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Brand New Metal Gear! It’s..Um…a Social Game

Today at the Metal Gear 25th Anniversary event in Tokyo, Konami announced that a new Metal Gear was incoming, but it might not be coming to the platform of your choice. Dubbed Metal Gear Solid Social Ops, the game is a social networking game bound for Japan’s GREE platform. For those who don’t know what…

Metal Gear Is Going Hollywood (Again) with a New Movie

For years now, there has been chatter of a Metal Gear Solid movie. The project was at one time moving forward. Then, it seemed to die. Today, Konami stated that the movie is back on. Metal Gear Solid is going Hollywood. At today’s Metal Gear Anniversary event in Tokyo, photos show banners with the slogan…

A Strategy Game About Managing An 80’s Arcade

Firebase Industries, the duo behind the wonderful Orbitron: Revolution, are back with a new game, and this one’s about as different as you can get. Gone are the spaceships and explosions, replaced by…the task of managing a 1980s arcade. The game’s called Arcadecraft, and will be out on Xbox 360 (the team are undecided on…

You Might Finally Get to Use Your Game Boy During Take-Off

The Federal Aviation Administration has for years been the enemy of gamers, with its weird rules that electronic devices had to be shut down during take-off and landing, despite a complete lack of evidence they do anything of the sort. Mercifully, it looks like the body might be on the brink of lightening up, with…

PS3 Owners, You’re Getting Skyrim DLC. Eventually. One Day.

While Xbox 360 and PC owners are getting excited for Skyrim’s second piece of major DLC, PS3 owners are still waiting to get their hands on the first. So they’re understandably a little curious as to why the hell that is. Taking to Twitter, PS3 owners have been asking Bethesda’s Pete Hines for info and…

The Joys of Using Games For Virtual Tourism

Like a few other writers here, I’ve been enjoying Sleeping Dogs this week. But not necessarily for its combat, or driving, or story. No, I’m enjoying it mostly because of where it’s set. The game, in case you don’t know, is set in Hong Kong. Not a photo-realistic recreation, but a caricature that’s close enough.…

My, Link, What Big Shoulders You Have

All the better to carry the weight of your hopes and expectations, my dears. Art by Frank Lin [Personal Site, via XombieDirge]

In 1970, It Was Time To Buy Your Son a Shotgun

We can learn a lot about who we used to be by looking at old ads. We can learn a lot about who we, as a society, aspired to be—and who it was ok to be. Take the average Sport-magazine-reading man of 1970. The back covers of those magazines told that man that it was…

‘Season Pass’ Gets You All of Borderlands 2‘s DLC

Scuttlebutt going back to the summer had suggested that 2K Games would offer all of Borderlands 2‘s downloadable content extensions in a “season pass” offered at a package discount. Well, that’s now confirmed. Rumor went around earlier today that $30 would buy up all four planned releases, and Gearbox confirmed it earlier this evening to…

Five Networked Computers. Six Players. One Hell Of A Starship Simulator

Long have I dreamed of sitting in the captain’s chair of a Federation Starship, a talented (and likely very attractive) crew at my beck and call, ready to power up the warp drive and take us into battle. It’s not just because my name is Kirk—it’s because the bridge of a starship is an awesome…

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron PC’s Got Problems. High Moon Has Solutions (in the Works)

The single-player portion of the PC version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is pretty great, capturing all of the action and adventure of the console versions aptly. The online multiplayer, on the other hand, isn’t so hot. High Moon and friends are working to make it better. Connecting to multiplayer is hard. Getting together with…

Zelda‘s Windfall Island Recreated in Skyrim

Man, it has been a day for cool Skyrim stuff. The latest is this re-creation of Windfall Island from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker entirely in Skyrim So okay, yeah, as one commenter points out, “It’s like you took the Wind Waker and sucked all the joy out :’D” All the same, this is a…

Madden 13 Puts the QB on His Back—and He Still Throws a Touch-downnnnnn

One feature of the new “Infinity Engine” physics system introduced in Madden NFL 13 is the fact that the game knows when the ballcarrier’s knee has hit the turf. Evidently, Cleveland’s Brandon Weeden’s never did here in a game between two teams that have never won the Super Bowl. After getting sandwiched by the pass…

The Halo series returns to Major League Gaming this November when Halo 4 joins the pro circuit

The Worst Internet Trolls Might Be Mentally Ill

So, this billy goat goes trip-trapping across a bridge. As he clops along, he hears a voice from down below: “Roar! I am a troll! If you cross this bridge, I’ll gobble you up!” The goat is kinda freaked out, since, you know, god only knows what’s down there in the dark. “Er, why would…

A Superior Way To Play Video Games For “Free”?

Square-Enix explains why they’re letting users of their new Core Online service play some old games for free, so long as they watch about a minute of ads for every 10-20 minutes of game time. Quoted from their FAQ. More details on how Core Online works here

Midweek Moneysaver: Make a Run for the Border

This Wednesday edition of Kotaku’s The Moneysaver catches all the offers, promotions and bargains that can’t wait until the weekend. The Midweek Moneysaver is brought to you by Dealzon. Software • Sep. 18 release Borderlands 2 (PC download) is $40, free ship from Green Man Gaming. Next best is $54. [Dealzon] • Yesterday’s release Madden…

Street Fighter‘s Ryu and Mortal Kombat‘s Scorpion Settle This Thing Once And For All

Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat? The debate has been going on for as long as I can remember, and it may never reach a resolution. (I’m a Mortal Kombat man myself.) This nifty live-action video shows two of the most popular characters from each game, Scorpion and Ryu, throwing down in a… lovely pine forest?…

A Fresh Look At The Long-Awaited Half-Life Remake

We’ve been waiting for Black Mesa for a long, loooong while now—the hugely ambitious fan-made mod has an uncertain fate, but eight years after beginning work, the team is still working on the game. The folks behind Black Mesa have released these images to Facebook to coincide with a new interview over at Polygon, where…

And Then Every Light Switch In My Home Was Replaced with an Arcade Joystick

New at that repository of all things awesome that is ThinkGeek, the Power-Up Arcade Light Switch Plate transforms your boring light switches into amazing arcade-style joysticks that I would be happy to catch between my shoulder blades on a regular basis. Things poking out of your wall is generally not a good idea, unless those…