From July 31, Sony is ending warranty service for the PSP Go in Japan. The reason, Inside reports, is that it’s difficult to source parts, since production has ended for the portable.
Super Mario Maker: Designing a Challenge
Super Mario Maker is something people wanted for a long time. An easily accessible Super Mario level design tool, officially made by Nintendo. The levels people, maybe even you, design, range from fun, to meant to troll . Then you have people that just want to create a challenging level to puzzle others and test their…
Today, SNK announced that The King of Fighters XIV will be out in Japan on August 25, Dengeki Online reports. The KOF XIV website’s English page currently has a “late August” release date for the Western world.
Hummingbird and cherry blossoms. Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan. By Joel Gutheil.
Sunday's Best Deals: Sous-Vide, $20 off Kindles, Discounted LifeStraws, and More
Discounted Kindles, the most popular sous-vide circulator, and a clever string trimmer kick off Sunday’s best deals.
The Game of Thrones Dilemma
In the first book of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, Eddard Stark faces a near-impossible choice: Should he sacrifice his noble values to save his own life? This week, people across the world will have to make a similarly difficult decision: Should we watch the new season of Game of Thrones?

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED): The Ani-TAY Review • Naruto: Itachi Shinden - Book of Dark Night Impressions - Ep 6 (456) • Passion Cannot Defeat Science
Kotaku Shop Contest: Lighten Up, Dark Souls: Winners!
Last week I asked our Photoshop-savvy readers to bring a little bright and fluffy to the dreary world of Dark Souls. This is the prettiest ‘Shop Contest winners post ever.
Goombas and Roombas. LEGO builder Cecilie Fritzvold (via The Brothers Brick) created this micro scale Super Mario Bros. play session, complete with a robot vacuum cleaner to handle chores while the player is otherwise occupied.
Match-Fixing Report Shows How Gambling Has Ruined Korean StarCraft
The Korean prosecutor’s office leading the StarCraft 2 match-fixing investigation released its report this week, and the results are not good for fans of the sport. One of the game’s greatest players, Lee “Life” Seung Hyun, now stands convicted of match-fixing, as well as another leading player, Bung “Bbyong” Woo Yong.
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