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​Watch The Wii U Version of Super Smash Bros Right Now

Yeah, it’s being presented in French but Smash Bros is a universal language, non? The stream of the console version of Nintendo’s all-star brawler comes as part of Paris Games Week, with show attendees playing each other. No surprise that there’s a lot of Little Mac and Rosalina usage so far. [via NeoGAF]

​How To Farm Millions Of Halos In Bayonetta 2 in Minutes

Bayonetta 2 is a game that already has tons of cool weapons and moves. But it’s got even more that you’ll have to buy with halos, the game’s heavenly currency. Thankfully, someone’s figured out how to break the Bayonetta 2 bank. He makes it look pretty easy, too. You’ll need to have already beaten Bayonetta…

​Mike Tyson Tries to Beat Mike Tyson in Punch-Out

Last year, Mike Tyson played the old-school boxing game named after him, purportedly for the first time. He beat Glass Joe in that effort. This time, he’s facing a lot somebody tougher: himself. The infamous former heavyweight champion was a guest on The Late Tonight Show With Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, picking up an…

Marvel’s Phase 3 Movies Will Be Its Riskiest, Most Important Ones Yet

It’s seemed like there’s been a perpetual tsunami of hype ever since the first Iron Man movie hit theaters years ago. But the announcements that Marvel made today about its upcoming slate of superhero movies included the names that some fans have been been waiting a long time to hear: Black Panther and Captain Marvel.…

​The Problem Every Smash Bros. Fan Will Face

Can you love two versions of Smash Bros equally? What about if one of them has a big, juicy eight-player mode? It is, as the folks at Dorkly posit, a true conundrum. If you’re a die-hard Smash Bros. acolyte, then it’s a given that you’ll be getting the Wii U version of Nintendo’s all-star brawler…

Mario Kart 8 DLC Adds Excitebike‘s Sweet Jumps

Nintendo’s adding an Excitebike-themed arena to Mario Kart 8. Total no-brainer, right? The incoming DLC packs for Mario Kart 8 will let players compete on a ramp-filled track that pays homage to the classic motocross franchise. This will be the same add-on that gives Link his too-cool Master Cycle, which will surely be a good…

​Playing a Fake Arcade Game Will Make a Weird Game Weirder

When first signs of life appeared for The Black Glove, it quickly became clear that the former BioShock devs working on the first-person game wanted it to be a bit bizarre. So, their homage to old-school arcade games won’t just be a fun, nostalgic mini-game. Those creatures are going to break through into the funky…

World’s Biggest LAN Party Kicks Out CEO

DreamHack is where some of PC gaming’s elite professional teams go to compete for millions of dollars in prize money. Now, one of the people who helped turn it into one of the world’s largest video game events has been booted from the company. Up until this weekend, Robert Ohlén was the CEO of DreamHack,…

​Here’s Why Wolfenstein: The New Order Worked So Well

Before it came out, everybody was expecting to kill loads and loads of Nazis in Wolfenstein: The New Order. Almost nobody was expecting the first-person shooter to tell a surprisingly touching story. If you haven’t played yet—and don’t mind the events of the game getting spoiled —here’s what happens in the alt-history narrative. Nerdist’s video…

All of Bayonetta 2’s Boss Battles in One Place

There are a lot of boss battles in Bayonetta 2. They’re all sort of overblown, in a good way. Need proof? Here they all are, documented in two hours of video. Spoilers, obviously. All of the new sequel’s giant enemy showdowns get put together over at the Video Game Boss Fights channel. Seeing them all…

There’s a good chunk of new Quantum Break gameplay in this video featuring the Xbox One exclusive. Narrated by Remedy Entertainment creative director Sam Lake, the clip shows already-seen action up until about the 8:30 mark. From there, it’s a chunk of time-manipulation platforming.

​Seven Minutes Of Excellent Cosplay From This Year’s New York Comic-Con

There are a lot of people in costumes having fun in this montage from New York Comic-Con 2014. Let’s join them, shall we? Beatdownboogie brings us a video filled with the impressive costumes and posing hi-jinx that happened on the west side of Manhattan this year. I’m partial to the Cesar Romero version of The…

The Witcher 3‘s Intro Is All about Geralt’s Fearsome Ex-Girlfriend

Here’s the opening cinematic for The Witcher 3. That lady wielding all the bad juju? She and Geralt were a thing once. The last part of CD Projekt Red’s action/RPG trilogy has been a long time coming but the developers have been promising a bigger scale and more intense story than in previous entries. This…

Bayonetta 2: The Kotaku Review

“What if you could feel good all the time?” That’s the question that Bayonetta 2 seems to ask. It answers that query, too. With an avalanche of mind-bending spectacle that will very often leave you dizzy and, by the end of it, a little numb. From its opening prologue, the sequel to 2009’s hit action…

All the Deaths from the Original Star Wars Movies, in Three Minutes

How many people became one with the Force in the Episodes IV-VI of the Star Wars films? Have a look at this montage of death scenes from the original trilogy and find out. This video from Digg keeps a running tally of all the on-screen deaths from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return…

Making Batman Poorer Might Actually Be a Pretty Good Idea

The long-running joke about Batman was that—where guys like Superman have multiple superhuman abilities—his only real superpower is money. Now, he’s apparently going to have less of it. And it might be one of the more interesting things to happen to the Dark Knight in years. There’s a status quo shift happening in DC Comics’…

Better Version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hits Xbox 360 Next Week

A graphically improved version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be hitting Xbox Live on October 26, just in time for the game’s 10th anniversary. But there’s a bit of a catch. The updated version will run at 720p and will have Achievement support, with 11 hidden achievements. Full list in the image below:…

2012’s very beautiful PS3 game The Unfinished Swan will be hitting PS4 and Vita on 10/28, according to the Official PlayStation blog. Here’s Stephen Totilo’s review of the original release.

Halo: Nightfall looks like Microsoft’s trying to get serious about making shows based off their games. Here’s the new trailer.

​Here’s What Halo 3 Looks Like In 1080p

The last Master Chief game made by Bungie came out seven years ago, long before HD resolutions became the norm for most video games. Microsoft’s given it a full graphical upgrade for the modern era, though. Check out what Halo 3 looks like in high-definition. The footage above comes via IGN, who unveiled glimpses of…