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Wonderful but Lonely: The Empty Cities of Halo 4, Dishonored and Recent Video Games

Playing Tokyo Jungle reminds me of my insomnia, of all things. The reason I often stay up until I can greet sunrise is because there’s this serene calm that comes with being awake late at night. Everyone is asleep. The streets are empty. It’s peaceful to not have anyone around. I can focus. It’s kind…

FarmVille 2 Shady Trough Quests: Everything You Need to Know

If you’re running out of animal population room on your farm in FarmVille 2, but aren’t satisfied with simply building more Water Troughs, why not take a look at the new Shady Trough that has been released this weekend? The Shady Trough will increase your animal population limit by 10 animals, but it must be…

Yup, Helping Make League of Legends Sounds Like an Awesome Job

CNNMoney runs videos of people who they think have great professions. Who’s in their latest batch? None other than Ryan “Morello” Scott, lead content designer on Riot Games’ League of Legends In the segment, Scott talks about the different ways one can get into the game design field, as well as detailing the career path…

From Everyone At Kotaku: Thanks For Your Support Last Week

As of yesterday evening, Gawker’s network of sites bounced back up after Hurricane Sandy violently swept through the North East. In the downtime interim, we’d been posting on our Kotumblr, bringing our regulars to a temporary platform and meeting new readers in the meantime. So from everyone at Kotaku, from our headquarters in New York…

2012 Is a Time Machine: Original X-Com Developer Rebooting 1985 Classic Chaos

Julian Gollop co-created the original X-Com, many years ago, and was not optimistic about the chance of this year’s XCOM turning out well. But XCOM turned out to be a smart game and was very well-received. Nearly everyone loves it. Perhaps the wild success of the new XCOM, then, is what has inspired Gollop to…

Your PS3 Controller Can Also be a Phone Controller

Flagship Android phones might be getting bigger screens, but that’s not making game control much easier. Sometimes, you really need a controller. There are dedicated phone controllers you could buy, sure, but if you’ve got a DualShock 3 lying around the house, you may as well use it instead. Sixaxis Controller turns a PS3 pad…

Washington’s War on Wargaming

The only thing that’s cheap about war is the gaming. The U.S. military services and their assorted war colleges, the Department of Defense, and various thinktanks do quite a bit of wargaming of potential conflicts such as Iran. Compared to a billion-dollar aircraft carrier, wargaming isn’t terribly expensive (all you really need is a table,…

Here’s an Action-Packed Social RPG You Can Play Anywhere

Launching November 8 from Pangalore Games, Knightly Adventure is a free-to-play Diablo-esque action RPG tucked inside a social city-builder. You can play it on your cell phone. You can play it on your tablet. You can even play it on your PC. It’s versatile like that. The future of social games shall be platform-agnostic, and…

Killzone‘s Helghast Come to Life in This Amazing Live Action Fan Film

I’ve seen quite a few fan films in my time, but this one blows most out of the water. It’s not surprising to learn that it took the team two years to make this 14-minute beast. As described by creators Infectious Designer, the film above sees a small squad fight against all odds in a…

Skyrim‘s ‘Dragonborn’ DLC Is Official. Here’s The Trailer.

It was hinted before, but now it’s official: this is Dragonborn, the third piece of DLC for Bethesda’s open-world RPG Skyrim. Looks like there are some trippy new areas, though I can’t tell if any of them are from Morrowind, as a previous patch had suggested. Sure looks like they are! Dragonborn is out on…

Wreck-It Ralph Got the #1 High Score For This Weekend’s Movie Box Office

Lots of gamers threw their goodwill towards the various stunts and trailers that Disney spooled out for Wreck-It Ralph, even if they made fun of modern-day games All the hype paid off, with the Disney Animation film pulling in $49.1 million over the weekend, according to Box Office Mojo That makes it the highest grossing…

What’s Mightier Than the Mighty Eagle? Try the Millennium Falcon

Rovio continues to tease the November 8 release of Angry Birds Star Wars on mobile, PC and Mac, this time with a full gameplay trailer that ends with the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. While Luke, Leia, R2, C3P0, Han, Chewbacca and Ben will be doing the grunt work…

What Facebook is Playing This Week: No Sign of CityVille 2 Yet

While I busy myself playing games like The Grinns Tale and the newly-released CityVille 2, the rest of Facebook mills about the old familiar haunts, munching on candy and clicking up exotic cuisine. This list is quickly growing stale, with the same games as last week appearing this week, only in slightly different order. It…

Assassin’s Creed, You’re Looking a Little…Woody Today

Gamers often complain that their trailers don’t have enough gameplay in them, or too many cinematic sequences, or too many real actors pretending to be video game characters. This clip, for Assassin’s Creed III, has none of the above. Commissioned to run during Adult Swim, it’s got a Robot Chicken vibe as far as the…

Warning: Your iPad Mini May Emit Smoke When Sliced in Half With a Broadsword

I know it’s just an advertisement for ClearPlex screen protectors, but I just can’t stop watching it. This makes me glad I got rid of all my bladed weapons before the babies arrived. The 30 pound Final Fantasy VII Buster Sword in the corner doesn’t count.

Germany’s “Pick Up Dog Sh*t” Game Is Coming to Japan

Kackel Dackel, the infamous German game in which a plastic dog craps rainbow turds, is coming to Japan as “Buriwan” for short (the full title is “Burittoderuwan” ブリッとでるワン, with “buri” referring to the noise made while pooping). In case you missed Kackel Dackel when it first raised eyebrows a few years back with this ad,…

You’ve Probably Never Seen Japanese Beef Promoted Like This

Kagoshima black beef is some of most delicious wagyu Japan has to offer. Most people in Japan probably already know that! Still, to help get the word out, this special character was created. His name is Kagoshima Kuroushi, which means “Kagoshima Black Cattle”. He’s a macho wrestler. Because nothing says delicious Japanese beef like a…

Project Zwei, Shinji Mikami’s upcoming “pure survival horror game”, has an official site. Platform TBA.

Black Ops II Zombies Leak All Over the Internet [Correction]

Footage of Black Ops II Zombies has hit the web. Have a look, courtesy of As discussed by YouTube user xFlandies, gameplay footage of Black Ops II‘s zombie-infested maps made their way to YouTube, but have since been pulled. Videos of Black Ops II Zombies have been making their way online since late last week.…

I’m Only Scared of the Dark When it’s Full of Crazy People

We caught a first look at it a couple of weeks back, but here’s a longer, better look at Outlast, an upcoming survival horror game from Red Barrels, a new studio made up of former Assassin’s Creed, Uncharted and Splinter Cell developers. If you’re not a fan of the setting up top, you’ll hopefully like…