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Five Years of Archiving Video Games’ Retro, Silly Past In Print

Video gaming’s greatest (and goofiest) moments in print will be forever preserved online, thanks to the efforts of a man and his scanner, Benj Edwards and an Epson Perfection 2480 Photo. For the past five years, every Monday, Vintage Computing & Gaming‘s Benj Edwards has posted a new “Retro Scan of the Week,” archiving—quite beautifully—classic…

Bulletstorm Unlockables Won’t Carry Over to Other Titles

There had been chatter that Bulletstorm would be one of several Epic Games titles whose achievements would trigger unlockables in Gears of War 3, due at the end of the year. Those plans have been scrapped because of compatibility issues. Epic’s Joe Graf, a lead gameplay programmer, tweeted that Gears of War 3 cannot read…

Four Street Fighters Who Know How To Block

Julian Fong took four Street Fighter all stars and morphed them into cool custom made LEGO minifigs for Round 1 of his new series. Related Rampage: Custom DC Lego Minifigs Street Fighter Minifigs – Round 1 by Julian Fong / levork (Flickr) (Twitter) Need your daily fill of geek eye candy? If so, head over…

Now Shopping Carts Just Need Video Games

Ran to the store today to get Tristan some medicine and discovered this sweet ride: A Shopping cart with television built in. Now to figure out how to hack it for video games…. and my nearly adult-sized body. What you missed MineCraft Comes to the iPhone With a Hate-Mail Inciting Twist Two-Face Wants You Do…

Tales of Graces F Is Coming To America

Another Tales game will come to the West, publisher Namco Bandai has announced. Tales of Graces F, the enhanced PlayStation 3 port of a 2009 Wii game, is “coming soon to North America.” Enjoy this victory, long-suffering Tales fans!

Homefront Invades America One Week Late

The North Korean invasion of the U.S. has been delayed by seven days. THQ and Kaos Studios’ Homefront will come to PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on March 15 in North America after a brief delay.

D.C. Universe Online MMO Log Part Three: In Blackest Night

The makers of DC Universe Online advised that some missions are unbeatable without resorting to that classic comic-book convention, the superhero team-up. Bogged down against the Sinestro Corps, I went in search of a big friend who wanted big action. Kotaku’s MMO reviews are a multi-part process. Rather than deliver day one reviews based on…

The Last Story Finishes First In Japan

The creator of Final Fantasy brought his latest adventure, Mistwalker’s The Last Story, to Japan this past week, with the Wii game debuting at the top of the country’s bestseller list. But this week’s chart definitely belongs to the PSP. The top ten bestselling games in Japan is dominated by new PSP games, including Sega’s…

D.C. Universe Online MMO Log Three Gallery

At least he’s not a sad panda. Mom warned me about you. Abort, retry, fail? Not a goof; I thought this guy’s character was very well done. I can tell by the hat. Little. Yellow. Different. This looks like a hell of a great snapshot, but it’s really a glitch hanging this guy in midair.…

Star Trek Online Celebrates Its First Year

It’s been a year since Cryptic Studios boldly went and released a massively-multiplayer game based on Star Trek, and it’s come quite a long way since then. See what’s changed and what’s next for Star Trek Online. Star Trek Online is a different game from the one I reviewed a year ago. Back then I…

Reel in Augmented Reality Fish (and Humans) Using Takara Tomy’s Fishing Reel

Like a fish borne from the ashes of Dreamcast’s Bass Fishing comes another wacky Japanese toy: Takara Tomy’s Virtual Master Reel. It’s an augmented-reality fishing reel that uses its 0.3MP camera to insert your real surroundings into the fishing game. Unfortunately it’s only destined for Japan (where it’ll cost the equivalent of $77), but how…

We Got Armored Core V Screens Incoming!

The team behind the Armored Core series is giving fans another dose of massive mech-on-mech action next year. Armored Core V from FromSoftware mixes things up with new “atmosphere” and online action “newly designed to focus on huge team-based battles on a global scale.” Armored Core V will be available throughout North America and Europe…

The Case Of The Identical Rabbit Games

There are two ways to buy a game about a violent rabbit on Apple’s Mac store. You could pay the game’s creators $10 or you could buy the version that is making them angry. That one costs two bucks. That choice between Lugaru and Lugaru HD is one that the creators of the game never…

First Look At Dark Souls, The New Demon’s Souls, In Action

FromSoftware is giving Demon’s Souls fans more of the punishing same with Dark Souls, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 follow-up to 2009’s brilliant and unforgiving role-playing game. Here is Dark Souls’ first glorious trailer. Formerly known as Project Dark, Dark Souls appears to deliver more tense dungeon crawling, strategic combat and innovative online multiplayer…

Dark Souls Screens And Artwork

Killzone Multiplayer Beta Pushed to Tomorrow

Originally scheduled to hit today, the multiplayer beta for Killzone 3, Guerrilla Games says, will now hit on Thursday, February 3rd at 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. But cheer up, they’re giving away 60 Killzone 3 Limited Helghast Editions to make up for the delay.

Is This The First Kinect-Created Music Video?

Some music video directors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on fancy special effects. Filmmaker Dan Nixon just spent $150 on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect to create the music video for Echo Lake’s “Young Silence.” I don’t know about the song, but the imagery in Echo Lake‘s “Young Silence” is quite eerie and haunting, thanks…

A Video Game Dream House, Built Before Your Eyes In Hyper-Speed

Most 18-minute videos on YouTube are dreadfully boring, but Curtis Paradis, avid Sims 3 user, puts on a stellar show speed-building the most elaborate house I’ve ever seen in a video game. The house is elaborate. Lots of windows. Lots of furniture. It’s basically a mansion, something I’d never have the money for in real…

Eyes Deep in Deus Ex Human Revolution’s Must-Read Comic

It opens with a man masturbating on a Juarez, Mexico rooftop and wraps up with a head-exploding punch; surprising then that the first word that popped into my head when I finished reading the inaugural Deus Ex comic is smart. The first Deux Ex Human Revolution comic hits stands next week, dropping readers somewhere into…

Pirates Of The Caribbean Has Never Been So Blocky

You’ve seen the trailer, now check out the first action-packed, block-built screenshots of Lego Pirates of the Caribbean in action.