Coming Soon

I guess today is the day for popular Facebook games to come to iOS. First King.com’s Candy Crush Saga, and now Zynga’s increasingly popular gem tapper Ruby Blast arrives, tied-into but lacking the more recent features of its Facebook counterpart. Ruby Blast on Facebook is enjoying a period of increased popularity due to the recent…

Xbox Live Turns Ten Today. Let’s Look Back At Its Best And Worst Moments.

Today, Xbox Live turns 10 years old, meaning it’s finally as old as the majority of people who use it. Joking aside, Xbox Live has had its peaks and valleys, with both good and bad memories. Let’s take a moment to reflect back on those. You’re probably familiar with the bad ones. People who shoot…

Of Course There’s a Dubstep Scene in Black Ops II.

How will future historians be sure that Call of Duty: Black Ops II was released in 2012 or thereabouts? Because its campaign had a shootout set to dubstep. It’s short. It’s a little silly. It’s also the perfect time capsule moment.

Skyrim’s Dragonborn DLC Will Bring Players Back to Morrowind, Sort Of

Thanks to last week’s trailer, we already know that the next DLC for Bethesda’s hit action/RPG will be pitting players against the first humanoid to wield dragon powers. And now we know where Dragonborn‘s battles will be happening. New screenshots and details from the publisher reveal that your Dovahkiin will indeed be making a rumored…

Our Wonderful, Totally Normal Co-Workers Tried The Wii U. This Is What They Think of It.

Enough about what we here at Kotaku think of the Wii U. What do other people in our parent company who don’t cover games for a living think of Nintendo’s new console? We had them play some Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U and asked for their snap judgments. Watch the video and…

This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: Windows Phone 8 Defeats Angry Birds Star Wars

Angry Birds Star Wars has topped the iPad charts, the Android charts and the iPhone charts since its release last week, but it doesn’t dominate the Windows Phone charts, thanks to Windows Phone 8. Or rather thanks to the game requiring Windows Phone 8, shiny new technology that isn’t exactly sending Windows Phone 7 owners…

This Week’s Nintendo Download Holds Epic, Myst-ifying Monster ShooterDawgs

Thanksgiving is next week. That means you’ll need some games to ignore your family with play when everyone’s in their turkey coma. This week’s offerings include a portable version of Epic Mickey (hey, when’s Oswald getting his own game?!), classic puzzler Myst and a game about dogs working on construction sites. You think they all…

Candy Crush Saga Triumphantly Travels to iOS

Earlier this year King.com brought its smash hit Facebook game Bubble Witch Saga to iOS, and there was much rejoicing, as well as a little gnashing of free time. Now it’s Candy Crush Saga‘s turn. Regularly showing up on the most played Facebook games list along with its older siblings, Candy Crush Saga is a…

Because Your Day Needed to Start With a Team Fortress 2 vs Godzilla Movie

Master Source Filmmaker user Zachariah Scott returns once again with an amazing piece of work, this time crossing the world of Team Fortress 2 with that of Godzilla It’s… look, I’m starting to think Zachariah Scott isn’t one man, and that he’s instead a complex computer program nestled beneath Valve headquarters, devoted entirely to designing…

Here’s How Metal Gear 2 Predicted the Future

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake was released way back in 1990. Yet, the game was set in the late 1990s, when a major oil crisis impacted the world economy. Okay, that’s fiction. But one element of the game’s plot—namely a fuel producing algae that’s an alternative energy source—is not. This week in the San Francisco…

Yup, the Secret Nintendo Song is in the New Animal Crossing

Kazumi Totaka, a sound designer and musician at Nintendo, is responsible for one of the sweetest traditions the company has in its arsenal: Totaka’s Song, a ditty he first composed in 1992 and which has featured in every game he’s worked on since While the song has appeared in many games, it’s perhaps best-known for…

Bring me the Head of Mass Effect’s Mordin Solus

My Mordin died a rather pathetic, and entirely unintentional death at the end of Mass Effect 2. Seeing as a little plaque on the Normandy is hardly a fitting tribute to a “man” of so many talents, I might look into this bust for a memorial instead. Priced at $40 and being sold from BioWare’s…

The Furious Scribblings of a Games Writer, Mid-Review

Apologies for getting a little inside baseball here, but I figured it was worth it. Games writer Taylor Cocke has started up a site called Fuck This Stupid Game, where notes taken while reviewing (or previewing) video games are displayed in blessed isolation. I’m sharing them here because I feel his pain. I’ll never say…

Report: GameStop’s Black Friday Xbox 360 Bundle Seems Too Good to be True

There will be Black Friday specials everywhere, but for many of you, GameStop’s will likely be the most important. So here, courtesy of discount specialists CheapAssGamer, are what’s reported to be the specialist retailer’s deals. The standout deal is obviously the pair of home console bundles offered on Friday, in particular a 250GB Xbox 360…

Fan Makes His Own Stylish Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

Rockstar sure knows how to make a good clip—loads of gameplay footage sure helps—but for those after something a little more stylish, check out Russian artist Ilya V. Boykov’s custom trailer for Grand Theft Auto V Slicing together and animating GTAV’s official artwork, it doesn’t do the greatest job of selling the actual game, but…

Spin the Bottle for the Wii U Makes You Get Close. Sexy Close.

Now this looks neat. Spin the Bottle is a Wii U title from KnapNok Games and Redgrim that looks like the perfect way to show the new system off to friends… if you’re at a party and have had a couple of drinks. It’s a multiplayer game designed to be played with the TV off.…

Get Inside the Nintendo 3DS XL

The New York Times has a great little piece up breaking apart the Nintendo 3DS XL and showing how it—and its 3D technology—work. A Look Inside the Nintendo 3DS XL [New York Times]

Metal Gear’s Stealth is Creepy, Annoying in the Real World

It’s entirely acceptable behaviour in desolate military installations and remote jungles, but busting out Snake’s repertoire of stealth moves in public places is a little less advisable. Metal Gear Solid in Real Life (Public Trolling) FINAL CUT [YouTube]

User Uncovers Dodgy Russian Trading Scheme… in Team Fortress 2

Steamrep forum user base64, having noticed a strange spike in transactions for a rare in-game item, decided to do a little private investigating. And uncovered some very strange happenings. Picking up on a weird increase in trades for “earbuds”, a rare item in the game, his investigations led him to discover a closed Steam group…