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You Might Have Missed These Important Details In That New Black Ops II Trailer

Breaking down trailers into a step by step analysis, or even just viewing them in slow motion, can reveal a lot of interesting information about upcoming games. Did you notice, for instance, that Nintendo DS on the multiplayer battlefields of Black Ops II? You can totally play Pokémon with it in case you’re bored in…

Pitfall! on iPad Is What You Expect and a Little Bit of What You Don’t

If you’re old like me, you played the original version of Pitfall! on the Atari 2600 way back when. Sequels to David Crane’s iconic side-scrolling adventure have come and gone but none have quite captured the tense feel of the 1982 release. Yet, the 30-year-old classic seems like it’d be great as a mobile gaming…

Ain’t Nothing Special About This Week’s Nintendo Download But the Real Bout

Sometimes Nintendo’s weekly downloadable content offerings grant me a broad selection of game-infused paints with which to decorate the canvas of this post. And then there’s weeks like these that don’t even give me enough to keep a painting metaphor going. I could try to get excited about Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, if you’d…

They Were Laid Off From Their Game Company. Now They Want To Change The Way We Play.

Jason Fader and his team were sitting in a bar, drinking. Commiserating. Earlier that day they’d all been laid off from their jobs at Obsidian Entertainment, where they helped work on games like Fallout: New Vegas and an unannounced project called North Carolina. When North Carolina was axed, Obsidian had no choice but to let…

You’ll be able to see Black Ops II‘s multiplayer played from Gamescom next week via livestream

One of the Worst-Rated Game Franchises of All Time Gets a Wii U Sequel

There are currently four games in the Game Party series of mini-game collections. The combined Metacritic average for these four games is 31. So why the hell is Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment releasing Game Party Champions for the Wii U? I’d say it has something to do with the Game Party series on the Wii…

First Look at Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee HD

Here’s the debut screenshot for Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee HD, the hi-def remake of the 1997 PlayStation classic. The game will be a remake from the ground up, apparently, with both 3D graphics and 2D gameplay. Oddworld [Facebook via VG247]

Forgot those launch day woes! Hybrid is up and running, waiting to defy gravity on your Xbox 360.

Those real money prices on Xbox Live were “an error”. Microsoft is sticking with Microsoft Points. Unfortunately.

Sleeping Dogs Actually Cares About Its PC Version

Given the fact many publishers enjoy punishing PC players with sub-par ports, it’s nice to see Square Enix going the extra mile with the upcoming Sleeping Dogs. On day one, it’ll have a high-resolution texture pack available for download, a busier game world than the console versions and DirectX11 support. It’ll even play nice with…

Everything You Wanted (or Needed) to Know About Halo 4’s Guns

The history. The purpose. The sound effects. The enormous write-up over on Halo Waypoint (linked below) has everything a series fan – or firearm fetishist – could ever want with regards to humanity’s weapons of choice. And if you don’t feel like reading? Here’s every UNSC gun in the game, shooting things in the face.…

It’s Call me Maybe, Made Entirely With Lines From Star Trek

It’s been done with Star Wars so, as is required by the laws of fandom, it must be done with Star Trek as well. This is, yet again, a remix of Call me Maybe, with short snippets of on-screen dialogue (from Next Generation only, mind you!) standing in for Carly Rae Jepsen’s vocals. I don’t…

Ouya’s Ridiculously Successful Kickstarter Ends With Millions in the Bank

The Ouya console, an ambitious attempt to turn what’s essentially an Android tablet into a tiny home console, has just seen is Kickstarter campaign draw to a close. The final tally? Oh, just a meagre $8,583,769. That’s from 63,303 backers, with by far the most popular funding option (with over 46,000 taking up the offer)…

Sadly, Only One Old Video Game is Called Lone Wolf & Cub

Lone Wolf & Cub, first published in Japan in the 1970s, remains one of the most popular and respected manga series of all time. The epic tale of Ogami Ittō, an assassin who travels across Japan with his young son Daigoro, has been turned into a number of movies and TV shows, but strangely, given…

What BioShock Would Look Like Running on Crysis’ Engine

The original BioShock was created using Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 2.5. Let’s imagine, though, just for a second, that it had instead been built using Crytek’s fancy new CryEngine 3. The same tech that powers Crysis 2, it would certainly have allowed for larger, more expansive depictions of Rapture than the 2007 original allowed. These…

Compare Skyrim’s Sucky Graphics With Its Awesome Graphics

Stuck playing on a crummy system and want to see how the Übermensch play Skyrim? Or, conversely, do you own a killer rig and want to see how the peasants make do? There’s a site for that. Nvidia have made this handy interactive slider, which lets you quickly and, in some cases, dramatically see the…

The Matrix’s Coolest Scene Incredibly Remade in Valve’s Source Filmmaker

Valve’s new Source Filmmaker is being used to create an unbelievable amount of original content, sure, but there’s also scope for people to pay homage. Like LiveCurious95 has here, with this ode to the Matrix’s “rescue” scene, swapping out Agents with Medics and Keanus for Nicks. The Matrix Remaked (SFM) [YouTube, via @kpereira]

The Next Plants vs Zombies Game is a…Multiplayer Shooter?

This afternoon’s great PopCap mystery may now be a little less mysterious: a Canadian industry source with ties to Electronic Arts has told Kotaku that a small team at EA’s Burnaby campus is working on a new entry in the Plants vs Zombies franchise. The thing is, it’s not another tower defence game. Apparently it’s…

Here, Let Me Play You A Love Song On This Plant

Hello, baby. How are you today? I just wanted to tell you I’m sorry. I’m sorry for the things I’ve done, I’m sorry for the way I am. Let me make it up to you. Let me play you a love song on this plant I brought. This video of “Botanicus Interacticus,” comest to us…

This Little Girl Cuts Everything With Her Freddy Krueger Hands

Childhood nightmares are the worst. Everything poses an irrational danger and we don’t have the mental faculties to know that there isn’t something horrendous under the bed. But I bet if I had crazy sharp appendages like the cute little girl in They Bleed Pixels, I’d have felt more safe as a kid. She uses…