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Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Thoughts About Amazon Fire TV and Android Gaming • Should Culture Come Into Play when Understanding a Game? • 10 Reasons EDF 2025 Should be in your Game Device At This Moment TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

You Have Been Chosen… To Admire This $210 Skyrim Statue

The subject of Gaming Heads’ next Elder Scrolls shrine replica is Azura, AKA Azurah, AKA The Daedric Prince of Dusk and Dawn, AKA Unlimited Soul Gem Woman. Specifically, the replica takes after her Skyrim rendition, which leaves us with a really good-looking statue. The hand-painted poly-stone statue stands at eighteen inches tall, and is described…

Doom’s Got Some Really Sweet Ragdoll Physics. Wait, What?

One sec, gonna reinstall Doom Quote-unquote ragdoll physics are one of the new features of the upcoming v20 update for Brutal Doom. The mod, which is now in its fourth year of development, will also be getting an updated particle system and better, sharper-looking blood decals in the new version. Here’s what the simulated ragdoll…

Well, that didn’t take long. Action-RPG Heart Forth, Alicia got Kickstarter-funded in less than two days, and it also managed to get Greenlit on Steam like, almost immediately. It is currently steadily heading towards the $110,000 stretch goal, which will net the game a PS4 port. Bright future indeed.

Remember Putt-Putt? Pajama Sam? Freddi Fish? They’re Coming to Steam

Some had the Atari 2600. Others grew up with Mario and the NES. But for a lot of young, budding PC gamers, there were Humongous Entertainment’s quirky and colorful edutainment titles. Now, these classic adventure games are making their way to Steam. Humongous Entertainment’s catalog will be arriving on Steam in several batches, restored and…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Is There Any Hope the Next Borderlands Game Won’t Suck? • Campbell’s Mario Chicken Noodle Soup: A SnackTAYku Review • Passover Cross Thread TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

They’re trying to put Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot on Steam. The pair of venerable MMORPGs, launched in 1997 and 2001, respectively, have recently come under the control of the newly-formed Broadsword Online Games, who took to Steam Greenlight in an effort to find a new audience for the two classics.

Dust off your copy of Terraria, console gamers, ’cause the massive 1.2 update for the game’s Vita, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions lands today. The change notes for the free patch are here; it’s quite the read. This brings the console versions in line with Terraria’s PC version, which got the same update last October

Upcoming PS4 Update Introduces Beefy Video Editor, Pre-Loaded Games

Quality of life improvements for the avid video sharers and dedicated game pre-orderers of the PS4 community are on the way For video sharing, the upcoming 1.70 update will introduce SHAREfactory. The app lets you edit, combine, annotate or commentate recorded footage, giving you a clip which you can then share via the Share Screen…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Dex’s Review: Cross Game• Review: I Played The Witch And The Hundred Knight for 65 hours • Thoughts on Evolve • Impressions: Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars • Quick Review: Sir Hammerlock Versus The Son of Crawmerax TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow…

The final piece of DLC for Borderlands 2 is now out—the base game was released over one and a half years ago, on September 18, 2012. Even ignoring the extra costumes, BL2 managed to amass quite the hefty amount of DLC packs during that time. I’m interested to see if the new game will get…

It Took Seven Years To Make An Indie RPG So Good-Looking

Its creator started working on Platformer/RPG Heart Forth, Alicia in 2007. The result is an aesthetically beautiful game with a complex story, a detailed world and what looks to be pretty damn fun gameplay. Sadly, it’s still not done. Inspired by the likes of Zelda, Xenogears and Castlevania (Symphony of the Night, specifically), Heart Forth,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Is Europe the Epicenter of Next-Gen Graphical Fidelity? • Valkyria Chronicles II is Worth Your Time • Games to Increase Your Typing Speed! • Finding True Love on the Farm • Why Don’t We Have Smartphone Reviews for Gamers? TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow…

Square Enix has closed their India-based mobile game studio, according to a report by MCV India. During its one year of operation, the studio hasn’t released any games, although it was reportedly working with developers on several titles.

A Square Enix mobile developer has recently talked to Famitsu (via Siliconera) about a pair of new SaGa and Mana games which will “stay true to all [our] memories from the [SNES] and PlayStation era.” The developer also mentioned that Square Enix’s second mobile division would be “helping out” with the games.

Video Shows Off Indie Platformer’s Really Cool Puzzles

It’s full of those little moments that make you go “ooooh.” Like that one up there, when the little guy jumps over. Ooooh. The game is Four Sided Fantasy, a platformer currently happily chipping away at a $35,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. It’s not doing all that well, which really sucks, ’cause the game looks…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Nintendo Made It Great, The Community Made It Better • Tales of Vesperia: Thoughts and Feelings • A Day at PAX East 2014 • Why Brütal Legend is Actually A Super Amazing Game TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Super Mario 64 Feels Great, But Plays Like Crap on Oculus Rift

First-person platforming is hard to pull off. It takes lots of planning and fine control to make it work, so really, Super Mario 64 playing so badly in first-person comes as no surprise. Still looks fun, though. To make Super Mario 64 work with the Rift, YouTuber Chadtronic used three pieces of software: Dolphin for…

Here’s a trailer to remind you that Final Fantasy XIV officially makes the jump to PS4 today. Note that if you’ve already got the PS3 version of FFXIV: A Realm Reborn, you can get a free upgrade to the PS4 version. Here’s how

Have you played Road Rash? You’ll enjoy the next 45 seconds. Above is footage from the alpha of Road Redemption, an open-world motorcycle combat racer and spiritual successor to the Road Rash series, which had its last entry in ’99. The game lands on PC in August, with Wii U and Xbox 360 versions to…