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Steam Sales: A Visual Metaphor

Steam sales are good, provided you have self-control. If you don’t, you might feel like the Scout above whenever a big sale rolls around. Made by YouTuber zombiller, this Source Filmmaker parody of The Shining stars Team Fortress 2’s Heavy and Scout as Gabe Newell/Jack Nicholson and the Steam sale victim/Shelley Duvall, respectively. Apart from…

Doom Mod Replaces Every Sound with a Guy’s Voice

It’s the perfect way to turn an otherwise grim, brutal game about slaughtering demons goofy as hell. Submitted by user mallo to Doomworld last week, the “Greatest sound wad ever” replaces each in-game sound effect with mallo’s, well, own sound effects. Here’s some in-game footage, recorded by Rock Paper Shotgun, to show you what it’s…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: How to Make The Legend of Zelda TV Series Work • Elihu’s Four in February 2015: It’s Out of This World [The Bureau: XCOM Declassified] • Parasyte Continues to Impress • Anime Theme Song Roundup by Ani-TAY – Week 6 • Nintendo, I Have Some Questions TAY…

Scar from The Lion King is one dapper gentleman in Hyung86’s Disney University fanart series. In-universe, he teaches political science, and is a fan of classical music, English literature, and… Jeremy Irons films. Of course. Look below for Professor Scar in his full glory, and over here for more from Hyung86 Dayshot is an image-based…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Let’s Break Down the New Persona 5 Trailer • Does History Defend the Tradition of Male Protagonists? • Saekano Knows How to Make Itself Better • When Procedural Generation is Hell For Moving On TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

No longer content with just 2D icons, redditor rwbronco remodeled (the majority of) World of Warcraft’s health potions in 3D. They all make for pretty good wallpapers, along with rwbronco’s 3D hearthstone model from about a week ago. The potions are all in an embedded Imgur album below. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Game of the Week—You Can’t Kill The Metal [Brütal Legend] • Golgo 13: The TAY Manga Review • Grim Fandango, Reaping a Classic • Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff • Spacemon – A Pokémon Tabletop Story, Vol. 2: Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch.…

Minecraft Player Turns Squids into Deadly Bombs

He also makes bats drop TNT, and does a couple more spectacular things. All without mods. The one responsible is YouTuber IJAMinecraft. He basically added several “new items” to Minecraft, actually altered vanilla items, by writing a 26000-character command block script in about 20 hours. They are: The Firework Bow The Unstoppable Boots Mighty Squid…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Dude Fallacy • My Manly List of Manly Men of 2014 • You Should Try: The Fall • Ani-TAY Reviews: eden* – They were only two, on the planet • Uncharted 3 Embodies Everything Wrong With Modern AAA Gaming TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Illustrator/Legend of Zelda fan Jessica Smith, to celebrate Zelda Wii U coming out this year, painted this magnificent picture of what the Forest Temple might look like in the game. It probably won’t be anywhere near as beautiful as it is here. Look here for more of Smith’s work, and below for the full painting.…

Live-Action Smash Bros. Video has Real Martial Arts

And not just that, but cool visual and practical effects, excellent fight choreography, good sound editing, a fitting soundtrack… overall, it feels like a short Smash Bros-themed kung fu movie. And it might even be the first in a series! Uploaded by YouTuber Tim Wang (via D Piddy), Little Mac vs. Dark Ness shows the…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Haters Problem • Reclaiming the Mario Kart Throne • Five Games in 2014: Retrospectin’ • OP/ED A Day By Ani-TAY – Week 5 • Codename STEAM Impressions: My Time With Tears to Tiara 2 is Ruining My TRPG Skills • The Arrow! In Speed Painting Form!…

Move Over Far Cry 4, This is How You Do Mountains

It’s not that Far Cry 4’s version of The Himalayas is ugly, far from it, but just look at this The map was made by artist Simon Barle of DICE, who also worked on the most recent Battlefield. It’s an Unreal Engine 4 recreation the real-life Huangshan mountain range, and it was finished late last…

Weirdness Ensues When 32 Fans Re-Animate The Pokémon Intro

You’ve got two types of animators here, basically: the ones doing straight-up recreations of the first Pokémon opening’s iconic shots, and the ones with… different ideas. Inspired by the similar Moon Animate Make-Up project, Pokémon ReAnimated comes from an Ottawa-based group of 32 animators, headed up by Spencer Moreland, who also edited the whole thing,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Pokémon One a Day Series 2: Ariados, Crobat, Chinchou, Lanturn • Final Fantasy Road Trip: FFIV • Pre-Cult: Assassin’s Creed 4 • The first game I beat this year • An Introduction to Weiβ Schwarz • The Worst/Best Extremes in Japanese Fiction I’ve Seen TAY Classic—TAY Open…

“I wanted to do a realistic re-imagining of the Ice King,” writes DeviantArt’s chasestone, “while staying true enough to the character that you can still imagine him with Tom Kenny’s voice.” Well, he succeeded. He should do the rest of the Adventure Time cast, too. Head over here for more of his work. Dayshot is…

Unfortunately, Kojima & co. confirmed in a tweet that they were not teasing a new game at the Taipei Game Show—so no Metal Gear Rising 2, at least not yet.

Pixelly Simpsons Tribute is Awesome, Even if You Don’t Watch The Show

Featuring excellent pixel art and some self-deprecating humor from the very talented Paul Robertson Co-created with fellow artist Ivan Dixon and featuring Jeremy Dower’s chiptune remix of the Simpsons theme tune, Robertson’s video (via Polygon) is a one-minute-forty-second love letter packed with references to the show and gaming alike. The animation itself is really cool…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: How Historically Accurate is Skyrim? Part 4 • Final Fantasy 3. Not 6, Actually 3! – Part 1, Part 2 • Anime you might have missed: Chihayafuru • A Quick Look at Hyrule Warriors’ Fierce Deity Link • No Respect: An Ode to Under-Loved Enemies TAY Classic—TAY…

Explore Gondor’s Ancient Capital from Lord of the Rings in Minecraft

Osgiliath, capital of the Kingdom of Gondor, was the Kingdom’s greatest city before it was eventually abandoned in the Third Age. Now, you can take a walk in Osgiliath, both in its glory days and beyond, courtesy of two fantastic Minecraft builds. The two maps were each built over several months by two groups, EpicQuestz…