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The Mystery Of The Unknown Neo Geo Game Has Been Solved

Hey, remember that unfinished Neo Geo fighting game that was discovered lurking on an arcade board? And how nobody knew what the hell it was? The man behind the game has been found, and he’s been able to reveal all kinds of stuff about it. Having seen the footage of the unfinished game, Japanese site…

Meet Hollywood’s New Lara Croft

There are new Tomb Raider movies coming, which means a new cinematic Lara Croft. And while Camilla Luddington did a fantastic job in the last two games, the big screen role has gone to Ex Machina’s Alicia Vikander. Vikander (who I loved in Man From U.N.C.L.E.) is going to be playing a similar Croft to…

WWE Fan Holds Up ‘Localize Mother 3‘ Sign At Recent Show

People bring all kinds of ridiculous signs to WWE events, but a demand to translate Mother 3? That’s a new one. Twitter user @5of6 discovered the sign while watching the most recent episode of WWE Smackdown: And here’s a clip from the episode: Maybe this will be one of the surprises Nintendo has for E3?…

One Overwatch Character Has Been Around For More Than A Decade

Overwatch was announced at BlizzCon in 2014. It rose from the ashes of a longtime Blizzard MMO project called Titan, which had been in development for years and years only to meet the reaping scythe of cancellation. But Overwatch character Soldier 76 even predates that. Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s trusty Shoot Man. He’s a gruff…

What We Like (And Don’t Like) About The Second Hitman Episode

This week IO Interactive released the second episode for their new Hitman game, full title Hitman 6: So You Want To Be A Hitman? After some costume changes and a few grisly murders, we decided to put our heads together to talk it out. This new mission takes place in the Italian coastal villa Sapienza…

Final Fantasy: The Kotaku Retrospective

Here’s a theory: Final Fantasy is defined by how it sounds. No, I don’t mean the music—although Nobuo Uematsu’s stirring soundtrack is as pivotal to Final Fantasy’s success as anything else—I’m talking about how it sounds. The chime of a menu cursor. The squeal of an NPC’s dialogue box. The thunderous jolt of a random…

Severed Is A Great Reminder Of How Good PlayStation Vita Games Can Feel

You can shut off your brain with some touchscreen games, tapping and swiping mindlessly until something else distracts you. Severed is not one of those games. Lose focus in this new Vita release and you’ll die real quick. Developed by Drinkbox Sudios, who previously released Guacamelee in 2013, Severed centers on a girl named Sasha.…

Dark Souls 3 PC Has A Massive Cheating Problem

Dark Souls 3 is excellent on PC, but it’s a haven for cheaters. From Software’s solution seems to be blaming the fans who love their game. A number of players found this upon loading Dark Souls 3 last week: The game didn’t explain what it meant by “invalid game data,” but in the past, this…

YouTube’s Content ID System Gets One Much-Needed Fix

YouTube’s system for dealing with copyright claims is famed for giving users huge headaches. But things are about to change, big time. YouTube uses something known as “Content ID,” a framework that grants uploads a unique digital fingerprint. If a YouTube channel uploads a video, and the automated system flags it with a digital fingerprint…

Oh Yeah, A New Deus Ex Is Coming Out Soon

Here is your reminder that in addition to Uncharted 4, Overwatch, No Man’s Sky, Star Ocean 5, Zero Time Dilemma, Final Fantasy XV, Mafia III, Danganronpa 3, Gears of War 4, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Doom, and all of the other cool-looking games scheduled for the next few months, not to mention all the stuff that’ll…

Dead Star’s Escape Mode Let Us Relive The Best Episode Of Battlestar Galactica

You can invade people’s games in the Souls games, Dying Light, and Watch Dogs, but, until last week, Mike Fahey and I had never done an invasion quite like the Battlestar Galactica-inspired one we did in Dead Star With the help of the game’s developers at Armature, we dove into the Escape Run mode in…

Sony Never Released This 1970s Console Prototype

If you thought the first video game console Sony made was the PlayStation, nope. It was just the first video game console Sony released Yes, before the PlayStation, before even Sony’s ill-fated collaboration with Nintendo, came this beauty. I’ll be honest, I’d never seen it until yesterday, when art/history site Video Games Densetsu posted a…

Square Is Releasing A 23-Year Old Super Famicom Game In English For The First Time

To those of you out there who have been holding your breath since 1993 waiting for a western release of Romancing SaGa 2, it’s time to exhale. After 23 years, Square’s finally bringing it here. Even if you’re not familiar with Square’s off-beat SaGa series, you’ve probably heard the name. It’s best described as “alt-JRPG,”…

New DOOM Includes Awesome Secret For Old School Fans

If you’re paying close attention to every level of the new DOOM, you might stumble upon something very cool. Spoilers ahead, obviously! Again, if you don’t want to have this DOOM secret spoiled ahead of release, stop reading. Anyway. Bethesda Softworks and id Software have finally started showing off the singleplayer portion of next month’s…

Dark Souls 3 Player Trolls Everyone By Playing As Shrek

Poor Shrek. He just wanted some peace and quiet, but some jerks just won’t stop trespassing over his swamp! This won’t do at all. Watch as Iron Pineapple defends a Dark Souls 3 swamp area while playing as Shrek. Naturally, Shrek is accompanied by Puss in Boots and Donkey, and together they gang up on…

GTA V Player Pulls Off Absurd Stunts With A Vespa Bike

The Enduro bike isn’t the only suitable vehicle in GTA V for wild custom stunt maps. The Vespa bike might be sluggish, but when handled correctly it’s a good choice for parkour maps as well. This is Dark Stunter, showing his skills and sliding through a pretty technical scooter trial, in record time. To contact…

If Future Link Gets Sick of Navi, He Can Just Remove Her Batteries

In the far future depicted in this fan art, Link likely has an easier time dealing with Navi’s nagging. Who is now a robot. That can most likely be turned off. Isn’t the future great? Drone Navi and Future Link are the products of the imagination of Magnus Norén, an artist from Sweden. Here they…

New maps from Fire Emblem Fates’s second map pack will start to release on May 5, Nintendo announced today. Map Pack 2 will contain 6 maps in total, with the entire package costing $8. Check out our review of the game here, if you haven’t yet.

Sony just announced it sold 17.7 million PS4 consoles worldwide during the 2015 financial year. That’s up from 14.8 million PS4s sold during the 2014 year.

Duelyst, a very pretty tactical game, is out today. It’s got a competitive focus and mixes in elements of collectible card games. It’s smartly designed, which is no surprise given that it comes from people who worked on Diablo III and Rogue Legacy. You can try it for free here