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Hotline Miami: A Neon-Drenched, Hyper-Violent Crime Game You Should Have Your Eye On

One of the games I’m most looking forward to this fall involves wearing disguises, infiltrating strongholds and taking out assassination targets in as smooth a way as possible. No, I’m not talking about Dishonored (though that game looks perfectly fine), I’m talking about Devolver Digital’s Hotline Miami, a new top-down killfest from artist Dennis Wedin…

Look At My Awesome Parking Job in Sleeping Dogs

This is what happens when you build enough Face in Sleeping Dogs. Or at least this is what happens for me. I use all that hard-earned reputation for flashy sports cars. And then drive at such high speeds that I can pull off a parking job like this. It was so awesome it had to…

See The LittleBigPlanet Team’s Delightful-Looking New Game Tearaway In Action

Shortly after announcing their new paper-centric game Tearaway, Media Molecule’s Alex Evans and Rex Crowle demonstrated the game onstage at Gamescom. This game looks awfully cool, though I’ll admit I’m a sucker for everything Media Molecule has done up to this point. I’ve also been hoping for more good Vita games, and Iota’s adventure certainly…

At The End Of This Video Is Penelope Cruz Dressed Up As Super Mario

Sure, this video is kind of awkward, but it’s also kind of adorable. And it seems like the Cruz sisters are actually playing New Super Mario Bros. 2. Not just faking it!

The Team That Made GoldenEye Was All For Adding That Famous Multiplayer Last Minute—They Just Didn’t Tell Their Bosses

Fellow gamers who came of age in the late 1990s may remember that any time four or more of their friends got together in one place, a round of GoldenEye was almost certain to break out. From 1997 through at least 1999, it seemed to be almost everywhere. Even players (like yours truly) who didn’t…

There Are Too Many Dark-Haired White Guys in Gaming

What’s wrong with dark-haired white guys? Commenter Daemon_Gildas thinks they represent an unfair percentage of our video game heroes, and tells us all about it in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. You know what needs to stop in video-game? Dark-haired white guys in Gaming. Now, we’ve already heard about how there are too many white…

Three Cheers for the Losers in the Video Game Wars. They’re the Best.

Ask a Sega Dreamcast owner. Ask a Nintendo GameCube owner. They’ll tell you something that is true: it’s a pleasure to be the owner of a game console that’s in last place. It also kind of stinks, because your console gets the fewest games and your friends mock you all the time. But the fact…

WTF? Namco Bandai Announces “World Tekken Federation” Online Service

Namco Bandai has unveiled a new online service that they’ll launch alongside Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and it’s called the “World Tekken Federation.” Slow down. Look at that name. Yup. The WTF. It’s okay to chuckle a bit. From the press release: The World Tekken Federation service will provide TEKKEN® players with a social community…

God of War: Ascension‘s Multiplayer Bloodbath is Getting a Beta Soon, and a Trailer Now

Adding a multiplayer component to a God of War game still sounds a little confusing. Earlier looks have been tantalizing, in that violent, kill-everything sort of way. Today, Sony shared a new trailer for the 4 vs 4 team bloodbath. They have also announced a multiplayer beta to run in the “near future.” Should you…

Five Comics That Won’t Save Your Soul This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Turns Out a Comic-Con is Pretty Good Place for a Rap Video

This music video by Chicago-based rapper Kid Static was at this year’s WonderCon and it nicely captures the fun to be had when nerds gather. Kid’s rhymes ain’t half bad, either.

The Best Imagination In Comics Lives In Brandon Graham’s Brain

Look, I love Grant Morrison. And I swoon every time a comic with Jonathan Hickman’s name on it comes out. Along with those two, lots of top-flight idea generators exist in the comics landscape of 2012. But, right now, the creator that manages to take me to the most weirdly seductive places and shows me…

Dick Grayson Goes Underground in This Preview of Nightwing #12

It’s tough to write Nightwing. Anyone approaching the superhero identity of Batman’s first sidekick has to find ways to make him seem as capable as his mentor without feeling like a clone. Writer Kyle Higgins has a pretty good job of that, by focusing on the passion and emotional attachment that Grayson brings to crime-fighting.…

Once limited to Guest Pass-holders, the Diablo III Starter Edition is now free for anyone with a Battle.net account.

Our First Look At Call of Duty Running On A PlayStation Vita

We’ve been curious about how Call of Duty will run on Sony’s handheld Vita console ever since we first heard about the game, and today at Sony’s Gamescom press conference, we got a look at Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified in action. You can see the game doing its thing above. It looks… well,…

This New Montage Of The Last Of Us Mixes Bloody Violence And Wistful Hank Williams

This new trailer for Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us doesn’t show a whole lot of new stuff, but it shows it in a way we haven’t yet seen—accompanied by the wistful words of Hank Williams’ “Alone And Forsaken.” Those lyrics, via A Hank Williams Journal (where they have chords, should you want to strum…

This New PS3 Game Is Pretty Damn Crazy

Upcoming PlayStation 3 game Puppeteer, announced by Sony today at Gamescom, might be one of the strangest titles we’ve seen this year. It’s a platformer in which you play a boy-turned-puppet who has to hop his way out of a magical theater that moves as you move. Looks neat! Here’s more info courtesy the PlayStation…

Until Dawn Is A Gorgeous Horror Game That Uses PlayStation Move

There’s a new horror game coming to PlayStation 3 called Until Dawn. It’s sort of built like a teen horror movie; you play as seven characters that you have to keep alive throughout a long night. I’d be more excited if it didn’t use PlayStation Move.

An Invisible Little Boy Finds Himself in Sony’s Stunning Rain

The hero of Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming adventurer platformer is a little boy seeking a little girl in a dreary world defined by water falling from the sky. It’s a fortunate setting — Rain‘s protagonist is completely invisible. The trailer, accompanyed by melancholy piano music, highlights Rain‘s unique liquid-based gameplay mechanic. As is the world,…

This September’s Euro PlayStation Plus Game of the Month is Red Dead Redemption, and Plus is coming soon to the Vita.