Adam Carolla Taunts Children To Celebrate The New Skylanders

In celebration of the launch of Skylanders: Trap Team, Activision planted hidden cameras all over a Toys’R’Us and piped the voice of comedian and podcast master Adam Carolla through the game’s demo kiosk. Then the taunting begins. When a villain is trapped in one of the game’s crystal prisons and inserted into the plastic glowing…

How To Mod Your 3DS To Play Smash Bros. With A Gamecube Controller

As soon as Nintendo released a demo for Smash Bros., it seemed like technical-minded people rushed to find ways to be able to play the game as it was meant to be played: with a controller. And now you can do it, too…provided you have the right tools and don’t mind fiddling with the insides…

Disney Added 21 Games To Steam. Here’s What’s Worth Playing.

Last week’s release of the free-to-downloadDisney Infinity 2.0 was just the tip of the Disney PC gaming iceberg. Today Disney Interactive has released a whopping 21 titles on Steam, from traditional children’s fare to arcade racing action. What’s worth checking out? Pure — $17.99 One of my favorite off-road racers of the previous generation, I’d…

AC Unity Will Have Same Specs On Xbox One and PS4 To Avoid ‘Debates’ [UPDATE]

Video game publisher Ubisoft is taking a whole lot of fire today after one of their developers implied that the company intentionally limited one version of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity in order to maintain graphical parity with the other. It started with a quote from Ubisoft Montreal producer Vincent Pontbriand, speaking to the website…

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is coming to PC in December. The open-world prologue game is hitting Steam on December 18th, to be precise. It came out on consoles earlier this year, and Kirk compared it to (very good) food.

Fake Smash Bros. Facts Are The Best

Not everything that Super Smash Factstweets out is real, but that doesn’t doesn’t mean the Smash Bros. “factoids” account can’t be funny. In fact, sometimes the parody Twitter account manages to be more truthful than the actual descriptions you’ll find in the Smash Bros. games. Most of the time, though, the Twitter account just likes…

The Game Release Calendar, Nostromo Edition

Alien: Isolation finally lands this week. Grab it here on PC for 20% off with code VBHGBM-JS2VN9-0J5OFM, or here for the other versions, and be sure to check out the Kotaku Review . Personally, I’ll be playing the long-awaited PS4 edition of Minecraft Over on the Movie and TV side of things, we’ve got the…

Chlamydia And Slutty Clowns: The ESRB Rates This Fall’s Big Games

We normally think of game ratings as little more than a useful marker of where we’ll be able to buy a game, or whether or not it’s suitable for children. But oh, let me tell you: ESRB literature can be so, so much more than that. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s website provides detailed rundowns…

Someone Actually Managed To Kill The Reaper In The Sims 4

How does one kill death itself? By getting your hands dirty, of course. PrettyGrumpyBearGame did an experiment that tested whether or not killing the reaper himself in The Sims 4 is possible. Turns out, under normal circumstances, it isn’t possible—the reaper is pretty much immortal. He can’t burn to death, he can’t starve, and he…

Darth Revan Gets His Own Star Wars: The Old Republic Expansion

The hero/villain/it’s complicated who launched Star Wars’ distant past setting in 2003’s Knights of the Old Republic gets another shot at the spotlight in Shadow of Revan, a digital expansion for MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, launching in December. In retrospect, Star Wars: the Old Republic might have done a lot better at launch…

Save on a Great Plasma Screen While You Still Can, and More Deals

The TV industry is a transitional period, and as such, we haven’t had a lot of deals to get really psyched about in a while. Here are two: Samsung 60-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz 3D Smart LED HDTV ($2598) | Amazon Samsung 51-Inch 1080p 600Hz 3D Smart Plasma HDTV($1398) | Amazon | The Wirecutter’s favorite…

Mountain Dew Game Fuel Once Again Heeds The Call Of Duty

It’s time for the annual running of the bladder, as Mountain Dew once again teams up with a major fall video game release to market alien flavors of its citrus-like carbonated beverage. Now with lemonade flavor! For the blissfully unaware, Game Fuel is the label Mountain Dew uses to market limited edition flavors to the…

Assassin’s Creed Unity Is Looking Very French

Ubisoft just releasee a snazzy new trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity that emphasizes the game’s story. Without spoiling anything, I think it’s safe to say the game is looking very French. That’s a good thing, in my book. I mean: who doesn’t want to try and kill Robespierre, am I right? Ok, I’m not actually…

Driveclub‘s Box Has Some Questionable Grammar

Box art grammar flubs are the best kind of grammar flubs. And while the back of Driveclub doesn’t quite compare to Capcpom‘s Resident Evil Revelaitons, this one is pretty great too. See the line on top there? “Race in hundreds of online & offline players”? That does not make sense. You cannot race inside of…

The Real World Reflected In The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter

Video games often strive to appear “realistic” in one way or another, but the new indie horror game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter took things a step further verisimilitude-wise: creating many of its levels by pulling from real-world photographs. Using a nifty technique known as “photogrammetry,” Ethan Carter developer The Astronauts built the game’s spooky…

‘Don’t kill me! I would die from that!’

Thank you to Reddit user Halefire for capturing this Shadow of Mordor orc “Skoth the Dumb” really living up to his namesake… via Reddit

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