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Realtime World's David Jones on the genesis of action gaming's next big step.

Massively multiplayer urban chaos in action gaming's next big step.

#science Unless you make your living from science, a table of elements is a pretty boring thing. But not when it includes gaming concoctions like Imulsion (Gears of War), Tiberium (Command & Conquer) and Element Zero (Mass Effect). More »

#ps3 Outdoing early guesstimates on its retail performance, Sony's PS3 thriller Heavy rain has managed to sell over a million copies worldwide since launching in February. More »

#johncarpenter Man, everything! More »

No matter how many times I’ve played it, Doom is still just as fun as the first time. It also doesn’t matter what platform I play it on. There may be some technical issues between versions, but no matter how bad a dev screws something up, they just can’t seem to yank the [...]

Now this is what Flipnote Studio is all about. This video is gorgeous from start to end. It doesn’t hurt that the music is pretty nice as well!

#explainer We've been mentioning DRM, or Digital Rights Management, a lot lately here on Kotaku. It's an important topic! Thing is, we've been made aware a lot of you don't entirely know what it is. If that's you, here's a guide. More »

- 70 to 80 hours long, but somewhere around 100 if you go for optional quests - the entire Xenoblade world is seamless - loading breaks when you travel between major areas - major areas are considered to be different body parts of the two gods - battles are in real-time with no cuts/breaks - you can see enemies on [...]

I want to make sure this is said before anything else. The only reason I’m posting this up is because so many people are sending it my way. I personally do not believe the date. With that said, here’s what GameStop has as the placeholder date for Legend of Zelda Wii. As you [...]

It seems like some people are having trouble keeping track of their Pokewalker! Here I am, thinking that most people just slip it into a pocket and have nary a worry until they get home to see what they’ve accomplished. Unfortunately, some people end up losing their Pokewalkers between point A and point [...]

Tributes to classic 2D games (Earthworm Jim, Mega Man, Super Mario Bros., and Sonic the Hedgehog)

#hideokojima From Axe body spray to Doritos chips, upcoming stealth game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is wall-to-wall product placement. Game designer Hideo Kojima explains why. More »

Flower, Sun and Rain…have you picked it up? Yes, it’s a Suda game, so that makes it weird as hell. You know what, though? For the right crowd, this game can be quite the engaging experience. If you’re open to new ideas and bizarre situations, this might be the game for [...]

#pc One of the advantages of both Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 sharing an engine is that it's relatively easy to share content between the two. Like, say putting zombies in a Team Fortress 2 map. More »

#hollywood Once upon a time, Microsoft was going to make a big budget Hollywood version of the Halo franchise. Until it spectacularly fell apart. That doesn't mean it won't ever happen, says the company. More »

#rumor Bad news, Battlefront fans: sources tell us a new entry in the series, in development at SOCOM: Confrontation developers Slant Six, has been canned, and a number of staff at the studio laid off as a result. More »

Get set for Black and White! First look at the Japanese logos.

#pokemon Get ready for new Pokémon games, Pokéfans, as the latest entries in the popular monster-collecting series - Pokemon Black & Pokemon White - have just turned up on the franchise's Japanese website. More »

#rockband This week's new batch of downloadable tracks for Rock Band all have one thing in common. Did you catch it? The post-Easter releases from bands like Anberlin, Hawk Nelson and Skillet all fall under the "Christian rock" label. More »

Indie studio Dejobaan Games, best known for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, is giving out a free game when folks sign up for its "Free, Sexy Dejobaan Fan Club." The studio tells us that the fan club, for which over 1,000 have registered since PAX East, will also grant participants access to future alphas and betas. Because, if you're a true fan, you'll help with the bug testing process for free and love the studio anyway.

In addition to the free game, those who sign up will also receive a song by studio founder Ichiro Lambe. Although the studio hasn't announced its next "real" game yet, it is currently "very strongly prototyping" the Musorqua project.

The fifth-generation Pokemon game has been announced! At least, the titles for it have -- Pokemon Black and White are the next generation of Pokemon games, to be released this fall on DS in Japan. Nintendo's going for relatively simple colors after things like "HeartGold" and "Pearl." And ... that's pretty much all we know. Of course, given the way the series works, we can all kind of guess exactly how this will play.

The first new creature from this generation has already been revealed as a sort of teaser: Zoroark, the Monster Fox Pokemon. The teaser site indicates that we'll know more April 15.

[Thanks, Eric!]

#ps3 Developer Valve hasn't announced a PlayStation 3 version of upcoming first-person puzzle game Portal 2—only Xbox 360, PC and Mac versions are official—but one magazine seems to think its coming, naming it among its "must-play PS3 games." More »

To remind press about the upcoming release of Final Fight: Double Impact, and to fill all but a few lucky people with painful jealousy, Capcom is sending out these delightful press kits, inside (what else) a breakaway barrel.

Packed within that powerup distribution vessel is an arcade token with images from both Final Fight and Magic Sword, a copy of the soundtrack on cassette(!), "Ninja vs. Bear" and "Haggar for Mayor" badges, a reversible t-shirt with one of the two games on each side, and a can of pink hair color spray, in honor of Final Fight's Poison.

Non-press members will have an opportunity to get one of these from Capcom's online store, but you'll have to be vigilant! In the meantime, see the press kit unbarreled after the break, thanks to Ars Technica.

#gameblame An evenhanded study last month about kids and schoolwork found "nothing evil about video games," but not a Kansas educator, who bootstraps those findings to his claim that games are responsible for the widening achievement gap between boys and girls. More »