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Maine Democrat is Supposedly Unfit For Office Because She Loves ‘Poisoning and Stabbing’ in World of Warcraft
Colleen Lachowicz is running for state senate in Waterville, Maine. She also plays a lot of World of Warcraft. According to Maine Republicans, this means that she is unfit for office. The Maine Republican Party has set up an entire website dedicated to digging up old forum posts made by Lachowicz on Blizzard’s online role-playing…
By Jason Schreier Published October 4, 2012 -
Free New Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer DLC Adds Collectors, Challenges, and Creepy Hazards
Mass Effect 3 is getting its largest multiplayer DLC to date, BioWare announced on their blog today. The update, called “Retaliation,” adds not only new character classes and weapons, but also new enemies, new modes to existing maps, and a challenge feature, with a whole host of unlockables to earn. “Retaliation,” like the game’s other…
By Kate Cox Published October 4, 2012 -
Try Not To Get Yourself Killed In This Dishonored Interactive Trailer
Dying to play Dishonored? This interactive trailer isn’t the game, but it might tide you over until Tuesday. Like other interactive trailers, this set of videos lets you choose your own approach to handle one of the early levels from Dishonored. As such, the trailer contains spoilers for this particular area of the game. That…
By Kate Cox Published October 4, 2012 -
Assassin’s Creed III‘s Native American Hero Had A Very Hard Life
This teaser for Assassin’s Creed III is different from the blitz of video we’ve been getting as the threequel nears release. In the clip, you see a bit of Connor’s life from before he became an Assassin. The scenes of him running through the forest look beautiful but get harshly contrasted when he comes home…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
The New SimCity Looks Gorgeous In This Day-By-Day Gameplay Demo
We’ve heard and seen a lot about the built-in multiplayer aspects of the new SimCity, and we’ve had stills showing off how much life there suddenly is in our virtual towns. But now, this video shows off the actual day-to-day play—and, excitingly, the nights as well— in SimCity. It all begins, of course, with choosing…
By Kate Cox Published October 4, 2012 -
The Original Grand Theft Auto iPhone Clone Returns with Payback 2
Back in 2009 James Daniels released Payback for the iPhone, a game that was essentially a knock-off of the original isometric Grand Theft Auto. Now Payback is back, switching focus from solo slaughter to multiplayer mayhem. The darker, shinier Payback 2 slices up the open-world gameplay of the original game into a series of eight…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2012 -
Burrow Your Way into the Worms Facebook Beta
Team17’s battling invertebrates hunger for the blood of a billion Facebook users. The original Lumbricus terrestris-based trajectory shooter is going social, and it craves your beta testing prowess. With bite-sized real-time multiplayer battles, weapons drawn from the span of the series’ 17-year history and an array of stylish hats, Worms for Facebook is a different…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2012 -
A Debate of a Different Sort, About The State of Video Games in 2012
Over in The New York Times, where you can see more and more contributions by Kotaku writers, Yahoo News deputy editor Chris Suellentrop and I just had a debate—or maybe, more accurately, a conversation—about video games. We’d been asked by the editors there about the state of gaming, about signs of financial struggles at nearly…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 4, 2012 -
If you’re looking for a challenge, you can now pick up the remake of oldie-but-goodie La Mulana from GoG.
András Neltz Published October 4, 2012 -
New Super Mario Bros 2 DLC and Real-World Pokémon Hunting Descend Onto the Nintendo Download This Week
Used to be that Nintendo and downloadable content were two terms that you almost never saw together. But that changes in a big way this week as the company rolls out the first wave of add-on coin packs for New Super Mario Bros 2 on the 3DS There’s also Pokémon Dream Radar, a downloadable augmented…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
The Pinball Duo Transforms the iPad Into an Incredibly Limited Pinball Machine
From the creators of the Gameloft-exclusive Duo Gamer and the Atari Arcade controller comes the Duo Pinball, a plastic frame that adds side buttons, a plunger and a lot of bulk to the Apple iPad. It’s the sort of controller only a pinball video game addict could love. I’m Mike Fahey, and I’m a video…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2012 -
Medal of Honor Warfighter’s Open Beta Starts Tomorrow, But Only on Xbox Live
If you’re all excited about EA’s upcoming multinational FPS, then tomorrow’s your lucky day. The open beta for Medal of Honor Warfighter comes exclusively to Xbox 360 tomorrow, bringing with it a new game mode called Hotspot. Hotspot requires co-op teams to scurry back and forth across the map to defend or lay siege to…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 4, 2012 -
Confessions Of A Teenage Xbox Hacker
In some ways Juvi is just an average eighteen-year-old. He speaks in short, brusque sentences. He works as an artist at a tattoo parlor. He was born in the U.K., but he now shares a loft with his girlfriend in Spain. He spends a lot of time on the Internet, and he sometimes says mean…
By Jason Schreier Published October 4, 2012 -
The PS Vita Hacking Scene Suffers a Major Setback
From dedicated memory cards to required internet connection to move files, Sony has taken extra precautionary measures with the PS Vita to prevent the hacking of its hand-held console. This is understandable, considering what happened with the PS3 and PSP. So when a new exploit was released that would allow users to play pirated PSP…
By Toshi Nakamura Published October 4, 2012 -
Report: Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s lead designer has apparently left BioWare.
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2012 -
The Power Rangers Don’t Hate Dubstep. They Dance to It.
You might think surely this is some sort of joke. Even the title of this YouTube video “Power Rangers Dubstep” seems like a hilarious gag. Then, there’s the breakdancing—in Power Rangers outfits. They even doing the robot. Hilarious! As the video’s YouTube page explains: Watch as the Samurai Rangers show off their dance floor powers…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2012 -
3DS game Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan is headed to North America in early 2013, said Atlus.
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 4, 2012 -
The Legend of Zelda: Quest For The Amazing LEGO Shield
LEGO builder Remi Gagne’s recreation of Zelda’s Hylian shield is impressive enough at a distance, but the real treat here is in the detail. It’s where you get an idea of not only the scale of the project, but the amount of work that went into it. Like, it would have been easy to do…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 4, 2012