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I’ll Have Whatever Drugs Far Cry 3 Is Having

When I played Far Cry 3 last week, I was impressed by a lot of things—but chief among them was the audacity of the in-game drug sequences. Not many games have your character straight-up take hallucinogens, but why the heck not? As games like Alan Wake and Batman: Arkham Asylum demonstrated, it’s possible to creatively…

The Music, Monkeys, And Gardening Tools That Make XCOM‘s Enemies Sound So Fearsome

I hate Mutons. If you play XCOM: Enemy Unknown, you probably hate them too. The big, green, ape-like aliens are the shock troopers of the invasion, and they will make you cry. They’ll flank and shellack your team, lob grenades into places you thought were safe, and cut down your most beloved veterans in a…

ESPN Gives More Attention to the NHL in a Video Game Than It Does in Real Life

The National Hockey League is frozen in a labor impasse that so far has canceled opening night festivities scheduled for today, and shows no sign of ending any time soon. So, in steps EA Sports, using NHL 13, to provide a simulation and highlights for how the season would play out. Here are highlights from…

Guillermo Del Toro’s Next Movie Has a Little GlaDOS in It

Last we heard about Guillermo del Toro’s horror game inSane, it got cut loose from a frantically restructuring THQ. Today at New York Comic-Con, del Toro confirmed that the game is in search of a new development partner. He also revealed that Ellen McLain, beloved as the voice of GLaDOS from Valve’s Portal games, will…

Which One of These Things Is Not Like the Other? NCAA 14 Must Supply an Answer

The development team didn’t need to read a dozen reviews, all saying the same thing, to know where NCAA Football stood. A single presentation, in a creative debriefing shortly after the game’s July release, said enough. Four screenshots were shown, from NCAA 10 in 2009 to NCAA 13 this year. Guess which one comes from…

Try And Guess How Many Gaming References Are In This Game (Hint: There’s Billions)

Kotaku video editor Chris Person and I are really into Retro City Rampage, which is a parody of just about… every game we played as kids. Chris played 13 minutes or so of the PS3 version of the game. You can watch that here and listen to us try to identify as many of the…

A Hacked Portal Gun Replica ‘Levitates’ a Companion Cube

Hack A Day is a fount of awesome mods and game themed creations, featured here frequently, and this portal gun which “levitates” a companion cube is one of the best conversation pieces they’ve come up with yet. The construction is simple, really. They took a commercially-available portal gun replica and fitted it with the coil…

An Easy Way To Score A Couple Super-Rare Items In Borderlands 2

I’ve got a golden ticket! I’ve got a golden chance to make my way! When Charlie Bucket opened up that golden ticket, he probably wasn’t thinking that Willy Wonka was going to give him a sweet-ass sniper rifle, or a shield that generates ammo. And yet, in Borderlands 2, a similar golden key can give…

Watch The Awesome Things That Happened When Gordon Met Chell

We saw the poster for When Gordon Met Chell earlier this week. The short film the poster was designed for is now available for viewing. So is it a rom-com, as the poster lovely might have hinted to some? No. But this action thriller (“made on a budget of absolutely nothing,” according to its creator,…

Behold: The Transparent Wii U

We don’t think Nintendo will actually sell this transparent version of the Wii U, shown off during a recent Iwata Asks interview that picked apart and delved into the upcoming console. That’s too bad. It’s pretty sweet. Remember the transparent Game Boy? The transparent N64 controller? Nintendo used to be so much more transparent.

Got a Tegra 3 Device? Join Shadowgun: Deadzone‘s Public Beta

The online multiplayer follow-up to one of the best damn shooters on any mobile platform is coming soon to Android and iOS, but folks with Tegra 3-powered devices can play the public beta version of Shadowgun: Deadzone right now. Madfinger needs help optimizing the network codes so that when Deadzone goes live it’s actually playable,…

The Many, Many Stabbings of Far Cry 3

As I edited together my video preview of Far Cry 3, something struck me. More accurately, something stabbed me. You sure are going to kill a lot of people (and animals!) using a machete in this game! I edited the initial preview video while on a plane, and I started to feel a bit self-conscious…

Nine-And-A-Half Minutes Of Bug-Infested Lost Planet 3 Footage

Via Capcom, here’s some cool new footage (with developer commentary) from Lost Planet 3, out next year for PC and consoles. What do you think?

In Dishonored, Sometimes The Story Is What You Don’t See

Pro tip for anyone wanting to write a video game: “If it’s longer than a tweet, a character should probably not be saying it in the play of a game.” For those with dreams of seeding video games with their scintillating prose, Austin Grossman’s observation may be a bit deflating. But the writer/designer who helped…

Show Us Your XCOM Squad

I sincerely hope you guys are all playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown right now. Yeah, Dishonored is great. But XCOM, man… this game has been keeping me up until 3 in the morning night after night. It’s amazing. As we noted in our tips for playing the game, one of the best things about the game…

Looks Like Grand Theft Auto V Is Ready To Be Shown To The Press

Grand Theft Auto V is in playable form, and at least one reporter is getting his hands on it today. Game Informer editor-in-chief Andy McNamara wrote on Twitter today that he’s at Rockstar, checking the next Grand Theft Auto game out for the magazine’s December cover story. This means we could see a release date…

The Gorgeous Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Will Let Your Wii U Talk To Your 3DS

When I watched this trailer for Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, which Capcom is bringing both to Wii U and 3DS this March, I had two main takeaways: 1) Holy crap, this is gorgeous! Monster Hunter has never really become the explosive force here in America that it is in Japan, but maybe a game that…

Looking for a fantastic free iPhone game? Blitz Games’ Kumo Lumo is out today. You should play it. It’s brilliant.

This Custom-Made Mass Effect Armor Is Impressively Detailed… And Impressively Expensive

There are many excellent Commander Shepard cosplayers in the world. Each and every one of them them is to be commended for the sheer amount of time and effort they put into recreating and personalizing the commander’s iconic N7 armor. And then there are people like me, who should not be allowed within twenty feet…

What Phone Do You Play Games On?

Are you an iPhone gamer? Android fan? Windows Phone addict? Xperia loyalist? While the mobile phone gaming industry has settled into a set of easily manageable platforms over the past few years, there’s still plenty of choice. Which have you chosen? I am currently in possession of four different smart phones dedicated to gaming, covering…