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This Week’s iPad Charts: Of Course Free is the Right Price

This is Mike Fahey with Kotaku, reminding you to keep your pets spayed and neutered, in honor of a The Price is Right game topping this week’s free iPad charts. You should probably just pick one—spay or neuter, not both. I’m not a vet or anything, mind you. I’m just a big Bob Barker fan.…

Who Is Stealing Halo 4?

Halo 4 doesn’t come out until November 6th. Millions of people are eagerly awaiting the highly anticipated next chapter in the Master Chief saga, poring over every bit of info released about the game. But some others aren’t waiting at all. They’re already playing and selling Halo 4. As of this week, half a dozen…

Yep, You Can Now Play A Game Where Mitt Romney Catches Women In A Binder

I don’t know what’s funnier about this new flash game: The concept, the garbled English header, or the fact that there’s an advertisement for Mitt Romney’s campaign on the right. Let’s just say all of the above.

The Xbox’s Twitter & Facebook apps are being removed from Xbox Live. OK. They stank. Use Live’s new web browser instead.

Watch The Continuing Drama Of Halo Soldiers-In-Training

The Forward Unto Dawn live action webseries continues with this week’s installment. In Episode 3, personal drama of every sort comes to a head—but a poorly-timed (or well-timed?) invasion will change everything. How does teenage angst fare against an alien invasion? Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn-Part 3 [Halo Waypoint]

This Leaked Assassin’s Creed III Trailer Recaps the Series’ History and Teases Its Future

There’s a chance that some of the people picking up Assassin’s Creed III in a few weeks won’t have played the previous entries in Ubisoft’s hit historical action series. They won’t know about the Altair or the Templars or the Animus. Well, this trailer will bring them up speed in dramatic fashion. It’s also narrated…

The Creators Of Quest For Glory Want To Make A Western Version Of Persona

Will we ever get enough of Persona? The concept might sound bizarre—hardcore RPG meets lighthearted school simulator?—but the results are spectacular. It’s a winning formula, which might be why Corey and Lori Cole, the husband-and-wife team that created the classic Quest for Glory series, are using it for their brand new video game. A video…

Tetris in Reverse Looks and Sounds Positively Dreamy

Coming November 15 to iOS, Dream of Pixels looks like a beautiful watercolor Tetris clone. Look closer and everything starts falling apart quite wonderfully. Sighted this morning via the newly-launched Slide DB (it’s working, guys!), Dream of Pixels is all about unpacking lines of neatly-stacked tetromino blocks, tapping on shapes to send them falling off…

For Pokémon, Like Everyone Else, “Gender” Doesn’t Have to Mean “Sex”

There’s some fairly serious thought that goes into Pokémon gender. Especially since breeding and evolving is so important. But does it really matter? Gender isn’t sex, it’s a wonderfully elastic term, one that artist Maré Odomo explores ever so sweetly with this comic. BOY OR GIRL? [Attract Mode]

Hitman: Absolution Lets You Dress Up in Goofy Outfits, Too

Here’s a look at some of the “deadly disguises” that Hitman: Absolution. You know, like a large chicken. And a scarecrow. And a judge. Lethal!

Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida took to the PlayStation Blog comments section to answer multiple questions, Eurogamer points out.

Expect More Mass Effect, But Not Another Commander Shepard, Says BioWare

Years ago, game studio BioWare said Mass Effect 3 would be Shepard’s last. Now, BioWare is saying that, yep, it was serious. That’s it, no more Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 4—or whatever the heck the game’s eventually called. Speaking with game site VG247, BioWare Montreal producer Fabrice Condominas said, “There is one thing we…

You Can Play a Zombie Shooter in Real Life. It Looks Insane.

An Australian group called IRL Shooter will at the end of the month be holding an event called “Patient Zero“, which is basically aimed at giving you the experience of playing a zombie shooter, only in real life. Starting October 31 in Melbourne, for AUD$125 you’ll get access to the “game”, which sounds a lot…

There’s Five Spots We Get THIS Close to Seeing Master Chief’s Face in the New Halo 4 Trailer

The Halo 4 launch trailer was predictably big budget, but what I found most interesting was how human they made Master Chief look. We usually just see him as a giant hulking killing machine, all armour and visor, but Tim Miller and David Fincher’s clip goes right ahead and actually takes the mask off the…

If You Own a PC, Go Try Iconoclasts

Has it been over a year since we looked in on the wonderful Iconoclasts? It has? Better fix that, then. The game, while still a while from being finished, is playable. By you, that is. You can go download an alpha build over on the game’s site As with creator Joakim Sandberg’s Noitu Love, it’s…

Here’s Halo 4’s Launch Trailer, Produced by David Fincher

I started in this job nearly six years ago. If you’d told me back then I’d be writing a headline like that in 2012, I’d have either laughed or given you a real strange look. Not to give Fincher all the credit, it was actually directed by Tim Miller, normally a visual effects man (Scott…

Wow, Kentucky Route Zero, You’re Looking Good

Oh, cool. Eighteen months since we saw it last, adventure game Kentucky Route Zero returns with a new art style. Shame about that whole “A 2011 Game To Anticipate” thing, though, since it’s now an episodic title that’ll mostly release throughout 2013, but for a “bluegrass adventure game” that looks this hot I’ll wait until…

Nigeria Withdraws XCOM Funding, President Blames Gas Station “Incident”

In an honest and upfront piece over on serious news outlet Something Awful, the President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has explained the reasons behind his country’s highly unpopular (with XCOM leaders) withdrawal from the XCOM project. While a “tragic incident at the gas station” seems to have been the straw that broke this camel’s back,…

Online shooter Planetside 2 will launch on November 20

Assassin’s Creed III’s Top-Secret Chicken Dance Assassination Move [Update]

Taken from a hands-on session with the game, here’s an Assassin’s Creed III hiccup that we can only hope makes it into the final game. UPDATE—Seems it’s part of the game’s debug mode, which lets the devs get around the map quickly. It’s an unfair advantage, sure, but this is a sci-fi series at heart.…