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PlayStation Store Update: Rearmed With A Mustache

This week’s North American PlayStation Store update brings a great deal of mustache, thanks to the arrival of Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2, now with 100% more soup strainer. What else is on tap? The Clash’s London Calling might be the best music you can download this week, unless you’re adamantly against Rock Band 3 or…

A New Super Mario Bros. Is Coming To Nintendo 3DS ASAP

After the runaway success of New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS and New Super Mario Bros. Wii for Nintendo’s home console, news of a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo 3DS is probably not a surprise. So, we won’t pretend that Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto promising a new Super Mario Bros.…

How To Control SOCOM With The PS3’s Gun

When I played SOCOM 4 today, I controlled it with the forthcoming PlayStation 3 Sharpshooter peripheral, a shell that houses a PlayStation Move. This scheme is not mandatory, but it works. SOCOM developer Ben Jones explains how. Jones’ explanation gives you the pertinent details. It’s hard to assess how good the Sharpshooter will feel during…

Street Fighter IV Ultra Combos Look Ultra Cool In Real Life

When Street Fighter IV’s ultra combos are recreated in the real world, is the result silly looking or totally bad-ass? As “action company” Thousand Pounds, demonstrates, it’s somewhere in the middle. Watch as Vonzell Carter, James Young and David ‘Dax’ Bauer beat each other up with a series of dramatic, slow motion death blows lifted…

Throne Together: A Crusader Kings II Preview

You’re old. Your wife’s plotting your downfall. Your son’s a dribbling imbecile. Your father-in-law hates your guts. And I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “Yes, that is certainly my life. Why would I want to play a game like Crusader Kings 2, which models all of this in a medieval environment?” Well, I’ll tell…

Meet The Ladies Of Infamous 2

Infamous 2‘s Cole will be joined by a pair of lovely lady co-stars in Sucker Punch’s PlayStation 3 sequel, two representations of the game’s karma system. Meet Kuo and Nix. Nix, pictured above, is “a New Marais native that grew up in the swamps,” complete with a burning hatred borne from the murder of her…

Which Indie Game Deserves To Win The IGF’s Audience Award? You Decide!

The 2011 Independent Game Festival has opened voting for the public to decide this year’s Audience Award. Should Amnesia win? Cave Story? Nidhogg? Minecraft? Download these games and vote now!

This Could Be The Uncharted Movie’s Female Lead

The bad news is the big-screen “adaptation” of Naughty Dogs’ beloved Uncharted series is still underway. The good news? I get to post a picture of Scarlett Johansson, who could be in the running to play Nathan Drake’s girl. We know director David O. Russell wants Mark Wahlberg to star as Nathan Drake, and we…

How To Kill A Super-Hero Using Foursquare

Foursquare could be more deadly than Kryptonite, according to the smartly-written — really! — 60th issue of the latest Supergirl comic. A bright Harvard guy makes a crowd-sourced Foursquare-style app that lets supervillains hunt super-heroes. Mark Zuckerberg meets Lex Luthor? Shades of Foursquare backfiring site PleaseRobMe.com, Gawker Stalker, and all that good stuff. Here are…

SOCOM 4 And The Modern Shooter’s Flirtation With Call Of Duty

The new SOCOM is like a lot of other sequels these days. It’s changed just enough to worry fans of the older games, changed just enough to take a crack at a more popular competitor. SOCOM, meet Call of Duty. You could mistake SOCOM 4 for being something other than a true sequel to the…

Playing Video Games With Dad Builds Better Daughters

Do video games make girls healthier and happier? A brand-new study out of Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life suggests they do, as long as parents are willing to play along. The Brigham Young study, authored by Sarah M. Coyne, Ph.D., distributed questionnaires to 287 adolescents between the ages of 11 and 16 and…

This Little Kinect-Controlled Marionette Is Packing Heat

The next game from the makers of ‘Splosion Man and Comic Jumper puts you in control of a virtual, Kinect-enabled puppet armed with two six-shooters and a thirst for revenge. Gunstringer appears to be a cross between a platformer and a shooter, but the twist is that you will be controlling the undead cowboy with…

A Cursed Catwoman and an Ancient Egyptian Plague Set to Invade DC Universe

Catwoman is going feral later this month in DC Universe Online when she accidentally unearths a set of cursed Egyptian cat artifacts as part of the massively multiplayer online game’s February update. While the big February update for the PC and Playstation 3 game is meant to highlight Catwoman, you’re not just getting a single…

DC Universe Catwoman Expansion

Become A Dragon Age Legend On Facebook

It’s time to sign up for the closed beta for Dragon Age Legends, EA 2D’s Facebook companion to Dragon Age II, where players can earn exclusive items for use in the console game. I was under the impression that Dragon Age Legends would be hitting Facebook before the March 11 release of Dragon Age II,…

This Dark Link Statue Will Haunt Your Dreams And Your Wallet

First 4 Figures gives its painting guy a well-deserved rest with the latest addition to its Legend of Zelda statue line, Dark Link. To glow or not to glow? That is the question for Legend of Zelda fans interested in picking up this stark and striking statue of Link’s darker side. Both the normal edition…

Of Course There’s A Limited Edition Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Arcade FightStick

Every major Capcom fighting game release since Street Fighter IV has seen a super sexy Tournament Edition Arcade FightStick from Mad Catz, and Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 is no exception. Fighting fans know the drill by now. The Tournament Edition Arcade FightStick is a lovely piece of arcade technology, featuring Sanwa Denshi components housed in…

Is Video Game Difficulty Ass-Backwards?

Kotaku commenter SuicidalEarthworm (don’t do it!) feels that video games are handling difficulty wrong, getting progressively easier instead of more difficult. Add your two cents in today’s Speak-Up on Kotaku. You know what I think, game difficulty is all backwards in practically all games. You start up with barely any weapons…and if a game involves…

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Meet Anarchy Reigns’ Zero And His Two Stabby Friends

Yesterday we got our first look at Anarchy Reigns’ Ice Queen Sasha in action. Now we meet Zero, a dual-wielding swordsman who could give Metal Gear Solid’s Raiden a run for his money. We’re slowly being introduced to the full cast of Anarchy Reigns, the online beat-em up from the makers of Bayonetta and MadWorld.…