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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Q&tAy: TwinSky Games’ Adventure Time: Time Tangle • Ruminations of a Sci-Fi Lover • MainProtagonist’s 10 Favorite Anime Openings Ever. Of All Time. TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Everything Wrong with the Tomb Raider Reboot in 15 Minutes

Wait a minute. This isn’t a movie. What’s going on? YouTuber glorious_accident posted his “CinemaSins style video” to r/TombRaider yesterday, where it went largely unnoticed. Which is a shame, ’cause it’s good. It’s a proper CinemaSins video for the last Tomb Raider game. And the guy wants to make this a series. Why are people…

Minecraft’s Best Floating Islands, As Chosen by the Community

Planet Minecraft’s “Head into the Clouds” contest, where players were tasked with taking an awesome and beautiful floating island and making it even more awesome and beautiful, has now concluded. Let’s take a look at the winners! The final three were chosen by both the Planet Minecraft judges and the community: after the one-month submission…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: School Trips to Game Worlds: A Space Station for All Subjects • Koda’s Top 10 Summer 2014 Anime Openings • Game of The Week — Island Paradise (And Some Monsters. And Yo-Yos): StarTropics • Video Games As More Than Gameplay TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY…

Video Shows How Far Project CARS Has Come in Two Years

One racetrack, one car, one game, two years apart. From the foliage to the road textures and the overall colors, the changes are quite noticeable. The eight-minute clip comes courtesy of Adrián Bermúdez, aka ADRIANF1esp, who is also responsible for this spring’sProject CARS-to-real-life comparison video. Here, he races across the same track in two different…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: ConsulTAYtion: Online Relationships, Mad Dads, and Bears • The End of Piracy: Chasing the Gaikai Dream • (Not so) Back in The TAY Review: Rogue Legacy • FoodTAYku: White Duck Taco Shop TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

This Is Why You Don’t Give an Axe to Little Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood is going to be the protagonist of her very own “cinematic” action platformer called Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries. This Red Riding Hood is vengeful, angry, and wields an axe. In this case, “cinematic” basically means that the game looks great: It’s like the evil, bloodthirstier twin of Trine, with a…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Best Songs from the Last Five Games You Played • Rockmandash Reviews: Fate/Hollow Ataraxia [Visual Novel] & Fate/stay night [Visual Novel] • TAY Explores Comics: Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Infinite Platformer Looks Intense as Hell

Cavern Kings, as it’s called, is an infinite action-platformer for PC that gets harder the longer you play. It’s a very leaderboardsy game, and it’s actually quite a bit deeper than it looks. The game works like this: you start out on ground level, where you pick up a digging tool, be that a shovel,…

SNK Playmore confirmed to Siliconera that a new 3D King of Fighters game is in development. The company didn’t provide any further details, and they are currently in the process of “large scale developer hiring” for the new game.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Are you Undead Jerks Ready to Die Twice?!: Gravity Falls Season 2, Episode 1-2 Recap • Divinity: Original Sin, Unlike Most Games, Does Real Relationships Perfectly • Silent Protagonists: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Pt. 2 TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them…

Mod Brings Selfies to GTA IV

Now Niko, Johnny and Luis can also get in on that sweet GTA V selfie action. And the results can be pretty fun! You can check out the mod, the instructions, and some screenshots over at its GTA X Scripting page, where you can also find a loud dubsteppy trailer. But the mod isn’t just…

One of Minecraft’s Greatest and Oldest Web Series Turns Four [UPDATE]

“You’re probably asking yourself, what the heck is this? And, yeah, you are 100% right to ask yourself that. This is Minecraft, and everything you see around me right now is a randomly generated world.” Minecraft was first revealed to the public in 2009, but it would only really take off with the release of…

Interested in a behind-the-scenes look at last week’s real-life Mario Smash Bros. trailer? The creator, Dean Wright, now has a making-of post online on his blog detailing how much work went into filming, animating, and even recording sound effects for his one-minute video over the course of four+ weeks.

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: The Wolf Among Us – Season 1: The TAY Review • Why Gamers Should Stop Hating Indies and Wanting Only AAA Titles • Dark Souls 2: Crown of the Sunken King: The TAY Review TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Solid Gold Monster Hunter Statue Costs $29,000

Capcom’s Monster Hunter series is turning ten, which means it’s time to celebrate… with a three million yen statue. The collectible is going on sale in Japan tomorrow. With a price tag of exactly 2,990,000 yen, or $29,089, the statue, which shows an armored Felyne warrior wielding a giant sword, weighs 120g, measures 55 by…

So uh, remember the two trailers Gen Kim did for Guild Wars 2? He made a third one. For Destiny And, as usual, it’s very good! The song lends the game a very Borderlandsy feel. Even Bungie liked the video—so much so that they shared it on their Twitter and Facebook. (Thanks Carl, Robert and…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: School Trips to Game Worlds: Who fancies a Sci-Fi Croissant? • The Daddy Hacker Gaming Guide – The 3DS, Perfect Console for Dad • The Little Console MOBA That Could, But Didn’t TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Spectacular Builds From Minecraft’s “Floating Island” Contest

At the start of July, Planet Minecraft began taking submissions for their ninth project contest, titled “Head into the Clouds.” Since then, players shared dozens upon dozens of quirky, beautiful, and just plain awesome builds. The contest is centered around Planet Minecraft’s own, basic (but still quite good-looking) floating island map. This is what it…

The PS4 is still doing well. Sony released their earnings report for April-June, which reveals that the company shipped a combined 3.5 million PS3 and PS4 units, and 0.75 million PSP and Vita units. As a result, Sony’s game segment contributed an operating profit of 4.3 billion yen ($41.7 million) in this quarter.