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Sleeping Dogs Is Getting A New Downloadable Island

Hopefully in the hustle and bustle of the big fall releases, everyone hasn’t lost sight of Sleeping Dogs, the little Hong Kong open-world crime game that could. At least, I still play the game off and on while rotating between others. Square Enix is hoping you haven’t forgotten, too, as they’re releasing yet another chunk…

This Is A House Built For Gamers. Can I Live Here Now Please?

Lately I’ve been thinking I want to move. Something new, you know? But seeing this, I realize I don’t want, I need to move. To a house where I can fit thousands of Xboxes and have friends over all the time This guy lives with several floors’ worth of games in his house. There are…

Free-to-Play Fantasy MMO Arcane Legends Launches on Android and Chrome

Spacetime Studios’ latest and greatest mobile/browser MMO Arcane Legends is now live on Android devices and the Google Chrome Web Store, giving fantasy fighters everywhere a chance to take on the forces of evil with their best pals by their side. Anyone keen on a Kotaku-exclusive in-game weapon? Spacetime Studios applies lessons learned over the…

Mysterious 24-Hour Call of Duty Flu Keeping Gamers Home “Sick”

Let’s be honest for a moment here: pretty much everyone around the world has at the very least thought about calling in “sick” to work or school while their health was perfectly fine, for one reason or another. For some folks, it’s a beach day; for others, just a chance to sleep for an extra…

I Would Play An Entire Game Of Mario and Limbo Put Together

It’s not a full, real game yet, but Newgrounds user executive11 is working on it. For now, you can bounce around in the pretty half-Limbo, half-Mario world. Limbo Mario [Newgrounds via Dorkly]

FarmVille Mistletoe Lane Chapter 2 Goals: Everything You Need to Know

FarmVille‘s Mistletoe Lane expansion won’t be available for free until November 19, but if you’ve already made your way into Zynga‘s second holiday farm, you’ll find a second series of goals available for a limited time. Mistletoe Lane’s Chapter 2 contains six goals to finish over the next week, but again, only players that have…

Here Are A Bunch Of Black Ops II Glitch Videos For You To Laugh At

It’s not uncommon for a game to have bugs and glitches, just ask Bethesda. But especially when multiplayer is involved, people will dig up or stumble on some hilarious (and sometimes useful) glitches. Here are a few that people have already been uploading to YouTube, not even a full day after Black Ops II has…

Black Ops II’‘s Zombies Is Amazing… And It’s Killing Me

Don’t try to solo the extraordinary Zombies mode in the new Call of Duty. You won’t last long. The new zombies mode should probably be its own game and is definitely designed for co-op. I learned this after wrapping up the campaign and trying to play the new TranZit part of Zombies on my own.…

“They have good things,” Ubisoft chief says of THQ when asked if he’d want to buy THQ assets. Like…Patrice Désilets??

Your Skylanders Are the Most Important Resource in Lost Islands

Build things to harvest things to build more things—the resource management genre is huge on mobile, thanks to its simple click-based gameplay and the ability to play for minutes at a time and still get things done. Activision takes that winning formula and layers another one on top—the ability to transfer real-world collectible figures into…

PlayStation Plus—and Six Free Games—Come to the Vita Next Week

The best thing about PlayStation Plus is the Instant Games Collection, a feature that offers up free, top-shelf titles to the online service’s paying members. PS3 owners have been enjoying those perks for a while and now they’re coming to Sony’s gaming handheld Next week, six free games—including Gravity Rush, Jet Set Radio and Final…

Hey, n00b, You Can Help Pure Pwnage Become a Movie

Back in 2004, way before Twitch.tv, The Guild or million-dollar e-sports purses, Pure Pwnage let gamers seee themselves represented with humor and a little bit of painful truth on the internet. The web series was successful enough to get turned into a TV show in its native Canada but things have been very quiet in…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Oh Look, Angry Birds Star Wars

A trend that began with last week’s iPad charts and will continue until the Windows Phone charts on Thursday, the newly-released Angry Birds Star Wars force pushes its way to the top of this week’s iPhone charts. Everybody look surprised! You are not looking surprised. Look, this only works if we cooperate. Otherwise the news…

How to Get a Sword in Black Ops II

Call of Duty isn’t exactly Skyrim, but it does include a sword. You can get it in a campaign mission (maybe more than one) to slice bad guys up. The video above shows where we first found it. We captured this footage from “Old Wounds”, the third level of the campaign. The sword is really…

Watch These Black Ops II Players Put Everyone To Shame With Scoped Weapons

The latest Call of Duty title has been out for less than a day, but people are already rampaging their way through the multiplayer and quick-scoping enemies to death. Check out the montage above, courtesy of AmazingFilms247, where you’ll see snipers and an ACOG-attached weapon shred the opposing team. Black Ops 2 First Ever QUAD…

This Game is Called The Adorables. Our Resident Adorable Expert Weighs In. [Update]

The first internally-developed game from mobile publisher Thumbstar Games, The Adorables is a dazzlingly colorful pachinko-puzzle sort of game, coming on Thanksgiving to iOS and Android, but is it indeed adorable? Update: getting cuter. It’s certainly pretty, and my predilection for raccoons and raccoon-ish creatures has me gaga over Sneaker, the obviously leader of the…

PC Version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II Comes With… Mass Effect 2?!

Some PC players of Call of Duty: Black Ops II report that disc 2 of their recently-purchased game is the wrong sequel entirely. Players on the Call of Duty forums, the Steam forums, and Reddit are reporting that when they insert disc 2 as prompted, they receive a Mass Effect 2 read error. The video…

If you shop at Old Navy early on Black Friday, you could win a Wii U or a New Super Mario Bros U game

DayZ’s Creator Has Only Killed Another Player Once

Zombie survival mod DayZ is rife with player-killing, and even though it’s an integral part of the game’s experience, most people nevertheless tend to frown on it, seeing as survival is the name of the game, not murder. But once in a while, you run into a problem that can only be solved by violence.…

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Will Be Unleashed Next March, Says Battle.net

The upcoming StarCraft II expansion, Heart of the Swarm, now has a release date. According to Battle.net (first spotted by Eurogamer), it will be out on March 12, 2013. The digital deluxe edition of the expansion is priced at US$59.99 and comes with Wings of Liberty There were hopes that Heart of the Swarm would…