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Assemble an Assault Team of classic Star Wars characters, then help Captain America take down the Winter Soldier.

Valve's Michael Abrash, who was just giving a talk about the wonders of virtual reality at the company's Steam Dev Days in January and has seemingly led the company's VR research, has taken a job as chief scientist at red-hot VR company Oculus. In announcing his move, Abrash also explained why Facebook's controversial $2 billion purchase of Oculus is great news:Read more...

You're going to experience the next game from the folks who made OlliOlli in a different way. Not in two dimensions. Not in two-and-a-half dimensions. In two-and-a-quarter dimensions. Let's get some perspective on that, shall we?Read more...

The evolution of first-person shooters has come a long way in the last few decades, but some might say that in recent years the genre has grown stale with age and over-saturation. If anything, though, this perceived stagnation has spurred the game development community to find fresh ways to innovate. Read more...

Facebook's acquisition of Oculus VR stunned the game industry. In less than two years, Oculus VR and its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset have gone from (literal) overnight Kickstarter success to subsidiary of a social networking giant. To put it another way: John Carmack, one of the principal creative forces behind the original Doom, is now a Facebook employee. Wild.

The transition of Oculus VR from a $2.4 million dollar Kickstarter to a $2 billion dollar acquisition seems unreal. To put things in perspective, and for the benefit of anyone who hasn't kept up with Oculus VR's meteoric rise, we've decided to retrace the company's story all the way from its humble beginnings in 2012.

We spend the whole show talking about Mark Zuckerberg's choice of hoodies. Maybe some Dark Souls, too.

Three scantily-clad pop stars team up to rid the world of Sin. Then they play some Final Fantasy.

Today's selection of articles from Kotaku's reader-run community: Why We Love Challenges • Friends don't let friends play Hardcore (A Diablo 3 Eulogy) • Engaged to the Unidentified: The Ani-TAY Review • Captain's Log First Look: Locanimals • Why the Muv-Luv Saga is the Greatest Story I've ever ExperiencedRead more...

Playstation Plus is back with another six games to fill up your free time in April (or further extend your backlog). The highlight is certainly Mercenary Kings on the PS4, while PS3 owners get Arkham City and Vita gamers can take control of the excellent Velocity Ultra. Pick up a subscription and check out the full list below. [Playstation Blog]Read more...

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I probably shouldn't have watched that TMNT trailer before recording this feature.

Jeff's going to need more than a red box to fend off SEVEN other players all vying for a single glowy ball.

Wear contacts? Don't want to stick your fingers in your eyes? A Japanese company has created a contraption called "Meruru." In short, you are looking at contact lens tweezers. Read more...

FTL: Faster Than Light is coming to iPad on April 3, and it includes the Advanced Edition expansion headed to PC for free on the same day. The space-based strategy game is priced $10 on all platforms, and is compatible with iPads version 2 and up - sorry, iPhones.

The Advanced Edition is plenty packed for a freebie, adding new ship layouts, weapons, drones, augmentations, and systems to explore and lose your beloved crew in. On top of that it has new events penned by FTL writer Tom Jubert and Obsidian's Chris Avellone.

"FTL works really well with the general way you play on iPad," co-founder of dev Subset Games Justin Ma told us at GDC, "just because you can pause it at any moment, come back later, and all the little events are bite-sized moments." [Image: Subset Games]

When I was growing up, everyone knew that boys get to be the knights and girls the princesses. But Witch Craft Works has a lot of fun turning this idea on its head. Read more...

The new Avengers movie hasn't started shooting in Seoul yet, but Joss Whedon is already telling the people he's sorry for the mess and inconvenience the movie will bring. Read more...

According to reports out of Japan, the president of social gaming giant Gree, Yoshikazu Tanaka, is being sued for allegedly making a young woman get an abortion. Read more...

Exploded ships and frustration galore, now on the go—but only on iPad. If you've only got an iPhone, you're out of luck. You'll have to stick with the PC version. Read more...

You might think that the samurai no longer exist in Japan. That the samurai officially vanished when they were banned from carrying swords in the late 19th century. That might be true, but samurai still exist in Japan. Today, they just wield glowsticks instead. Read more...

In Japan, if you really screw up, just saying you're sorry won't cut it. You might have to grovel. And this is some of the most extreme Japanese grovelling you'll see. Read more...

Considering he had a character in the game - Balrog - based on him, it's a wonder it's taken someone this long to bring the worlds of Mike Tyson and Street Fighter together.Read more...

Christopher Brändström is a freelance concept artist with one hell of a CV. He's not only got to work on video game series like Battlefield, Mirror's Edge and Killzone, but on Hollywood movies like Zero Dark Thirty and World War Z.Read more...

Saying they have a "Stunning Dystopian Sci-Fi Plot" might be a bit much, but I can forgive Fictiorama Studios for the hyperbole since their upcoming adventure game looks really cool.Read more...

This is some very early footage of Irkalla, "an intensive tactic arcade shooter game with demons, mages, spells, mechs and hight tech weapons."Read more...

Molyneux Orange: remember that fantastic comic strip about our most recent interview with Peter Molyneux? Someone went ahead and made a game about it!Read more...

It's the end of an internet era. Today, news broke that the pioneering TV recap site Television Without Pity (TWoP to the faithful) will be shut down next week by parent company NBC/Universal. In its mid-2000s heyday, TWoP and its wonderful writers inspired a generation of critics, myself included. It's a real bummer to see it go. Read more...

The real Dark Souls 2 apparently started back over there and things have become pretty dang tough.

Puzzle game Threes is one of the simplest, most addictive games on iOS. It's also, by virtue of that same simplicity, an easy game to clone. Something that's happened a lot, with sad/hilarious results.Read more...

More and more, jobs everywhere are becoming automated—and it's only going to get worse as technology becomes more capable and advanced. What are the chances your job could be taken by a robot, machine or AI, though?Read more...