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A Bunch Of Neat Games Were Announced For Vita Today

You don’t see the words “Vita” and “games” next to one another very much these days without the words “doesn’t have any” between them. But a few new titles for Sony’s powerful handheld were quietly announced today. We already knew that the Vita game Dokuro was coming to the U.S., but newly formed publisher branch…

World of Goo is only $.25 on Android right now as part of the Google Play 25 billion downloads celebration. Grab it!

Day Z Stand-Alone Game Will Arrive Before The End of This Year

We have known since August that the enormously popular Day Z mod to Arma II would be developed into its own stand-alone game. Today at the Eurogamer Expo, Developer Dean “Rocket” Hall confirmed that the game will be available by the end of the year, and it will be inexpensive to boot. Eurogamer reports that…

NBA 2K13 Outs the Brooklyn Nets’ New Uniforms

The new-look Brooklyn Nets are set to unveil their new uniforms sometime tomorrow, but the look already has been outed. The road uniform designs were leaked earlier this week and now, at NBA 2K13‘s star-studded launch party in New York last night, we can see the home threads. I mean, we should have expected this,…

Six Dead or Alive 5 Fighters Looking Depressed and Humbled After Defeat

There’s lots of crazy, over-the-top elements in the just-released Dead or Alive 5. Clown cannons, giant elevators of death and tanks blasting away in he background… all these things happen while the brawlers of Team Ninja’s latest fighting game are vying for victory. And you can’t win all the martial arts matches all the time.…

The Internet Unites To Talk About Video Games They Grew Up With

Twitter’s trending topics—subjects or phrases that the social network is buzzing about at any given moment—are sometimes based on big news headlines. Sometimes they spring from live events or tragic catastrophes, as everyone rushes to make the first supremely clever joke about Kim Kardashian. And sometimes they’re just awful memes. But for the past couple…

This Color-Swapping Runner is Not a Tron Game, But it Should Be

Considering the overall lack of quality Tron games since the time of the first film, I’m willing to give Hope This Works Games‘ upcoming neon red and blue Android and iOS free-runner Polara a couple of identity discs and call it a day. It’s a little bit color-shifting shooter Ikaruga, with a hint of color-shifting…

Guy Redesigns Rare NES Model For His Steampunk-Loving Nephew

Though collectors everywhere feel a pang in their sides from seeing the rare sight of a Top Loader edition NES (NES-101) so brutally redone, everyone else can lean back and enjoy this beautiful reconstruction. Reddit user Andrew5785 took his old NES, and turned it into something a little more steampunky for his nephew. Head over…

EA Sports Cancels NBA Live 13

EA Sports today canceled its troubled NBA Live 13 project. It is the second time in three years that sports video gaming’s dominant publisher has pulled the plug on its NBA simulation at the last minute. Andrew Wilson, the executive vice president in charge of the label, announced the decision in a statement posted to…

How You Earn 30,000 Coins In Two Minutes In New Super Mario Bros. 2

The road to one million coins in New Super Mario Bros. 2 can be daunting. Maybe you’ve given up by now. Well it’s time to get back on track, champ. Let Kotaku reader Slider show you how to earn 30,000 coins in two minutes all without leaving your couch. (Sorry about the video quality.)

Zynga Games Lose a Couple Hundred Thousand Fans in the Facebook Fake Account Purge

Facebook has implemented countermeasures to purge fake, forged, hacked or otherwise unsavory ‘Likes’ from its pages, resulting in the sudden departure of several hundred thousand of Zynga’s several hundred million fans. The ‘Like’ is a powerful unit of measurement in today’s Facebook-connected world. For the average consumer of social media content the number of ‘Likes’…

A Determined Group Sets Out To Recreate The Legend of Zelda In Real Life

The Zelda Project is twofold: on the one hand it’s a group of cosplayers, recreating scenes from Ocarina of Time. On the other hand, the project also has a bigger goal of producing a short film to represent the game, as well. From their site: The Zelda Project is a Los Angeles, CA based group…

The Next Game from the Makers of The Chronicles of Riddick Looks Like a Beautiful Fairy Tale

You know Starbreeze. They’ve made sturdy, sometimes spectacular shooters like The Darkness, the Chronicles of Riddick games and this year’s Syndicate. Usually, when the Swedish dev studio announces a new game, you usually expect highly stylized sci-fi violence and clever, satisfying gunplay. Their newest game doesn’t have any of that. And it looks wonderful. Brothers:…

Conan O’Brien Reviews Just Dance 4. Side Note: He’s Also A Terrible Dancer.

I never realized how dangerous some of these dance moves look to be until Conan took it upon himself to review Just Dance 4 with Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan. I laughed at Conan’s outside-the-box dance moves and interpretations of the dance cards, caught a glimpse of some Conan midriff, and learned about a revolutionary…

Poop Glitches Are The Best Glitches

Borderlands 2 has a lot of outhouses—or porta potties, if you will—around every bandit camp. More than a couple of players seem to have stumbled upon overflowing ones, which you can see an example of in the video above. For all I know, knowing Gearbox, this could very well be a feature and not a…

Rayman Jungle Run is Now on Android

The mobile riff on Rayman Origins dashes from iOS to Android, available now for $3.12 for some odd reason.

Man Loses Xbox Account To Thief, Confronts Thief On Internet Forum

On Sunday night, Eric Graff put his son to bed. He flipped on his 360 and got ready for a session of Borderlands 2 with some friends. But when he tried to log onto his Xbox Live account, the password wouldn’t work. His account had been hacked. And then Graff did something usually reserved for…

Developer Behind Creepy Alternate-Reality Adventure Games Now Making a Creepy Alternate-Reality Transmedia Game

Many years ago, the creepy alternate-reality adventure game Missing: Since January (called In Memoriam outside of the US) tried to blur the lines between its fiction and our world. In pursuing the trail of the fictional Jack Lorski and Karen Volker, players wind through real-world history and geography, as well as planted websites and stories.…

Gamevil Unsheathes Cartoon Wars: Blade

Where does a warrior go when the Cartoon Wars end? He grabs his sword and sails across the sea to find new stick figures to kill in Cartoon Wars: Blade Available today on iTunes, Blade is another side story in Blue GNC’s epic sketchy war franchise. While Cartoon Wars 1 & 2 were defense games,…

If You Vote For This Game On Steam Greenlight, The Developers Might Add Linux Support. More Votes? Nude Patch.

The developers of Organ Trail, the zombified version of the educational classic Oregon Trail have hatched a new scheme to get their game to the top of the charts on Steam Greenlight. They’ll add more features to the game, if more people vote for it The game developers, knows as The Men Who Wear Many…