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You’ve Never Heard A Master Chief This Creepy

On November 21, close to seven years after it launched in America, the Xbox 360 will come to Israel for the first time. To celebrate the occasion, Master Chief came out to greet Israelis and introduce the system. Check out this video, shot by YNet reporter Shahar Shushan, for what might be the best Master…

The new Donkey Kong world record is 1,138,600 points! Set by Hank Chien, who was breaking his own record.

Watch Halo 4‘s Promethean Weapons Assemble In Mesmerizing Slow Motion

One of the coolest features of 343’s first Halo title that released today is the disassembling and reassembling Promethean weapons. Not only are these weapons incredibly satisfying to shoot and kill with, but they’re also pretty to look at. Reloading will take the weapon apart momentarily, but the best disassembling/reassembling animations occur when you pick…

You Have to Play The Wizard of Oz, If Only to Experience the Joy of MunchkinCam

Spooky Cool Labs’ Facebook game based on movie classic The Wizard of Oz is in beta now, and you should definitely give it a try, if not for the ability to see through the eyes of Munchkins in first-person, then for the most dramatic wood chopping and ore mining in video game history. Riddled with…

PlayStation: The Official Magazine Is Shutting Down

Magazine publisher Future US will end circulation of PlayStation: The Official Magazine this year. As first reported by Game Informer, P:TOM will shut its doors alongside Nintendo Power this holiday “Future US can confirm it will end production of PlayStation: The Official Magazine with the last issue slated for the Holiday 2012 issue,” a Future…

You’d Be Surprised How Fun A Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter Can Be

When I think of fast-paced multiplayer shooters, I think of first-person games like Halo and Call of Duty. I don’t generally think of text-based games. Little did I know that a text-based multiplayer shooter, specifically Eigen Lenk’s Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter, could be so much fun. (Jason tells me that Aliens vs. Predator: MUD was similar,…

Obama Crushes Romney in Ohio (Among Players of Maple Story)

President Barack Obama basically annihilated Mitt Romney in a new poll in the key swing state of Ohio. Too bad for Obama that the vote only involved players of the online game Maple Story It’s not going to be that easy, Obama. Nexon, the creators of Maple Story ran the third of three polls of…

Seven Comics That Will Sharpen Your Skills This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

A Horny Superman and Charles Burns’ Trippy Riff on Tintin Show Up for Panel Discussion This Week

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” We’re going to kick off a recurring feature here in Kotaku‘s slice of…

Fox News Says Halo 4 May Keep Gamers From Voting

Never one to back away from humorously uninformed hogwash, Fox News has run a new article suggesting that young voters might skip the polls to spend time playing the newly released Xbox 360 game Halo 4 How have they arrived at this provocative conclusion? Because they talked to some people! Um, experts! A PR guy!…

A Big, Leaked Update About The Next Game From The Halo-Makers At Bungie. Plus: More Gaming Secrets.

Editor’s Note: If people in the gaming industry really wanted to hide stuff, they’re going to have to do better. The one and only Superannuation keeps digging and keeps finding gems. Today, on the day that 343 Industries’ Halo 4 is out, Superannuation has a massive update about how Destiny, the next game from the…

New Move-Enabled Portal 2 DLC Now Available on PlayStation Network

The fancy “In Motion” DLC for the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2 is available today We last saw “In Motion” at E3 this summer, where a Sony representative demonstrated how the Move works with the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. The DLC adds new kinds of controls to the game, including, notably, the ability…

Ms. Pac-Man, Unplugged and Out on the Street

Slate music critic Jody Rosen snapped this picture of arcade and gambling cabinets lined up outside a flooded Red Hook warehouse In the aftermath of last week’s storm.

Some Halo 4 Players Facing Launch Day Server Woes

It’s November 6, and the long-anticipated, well-received Halo 4 is here. For some players, though, it seems the wait to get their shooting on will be a little longer. Players at Halo Waypoint are reporting a variety of server issues. The studio has acknowledged the server issues on twitter and their forums, saying, “We hear…

FarmVille Mistletoe Lane Chapter 1 Goals: Everything You Need to Know

As part of Zynga‘s incredibly early Christmas celebration in FarmVille, players that are willing to shell out the 35 Farm Cash for early access to Mistletoe Lane are greeted with weeks of exclusive content that won’t be available to those that wait for free access to release later this month. For instance, as soon as…

Robot Chicken’s Team Fortress 2 Skit Gives Me Mixed Emotions

On the one hand, I’m extremely excited to see an Adult Swim/Valve mix that doesn’t just involve a sign-up sheet and a hat. The claymation is also a nice touch. But this feels more like Adult Swim saying, “Hey, here’s a thing that sorta looks like a thing that you play online sometimes,” rather than…

This Rollercoaster Ride of a Physics Game Could Use a Better Name

Last week Ubisoft’s RedLynx studio released a fun and challenging rollercoaster-based psychics puzzler for iOS. You might have missed it, as the app icon is a cartoon cat and the game is called Nutty Fluffies I initially passed over the game myself. I couldn’t imagine a world in which a game with that moniker would…

Sir, You Are Being Hunted’s Fancy-Pants Robots Will Hunt You Down in Extremely Creepy Fashion

It’s the way that they move. Sure, the background music filled with tense strings creates some anxiety in the first gameplay glimpse of Big Robot’s Sir, You Are Being Hunted. And the low visibility in tall grass adds to the tension, too. But something about the movement of the game’s automaton antagonists chills me to…

The Grinns Tale Launches, Charming the Pants Off of Everybody

Nexon’s free-to-play social RPG The Grinns Tale, which I crowed about a few weeks back, officially launches today. Here’s the opening movie. Yes, a social game with an elaborate opening movie. It’s also got some interesting stats. What stats, you ask? These stats, direct from Nexon: Here Are Some Fun Stats From the Beta Times…

Assassin’s Creed III Recreates Another Key Moment of American History: Ben Franklin Doling Out Sex Advice.

In 1745, all-time-great American Ben Franklin wrote a letter to his friend advising him that if his friend was still going to “persist in thinking of a commerce with the sex inevitable” after getting married, this friend should get a mistress—an old mistress. It’s a hell of a letter And, for some reason, Franklin’s “wisdom”…