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Maybe The Walking Dead video game will actually leave Herschel’s Farm

Check out the highly emotional, walker-free trailer for The Walking Dead video game. We don’t know much about this world, but we certainly hope the characters don’t decide to stay on Hershel Greene’s farm the entire time. Brought to you by Telltale Games, this game still has no release date set. [Via IGN]

Television Meredith Woerner

The Science of Rail Guns

Ubiquitous in science fiction, rail guns are a hot area of military research in real life too. But will we ever really get to use them the way people in science fiction do? And could rail guns be used for a non-violent reason — inexpensively launching payload into space? Halo Reach ends with your Spartan…

io9 Keith Veronese

Of course it is: Walking Dead social game coming to Facebook

If you’ve ever wanted to shoot your Facebook friends in the head, this is your chance. AMC and Eye Wides Games are releasing The Walking Dead Social Game next month, so you and your friends will team up to defeat the Walkers, and then turn on each other as one of you inevitably goes zombie…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch Project KARA, a seven-minute tearjerker about a sentient android

Video game studio Quantic Dreams — who you may remember helmed the PS3 crime thriller Heavy Rain — has now released a new short film starring the voice and digital likeness of actress Valorie Curry (Twilight, Veronica Mars). According to Quantic Dreams CEO David Cage, this heart-rending short uses technology more typical of Hollywood than…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Mass Effect

You already knew that Mass Effect is quite possibly the most important science fiction universe of our generation. But how did Mass Effect develop into such an important game? As we eagerly await the third installment of the trilogy, it’s interesting to learn more about the creative choices that led us here. So here are…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Everything You Need for a Mass Effect 3 Marathon

You’ve got five days until Mass Effect 3 is out, but if you’re going to hole up in a nerd bunker as soon as it hits, you’ve got some planning to do. Here’s everything you need to spend way too much of your life fighting Reapers and pursuing sex with your squadmates. Mountain Dew Throwback…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Behold, the Steampunk Batman game that never was

We’ve been following the aborted Steampunk Batman video game Gotham By Gaslight for some time now, and here is the first footage we’ve ever seen. https://gizmodo.com/what-would-the-steampunk-batman-videogame-have-been-lik-5876217 In this alleged canned demo reel, watch as the Caped Crusader leaps from Victorian Gotham City rooftop to cobblestone walkway. We can’t be sure if this is the real…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Star Wars Kinect includes Slave Bikini Leia dance-off competition

There is a universe where the last Star Wars action figures came out in 1985, the Battle of Endor took place on Kashyyyk, and the prequels were actually a three-night-long PBS mockumentary — directed by Errol Morris — on the vagaries of moisture farming. Suffice to say, we don’t live in that universe. In the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What the Hell Is That Weird Noise at the Oscars?

I flipped over to the Academy Awards because, I dunno, sometimes I just do things, but there is this weird sound happening throughout. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!? It sounds like somebody is playing Atari during all of the presenters and acceptance speeches. Are you guys hearing it too, or is this bad acid? Somebody…

Tech News Brent Rose

The new Angry Birds Space NASA trailer is pleasantly ridiculous

Angry Birds Space will be coming out for iOS, Android, Mac and PC next on March 22, the game’s developers at Rovio, tell Kotaku. They lobbed that news our way this morning along with this exclusive trailer that combines official NASA footage with, well… you’ll see. Consider this another tease of the Angry Birds’ off-world…

io9 Stephen Totilo

Listen to two full albums of Daft Punk songs, remixed as Nintendo soundtracks

We’ve heard the Tron Legacy soundtrack transmogrified into floppy disc farts. Now witness France and/or robotdom’s premier deejaying duo turned into the digital drone of Commodore 64s and wheezing MS-DOS games. https://gizmodo.com/daft-punks-tron-theme-a-la-five-floppy-disc-drives-5873306 The folks at chiptune remix site Da Chip released their first batch of retrotech songs in 2009 and have just compiled a new…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

An exclusive sneak peek at Dark Horse’s upcoming Dragon Age comic

Starting next Wednesday, Dark Horse Comics will release a six-part miniseries based on Bioware’s Dragon Age roleplaying game. Here’s an exclusive first look at the full collage of the miniseries’ cover art. The first issue hits February 22 on Dark Horse Digital, and here’s the plot synopsis: The thrilling, six-part series will feature a riveting…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Adam Adamowicz’s incredible post-apocalyptic Fallout 3 concept art

This week, the video game world lost a great concept artist. Adam Adamowicz was one of the concept artists behind Fallout 3 and Skyrim, two visually stunning games. Take a look back at Adamowicz’s designs for Fallout’s retrofuturistic apocalypse. https://kotaku.com/concept-artist-behind-fallout-3-skyrim-has-died-5883988 Kate Cox at Kotaku posted an obituary for Adamowicz, who tragically succumbed to cancer this…

io9 Lauren Davis

Who Wants to Blow Up a Truck This Valentines Day?

