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You Think You Know the Borderlands? You’ve Seen Nothing Yet

The charming and well-spoken Sir Hammerlock gives us a guided tour of the new Pandora, showing us what’s changed (everything) and what’s stayed the same (dying a lot) in Borderlands 2

Let’s Take A Tour of the ArenaNet Studios, Where The Wall Art Is Beautiful And There’s A Cereal Bar

Guild Wars 2 may be filled with amazing artwork, but the development team behind the game—ArenaNet—makes the best use of them as wall art. Concept art blown up to staggering sizes line the walls of the two-floor studio, artfully complementing the half-industrial, half-wood laden interior. There really isn’t a wall that isn’t plastered with gorgeous…

Let’s Help Hollywood Find the Perfect Snake for the Metal Gear Movie

Hollywood is making a Metal Gear movie! Again! It sounds like production on the flick is just getting started (again). The project has a producer, but there’s no word of a director or screenwriter. More importantly, who is going to play Snake? Getting the jump on those big time Hollywood casting agents, Kotaku is here…

Imagine Battlefield Was a LOT Bigger. With Space Weapons. That’s Carrier Command.

I’ve talked about Carrier Command here before, somewhat enthusiastically, but for those who just can’t see what I’m getting at, this trailer shows better than any other just what the game’s about It’s all about scale. You can be a man on the ground or you can drive a giant aircraft carrier bristling with guns.…

That Insane, World-Spanning RTS is Actually Getting Made. Yes.

When we first saw upcoming RTS Planetary Annihilation earlier this month, it took me days to find my socks, they’d been blown so far away. My excitement was tempered, though, by the fact the amazing trailer was part of a Kickstarter pitch. And we all know how that roller-coaster goes. But good news! You and…

Kickstarter Disaster as Adventure Game Sees Money Disappear

Jack Houston and the Necronauts is an adventure title from the same guy who, in his spare time, is working on that cool Han Solo adventure game. It had been up on Kickstarter, but after meeting its funding goal, it was time to get to work. Until something happened. Something that should serve as a…

Torchlight II will be out on September 20, developers Runic Games have just announced.

Who Needs An iPad When This Tablet Has Twin “Sticks”, a D-Pad And Buttons?

I love my iPad for gaming, but only for certain types of games. Usually the ones that don’t ask you to move a lot. Anything that requires a virtual d-pad, or joystick, or buttons, gah, no, kill it with fire. Unless…unless there was a tablet like this one. Archos’ GamePad is an upcoming Android tablet…

Sonic, You Are a Liar, And That’s Awful

This is a screenshot from Sonic Generations. It’s difficult to tell whether it’s an excess of optimism or just straight-up trolling. Sonic [HybridShadowz, via Tiny Cartridge]

Here’s the Basic Plot of the God of War Movie

It’s not often we get screenwriters going into so much depth ahead of time with their work, but then, when they’re adapting a video game, there’s not much to keep secret. Especially when it’s God of War. The guy gets angry, kills gods, and kills them brutally. Spoilers! Still, those wondering just what kind of…

Modern Warfare Comes to the Mushroom Kingdom, and it Looks Terrific

It’s been nearly 20 years since Nintendo last made a Mario movie. If they ever decided to make another one, and for whatever reason didn’t go the Paper Mario route, this might work. I mean, it’s barely Mario at all, but then, that didn’t stop them in 1993. At least this would have guns and…

George Washington vs Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Fighting Game We Never Played

This fabulous image, done as an inspiration for a competition over on the Papercut forums, makes me sad. Sad that this isn’t a game I can pick up right now and play until my fingers curl up and fall off. [SHOWDOWN] – Contest Brief [Papercut]

Discount Machete

Have you ever bought a machete on sale? I did, earlier this week. Monday I went up to the big box hardware store and snapped up a mower and a weed trimmer, because I’m an idiot who doesn’t simply write a check every month to a lawn service to do the same thing for me.…

Not to be Undersold, Another Florida Games Store Lists Itself on eBay

Three weeks ago, a Florida man listed his independent video game store, plus a ton of real estate and vehicles, for sale on eBay in a $3.5 million package deal. Another video game store two hours up the road has decided to undercut him, selling everything in its chain for $2.6 million. My spidey-sense tells…

Transformers Mobile Transforms into Transformers Legends in Time for PAX Prime

Announced earlier this month as Transformers Mobile, Transformers Legends is a card battler for mobile devices featuring first-generation Autobots and Decepticons. Sold. Wait, it’s free? Fine, I’ll buy two. Mobage will be at the North Hall near Exhibitor Registration during PAX Prime this weekend, which seems like an appropriate place for players to get their…

Super TIME Force May Have Just Released The Perfect Video Game Trailer

It has everything. Gameplay footage from one of the slickest looking games in the pipeline (and it’s from the guys behind Sword & Sworcery). A Saturday morning cartoon intro. And dubstep. Plenty of dubstep. Because it wouldn’t be a video game trailer without it! The game will be playable at PAX. If you’re going. *sniff*.

Hi There, Ridiculously Enormous Two-Person Mario Bros. Controller

More weird riffs on classic video games from the New York City gaming collective Babycastles and Katamari Damacy dreamer Keita Takahashi. We showed you their unusual takes on Ms. Pac-Man and an old-school shmup. Here’s Mario Bros.

Here’s An Inside Look At The People Making Torchlight II

We went and visited the lovely people at Runic Games today, They make a lovely-looking game called Torchlight II. And they work in a lovely office. A cozy office. But a lovely one. Check it out!

This Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist Might Be The Most Fun Mass Effect Marketing I’ve Seen

I still haven’t had a chance to play the new “Leviathan” DLC for Mass Effect 3, but I’m kind of loving the alternate reality advertising going on for it. The Alliance News Network Twitter stream, in the persona of reporter Emily Wong, “live” broadcast the invasion of Earth back in March when the Reapers hit.…

The PS3 Version of Skyrim Might Not Get Dawnguard’s DLC At All

Guess I spoke too soon. I figured yesterday that Dawnguard, the Skyrim DLC that 360 and PC owners are enjoying, would some day come to the PS3. A day later, Bethesda doesn’t sound so convinced. A statement issued by the company this evening reads: Earlier in the month, we provided an update on Dawnguard’s status…