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This Grand Theft Auto V Artwork Promises “Pest Control” in the San Andreas Sunshine

The art style that Rockstar Games uses to promote its Grand Theft Auto games has been almost as important as the gameplay in the open-world series. Over the years, the publisher has doled out hints as to the sex, drugs and hi-jinx players would get into via posters and other graphic design images, long before…

Strange New Resident Evil 6 Patch Will Unlock Ada Wong Right Away

In a very unusual move, Capcom is releasing a free Resident Evil 6 patch in mid-December that will unlock the Ada Wong campaign—previously available when you beat all the other campaigns—for players right away. The new patch for the maligned horror-survival game will also offer new camera and subtitle options. Here’s Capcom: Capcom is pleased…

Run, Run, Run For Your Life, And Sometimes Space-Punch A Zombie

I like a good runner as much as the next guy; any game that requires me to run forward and time my taps to keep my on-screen character alive for as long as possible. From Canabalt to Jetpack Joyride to Temple Run, the key to a good running mobile game is simplicity. Save Them All…

The Complicated Truth Behind Games That Want To Change The World

If you listen closely to those who advocate for games as a worthwhile medium, you can sense the hope that games will change the world. Either society becomes enraptured by the possibilities that interactivity presents, or games become another avenue for making a difference—if not both. We stand on the precipice of public awareness when…

Pummel Your Pals in the Street Fighter X Tekken Facebook Game

Celebrating the release of Street Fighter X Tekken on the PlayStation Vita, Capcom has released Friend Fighter on Facebook, a silly little app that’s not much more than an excuse to prove I have more friends than Kirk Hamilton. Pick a friend, pick a criteria (photos posted, travel miles, amount of friends, etc.), and get…

The service allowing named rosters to be shared over NCAA Football 13 was restored this morning, for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Pro Wrestler Who Dresses as a Classic Nintendo Wrestler Gets In Trouble At WWE Show

The New Jersey-based wrestling league Pro Wrestling Syndicate has a guy wrestling for them who goes by the name Star Man. The inspiration for his character? The star-faced character from the old Nintendo Entertainment System game Pro Wrestling (the one the “A Winner is You” meme comes from.) Star Man isn’t in the big leagues…

If You’ve Got A Vita, Here’s A Strange New Game To Check Out

Yesterday XSEED Games released Orgarhythm, a hybrid real-time-strategy rhythm game that looks more than a little strange. If you’ve got a Vita, you can buy it on the PlayStation Network for 30 bucks. There’s a launch video above. And here’s XSEED PR’s description of the game: In Orgarhythm, players are tasked with protecting their god…

This Week’s Android Charts: Bard Sharks

It’s week two of our continuing coverage of the Google Play top charts, and you know what that means—last week’s positions are go! Did your favorite game move up the charts? Slip down? Why are you so concerned? Where did these sharks come from? While there hasn’t been a great deal of movement in the…

It’s Not Zelda Cosplay, It’s a Zelda Music Video

The rather talented lady you see here is Lena Leclaire, and if she has to pause at some points and move her head a little, that’s because this isn’t a cosplay video, it’s a music video. Seems she’s one hell of an ocarina player. Legend of Zelda Medley on STL Ocarina – Lena Leclaire [YouTube]

The new SimCity will be released in North America on March 5, 2013, according to the game’s Twitter & Facebook pages.

The Nintendo 3DS’ Other Problem Appears To Be The DS

Nintendo says the 3DS’ sales in the U.S. are “weaker” than hoped. Experts will blame everything from the popularity of gaming on tablets and phones to a not-yet-overwhelmingly-great software line-up for the 3DS. Maybe…. But maybe that darn Nintendo DS is to blame. From the beginning of April 2012 through the end of September, the…

Every Friend Recruited for Bubble Galaxy with Buddies is Clean Drinking Water for Burkina Faso

Scopely’s latest “with Buddies” game hits the iTunes app store today, bringing with it a flood of clean drinking water for a developing country. The developer has partnered with charity:water to donate a gallon of water to the West African country of Burkina Faso for every friend you nag to play. Bubble Galaxy with Buddies…

Skylanders Completists, One of These New Wii Bundles Knows What You Want

Nintendo may have an all-new console coming out in justa few weeks, but that’s not going to stop them from tempting folks to pick up a Wii any way they can. The company just announced two new bundles for their aging hardware, one of which is designed to get rabid toy collectors like Kotaku‘s own…

The Nintendo Anime of my Dreams

Seeing as my anime preferences fall within the boundaries of “giant metal death machines”, and not “girls with enormous cute faces”, I haven’t enjoyed much Japanese animation in the last decade or so. But so help me I would watch this show. Especially if it was about the girls’ attempts to rescue a couple of…

Weird Nintendo Swag Lets You Make Your Own Mario Moustache

Not that Nintendo needs to really sell the Wii U right now, since the first shipment is guaranteed to sell out on name alone, but they’re selling it anyway. Part of that sell is this random piece of retailer swag that…lets you…make your own Mario moustache? Shaped like a Wii U, you put the goop…

The Only Way to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse is With an Official Zombie Survival Kit

Obviously fearing for the safety of himself and his loved ones, designer Sam Proctor has done the CDC’s work for them and come up with this idea for a zombie apocalypse survival kit. Small enough to stash somewhere handy, it contains only the bare essentials: a mask, access cards to safe zones, a flare gun…

This year’s Independent Games Festival will feature 589 games, a new record. Check ’em out here

It’s The Hobbit’s First TV Trailer

Still not excited for The Hobbit, which opens in December? Maybe the movie’s first TV spot will do the trick. I can’t believe it’s been nine years since we had a Tolkien/Jackson joint debut in a theatre. That’s too damn long.

This Guy Has Been Luke Skywalker More Times Than Mark Hamill

Sure, he’s done amazing work behind a microphone over the last few decades, but let’s be honest. For most people, Mark Hamill is Luke Skywalker. At least, he is in three motion pictures and stuff like a Christmas special he would probably rather forget For over a decade, you’ve probably seen – or at least…