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Your Favourite Games Are Being Ruined By (Hilarious) Glitches

The kids at Corridor Digital certainly know their glitches, because the ones shown in this vid aren’t some abstract hiccups that nobody ever faces. They’re based, pretty literally in some cases, on the kind of things that bring nightmares into the dreams of small children The Glitch [Corridor Digital]

Dead Space 3’s Isaac Clarke Stands 12.5 Inches Tall

Next June, Japanese collectible company Kotobukiya will be releasing this 12.5″ statue of Isaac Clarke, as he appears in the upcoming Dead Space 3 He looks… well, pretty amazing. Not to mention warm, all tucked up in that nice fluffy jacket. The lighting effects you see come from LEDs in his helmet, backpack and gloves,…

A Year’s Worth Of Stupidly Realistic Military Simulator Action

Forget all these DayZ blow-ins. Before there were zombies, BI’s ArmA II was a game known for its brutal adherence to military strategy, an uncompromising sandbox in which people could get close—but not too close—to actual combat conditions. Nothing shows this more elegantly than ShackTac’s 2012 Year in Review video, which compiles the year’s best…

Rich Guy Builds Personal (And Expensive) Hobbit House

An unnamed but clearly wealthy and eccentric man who lives in the “Pennsylvania countryside” has allowed photographers inside his house. Which looks like it should be sitting under Bag End. Designed by architect Peter Archer, who worked with a “team of craftsmen” to complete the home, it was completed in 2004, and was modelled after…

The Only Way Rotting Zombie Flesh Can Look “Pretty”

We’ve featured the art of Morgan Yon here on Kotaku not once, but twice. Today, a third time. Why? Because it’s too good not to, that’s why. This latest batch is from Yon’s work on ZombiU, Ubisoft’s Wii U launch title set in a post-apocalyptic London. In case you couldn’t tell it was post-apocalyptic London…

Next Year, You’ll Be Able To Buy Your Own Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun

Sadly, it won’t make the holiday shopping season, but toy company NECA’s replica Half-Life 2 gravity gun will be available for purchase next Spring. It’s 1:1 scale, and as you can see from the prototype below, lights up as well. Since this is the same company behind the replica Portal guns, you could probably expect…

Are These Video Games Or Drugs? It’s Very Confusing.

In a great piece over on Gameranx, Jenn Frank has come up with a very long list of names. Your job? Decide which ones are video games and which ones belong to pharmaceutical drugs. Sounds ridiculous, but then you start reading, and…oh god. It’s so hard. Some are obvious, but of the 42, most will…

Toys R’ Us’ Christmas 1996 Catalogue Is A Historic Wonderland

Ah, 1996. The future, as the front cover of Toys R’ Us’ catalogue so boldly states, is here! Or…was there. And it was only really there for some of the systems involved (sorry, Sega Saturn!) I love looking at these things. Not for the general nostalgic rush, but to see the individual games highlighted. Of…

Halo 4 Problem Banned “Less Than 200” Players, Microsoft Says

When users began pouring into Halo’s official online forums complaining that a new map pack had been inadvertently banning them from matchmaking multiplayer, it seemed to be a widespread problem. Well, according to Microsoft, it was about as widespread as those people who had gone to post on the forum. A statement provided to Kotaku…

The Most Stylish, Arresting & Maybe Even Beautiful Video Game Trailers Of 2012

In what’s becoming a Christmas tradition, I’m sitting down today to round up what I think were the year’s best video game trailers. And by best trailers, I mean quite literally, the best trailers. I don’t give a damn how representative they were of the finished product, or how good that finished product was, I…

SimCity’s developers had a Reddit AMA. Considering the game’s DRM, that might not have been the best idea

Grown-Up Strategy Gaming Goes On A Diet, Comes To The iPad

If you’ve ever played a turn-based strategy game on the iPad, chances are you’re playing a game with PC controls and/or design shoe-horned onto the touch-screen device. Some are OK, some can even be good, but you can never shake the feeling that you’re playing a game wearing somebody else’s ill-fitting shoes. Battle of the…

The Nintendo 64 Christmas Screams, Remixed For 2012

A modern, animated and slightly terrifying take on Nintendo’s most storied of Christmas tales. Not suitable for small children. NINTENDO SIXTY-FOUR [TerminalMontage, via Destructoid]

Bring a Little Middle Earth To Age of Empires

Tales of Middle-Earth is an ambitious mod that seeks to bring the world of Lord of the Rings not to some modern strategy game like Total War, but to one a little older, one that’s definitely earned the title of a classic: Age of Empires II The mod’s called Tales of Middle-Earth, and while it’s…

Valve Fans Create Gear So Good It’s Officially Going In A Game

Like it’s done with Team Fortress 2, Valve recently reached out to members of the Polycount forums to see who could make the best gear for its DOTA 2 game. The winners were announced over the course of last week, with the very best not only set to appear in the game’s next update, but…

Forget Fantasy Lands, Normal Cities Look Awesome In Minecraft As Well

There’s a tendency to go straight for the fantastical when designing Minecraft worlds, to castles and islands in the sky, but just like we see with LEGO and its City sets, the mundane can be just as good. These images are from a fictional Minecraft city on rikkuness’ server, which while not available for download…

Halo 4 Players Are Getting (Sort of) Banned For Downloading a Halo 4 Map Pack

The farce surrounding the release of Halo 4’s Crimson Map Pack has got a whole lot more farcical, with some users complaining that those who downloaded and began playing the pack for free—like Microsoft told them to—are being banned from certain portions of the game. The game’s official forums are full of people saying that,…

God of War Was Very Nearly an Accidental Diablo Rip-Off

Kratos’ red body paint is about as iconic a wardrobe option as any character we’ve seen this console generation, but it an interesting reveal over the weekend, former God of War lead David Jaffe has told how this very nearly wasn’t the case. The picture you see above was, according to Jaffe, what Kratos looked…

The Best Jokers Are The Old Jokers

It’s been a good week for cosplay, in part because there are actually some men to feature this week, but also because of what those men are dressed as. A humanoid Wheatley from Portal 2? The Joker from the 1989 Tim Burton flick classic TV series? Well played, gents, well played. As seen on Callesto…