Antiques Roadshow, the venerable BBC programme about valuing the public's collections, came a cropper during a recent event in Buckinghamshire when they were shown an incredibly rare prop from the original Star Wars - which much to their surprise, is worth quite a bit of money.
Today in Japan and today only, fastfood chain Lotteria is bringing back its five-patty Tower Cheese Burger for a mere 500 yen (US$4.66). That's a good deal for all the burger—and cheese—you get.
Last week, Kotaku did an unscientific speed test with the New Nintendo 3DS and the regular Nintendo 3DS. This week, you can see all 3DS consoles, including the NN3DS XL, face off. Let's see which one is the quickest.
Which, you know, might not be a bad thing.
Bossa Studios, they of Surgeon Simulator fame, are working on another game with what looks like a hilarious/frustrating control scheme. Only this time, instead of controlling a surgeon's wonky hands, you're controlling a slice of bread. Yup.
"What do you want the PlayStation TV to do for you?" That's an important question when considering purchasing Sony's new microconsole. A more important question might be "Do you know what the PlayStation TV is?"
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Reprising their partnership from previous games, Dutch cosplayers (and husband-and-wife team) Rick and Dominique Boer have absolutely nailed the look of the upcoming Assassin's Creed Unity.
Fall of Gods is an "illustrated book" that tells the story of a Norse warrior who, having lost his wife, sets out on an epic journey to get her back. By fighting a ton of monsters.
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It's a week for celebration, as music, dancing and singing games line up to welcome the continuation of beloved adventure saga The Longest Journey.
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I avoided seeing Transformers: Age of Extinction in theaters or on Blu-ray specifically so my first taste of the film would be CinemaSins' "Everything Wrong With" take. I am not disappointed.
We know Filipe Costa of Pipoca VFX from his work on transforming Pokemon and the original Tomb Raider into first-person games. Now he's working on transforming the largest first-person game of them all into 2D classics.
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Today's puzzle will be posed in two halves. The first half is a classic riddle – in fact, I suspect many of you will have heard it before. The second half, however, is an extension of the riddle that reveals its most common solution be be insufficient.
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Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive has a weekly in-game television show that communicates the latest tips and challenges to players, and since the only people playing right now are game reviewers...
If there's one thing I've learned from the regular Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare trailers we've been getting over the past few months, is that there needs to be more Kevin Spacey in video games. Let's fix that.
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Tonight's episode clinches it: Doctor Who is doing a much more ambitious character arc than it's done in years, even as the show's "mystery" storytelling is drastically scaled back. Even with a few stumbles here and there, this is really major. You have to applaud the ambition, and a lot of the execution. Spoilers…
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With a million dollars and the Summoner's Cup on the line, it all came down to this final match-up. Did Star Horn Royal Club rectify last year's loss, or has Samsung Galaxy White come out on top?
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Home theater receivers aren't cheap, so when you buy one, you want to be sure it's future-proof. That's certainly the case with this Yamaha RX-A830, and today you can get it for just over half its usual price.
Welcome to Kotaku's Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.
Oh God, what have I done? Oh that's right, I asked the wrong people to create an alternative line of sexy video game Halloween costumes. I brought this on myself, and now I'm bringing it to you.
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In the world of mobile games mediocre design, microtransactions, rip-offs, and cheap cash-ins flood the market and leave a certain stigma that often turns gamers away. The guys in Avenged Sevenfold and the folks at Subscience Studios sought to fight against that trend with the newly released Hail to the King: Deathbat
