The game has a new world record of 4:56.528. Speedrunner Darbian reached it late last Friday night on his 27,474th attempt. It’s a big milestone in an important game, but it also signals the possible beginning of the end for the race to beat Super Mario Bros. as quickly as possible.

With the movie due soon, Hot Toys are working on getting the whole Justice League turned into eerily lifelike action figures. Next up is Jason Momoa’s Aquaman.

Vanessa Morales is an artist from Mexico who does graphic design, concept art and illustration.

There are definitely some games coming out this week.

If cartoon art helped defeat the Nazis, then you’d think it should also help get the better of Ganon.

The influential gaming forum NeoGAF is imploding in the wake of an accusation of sexual misconduct against the long-running site’s owner. Yesterday, around a dozen of NeoGAF’s moderators—more than half, according to two sources—quit their posts there, and the website has been down for over half a day following a…

Doabearandroll and Varghon are two musicians who got to know each other through Twitch, but had never played together before. Outside TwitchCon, they finally jammed for the first time, putting a new spin on an original song by Doabearandroll (Varghon, a professional cellist, improv-ed his part). The modern world is…

The feel is instantly recognizable. Whether the phrase “beat-em up” takes you back to Castle Crashers, The Death and Return of Superman, or the original Double Dragon, Wulverblade will channel your nostalgia and love for those games, but in a way that remains distinctly its own.

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I take on South Park. We talk about the new game, The Fractured But Whole, as well as the show as a whole: its comedic sensibility, how its jokes function, and the baggage South Park has accumulated over the last 20 years on the air.

Llamatron 2112 and Revenge of the Mutant Camels are finally getting proper re-releases. It just happens to be on a system that came out nearly a quarter century ago.

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Nexon’s booth at TwitchCon has the largest variety of booth foliage I’ve ever seen. So many different kinds of fake trees! Spring trees, fall trees, palm trees, and even bamboo. I counted six different types in total, all to promote a game called Durango: Wildlands. As a booth foliage aficionado, I’m impressed.