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A Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate-New 3DS XL bundle will be going on sale in Japan on October 11. It will cost 25,600 yen, or roughly $245, and it includes the game, and a 3DS XL unit with a nice silver finish from Nintendo’s upgraded 3DS line.

Xenoblade Chronicles Gets A Port, But Only For The New 3DS

Monolith Soft’s 2010 open-world RPG is going portable. The game will be utilizing the freshly announced 3DS model’s upgraded hardware, according to Nintendo, which means it will not be playable on current 3DS consoles. You can watch the trailer above. Xenoblade Chronicles for the New 3DS will be out in Japan next year, with no…

Xenoblade Protagonist Shulk Joins the Smash Bros. Roster

Swordsman Shulk, the hero of Xenoblade Chronicles, will be playable in the upcoming Smash Bros. games, Nintendo announced today during their 3DS Nintendo Direct. We’ve previously seen Shulk appear in this Monday’s leaked roster for the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros., which showed several additional unannounced characters, including Ness, R.O.B., the Duck Hunt Dog,…

GTA IV’s Watch Dogs Mod Is Surprisingly Close to the Real Thing

You can even hack vending machines. That’s some admirable attention to detail. Called Watch Dogs IV, the mod replaces most of GTA IV’s native HUD with that of Watch Dogs (although the HUD elements are created from scratch), and upgrades the phone to have hacking capabilities similar to the one Aiden has. This video shows…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Downloadable Commercialism: You Got Your Branding in My Game! • Video Game Photo Dump! • The Fall 2014 Anime Sequel Storm • There and Back Again: A Journey Through Gaming Hell TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

A surprisingly picturesque scene from a barren, icy rock. The subject is a Minecraft map called Frozen Mining Moon, created using WorldPainter by Moonti of Planet Minecraft. You can download the map from the project’s page here, and there’s more renders below, along with a lovely flythrough video from EnderWorkbench Space themed map – Frozen…

Minecraft–Doctor Who Partnership Results in Awful Pun

“Doctor Who is set to become ‘Blocktor Who’ when characters from the series arrive on the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft in September.” Ugh. The above line is from BBC Worldwide’s official Doctor Who website, where it sits on top of an article presenting an upcoming skin pack for Minecraft’s Xbox 360 version. The pack…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Street Fighter x Pokémon Day 1! Ryu x Lucario! • 2014 — The Year I Returned To Madden • Why You Should Fund Under The Dog, and What this Kickstarter Represents • Game of The Week — Sky Pirates. SKY PIRATES. [Skies of Arcadia] TAY Classic—TAY Open…

Sadly, the “real” Ashlands of Vvardenfell never quite looked so pretty. At least not in-game in Morrowind Ogilac’s “Ashland” shows us what the Red Mountain and its surroundings might look like when the place isn’t covered in ash storms—it’s quite the visual treat. Shoot down those cliff racers and it’s perfect. Ashland [Ogilac@deviantART] Dayshot is…

Lichdom, the linear first-person RPG where you play a badass battlemage, is now officially out on Steam after a nearly six-month early access period. If you liked playing a mage in Skyrim, you’ll probably enjoy this. There’s a new launch trailer, too. Like all good trailers, it has Two Steps From Hell. Watch it above.

It’s SimCity in Minecraft. Literally.

You’re the mayor, there’s an advisor, and you control your very own city. It’s SimCity And notably, it doesn’t require any mods to work: the map’s systems are powered by vanilla Minecraft scripts, so Simburbia can be downloaded and installed just as easily as any other user-made map—though it does require the 1.8 pre-release version…

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Gets Its First Major Update

2.1.0 brings with it a competitive game mode based on Diablo II’s online ladders, called Seasons, and a new type of endgame dungeon: Greater Rifts. Both of these new additions will be supported by another newly introduced feature, the leaderboards, deepening the competitive aspect of the game—and of course, there’s hundreds of bugfixes and balance…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: My Backlit Time Machine (Or: Today I Modded a Backlight Into a GB Pocket) • Rockmandash Reviews: Clannad [Visual Novel & Anime] • TAY Explores Comics: Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

This is what the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge could look like in the Minecraft world. As you can see on the behind the scenes shot below, the animation is actually the result of a complex command block configuration which handles everything from the movement of the arms to the creation of the ice blocks. Fascinating.…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why Region Restrictions Nearly Ruined My Life (For A Day) • Is a Good Show with Bad Fanservice a Bad Show? – An Explanation. • Chrono Trigger: The Boss Fight Books Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

I haven’t seen an asian-style temple so beautiful since I played the Shadow Warrior reboot last year. The map was done in CryEngine3 by Minsk-based 3D artist Censored_ID, who recently shared his work at the Polycount forums after finishing the project in July. Check below for a video and some gorgeous screenshots. [CE3] Asian Temple…

Years of Work in Minecraft, As Told in GIFs

Yes, we’ve seen before what Minecraft players are capable of building over long periodsof time. But that’s no excuse to skip Broville. Broville has been around for quite a while, and these animations show what its team of builders has been up to over the years. Quite a lot, it looks like. Not that Broville…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: How Does Your Game Keep You Contained? Part 1 • Surgeon Simulator Anniversary Edition: The TAY Micro Review • The Twelve Anime of Summer 2014 To Watch TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

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