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From Badger Simulator to Lynx Simulator

Shelter has kittens now. Lynx kittens. Oh boy Following the first game’s August release, Might and Delight has officially announced Shelter 2. In Shelter 2, you control a lynx mom (instead of a badger mom) as you hunt for food, protect your litter, and frolic through snowy fields: Might and Delight, spurred by criticism aimed…

Hopefully Half-Life 3 Will Look as Good as its Fan Trailer

Insert comment about Half-Life 3 taking too long here. Deviant Pictures, utilizing Source Filmmaker, created this fine-looking fan trailer for Valve’s prodigal shooter, Half-Life 3, though admittedly it feels a bit more like a movie trailer than a game trailer. I’d watch that movie. Hell, someone could even make a game out of it. Half-Life…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Why We Love Challenges • Friends don’t let friends play Hardcore (A Diablo 3 Eulogy) • Engaged to the Unidentified: The Ani-TAY Review • Captain’s Log First Look: Locanimals • Why the Muv-Luv Saga is the Greatest Story I’ve ever Experienced TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To…

One of the Most Twisted Game Trailers Ever Created

The song. The visuals. Oh goodness, the blood. This is awesome. Carmageddon: Reincarnation has been officially released on Steam Early Access yesterday, after a two-week “early early” access period limited to Kickstarter backers only. The car combat game’s alpha version debuted alongside this rather… fantastic trailer. Take a look: In case you’re not familiar with…

Free Expansion and iPad Port for Space Roguelike FTL Arrive Next Week

Exploded ships and frustration galore, now on the go—but only on iPad. If you’ve only got an iPhone, you’re out of luck. You’ll have to stick with the PC version On next Thursday, the much-hyped and much-awesome free expansion for FTL, the so-called advanced edition update, will be arriving alongside the exclusive iPad version of…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Witch Craft Works: The Ani-TAY Review • DSB: The Titanfall Blues • Public gets input on how to make Monopoly even worse • All the World’s a Stage, and the World is Square • Dex’s Review: Log Horizon TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them…

PS4 bling for Final Fantasy XIV fans: This laser-etched, FFXIV-branded HDD bay cover for the PlayStation 4 has recently been announced for pre-order on Sony’s Japanese webstore. Famitsureports that the plastic cover is limited to 1,400 units, with its price and release date as of yet unrevealed.

The Most Awesome Creations of The Everquest Next Landmark Community

Everquest Next Landmark, everyone’s favorite voxel-based multiplayer mining and building simulator, is entering closed beta after about two months’ worth of alpha testing. But, more importantly, Sony Online Entertainment has decided to share some of the best-looking structures players have created during that time. A transition to beta means that these structures will be wiped,…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster: The TAY Review! (Kind of) • How Do You Value Games? • Anime No One Watched: Listen To Me, Girls, I’m Your Father! TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

Puzzle Platforming Has Never Looked So… Pleasant

Yes, it’s another quirky indie puzzle platformer. With physics and stuff. But come on, just look at it. I want to frolic amongst the twirly grass things. The Land of Eyas has apparently been languishing on Kickstarter for quite some time, even though it looks, well, not phenomenal, but nice. Simple. Clean. Satisfying on a…

Can you tell what’s going on in the trailer for the Mega Evolution Pokémon anime special? All I see is bright lights, roaring, bright lights, more roaring, kid falling over, more roaring. Guess that’s normal for an episode called “The Strongest Mega Evolution.” Look for it on April 3, when the special airs in Japan.

Mapper Flawlessly Recreates Scene from Assassin’s Creed Unity Trailer

This is the result of, according to the creator, a “little over the weekend project.” I’d love to see what he could do with a whole game Upon seeing the new teaser trailer for Assassin’s Creed Unity—specifically, the ballroom shown in the first few seconds—freelance artist Christian Hecht immediately wanted to imagine what the whole…

The Latest Unreal Engine Gives Us The Prettiest Lighting Effects

Hopefully we’ll get to see something similarly pretty in our lifetimes—well, that’s not the main problem. Something similarly pretty but in-game, and with an acceptable framerate. Yeah, that’s it. Until then, we have videos to gawk and “ooooh” at. Like these two, spotted by DSOGaming, which showcase the lighting effects Unreal Engine 4 is capable…

Star Wars Podracer from Kerbal Space Program Can Actually Fly

Anakin’s podracer doesn’t hold a candle to this one. No sir. Redditor m1sz created an actual, working podracer in spacecraft-building simulator Kerbal Space Program, and even made a video of the podracer in flight. Well, not just that—like any good Kerbal Space Program footage, it starts with a prototype crashing. And ends with a prototype…

Final Fantasy XIV Originally Failed Because of… Flowerpots

Well, that explains everything. As we all know, the first iteration of the second Final Fantasy MMORPG, released in 2010, pretty much sucked. Players were miffed, which prompted Square Enix to rework and re-release the game in 2013 as A Realm Reborn, to much better results. But what caused FFXIV to fail in the first…

“Gamers are being played [like a piano] every time you see the word SALE. This is a big psychology trick that is being used to siphon money from gamers.” Indie developer Cliff Harris, in a blog post on why discounted video games are harmful to both gamers and developers. Read his argumentsin the full post…

Real-Life Poké Puffs Look Utterly Delicious

Dear sweet heavens. Redditor shnowflake, who also manages gaming-slash-baking blog The Cake is Not a Lie, is the one responsible for these beautiful Poké Puff-shaped cupcakes. The ten cupcakes took two whole days to make, but they were reportedly very tasty. I can certainly believe that. Here are the Poké Puffs in their full glory.…

Modders Are Adding Oblivion to Skyrim, One Town at a Time

Beyond Skyrim is a series of in-development mods that seek to add lands… well, beyond Skyrim, to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Now, thanks to a new trailer, we have some idea of what one of these mods will look like: Beyond Skyrim: Cyrodiil, which deals with the country seen in TES IV: Oblivion The…

Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita looks… pretty much like you’d expect. Courtesy of YouTuber AtomixVG, here’s four minutes’ worth of footage of the portable version of Gearbox’s loot-happy shooter, straight from this year’s Game Developers Conference. Vid’s above, enjoy.

Awesome First-Person Spellcasting RPG Is Now Playable

Lichdom: Battlemage first emerged several months ago in the form of a trailer showcasing some excellent-looking spellcasting action. Now, its pre-alpha version is on Steam. It’s pretty great. Admittedly I only played a whopping 44 minutes of it, but I can already tell that this is probably the most polished and fun pre-alpha game I’ve…