Metal Band Avenged Sevenfold Is Making A Diablo Clone

What, you expected a pet sim? Tapping into the band’s deep love for video games (like Diablo) and working in elements of their signature (Diablo-ish), Avenged Sevenfold has teamed with developer Subscience Studios to create a mobile dungeon crawler that hearkens back to the … Diablo. It’s called Hail to the King: Deathbat. From the…

If you’re into classic arcade games, check out Michael Mateyko and Hans Thiessen’s “A Field Guide To Classic Arcade Design.” Very cool stuff. (Via The Verge)

Drunk Gran Turismo Champion Drives About as Well as I Do Sober

Responsible Young Drivers, despite its English name, is a Belgian advocacy group that, well, advocates responsible driving for the young. What better way to illustrate that than with a video game, and a smashed driver behind the wheel? Tina was skeptical that AMO_RACING87, the top Gran Turismo driver in all of Belgium, was really this…

Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki joked about his plans for future Souls games on twitter today: We here at Kotaku are fully behind the idea. Here’s your first piece of concept art, Mr. Miyazaki: Feel free to leave your Ernest-Borgnine-in-Dark-Souls related photoshops in the comments.

Dead MMO’s World Could Live On as an Explorable Relic, says Developer

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning closed down on Wednesday when the licensing agreement Electronic Arts had with Games Workshop ended. A developer who worked on the game says there is a way to preserve its world in a kind of museum-exhibit way, should EA choose to release it. Andrew Meggs, who was the lead client…

Ah, So Lara Croft: Reflections Is A Card Game. Great.

Back in March of this year, Square Enix trademarked the name Lara Croft: Reflections. Some speculated it would be a 3DS or PlayStation Vita game. Nope, it’s a free-to-play card battler. Lara Croft: Reflections is in testing right now in Austraila and New Zealand, so anyone with an account in those regions can download it…

The 13 Most Popular Video Games Of 2013, As Purchased By You

We’ve come to the end of another great year in gaming, and we at the Commerce Team can’t think of a better way to celebrate than by looking back at the games our readers chose to treat themselves to. There are some no-brainers and some big surprises, and we can’t wait to see how next…

The official high-capacity battery for the Wii U GamePad is now available in the U.S. The $32 part increases the GamePad’s battery life from between three and five hours to a luxurious eight. For a solution that doesn’t involve unscrewing the GamePad, there’s always the Nyko Uboost.

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Souls lets us in on how Assassin’s Creed IV made him cry. FoolProofAdam talks about how spoiling The Last of Us made it an even better experience. And Cill Bosby sings the praises of The Knights of the Old Republic Don’t forget that you can…

Tomb Raider Makes An Excellent Argument For iOS Controllers

Last week, Square Enix quietly released the original Tomb Raider for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You can almost see the game through the haze of virtual controls. Might be time for a gamepad. Gamepad support, recently introduced to the platform with iOS 7, is likely why we’re seeing the original Tomb Raider being…

WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison

Late last week, in Zhejiang province’s Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn’t commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. The sentence hearing and the results…

93-Year-Old Chinese Man Poses Nude For Art

Ninety-three year-old Li is more than meets the eye. Li has worked a myriad of jobs, from making rat poison to collecting garbage, also volunteering for the army. But now, Li’s famous for his latest job: working as a semi-nude model. First appearing on Chinese image board TTmop, Li’s story is an interesting one. Originally…