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#portal From now until September 20, the PC and Mac versions of Valve's classic first-person puzzler Portal are free. Free gratis. You won't pay a cent for it. More »

#supermonkeyball New video game hardware? New Super Monkey Ball! Confirming this weekend's leak, Sega has officially announced that Super Monkey Ball—arguably as reliable as death and taxes—is coming to the PlayStation Vita in early 2012. More »

#playstationvita Details from the latest issue of Famitsu magazine are leaking all over the place, revealing a slew of PlayStation Vita games both new and old, including versions of Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Katamari Damacy, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and more. More »

So... about that newly revealed, clunky-looking Nintendo 3DS attachment... thing, Nintendo tells Kotaku "We can confirm that Nintendo plans to release the Circle Pad attachment, but Nintendo's regional subsidiaries will make further announcements about its availability at a later date." More »

#bastion The widely acclaimed action RPG Bastion will not be getting any DLC—at least DLC that extends the story—the game's developer said in an interview. More »

#yodawg Hans Lemurson builds redstone computers in Minecraft, which led to the joking question of whether he could build one that plays Minecraft. Well, the answer is yes, sort of. More »

#3ds Today in Japan, the 3DS went on sale with a new, lower price. Some people lined up at stores in Tokyo, but not that many. But that's okay. More »

#supermariobros Saving the Princess looks almost too easy armed with an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. But that doesn't mean we're not overly excited to play Mari0, a side-scrolling that jams Valve's brand of teleportation into Nintendo's NES classic. More »

#fancypants We usually salute the best in cosplay craftsmanship (or craftswomanship!) here on Fancy Pants. Or the best in photography, or modelling. It's not often we salute the best in ideas. So let's change that today. More »

#mortalkombat When Syco Collectibles showed off their line of Mortal Kombat statues the other day, sadly one of the main attractions, a Raiden piece, wasn't done. He is now! More »

#avenger It looks crazy but it just might work. N-Control has opened up preorders for the PlayStation 3 version of its Avenger controller cover, adding levers, pulleys, and other odds and ends to a controller design that's worked perfectly well for over a decade. More »

#portal Gary Hudston commissioned three spectacular custom-built Portal 2 levels complete with fresh dialog from the voice of GLaDOS, Ellen Mclain, just to ask his girlfriend to marry him. After watching the glorious spectacle unfold, I'm ready to marry the guy. More »

The Minecraft folks have teamed up with Mackapar Films to make...something. PigTales, the resulting website, features a customizable video of Minecraft pig sock puppets. You make up dialog, then post to the site. We're still not sure why. More »

#sonic There's only two Tails, but each Tails has two tails, making it four tails. See, I used the capitalization of the headline as misdirection! Just watch the video. More »

#hotflashes id Software's groundbreaking first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D has been stripped to its core, shedding two dimensions to become playable on a "single, dazzling one-pixel line." More »

#eveonline Only in an MMO is a gigantic financial crime a) subject to absolutely no punishment and b) a sign of the community's health because hey, it's all role-playing, right? Once again, we're looking at EVE Online. An intergalactic space Ponzi scheme fleeced investors of 1 trillion spacebuxx or whatever that currency is called, which the perps can put toward a lifetime supply of game time and still have a bunch left over for all the other shit they want to buy in-world. More »

#opinion Predator drones and other high-tech weaponry are turning war into video games and making the use of military force a more, perhaps too, palatable option, an Aljazeera op-ed piece argues. More »

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#psp One of the sadder stories to come out of this week's London riots is that of Malaysian student Ashraf Haziq, who bleeding profusely from a broken jaw is helped to his feet by passers-by...before summarily having his PSP stolen right out of his backpack. More »

#portal During the creator's commentary in Portal 2, Valve animator Richard Lord called the eye portion of lovable personality sphere Wheatley's design a physical impossibility. Cosplayer Furin's talking Wheatley puppet seems to have done well enough. More »

#catherine PS3 title Catherine is saucy. It inspires saucy cosplay and fan art. And next year, the game is getting a hot figurine. More »

#steamvsorigin The latest casualty of the EA/Origin-Steam war is Battlefield 3 a title of no small consequence to the PC gaming community. Electronic Arts has confirmed the heavily anticipated combat shooter will not be sold through PC gaming's dominant digital distribution service, apparently for the same reasons that have seen other top EA PC titles removed from its catalog. More »

In a recent interview with Develop, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson discusses EA CEO John Riccitiello's visit to the Stockholm headquarters of Mojang, saying that any acquisition hopes Riccitiello might have had were quashed by the independent studio's vibe. More »

#3ds A demo is like a sample sachet of shampoo. A piece of sausage a lady at a supermarket offers you. It's a small, free thing, designed to lure you into buying a product. It is not, and never should be, a product itself. More »

#catherine Can't get enough of the titillating title character of Catherine? Now Zippo is releasing Catherine and Katherine-themed lighters to really light your fire. I mean, get you hot. Erm, that is, they light up your night. Sorry, it's too easy to make bad puns with this one. More »

#itonlydoesoffline The BlackHat USA security conference kicks off later today in Las Vegas, and will be attracting some of the world's top hackers and online security experts. As part of the festivities, every year an awards night is held called the "Pwnies". More »

#watchthis Or is the technology that powers Euclideon's "Unlimited Detail" graphics engine another contender that hopes to unseat the traditional way of modeling and rendering things in 3D (with polygons)? Whatever Euclideon's fate, it's potentially a very exciting development. More »

#halflife Reader Michael sent us an image he's been working for a while. It's a map of Half-Life 2's City 17 done in an "authentic" style. More »