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#gameface More disturbing shots found on GenePoo thedoll's Flickr photostream. More »

Let's play a quick game of "which of these two things is the craziest thing you've ever heard?" So, there's this Scandinavian law which prohibits any form of marketing for energy drinks, which EA Sports MMA (with its energy drink-branded fighter shorts and environments) would flagrantly violate. That's weird, right? Here's what's weirder: EA Sports has decided to cancel the game's release in the region outright to preserve the game's authenticity.

So, which is more bizarre? The fact that fans of dudefights living in Denmark won't be able to get their EA Sports MMA fix due to energy drink pants? Or the fact that EA Sports refuses to change the energy drink pants into Taco Bell pants because it would ruin the authenticity of the MMA experience? We're leaning towards the latter.

Funcom has offered up the biggest peek yet into The Secret World with the latest trailer. Check it out for lots of gameplay footage, behind-the-scenes commentary and a look at the Templar faction's starting hub, London. As a bonus, you'll also learn how swallowing flies can give you magical powers.

#gallery Each month, the Previews catalog from Diamond Comics showcases about 400 pages worth of upcoming comics, board games, statues and other stuff. A lot of it is video games. You can see the September issue's items here. More »

Here we were, thinking -- foolishly, might we add -- that this holiday season might not be packed to the gills with games we're way excited for. And then Ubisoft dropped this walkthrough of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood from Gamescom, reminding us that there's one more game to be crazy excited about.

Did someone say "war horse?" Yep, the narrator of the walkthrough certainly did. In addition to all the other new stuff Ezio can do in Brotherhood, he's able to hop from his horse to others -- including the war horse, one of several new horse types. If that doesn't get your pulse going, you may have already been assassinated. Head past the break for the entire video.

A portion of a GamePro review… A short yet memorable chapter in Samus Aran’s biography, Other M does an admirable job of blending elements of her past 2D adventures with those of her more recent 3D titles. It does misfire in several key areas, but it’s still a worthwhile addition to the Metroid canon. Even more [...]

"We stabbed it," Valve project manager Erik Johnson tells PC Gamer of the studio's apparent "flying fairy game," as Gabe Newell puts it. The conversation with Valve, which includes marketing director Doug Lombardi, provides revealing insight into the creative process of one of the most respected developers in the industry.

Described as an "action fantasy sort of role playing game" featuring fairies, the project went as far as a working prototype (with spells cast by mouse gesturing) and "it was so bad," says Newell. Still, it was "a useful failure," adds the Valve co-founder, "because It was so clearly dumb that it made us say, 'Okay, what are we actually good at that we can do instead?'" Cue the Zombie Apocalypse!

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#pspgo Are you a big Kingdom Hearts fan? Did you trade in your normal PSP for a sleek and shiny PSP Go last year? Then you won't be playing Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep any time soon. More »

Regardless of whether or not you're looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV, you really owe it to yourself to watch the new trailer posted after the jump. Not because it reveals the game's theme song ("Answers," as performed by pretty-voiced vocalist Susan Calloway), and not because it contains a few relatively rad cutscenes from the game, but because it features some of the most mind-blowingly insane writing to ever come out of the franchise. And that's saying something.

"These tears," the trailer posits. "Mankind's fated burden? A gods-decreed sacrifice?" Whoa, there, trailer! "Radiant glory? Or heinous oblivion?" We don't know how to answer that, trailer. The second one, we guess? We're not entirely sure what you're asking.

Okay, now this is pretty damn cool. The original pitch document for Aero the Acro-bat, long before it made it to retail shelves. I love seeing this kind of stuff, as we rarely ever get a peek! Hit up the link below to see the full design doc in all its glory. Design [...]

Here's your chance to win your very own zombie.

A portion of an MTV review… “Metroid: Other M” is an authentic experience that will please many fans of the series. Unfortunately it is also fundamentally flawed in some potentially game-killing ways. If you can get past the occasional frustrations, there’s a lot of fun and fan service to be had.

Another animal swap from Ubisoft.

The puffins fly off into the sunset.

Arguably the biggest addition to Portal 2 is the new two-player co-op campaign. But, did you know that Valve was also working on competitive multiplayer as well? Valve's Erik Wolpaw told 1UP that they "had something up and running -- the best way to describe it is sort of speedball meets Portal. You know, a sports analog." Essentially, the goal was to get a ball from one end to another, using portals.

But don't expect to find this mode in the game when it ships next year. Why? "It quickly became apparent that while it's fun for about two seconds to drop portals under people and things like that, it quickly just devolves into pure chaos," Wolpaw explained. "It lost a lot of the stuff that was really entertaining about Portal."

While Valve have given up on competitive Portal-ing, that hasn't stopped the fan community from creating their own games. Team Portress, for example, mixes a Portal Gun into Team Fortress 2, with some hilarious results.

Turn the beat around.

This information comes from a European print ad for GoldenEye. Are these modes going to be DLC, or is this just something you unlock with a special password in the game? The ‘FREE’ part of the message makes me think that others will have to pay to access those modes. I wish [...]

A.K.A. Turncoat, A.K.A. Othello.

#clips Kotaku favorite game blending artist David Stonecipher is at it again, giving us a look at how the characters of Mario's universe would look in World of Warcraft. More »

Online retailer Newegg is offering a solid deal on the new, all-black, glossier Xbox 360 wireless controller (the same one that comes with the Xbox 360 "S"). Normally $39.99, it's going for $29.99 -- no rechargeable battery pack included, but, hey, at least it comes with AAs?

August 2010 – (New York, NY); Little Orbit LLC, publisher and developer of casual computer entertainment products, and Redken 5th Avenue NYC, international salon cosmetics brand, today released a showcase video from Gamescom 2010 where they participated in Europe’s biggest computer games exhibition. This annual event takes place in Cologne Germany and the [...]

Anton Mikhailov has become a rockstar of sorts, headlining a global tour with his favorite instrument — PlayStation Move. Armed with a collection of new tech demos, Mikhailov and our Research & Development group have spent the year demonstrating the technology and precision behind PlayStation Move to developers and the larger gaming community.

With camera and PlayStation Move controllers in hand, Anton and I locked ourselves in a room and captured a new peek at what you can expect to see from titles on the PlayStation Move. You may have seen PlayStation Move tech demo videos before — including the PlayStation.Blog’s three-part tech demo tour from E3 2009. But you’ve never seen them like this!

You’ll notice that Anton was comfortably sitting on a couch when using the PlayStation Move controllers and the PlayStation Eye never reacted negatively to its reflection from our wall of monitors. These aren’t gesture triggering animations, folks, but true 1:1 gameplay.

With Killzone 3, R.U.S.E, Dead Space: Extraction, Tumble, and The Fight: Lights Out already using some of the tools shown in these tech demos, developers — and gamers — will have plenty of high-tech new toys to play with.