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Not Even Death Will Keep A Gamer Away From Their One True Love
Warning: video is slightly NSFW. Not only is this animated short beautifully rendered, but it teaches us an important life lesson, too. You can fool the Grim Reaper into playing games against you instead of taking your soul away. Gamers=1, Death=0. Thanks Oded!
By Tina Amini Published July 3, 2012 -
S*** Just Got Real in Valve’s Movie-Maker
We’ve already reached the point at which Valve’s Source Filmmaker is generating too many awesome movies to watch, let alone share. But let’s live in the bubble a little bit longer so that we can experience the awesomeness of this re-creation of Michael Bay’s finest moment: The “S*** Just Got Real” scene from Bad Boys…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012 -
If Tetris Were About Making Words, It Would Be This Game
I play a lot of word games. Competitive, single-player, silly, serious… I like messing around with all the weird and wonderful combinations the English language has to offer. I am used to the ebb and flow of word games, to the way consonants feel, to the hunt for vowels. They comfort me. Which is why…
By Kate Cox Published July 3, 2012 -
“Terrorists” Frustrated By Lack Of Steam Summer Sale Send “Threatening” Video Message To Gabe Newell
My, my. The lack of the traditional end-of-June Steam summer sale certainly has some people riled up, if this video is any indication. While gamers wait out as the early days of July pass on with no sale announcement, some want to take matters into their own hands. Like these two “threatening” terrorists, claiming they’ll…
By Tina Amini Published July 3, 2012 -
The 3DS Now Officially Has DLC
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy launches today, and with it comes the Nintendo 3DS’s first-ever batch of downloadable content. Here’s the list of tracks you can get, each for a buck: 1. “Battle Theme 1” (FINAL FANTASY II) 2. “The Final Battle” (FINAL FANTASY IV) 3. “Fighters of the Crystal” (FINAL FANTASY XI) 4. “Fighting Fate” (FINAL…
By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012 -
Sometimes You Just Have To Lie To Your Kid
Before I tell you the story of how I tricked and deceived my son, an innocent 7-year-old who trusts me with his life, his happiness and his dignity, let me first explain how much I hate Plants vs. Zombies. I cringe just typing the name. A clip of the music or a piece of the…
By Chris Dahlen | Unwinnable Published July 3, 2012 -
Nintendo Says Game Consoles Have Been TV ‘Parasites’
When you play a console video game, you generally need a television. And when you use that television for a console video game, you generally can’t use it for anything else. Nintendo’s Wii U, an upcoming video game console whose controller is embedded with its own screen that can be used to play games, hopes…
By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012 -
The Secret World, Log One: A World More Gaiman than Tolkien
It all begins with a bee. You are not an elf or a troll or some sort of mystical creature. You are a human man or woman, an ordinary soul living in a stylish, IKEA-inspired, thoroughly modern apartment. One night, while you sleep, there comes a bee. And not an ordinary bee. It comes to…
By Kate Cox Published July 3, 2012 -
Sony Should Partner With Google For Orbis
In today’s Speak Up, Albino RyNo has an idea for Sony’s next business move. Sony could win the next console cycle with one key move. Full partnership with Google. Hear me out. Imagine if Sony’s next console were completely integrated with all of the services offered by Google that we know and love. Google TV.…
Featuring Albino RyNo Published July 3, 2012 -
I Would Kill For This Limbo-Meets-Calvin and Hobbes T-Shirt
I liked Limbo a lot. I love Bill Watteron’s timeless comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. And so I would do things, ungodly things, for this T-shirt from Nowhere Bad, which combines the two things in a manner so fantastic that I can’t believe no one’s done it before. Fortunately, I don’t have to do ungodly…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012 -
A New, $99 Console Called Ouya Is Real and Radically Different From Xbox, PlayStation and Wii
Leaks are springing, and word is out that a new mystery home video game console called Ouya is in development. This is a real thing. Ouya is a $99 box running on the Android platform, with a focus on free gaming, according to details spotted in a listing on a site for tech start-ups spotted…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 3, 2012 -
Now This Is The Game of Thrones Video Game We Need
By now of course you’ve seen College Humor’s 16-bit re-creation of Game of Thrones season 1 Here’s season 2, and it’s just as amazing as you’d imagine. This is a game that needs to be made. Now. (Spoilers for Game of Thrones season 2 follow.) Game of Thrones Season 2 RPG [CollegeHumor]
By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012 -
This Article About ‘Why Girls Suck at Gaming’ Is Either Clumsy Satire or Crazy Sexism
There has been a lot of discussion of sexism and gaming lately, here at Kotaku and elsewhere. And now, the website Airborne Gamer has entered the fray with… just about the most ill-conceived and ridiculous article yet. Or is it all a joke? God only knows. Titled “This is Why Girls Suck at Gaming,” the…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012 -
Persona 3, Catherine, Lots Of Other Games Half Off This Month
News of an Atlus sale is always welcome ’round here parts. Throughout all of July, you’ll be able to buy Persona 3 Portable for $10 and Catherine for $20. Other PSP/PS3/Vita games are all half off too! [PlayStation Blog]
By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012 -
Four Comics That Will Vibrate Your Molecules 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…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012 -
What the Hell Is Going on with the Avengers and X-Men in This Picture?
Rumors have been reverberating for a while now that Marvel Comics would be staging their own major shake-up as an answer to the New 52 re-boot that rival DC Comics pulled off almost a year ago. Now, the first look at the House of Ideas’ next major superhero shift—called Marvel Now!— comes via Entertainment Weekly.…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012 -
The Best Rabbit Samurai Ever Created Gets a New Game This Summer
I love Usagi Yojimbo. The itinerant rabbit swordsman created by cartoonist Stan Sakai has been the star of various series over the last 25 years but only ever starred in one video game. Stan Sakai’s signature creation will be getting a new outing in HappyGiant’s multiplatform Usagi Yojimbo: Way of the Ronin. The trailer above…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012 -
The Strangest Posts of All… Panel Discussion Starts Now!
Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this arrow “Panel Discussion”
By Evan Narcisse Published July 3, 2012 -
European Court Says You Should Be Able To Re-Sell Your Digital Games
If you pay to download a video game, does it then become a product you own? And should you then be allowed to sell or give it away like you can with physical products? The European Union’s Court of Justice has its own opinions on this longrunning debate, noting as part of a filing today…
By Jason Schreier Published July 3, 2012 -
You Can Ask the Head of Nintendo Anything, and You Ask Him This?
When Nintendo has a shareholder meeting, their shareholders can come in and ask just about anything. They’re shareholders! Such is their right. At the most recent meeting, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was asked about all manner of things, from the Wii U’s online plans to its multiplatform future. But the most burning question of all…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 3, 2012