Valentines Day is fast approaching and if you’re dateless again this year (*raises hand*), don’t drown your sorrows with a bottle of Jack. Especially not when you can take out your unloved frustrations with an Internet-connected machine gun. Twisted Metal, the classic Playstation game, has been rebooted and will hit stores February 14th for the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Breaking Bad: The Roleplaying Game is extremely depressing

Much in the same way Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica have received the RPG remix from College Humor, AMC’s “chemistry teacher turned meth cook” drama Breaking Bad has also been given the clever 16-bit treatment. https://gizmodo.com/battlestar-galactica-in-four-minutes-as-a-1990s-rolepl-5873166 https://gizmodo.com/the-10-most-bad-ass-chemistry-scenes-from-breaking-bad-5853550 Know that there are extensive spoilers in just about every scene (save the very last one). Yeah,…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Daily Show Pits Newt Against Mitt in the Only Competition That Matters: Mortal Kombat

Tonight’s Repiblican Primary in Florida may be game over for Newt, but at least his tussle with Mitt Romney has been an entertaining slugfest. Last night, Jon Stewart drew a comparison to everyone’s favorite pillar of gratuitous violence, Mortal Kombat. And who knows—American culture might be headed for a time when Call of Duty skill…

Tech News Michael Hession

Portal turrets channel The Nightmare Before Christmas with “This is Aperture”

Those Portal turrets really aren’t such bad robots. After all, it’s not their fault that they’re programmed to shoot you in the face. Everyone’s favorite guilt-tripping sentinels get into the gleeful spirit with “This is Aperture,” an ode to the puzzle-filled test facility sung to the tune of The Nightmare Before Christmas’s “This is Halloween.”…

io9 Lauren Davis

How the Video Game Was Born

This year, the video game turns 40. Let’s call it an occasion to spend a few more hours in front of our TVs, the place where it all started. In 1951, some 12 million television sets were in existence and Ralph Baer, a television engineer at Loral Electronics, wondered what extracurricular tricks TV sets could…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

First Resident Evil: Retribution trailer blames smart phones for the apocalypse?

The fifth addition to the long legacy of ladies kicking T-Virus ass in questionable attire, better known as the Resident Evil franchise, has finally released its first trailer. Yes, if you can make it through shameless Sony merchandise plugs, there’s an actual trailer buried under there for Resident Evil: Retribution. And it looks like we’ll…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Will Syfy’s Defiance be the next Firefly?

Syfy has finally found a lead for their joint television and massive multiplayer online series, Defiance. It’s Cooter from True Blood, better known as Grant Bowler. And with the announcement of their lead, a few new details for this space Western have been revealed. According to Deadline Defiance will take place on… A future Earth,…

Television Meredith Woerner

Maybe The Walking Dead video game will actually leave Herschel’s Farm

The Science of Rail Guns

Of course it is: Walking Dead social game coming to Facebook

Watch Project KARA, a seven-minute tearjerker about a sentient android

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Mass Effect

Everything You Need for a Mass Effect 3 Marathon

Behold, the Steampunk Batman game that never was

Star Wars Kinect includes Slave Bikini Leia dance-off competition

What the Hell Is That Weird Noise at the Oscars?

The new Angry Birds Space NASA trailer is pleasantly ridiculous

Listen to two full albums of Daft Punk songs, remixed as Nintendo soundtracks

An exclusive sneak peek at Dark Horse’s upcoming Dragon Age comic

Adam Adamowicz’s incredible post-apocalyptic Fallout 3 concept art

Who Wants to Blow Up a Truck This Valentines Day?

Breaking Bad: The Roleplaying Game is extremely depressing

Daily Show Pits Newt Against Mitt in the Only Competition That Matters: Mortal Kombat

Portal turrets channel The Nightmare Before Christmas with “This is Aperture”

How the Video Game Was Born

First Resident Evil: Retribution trailer blames smart phones for the apocalypse?

Will Syfy’s Defiance be the next Firefly?

6 Magic School Anime and Manga to Discover Instead of Thinking About ‘Harry Potter’ Ever Again

Unprecedented Images Show Sperm Whales Acting as Midwives to Help a Mom Give Birth

‘Butt Birth’-ing Rhinoceros from Ace Ventura Sequel Sold at Auction for a Whopping $60,000

The Ryan Gosling Sci-Fi Streak Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

Scientists Just Found the Salt Limit That Pushes Your Heart to the Breaking Point

White House Social Media Just Had Its Covfefe Moment

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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