Here’s A New, Limited Edition Borderlands 2 Loot Chest [Update: Image Of Loot Chest]

Gearbox’s last Borderlands 2 loot chests were such a hit, they decided to make a new version to match the style (aka diamond plated) of the in-game chests in the sequel. It’s a collaboration with Think Geek, and they’re only releasing 5,000 of them. The chests will be stocked with new content, including redeemable in-game…

The Newest Playable Class In Borderlands 2 Is A Psycho Bandit Named Krieg [Update: Now With Teaser Trailer]

The next character class in Borderlands 2 is a big, bad, psycho (you know, one of those bandits you shoot and kill all the time) named Krieg. An ex-psycho bandit that you can actually play as. Gearbox has been teasing the next playable character class for Borderlands 2—a hulking, silhouetted baddie—since SXSW. But we finally…

Borderlands 2 Is Getting A Second New Game Plus Mode Next Week

If you’ve played Borderlands 2 to completion and then played it through to completion a second time on True Vault Hunter Mode, and you’re still looking for more, you’ll be happy to hear that the game is getting something of a new game plus plus mode. It’s called Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, and you’ll have…

Borderlands 2‘s Level Cap Will Go Up To 61 On April 2

At Gearbox’s PAX East panel today, the developers of Borderlands 2 announced that players maxed out at level 50 will finally be able to get to leveling their characters again. As of April 2nd (next week!) you can download what is basically DLC for 11 extra levels (that’s up to 61). But it’ll cost you…

Watch A Bunch Of Amazing Borderlands Cosplayers Dancing At PAX East

So this is what’s happening right now before Gearbox’s PAX East panel, where our own Tina Amini is standing by to report any and all further shenanigans live as they happen.

Hell Mode has a startling essay about how one woman’s memories of violence were triggered by Tomb Raider

Drain A Fictional Phone’s Battery In The Scary-Looking Daylight

This is the first footage from Zombie Studios’ latest, a survival horrory-looking game called Daylight. There’s not yet much to know about it, besides that it’s powered by Unreal Engine 4 and its world is entirely randomly generated. I posted a while ago about the Kickstarter-funded Delver’s Drop, another procedurally generated indie title, and several…

The Week in Games: Awe and Shock

BioShock Infinite, one of the year’s most anticipated releases, takes you to a new dystopia on Tuesday. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon already is available on 3DS today. For sports fans, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 goes back in time on Tuesday. Sunday • Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS) • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity…

Here’s The First Official Trailer For The Final Fantasy X HD Remaster

We only just got confirmation that the HD remasters of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 are coming to North America, and already the first official trailer has surfaced. So what if it’s partly in German? As far as we know, this trailer was supposed to come out tomorrow. We’ve reached out to Square…

The Cosplay of PAX East, Day Two

Day two of PAX East gave birth to new DuckTales: Remastered details, the announcement of Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam, a whole slew of XCOM and Civilization news, and more Mass Effect 3 stats than you could ever want to know. It also played host to some of the most imaginative cosplayers this side…

A Minecraft Player Just Created What Could Be The Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence, Sort Of

My biggest accomplishments in Minecraft so far have been building my dream home (complete with fireplace, library, greenhouse, and swimming pool) and a five-way track switcher that I definitely did not copy off a Youtube video. Redditor AllUpInHyuh, on the other hand, created what he or she is calling “a working neuron.” An Imgur gallery…

Sunday Comics and the Kotaku ‘Shop Contest will return next week.

Could This Be A New XCOM Game In The Works?

Firaxis teased this very small snippet of a trailer for what looks like something XCOM related. A new game? DLC? They mentioned it was their next big project, so I would wager a guess to the next title in the series. For now, your guess is as good as mine.

Civilization V‘s Next Expansion—Brave New World—Releases In North America On July 9th

Firaxis today announced at their PAX East panel that the recently announced Civilization V expansion, named Brave New World, will release in North America on July 9th. International gamers can expect to play the expansion on July 12th. Update: Here’s ten minutes of footage from today’s panel—this is everything you need to know about the…

Fuse—the upcoming multiplayer shooter from Insomniac Games—will be coming out on May 28th.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown will get a Mac version on April 25th.

You’ll Soon Be Able To Use XCOM Soldiers In Civilization V [UPDATE: Now with video]

Today Firaxis—the makers of both XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Civilization V—announced that you can research something called the XCOM Project in your game of Civ V What that does is replace what would normally be paratrooper units with actual XCOM soldiers that drop from the Skyranger. Check out what that looks like in the screenshot…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Is Coming To The iPhone And iPad This Summer [Update: Now With More Info]

Firaxis’ summer is going to be quite busy. They just announced today at their PAX East panel that they’ll be bringing the fantastic strategy game from the PC/consoles over to the iOS platform. They showed off a quick demo of what the game will look like on your palm-friendly device, but we’re told that it’s…

This Is What The First Playable Version Of XCOM: Enemy Unknown Looked Like

Today at Firaxis’ panel at PAX East, the developers showed off the first version of XCOM: Enemy Unknown before it was scrapped for what you played last year. They worked on what you see above for about a year before ditching it.

Now Homeless, the Retro Games Podcast Retronauts Wants Your Kickstarter Money

After the tragic shuttering of 1UP alongside a few other publications last month, the retro games podcast Retronauts found itself without a home. Naturally its hosts, former and slightly-less-recently-former, have turned to Kickstarter to fund its revival. Bob Mackey, Ray Barnholt and Jeremy Parish are asking for $12,000 for equipment and recording space, and in…