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Angry Birds Star Wars is now out on the Apple iTunes Store.

This Might Look Like a Bantha, But It’s Much Faster (and Cuter)

I think we better get indoors. That pug is easily startled, but he’ll soon be back, and in greater numbers. Banthapug [YouTube, via Neatorama]

The Place Where Video Games Want to Live

LA Game Space is an ambitious idea to seize an old warehouse in the Arts District of Los Angeles, California and turn it into what sounds like a home for game design and independent titles. Its creators aren’t looking to turn it into a store, or an arcade, but something a little more serious and,…

Hey Halo, if You Love Aliens so Much, Why Don’t You Marry it?

Because Halo wears its love for James Cameron’s Aliens on its sleeve (and its legs, and its face), this machinima video splicing the classic sci-fi flick with Halo’s HD remake is about as perfect a union as you’re going to find. If you think you’ve seen it before, you might have! Haliens did almost exactly…

Connor, You Didn’t Have to Shoot That Guy, You Could Have Just Knocked Him Out

We’ve featured the work of Ubisoft artist Gilles Beloeil here on Fine Art before, but you know what, that was for Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Since Assassin’s Creed III is just out, now’s probably a good time to cover his more recent work on the series. Unlike the pieces we saw the other day, which were…

There’s Now a Mod That Gives Mass Effect 3 a “Happy Ending”

Still not happy with the way the Mass Effect saga drew to a close, a team of modders have released something for the PC version of Mass Effect 3 called MEHEM. Or, the “Mass Effect Happy Ending Mod”. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW. You can see the edited and re-composited ending above. I…don’t see much happy about…

Will You Get Halo 4 on PC? Hahahahaha. No.

In the last ten years, while Microsoft has published all kinds of awesome games on the Xbox 360 (and has lately been quietly publishing XBLA games on the PC), it’s published exactly three of its major shooters. Halo, Halo 2 and the first Gears of War It’s a stupid move, one that seems increasingly stupid…

Here’s One Thing Origin Does Better Than Steam

Poor Origin. Powered by EA, the company everyone loves to hate, and going up against Steam, the service everyone loves to love, it’s had a rough start to life. But EA has, ever so slowly, been improving the service, and the biggest improvement of all is rolling out with the next update. The publisher has…

Apparently Megan Fox Is At Her Coolest When Shilling For Laptop Companies

Oh, Megan Fox. You’re often annoying. You’re hot. You’re in bad movies. It’s unclear whether or not you take acting, or yourself, seriously. I’ve always sort of gotten the sense that you’re pretty cool, but that somehow it’s not coming across. But my mixed feelings aside, this Acer laptop ad from last week where Ms.…

The Last ‘Good’ Console War, Re-imagined As A Giant Robot Battle

Embattled gamers have weathered many a console war over the past thirty years. But above the Xboxes and Gamecubes, the PlayStations and the Dreamcasts, one war stands apart: Super Nintendo vs. the Sega Genesis, the World War II of the console wars. This illustration by Daniel Dussault, titled “Za Konsoru Uozu 199X,” takes a fresh,…

A patch update for FIFA 13 corrects the “invisible ball,” plus other glitches and crashes folks had complained about.

What Do You Know, All This Time And We’ve Got ‘QTE’ Wrong

Yesterday, I ran an article looking for your favorite Quicktime Events. The quicktime event, commonly just called a “QTE,” is a long-derided trend in video games where players are forced to quickly match button presses to on-screen cues, usually during otherwise noninteractive cutscenes. QTEs are sort of a shortcut to shoehorn bullshitty interaction into cutscenes,…

Pol Who Wanted Warning Labels on Violent Games Loses Re-Election

U.S. Rep. Joe Baca, who had long wanted cigarette-style warning labels slapped on violent video games, won’t be headed back to Capitol Hill. He lost re-election yesterday in a redistricting arrangement which had him pitted against a fellow Democrat for a seat in a differently-numbered district. Baca, a seven-term incumbent, sought three times, unsuccessfully, to…

It’s Hide ‘n Seek Multiplayer With The Wii U’s First Indie Game

Nintendo’s new Wii U console isn’t even out yet, but there’s already a group of funky game designers putting together a cool, arty game for it. The game in question is Chasing Aurora, a simple, papercraft-style flying game in which you take control of one of few sky-rats, more commonly known as “birds.” The game…

How To Prepare Dishonored‘s Only Appetizing Dish

I loved Dishonored‘s dank, diseased city of Dunwall. It felt so fully realized, and had so much character. A lot of that came from the food. Like Bioshock before it, most of Dishonored‘s characters leave food lying around. As the protagonist Corvo meanders from room to room, he’ll often take stabbing-breaks to eat everything that’s…

Midweek Moneysaver: Assassin‘s Nation

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. • Assassin’s Creed 3 (360, PS3) is $44.99, free shipping from eBay Deals. Next best is $54 at NewEgg. Elsewhere $60. [Dealzon] • Yesterday’s release Halo…

Far Cry 3‘s Story Still Looks Kinda Dumb; I Still Want To Play It

Today Ubisoft sent out the latest “story trailer” for Far Cry 3. That term, these days, has come to mean a trailer that will tell us about the story of the game—as opposed to a “Multiplayer trailer” and a “Gameplay trailer.” I like that video games are so complicated that they require multiple trailer-genres just…

Inside Line Still Finds a Hard Left in NASCAR Country

Because of their high fidelity physics and the crude way in which a standard console controller is equipped to handle them, motorsports simulations may be the most demanding genre of any video game. When I fired up NASCAR the Game: Inside Line, rather than jump straight into my career I tried to repeat a moment…

What’s Good (And Bad) About The Wii U Before You Even Turn it On

We’ve got ourselves a brand new Wii U. Let’s take a close-up look. Nintendo’s new console is the first new home console since 2006, and as you can see, it’s exciting and shiny. Well. Shiny until you get your fingerprints all over it, you disgusting human. Watch the video for my initial impressions on the…

The Next Uncharted Game is Not Really an Uncharted Game

I told you not to get too excited. The next Uncharted game will be a “casino/card game”, according to its Brazilian ratings clasification. Called Uncharted: Fight for Fortune, it’s for the PlayStation Vita, and given its lack of marketing to the point where it’s being revealed by ratings boards, you can bet it’ll be a…